<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - mystery</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/mystery</link><description>Newsvine - mystery</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:05:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:31:57 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Charades are over for Rockefeller Impostor</title>
<description><![CDATA[In his world of pretense, the little man in spectacles became many fabulous people from royalty to a Rockefeller until his charades finally ended with a conviction under his true name &#8212; Christian Gerhartsreiter &#8212; a German immigrant guilty of a cold case murder.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17693052-charades-are-over-for-rockefeller-impostor</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17693052-charades-are-over-for-rockefeller-impostor</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>rockefeller</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:17:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ca3503d2-74bc-4f50-95fd-959dc479b2b5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="295" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ca3503d2-74bc-4f50-95fd-959dc479b2b5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A photo of swimming pool area being unearthed 1994 and finding the remains of John Sohus in the backyard of a home on Loraine Road in San Marino is shown during final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian in the murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013.  Gerhartsreiter  has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pool )  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Both sides rest in Rockefeller impostor's LA trial</title>
<description><![CDATA[The defense and prosecution rested their cases in the murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor Wednesday after his ex-wife called him a consistent liar and "an unpleasant human being."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17589327-both-sides-rest-in-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17589327-both-sides-rest-in-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial</guid><category>mystery</category><category>rockefeller</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:52:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rockefeller impostor convicted of 1985 murder</title>
<description><![CDATA[A notorious Rockefeller impostor was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of a man whose bones were found buried beneath the backyard of a suburban home.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17588659-rockefeller-impostor-convicted-of-1985-murder</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17588659-rockefeller-impostor-convicted-of-1985-murder</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>rockefeller</category><category>los-angeles</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:34:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8d7bc79d-d9e6-4759-bb1c-0b665fad53ef.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="313" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8d7bc79d-d9e6-4759-bb1c-0b665fad53ef.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter listens during final arguments at his trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Monday, April 8, 2013. Closing arguments have begun in the Los Angeles trial of Gerhartsreiter, a notorious Rockefeller impostor charged with murdering a man in 1985. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e697e0d2-b105-407d-b2fb-78657c6ea362.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="281" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e697e0d2-b105-407d-b2fb-78657c6ea362.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Prosecutor Habib Balian holds the wallet of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter during final arguments in Gerhartsreiter's trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Monday, April 8, 2013. Closing arguments have begun in the Los Angeles trial of Gerhartsreiter, a notorious Rockefeller impostor charged with murdering a man in 1985.  (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4ad257dd-c0b5-4ece-acea-ca4645c93251.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="357" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4ad257dd-c0b5-4ece-acea-ca4645c93251.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="172" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner gives his final arguments to the jurors in the trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Monday, April 8, 2013. Gerhartsreiter is accused of killing John Sohus in 1985, the year Sohus and his wife disappeared. (AP Photo/The Pasadena Star-News, Walt Mancini, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f064221c-c903-4229-b236-9077784a4496.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="439" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f064221c-c903-4229-b236-9077784a4496.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="132" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, listens to his attorney Bradford Bailey during final arguments at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Monday, April 8, 2013.  Gerhartsreiter is accused of killing John Sohus in 1985, the year Sohus and his wife disappeared. (AP Photo/The Pasadena Star-News, Walt Mancini, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f7184d67-95c7-40e7-a876-752ede5c8086.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="361" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f7184d67-95c7-40e7-a876-752ede5c8086.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="109" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Prosecutor Habib Balian makes his final arguments in the murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Gerhartsreiter  has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=91b0248e-4357-4940-84ef-f81295c13d3c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="272" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=91b0248e-4357-4940-84ef-f81295c13d3c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="226" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Gerhartsreiter listens to final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian during his trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Gerhartsreiter  has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ca3503d2-74bc-4f50-95fd-959dc479b2b5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="295" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ca3503d2-74bc-4f50-95fd-959dc479b2b5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A photo of swimming pool area being unearthed 1994 and finding the remains of John Sohus in the backyard of a home on Loraine Road in San Marino is shown during final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian in the murder trial of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013.  Gerhartsreiter  has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pool )  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=46e740f7-c266-44b0-9914-aa3b8928f112.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="425" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=46e740f7-c266-44b0-9914-aa3b8928f112.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="127" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Gerhartsreiter listens to final arguments by prosecutor Habib Balian during his trial at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Gerhartsreiter  has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune,Walter Mancini, Pool )  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Both sides rest in Rockefeller impostor's LA trial</title>
