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Jade
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Jade prospectors are putting one of China's rivers in peril and could soon exhaust supplies of the precious stone.
About 200,000 people are sifting the Yurungkax river in Xianjiang for Hotan jade - which costs up to $120 (£63) a gramme - sta...
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Britannia
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Roman find made in Selkirk in Treasure Trove report A rare Roman artefact and a weight set that could be evidence of illegal trade between the Highlands and Europe have been among finds made in Scotland. A copper alloy cast in the shape of an eagle head uncovered in Selkirk is the first Roman relic of its...
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Battle of Flers-Courcelette
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The last great Allied effort to achieve a breakthrough came on 15 September, 1916, in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette with the initial advance made by 11 British divisions (nine from Fourth Army, two Canadian divisions on the Reserve Army sector) and a later attack by four French corps. The batt...
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Giraffa camelopardalis
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Giraffe genetic secret: Four species of tallest mammal identified It is a famous, gentle giant of the African savanna, but the giraffe's genetics have just revealed that there is not one species, but four. Giraffes have previously been recognised to be a single species divided into several sub-sp...
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RV Calypso
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RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy Minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanography researcher Jacques-Yves Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996, and is undergoing a complete refurbishment in 2009...
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Arachnid
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A spider that dines almost exclusively on plants has been described by scientists. It is the first-known predominantly vegetarian spider; all of the other known 40,000 spider species are thought to be mainly carnivorous. Bagheera kiplingi, which is found in Central America and Mexico, bucks the...
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Karowe diamond
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World's second-largest diamond 'found in Botswana' The world's second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest d...
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Honey
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Honey - it's not always what it seems Honey is a tasty, high energy food valued for its taste, colour and unique combination of nutrients that is eaten regularly in New Zealand. As natural products, honeys can vary considerably in their composition depending on the flowers or plants the bees visit....
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Judean date palm
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Extinct Tree Grows Again from Jar of Ancient Seeds Archaeologists found a 2,000 year-old jar of Judean date palm seeds, a tree which has been extinct since 500 AD. They planted them and they grew. Read more
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Kylie Minogue will join Doctor Who on board the Titanic in a Christmas special, the BBC has announced. The Australian singer will mark her recovery from cancer with a leading role in the episode. Minogue, right, joins David Tennant for Voyage of the Damned, which starts filming in Cardiff next month...
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Breakthrough Message
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UK team plans 'unsent letter' to aliens A network of UK researchers has decided to compose a message to aliens - but they are divided over whether such a message should be sent into space. The group will enter the Breakthrough Message contest, which offers a $1m prize for creating a digital missive tha...
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Nazi 'gold' train
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Nazi 'gold' train: Polish men go on TV to claim find Two men who claim to have found a Nazi train said to be laden with gold have gone public in Poland. The men, identifying themselves Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, appeared on the country's TVP public television. Read more
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Message in bottle
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World record as message in bottle found by same boat after 98 years near Shetland A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released. Andrew Leaper's discovery beat the previous record for the longest time a bottle has been adrift at sea by mor...
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Tsar Bomba
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Tsar Bomba is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT (420 PJ); however, the bomb yield was reduced to 50 megatons in order to reduce nuclear...
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Roanoke Colony
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The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony. On April 27, 1584, Sir...
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