<description><![CDATA[The defense and prosecution have rested in the Los Angeles murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17489583-both-sides-rest-in-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17489583-both-sides-rest-in-rockefeller-impostors-la-trial</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>rockefeller</category><category>southern-california</category><category>los-angeles</category><category>us-news</category><category>clark-rockefeller</category><category>mihoko-manabe</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:54:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>UK church exhumes grave rumored to house a king</title>
<description><![CDATA[A diocese in southern England says it has exhumed a grave over fears that a set of bones could be stolen amid speculation that the remains are those of King Alfred the Great.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17488625-uk-church-exhumes-grave-rumored-to-house-a-king</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/27/17488625-uk-church-exhumes-grave-rumored-to-house-a-king</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>mystery</category><category>bones</category><category>world-news</category><category>king-alfred</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:08:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>School rings bought in Vietnam remain mysteries</title>
<description><![CDATA[They could have been lost forever, long-forgotten mementoes from home perhaps worn on a finger or carried in a pocket for good luck.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Cappiello]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Janet Cappiello]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402885-school-rings-bought-in-vietnam-remain-mysteries</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/21/17402885-school-rings-bought-in-vietnam-remain-mysteries</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>us-news</category><category>rings</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:59:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A look at some major art thefts in recent years</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities announced this week that they believe they know who stole 13 pieces of artwork worth as much as $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. A look at some of the biggest and most brazen art thefts in recent times:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/19/17375292-a-look-at-some-major-art-thefts-in-recent-years</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/19/17375292-a-look-at-some-major-art-thefts-in-recent-years</guid><category>us</category><category>art</category><category>mystery</category><category>glance</category><category>heist</category><category>us-news</category><category>isabella-stewart-gardner-museum</category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:23:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Experts: Chances of recovering Boston art good</title>
<description><![CDATA[Now that authorities believe they know who stole $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, what are the chances they'll actually recover the stolen works by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet after 23 years?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denise Lavoie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Denise Lavoie]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17359468-experts-chances-of-recovering-boston-art-good</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/18/17359468-experts-chances-of-recovering-boston-art-good</guid><category>us</category><category>art</category><category>mystery</category><category>heist</category><category>us-news</category><category>art-heist</category><category>isabella-stewart-gardner-museum</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:53:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5fe11e97-5ab8-471f-810d-d6e854d22a6d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5fe11e97-5ab8-471f-810d-d6e854d22a6d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 file photo, empty frames from which thieves took &quot;Storm on the Sea of Galilee,&quot; left background, by Rembrandt and &quot;The Concert,&quot; right foreground, by Vermeer, remain on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The paintings are among 13 works stolen by burglars from the museum in the early hours of March 18, 1990. The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole the art. Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge in Boston, says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states.  (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=70c96876-8683-43e0-9df5-417fad59ebc3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="343" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=70c96876-8683-43e0-9df5-417fad59ebc3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="103" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this March 21, 1990 file photo, a security guard stands outside the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where robbers stole more than a dozen works of art by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, Manet and others, in an early morning robbery March 18, 1990. The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole the art. Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge in Boston, says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states.  (AP Photo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9e284dcf-f3ac-471a-8c99-5b0d4fcbea77.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9e284dcf-f3ac-471a-8c99-5b0d4fcbea77.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 file photo, a plaque marks the empty frame from which thieves cut Rembrandt's &quot;The Storm on the Sea of Galilee,&quot; which remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It is one of 13 works stolen by burglars from the museum in the early hours of March 18, 1990.The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole the art. Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge in Boston, says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states.  (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c524e376-c6db-4bf9-a4ab-5521a7301d13.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="312" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c524e376-c6db-4bf9-a4ab-5521a7301d13.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This undated file photograph released by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shows the painting &quot;Chez Tortoni,&quot; by Manet, one of more than a dozen works of art stolen in the early hours of March 18, 1990. The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes they know the identities of the  thieves, belonging to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states. (AP Photo/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, File)  NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e156cd8e-caff-4450-99a5-53f69182ded7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="502" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e156cd8e-caff-4450-99a5-53f69182ded7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="151" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This undated file photograph released by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shows the painting &quot;The Storm on the Sea of Galilee,&quot; by Rembrandt, one of more than a dozen works of art stolen by burglars in the early hours of March 18, 1990. The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole the art. Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge in Boston, says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states.  (AP Photo/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, File)  NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7b5a6acb-84a1-4e7a-83a5-1a1c5319f59f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="474" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7b5a6acb-84a1-4e7a-83a5-1a1c5319f59f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="142" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This undated file photograph released by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shows the etching &quot;Self-Portrait,&quot; by Rembrandt, one of more than a dozen works of art stolen by burglars in the early hours of March 18, 1990.The FBI said Monday, March 18, 2013, it believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole the art. Richard DesLauriers, the FBI's special agent in charge in Boston, says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England the mid-Atlantic states.  (AP Photo/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, File)   NO SALES&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fd44876-76bf-4dbe-a469-4ae9331bca4e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="486" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fd44876-76bf-4dbe-a469-4ae9331bca4e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="146" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Monday, March 18, 2013 copy photo of a poster provided by the FBI, a likeness of the stolen Rembrandt painting The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is seen at FBI headquarters in Boston. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/FBI)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=35529f55-5df3-40bf-93f6-1008a4e43edd.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="500" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=35529f55-5df3-40bf-93f6-1008a4e43edd.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="150" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Monday, March 18, 2013 copy photo of a poster provided by the FBI, a likeness of the stolen Vermeer painting The Concert is seen at FBI headquarters in Boston. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/FBI)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=124b11df-1e2a-44b6-bd6e-c89b3c0a9184.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=124b11df-1e2a-44b6-bd6e-c89b3c0a9184.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Anthony Amore, chief of security at the Gardner Museum, center, stands next to a poster that shows an image of a Vermeer painting and lists a reward, right, while facing reporters during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Boston, Monday, March 18, 2013. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bd2ff87e-7346-4563-846c-712ed6367505.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bd2ff87e-7346-4563-846c-712ed6367505.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Geoff Kelly, center, looks in the direction of a poster that shows a Vermeer painting and lists a reward, right, after taking questions from reporters during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Boston, Monday, March 18, 2013. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=77add38a-3d39-40b1-aef0-ad306f8f5788.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=77add38a-3d39-40b1-aef0-ad306f8f5788.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, right, stands next to a poster that shows a Rembrandt painting and a reward while facing reporters during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Boston, Monday, March 18, 2013. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. DesLauriers says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England and the mid-Atlantic states. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Testimony begins in fake Rockefeller trial</title>
<description><![CDATA[Testimony in the murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor opened Tuesday with a witness telling how his excavation for a pool turned creepy when he discovered a human skull and a bag of bones.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Linda Deutsch]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/16/17339368-testimony-begins-in-fake-rockefeller-trial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/16/17339368-testimony-begins-in-fake-rockefeller-trial</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>rockefeller</category><category>los-angeles-county</category><category>los-angeles</category><category>us-news</category><category>chris-chichester</category><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:48:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d67bd80d-3b10-4c34-ab9a-6b283acbe194.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d67bd80d-3b10-4c34-ab9a-6b283acbe194.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, enters court for his kidnapping trial in Boston. To his neighbors in an upscale Pasadena suburb, Gerhartsreiter was the man from nowhere, a newcomer who joined the church, ingratiated himself to elderly residents and called himself Chris Chichester. But he seemed to have no past and when he suddenly vanished it left everyone puzzled. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, Pool, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=22f27644-bca0-4a07-9e1e-804cf4399284.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=22f27644-bca0-4a07-9e1e-804cf4399284.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, enters court for his kidnapping trial in Boston. Seven women and five men were selected to as the jury to begin hearing the case Monday March 18, 2013 of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (GAYR'-hahrtz-ry-tur). He was known for 20 years as Clark Rockefeller. He says he is not guilty of the cold case killing of John Sohus. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, Pool, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=00ebbce3-7265-4b70-b682-04b2f65d8316.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=00ebbce3-7265-4b70-b682-04b2f65d8316.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, center, with his attorney Bradford Bailey, left arrives for opening statements in his trial, in Los Angeles Criminal Court Building Monday, March 18, 2013. A prosecutor told jurors Monday he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against the German immigrant who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family. He has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter, using an alias, was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived.(AP Photo/Nick Ut )&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2727b7cf-f4f8-4273-8594-ba2acc899d8e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2727b7cf-f4f8-4273-8594-ba2acc899d8e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, listens during opening statements in his trial, in Los Angeles Criminal Court on Monday, March 18, 2013. A prosecutor told jurors Monday he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against the German immigrant who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family. He has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter, using an alias was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ba77864a-49ab-4134-979d-adf2d5ae0c1d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ba77864a-49ab-4134-979d-adf2d5ae0c1d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, left, with his attorney, Jeffrey Denner, right, during the opening statements in his trial, in Los Angeles Criminal Court Building Monday, March 18, 2013. A prosecutor told jurors Monday he will prove a cold-case murder allegation against the German immigrant who spent years moving through U.S. society under a series of aliases, most notoriously posing as a member of the fabled Rockefeller family. He has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985 while Gerhartsreiter, using an alias was a guest cottage tenant at the home of Sohus' mother, where the couple lived.(AP Photo/Nick Ut )&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Papal conclave goes to heart of Catholic mystery</title>
<description><![CDATA[The papal conclave is steeped in mystery &#8212; and the church likes it that way. Elaborate ritual and veils of secrecy, after all, are fundamental to the papal mystique, seen as the glue that binds worshipers in faith.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor L. Simpson]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Victor L. Simpson]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/13/17295615-papal-conclave-goes-to-heart-of-catholic-mystery</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/13/17295615-papal-conclave-goes-to-heart-of-catholic-mystery</guid><category>eu</category><category>vatican</category><category>mystery</category><category>world-news</category><category>conclave</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:43:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8cd96b52-1668-4897-9639-0b8a49dcc68a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="311" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8cd96b52-1668-4897-9639-0b8a49dcc68a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image taken from video provided by CTV, Monsignor Guido Marini, master of liturgical ceremonies, closes the double doors to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at the start of the conclave of cardinals to elect the next pope. Marini closed the doors after shouting &quot;Extra omnes,&quot; Latin for &quot;all out,&quot; telling everyone but those taking part in the conclave to leave the frescoed hall. He then locked it. (AP Photo/CTV)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=79cb6f73-1a5d-43a5-96cc-7f094118ab46.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="348" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=79cb6f73-1a5d-43a5-96cc-7f094118ab46.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="177" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this picture released by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Monsignor Guido Marini, Master of Liturgical Ceremonies, closes the double doors to the Sistine Chapel in after shouting &quot;Extra omnes,&quot; Latin for &quot;all out,&quot; telling everyone but those taking part in the conclave to leave the frescoed hall, at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Marini then locked the doors. Cardinals from around the globe locked themselves inside the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to choose a new leader for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics and their troubled church, surrounded by Michelangelo's imposing frescos imagining the beginning and the end of the world. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef24ed75-48c1-4774-8c8e-fd0704a42005.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ef24ed75-48c1-4774-8c8e-fd0704a42005.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning Roman Catholic cardinals have not elected a pope in their second or third rounds of balloting, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinals voted twice Wednesday in Michelangelo's famed frescoed chapel after a first vote Tuesday in a conclave to elect a successor to Benedict XVI, who stunned the Catholic world last month by becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign.  (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee8ae93f-13f2-4aef-b726-31bf781e3f8f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee8ae93f-13f2-4aef-b726-31bf781e3f8f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mountain Butorac waits in St. Peter's Square during the second day of voting by cardinals to elect a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Their first ballot on Tuesday yielded no winner and a great plume of black smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Old shipwreck found in sands on remote Ga. island</title>
<description><![CDATA[The odd skeleton of wooden beams barely poked above the sands, exposed just enough by wind and tides for a beachcomber to report the curious find.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russ Bynum]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Russ Bynum]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/20/16611415-old-shipwreck-found-in-sands-on-remote-ga-island</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/20/16611415-old-shipwreck-found-in-sands-on-remote-ga-island</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>us-news</category><category>shipwreck</category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:48:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Groups urge probe of $12 million mystery donation</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two election watchdog organizations on Thursday urged the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission to investigate more than $12 million in campaign contributions that were mysteriously funneled through two little-known companies in Tennessee to a prominent tea party group. The origin of the money, the largest anonymous political donations in a campaign year filled with them, remains a secret.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/20/16046289-groups-urge-probe-of-12-million-mystery-donation</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/20/16046289-groups-urge-probe-of-12-million-mystery-donation</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>politics</category><category>donor</category><category>justice-department</category><category>federal-election-commission</category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>'Raiders of the Lost Ark' package mystery solved</title>
<description><![CDATA[First, there was "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Now, there's "Mailers of the Lost Package."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Babwin]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Babwin]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15947201-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-package-mystery-solved</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15947201-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-package-mystery-solved</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>university</category><category>odd</category><category>odd-news</category><category>us-news</category><category>package</category><category>indiana-jones</category><category>mystery-package</category><category>lost-ark"</category><category>lost-package"</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:41:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shadowy donor behind record 'super' PAC checks</title>
<description><![CDATA[A lawyer in Tennessee who is mysteriously linked to millions of dollars in campaign contributions steered to congressional candidates doubled his investments in the weeks before Election Day and quietly funneled $6.8 million more to a prominent tea party group, according to new financial statements filed with the government.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/07/15754568-shadowy-donor-behind-record-super-pac-checks</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/07/15754568-shadowy-donor-behind-record-super-pac-checks</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>politics</category><category>donor</category><category>election-day</category><category>tea-party</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:34:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Man thought linked to huge art heist pleads guilty</title>
<description><![CDATA[A 76-year-old reputed Connecticut mobster pleaded guilty from his wheelchair Wednesday in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed the FBI's belief that he has information about the largest art heist in history.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Collins]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Dave Collins]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15142619-man-thought-linked-to-huge-art-heist-pleads-guilty</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/13/15142619-man-thought-linked-to-huge-art-heist-pleads-guilty</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>heist</category><category>us-news</category><category>art-heist</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Calif grandma claims $23M lotto prize just in time</title>
<description><![CDATA[For more than five months &#8212; while Julie Cervera struggled to pay a $600 electrical bill, feed her family and keep the cable company from shutting off her service because she couldn't pay &#8212; she was a millionaire without knowing it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raquel Maria Dillon]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raquel Maria Dillon]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14848643-calif-grandma-claims-23m-lotto-prize-just-in-time</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/01/14848643-calif-grandma-claims-23m-lotto-prize-just-in-time</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>millionaire</category><category>us-news</category><category>julie-cervera</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 08:17:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f37a539-2c5e-46d9-8996-47ddb57787ed.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f37a539-2c5e-46d9-8996-47ddb57787ed.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This surveillance image provided by the California Lottery shows a woman they believe won a $23-million jackpot on a SuperLotto Plus ticket she purchased five months ago at an east Palmdale convenience store but she hasn't cashed it yet. Spokesman Alex Traverso said Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 the woman has less than a month left to claim her fortune with the ticket she bought at Michael's Market &amp; Liquor. Lottery officials synced the time the ticket was sold on May 30 to the surveillance video to determine that a dark-haired woman in a blue or purple top purchased the ticket.  (AP Photo/California Lottery)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=10e02156-bd27-4f3a-9e81-fb3e15597114.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=10e02156-bd27-4f3a-9e81-fb3e15597114.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Lottery winner Julie Cervera, center, looks at her recently dead son pictured on a tattoo, as she is hugged by her grandson Rudy Ray, left, and daughter Charliena Marquez, right, after a news conference in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. The 69-year-old California grandmother came forward to claim a $23 million lottery jackpot after the winning ticket languished in her car's glove compartment for months and almost expired. With 180 days to claim the prize, Cervera only had until Nov. 25 to cash in. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8e685172-bcfb-493e-8863-632fc44ee1bc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="317" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8e685172-bcfb-493e-8863-632fc44ee1bc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="95" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Julie Cervera, third from left, is surrounded by family members as she holds a $23-million dollar prize banner for the media in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. The 69-year-old California grandmother came forward to claim a $23-million lottery jackpot after the winning ticket languished in her car's glove compartment for months and almost expired. With 180 days to claim the prize, Cervera only had until Nov. 25 to cash in. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Mystery firm formed days before $5M campaign gift</title>
<description><![CDATA[A shadowy Tennessee company donated more than $5 million to a prominent conservative super political action committee days after establishing itself.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jack Gillum]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/27/14746329-mystery-firm-formed-days-before-5m-campaign-gift</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/27/14746329-mystery-firm-formed-days-before-5m-campaign-gift</guid><category>us</category><category>campaign</category><category>mystery</category><category>politics</category><category>donor</category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:36:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Producers sue over alleged 'Rebecca' musical scam</title>
<description><![CDATA[The producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca" filed a civil lawsuit Friday against a Long Island securities dealer who was charged criminally this week with sinking the show with a bizarre fraud that involved fictitious investors and a faked death.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David B. Caruso]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David B. Caruso]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/14/14449825-producers-sue-over-alleged-rebecca-musical-scam</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/14/14449825-producers-sue-over-alleged-rebecca-musical-scam</guid><category>us</category><category>broadway</category><category>new-york</category><category>mystery</category><category>long-island</category><category>us-news</category><category>alfred-hitchcock</category><category>mark-hotton</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:27:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=df046769-0765-42bc-813d-631a665353e2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=df046769-0765-42bc-813d-631a665353e2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE--In this photo from Saturday, Sept. 18, 2006, ensemble members perform during a dress rehearsal for the musical &quot;Rebecca&quot; at Vienna's Raimund Theatre. The play's Broadway production in New York collapsed this week, launching a FBI fraud investigation of the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Stephan Tirerenberg, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d00bc457-1e37-401f-bf5b-afd9c397b813.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="497" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d00bc457-1e37-401f-bf5b-afd9c397b813.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="149" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE-- In this photo from Tuesday, April 13, 2004, Broadway producer Ben Sprecher speaks during a press conference in New York. Sprecher latest production, the psychological thriller Rebecca collapsed this week and launched a FBI fraud investigation into the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2f3a21da-f16d-43e5-a912-243df5df3af3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2f3a21da-f16d-43e5-a912-243df5df3af3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE--In this photo from Saturday, Sept. 18, 2006, Susan Rigvava-Dumas performs the role of Mrs. Danvers during a dress rehearsal for the musical &quot;Rebecca&quot; at Vienna's Raimund Theatre. The play's Broadway production in New York collapsed this week, launching a FBI fraud investigation of the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Stephan Tirerenberg, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=256837e5-beb3-4061-ba1b-61d8f9204068.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="285" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=256837e5-beb3-4061-ba1b-61d8f9204068.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This courtroom sketch shows Mark L Hotton, second from left, at an arraignment in US District Court in Central Islip, NY., Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Hotton, a former stock broker accused of swindling the producers of a Broadway adaptation of &quot;Rebecca&quot;, has pleaded not guilty to fraud and money-laundering charges in a separate case. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Broadway producer says he was fraud victim</title>
<description><![CDATA[The psychological thriller "Rebecca" was a hit for author Daphne du Maurier and filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Leave it to Broadway to one-up the master of suspense.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David B. Caruso]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David B. Caruso]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/05/14234370-broadway-producer-says-he-was-fraud-victim</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/05/14234370-broadway-producer-says-he-was-fraud-victim</guid><category>us</category><category>broadway</category><category>mystery</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Oct 2012 06:29:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7b9d8b7c-8698-4990-bc47-5644dcf84f4e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7b9d8b7c-8698-4990-bc47-5644dcf84f4e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE--In this photo from Saturday, Sept. 18, 2006, ensemble members perform during a dress rehearsal for the musical &quot;Rebecca&quot; at Vienna's Raimund Theatre. The play's Broadway production in New York collapsed this week, launching a FBI fraud investigation of the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Stephan Tirerenberg, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58a9d4c4-2284-4c34-a75b-635f4ccb3d51.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="497" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58a9d4c4-2284-4c34-a75b-635f4ccb3d51.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="149" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE-- In this photo from Tuesday, April 13, 2004, Broadway producer Ben Sprecher speaks during a press conference in New York. Sprecher latest production, the psychological thriller Rebecca collapsed this week and launched a FBI fraud investigation into the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19a84709-26eb-42ba-81c2-463e56898873.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19a84709-26eb-42ba-81c2-463e56898873.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE--In this photo from Saturday, Sept. 18, 2006, Susan Rigvava-Dumas performs the role of Mrs. Danvers during a dress rehearsal for the musical &quot;Rebecca&quot; at Vienna's Raimund Theatre. The play's Broadway production in New York collapsed this week, launching a FBI fraud investigation of the circumstances.  (AP Photo/Stephan Tirerenberg, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Sheriff: Twin sisters' Tahoe deaths were natural</title>
<description><![CDATA[Five months after authorities launched an investigation into the mysterious deaths of elderly twin sisters at their South Lake Tahoe home, investigators have concluded the 73-year-olds died of natural causes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/30/13576656-sheriff-twin-sisters-tahoe-deaths-were-natural</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/30/13576656-sheriff-twin-sisters-tahoe-deaths-were-natural</guid><category>us</category><category>deaths</category><category>mystery</category><category>twins</category><category>us-news</category><category>solved</category><category>south-lake-tahoe</category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:06:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>2 men see NC-made boat that went to Spain alone</title>
<description><![CDATA[The last time Scott Douglas saw his boat, the Queen Bee, it was bobbing away from him off the coast of Massachusetts' Nantucket Island.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martha Waggoner]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Martha Waggoner]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/28/13531553-2-men-see-nc-made-boat-that-went-to-spain-alone</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/28/13531553-2-men-see-nc-made-boat-that-went-to-spain-alone</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>nc</category><category>ship</category><category>us-news</category><category>nantucket-island</category><category>scott-douglas</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:11:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New AIDS-like disease in Asians, not contagious</title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marilynn Marchione]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Marilynn Marchione]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/22/13418952-new-aids-like-disease-in-asians-not-contagious</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/22/13418952-new-aids-like-disease-in-asians-not-contagious</guid><category>us</category><category>mystery</category><category>health</category><category>disease</category><category>united-states</category><category>med</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:01:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09980b7c-8a14-4c98-a3f5-c17151659f03.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="284" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=09980b7c-8a14-4c98-a3f5-c17151659f03.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dr. Sarah K. Browne,right, talks with patient Kim Nguyen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. Kim Nguyen, 62, a seamstress from Vietnam who has lived in Tennessee since 1975, may have been in danger of that when she first sought help for a persistent fever, infections throughout her bones and other bizarre symptoms in 2009. She had been sick off and on for several years and had visited Vietnam in 1995 and again in early 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) , right, talks with her patient Kim Nguyen, left, in from Tenn.,  in her room at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a6cbae65-3ab0-4b83-8a09-fe84cc0f0161.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="322" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a6cbae65-3ab0-4b83-8a09-fe84cc0f0161.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Patient Kim Nguyen is seen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.  Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. Kim Nguyen, 62, a seamstress from Vietnam who has lived in Tennessee since 1975, may have been in danger of that when she first sought help for a persistent fever, infections throughout her bones and other bizarre symptoms in 2009. She had been sick off and on for several years and had visited Vietnam in 1995 and again in early 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d8243123-51b5-4d32-97d1-0f6a2dc327c9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d8243123-51b5-4d32-97d1-0f6a2dc327c9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Patient Kim Nguyen is seen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.  Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. Kim Nguyen, 62, a seamstress from Vietnam who has lived in Tennessee since 1975, may have been in danger of that when she first sought help for a persistent fever, infections throughout her bones and other bizarre symptoms in 2009. She had been sick off and on for several years and had visited Vietnam in 1995 and again in early 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=159ec77a-b779-43e6-978a-6694fd8bd805.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="277" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=159ec77a-b779-43e6-978a-6694fd8bd805.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Patient Kim Nguyen, right, and her husband Quang Nguyen are seen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.  Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. Kim Nguyen, 62, a seamstress from Vietnam who has lived in Tennessee since 1975, may have been in danger of that when she first sought help for a persistent fever, infections throughout her bones and other bizarre symptoms in 2009. She had been sick off and on for several years and had visited Vietnam in 1995 and again in early 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c7df1bb3-9725-40b2-8a2f-489a427d11aa.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="358" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c7df1bb3-9725-40b2-8a2f-489a427d11aa.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="108" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Patient Kim Nguyen, left, and her husband Quang Nguyen are seen at National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012.  Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. Kim Nguyen, 62, a seamstress from Vietnam who has lived in Tennessee since 1975, may have been in danger of that when she first sought help for a persistent fever, infections throughout her bones and other bizarre symptoms in 2009. She had been sick off and on for several years and had visited Vietnam in 1995 and again in early 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Owner of camera lost for 3 years in NY creek found</title>
<description><![CDATA[A camera lost in a creek in New York's Adirondacks for three years is being returned thanks to clever detective work by a Vermont man who studied pictures on its memory card.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/05/13143440-owner-of-camera-lost-for-3-years-in-ny-creek-found</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/05/13143440-owner-of-camera-lost-for-3-years-in-ny-creek-found</guid><category>us</category><category>new-york</category><category>mystery</category><category>lost</category><category>camera</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2012 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Answers sought in China's salvaging of British sub</title>
<description><![CDATA[A lifelong scuba diving obsession led Steven Schwankert to the tale of the HMS Poseidon and the startling discovery that the British submarine, which sank off the northeastern coast of China in the 1930s, had been raised by the Chinese in 1972.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Bodeen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Christopher Bodeen]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/03/13097688-answers-sought-in-chinas-salvaging-of-british-sub</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/08/03/13097688-answers-sought-in-chinas-salvaging-of-british-sub</guid><category>china</category><category>mystery</category><category>submarine</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>as-china</category><category>beijing-based-american</category><category>steven-schwankert</category><category>hms-poseidon</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Aug 2012 06:46:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8faddf3-8902-466b-8812-5926e14fe8ab.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="281" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e8faddf3-8902-466b-8812-5926e14fe8ab.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2012, American journalist and diving instructor Steven Schwankert in diving suit swims inside the Blue Zoo aquarium in Beijing. A lifelong scuba diving obsession led Schwankert to the tale of the HMS Poseidon and the startling discovery that the British submarine, which sank off the northeastern coast of China in the 1930s, had been raised by the Chinese in 1972. That revelation lies at the heart of Schwankert's upcoming book, &quot;The Real Poseidon Adventure: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine&quot; and an accompanying documentary film chronicling his search for answers about what became of the sunken vessel. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5a57100e-6e77-411b-8ed2-b50c3d5799f9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5a57100e-6e77-411b-8ed2-b50c3d5799f9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2012, American journalist and diving instructor Steven Schwankert in diving suit swims inside the Blue Zoo aquarium in Beijing, China. A lifelong scuba diving obsession led Schwankert to the tale of the HMS Poseidon and the startling discovery that the British submarine, which sank off the northeastern coast of China in the 1930s, had been raised by the Chinese in 1972. That revelation lies at the heart of Schwankert's upcoming book, &quot;The Real Poseidon Adventure: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine&quot; and an accompanying documentary film chronicling his search for answers about what became of the sunken vessel. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=38bb5ca2-d101-4c55-b8b2-6e3e149a9b0c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="276" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=38bb5ca2-d101-4c55-b8b2-6e3e149a9b0c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2012, American journalist and diving instructor Steven Schwankert in diving suit swims inside the Blue Zoo aquarium in Beijing. A lifelong scuba diving obsession led Schwankert to the tale of the HMS Poseidon and the startling discovery that the British submarine, which sank off the northeastern coast of China in the 1930s, had been raised by the Chinese in 1972. That revelation lies at the heart of Schwankert's upcoming book, &quot;The Real Poseidon Adventure: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine&quot; and an accompanying documentary film chronicling his search for answers about what became of the sunken vessel. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d68c253a-c9aa-4fd7-b07d-f91e5ab4402c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d68c253a-c9aa-4fd7-b07d-f91e5ab4402c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Aug. 20, 1931 file photo, the Mayor of Plymouth shakes hands with Petty Officer Willis as he meets with survivors of the sinking of the HMS Poseidon P99 submarine in Plymouth, England. The survivors arrived after traveling on the ocean liner Rawalpindhi from China. A lifelong scuba diving obsession led American journalist and diving instructor Steven Schwankert to the tale of the HMS Poseidon and the startling discovery that the British submarine, which sank off the northeastern coast of China in the 1930s, had been raised by the Chinese in 1972. (AP Photo, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>North Korean woman at Kim's side sparks curiosity</title>
<description><![CDATA[A mysterious young woman appearing at the side of North Korea's new leader is the subject of speculation she could be Kim Jong Un's younger sister or even wife, but Pyongyang has released no details.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/09/12637689-north-korean-woman-at-kims-side-sparks-curiosity</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/09/12637689-north-korean-woman-at-kims-side-sparks-curiosity</guid><category>nkorea</category><category>mystery</category><category>woman</category><category>north-korea</category><category>south-korea</category><category>world-news</category><category>as</category><category>kim-jong-un</category><category>mystery-woman</category><pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:20:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f0eea6cf-66e2-4feb-b249-97676904997a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f0eea6cf-66e2-4feb-b249-97676904997a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Monday, July 9, 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center right, and a woman clap with others as they watch performance by North Korea's new Moranbong band in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, July 6, 2012. The source did not identify the woman but South Korean media speculated that she could be Kims younger sister or wife. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>