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Bear Mead standingstone
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A monolithic stone was discovered at Bear Mead, 30 metres South of the River Stour, at the boundary of two fields in Bear Mead. Located at SY 986-993, it is normally covered by summer vegetation, but was known by the two neighbouring landowners. It appears to have toppled towards the South, trapping s...
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Lawrence Grossman
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U of C Professor wins prestigious award Some young boys collect baseball cards, others collect coins. But when Lawrence Grossman was growing up in Toronto, Canada, he collected minerals. Now in his thirty-sixth year of teaching University of Chicago students about mineralogy and the formation o...
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Gemini North telescope
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After four weeks of recovery efforts from the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that shook the island of Hawai'i on October 15th, the Gemini North telescope resumed regular science operations on November 1...
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Typhoon Nuri
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Typhoon Nuri is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 29 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% probability for TS is 75% Laoag (18.2 N, 120.7 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 41 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 29 hours
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Tropical Storm Fay
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Severe weather over the Dominican Republic has strengthened into a tropical storm which is heading towards Cuba, US weather forecasters said. At 2100GMT on Friday Tropical Storm Fay was about 55km east of the Dominican Republic's capital, with winds of 65km/h. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/l...
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Xibalba
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Mexican archaeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld. Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers discov...
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Zijin Shan Observatory
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China on Monday broke ground on construction of its largest astronomical observation station in Yao'an County in the southwest Yunnan Province. The station, scheduled to be complete by 2010, is in Xihuling (Westlake Hill). Following an assessment, CAS experts found Yao'an fulfilled all the req...
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Britain From Above
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In BBC series Britain from Above, presenter Andrew Marr takes to the skies to give viewers a bird's eye view of landmarks across the UK. The programme aims to show how Britain keeps moving all in the space of a day. Britain From Above begins on BBC1, Sunday at 9pm. [url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...
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UNH atmospheric observatory
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The University of New Hampshire's new atmospheric observatory at Thompson Farm is scheduled to open this afternoon. Read more
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Wall Arch
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One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed. Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch h...
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Sherry Fieber-Beyer
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Sherry Fieber-Beyer, a doctoral student in the Earth System Science and Policy department at the University of North Dakotas John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, has been awarded a $30,000-per-year, three-year NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for her research project titled, M...
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Johnson Space Center
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NASA's Johnson Space Centre closed at 12 p.m. CDT Monday and will remain closed through Tuesday because of the threat of tropical storm Edouard. Plans call for the centre to reopen Wednesday. Edouard is predicted to cross the Texas coast early Tuesday. [url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/20...
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Learable Hill
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Learable Hill in Strath of Kildonan (Sutherland) has a complex of three or four groups of stone avenues. In the north are two parallel stone rows and to the south there is a fan-shaped row. The site contains a 1.6m tall standing stone, bearing on its west face an incised cross. Latitude: 58.191831N L...
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Fillmore hot ground
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Firefighters are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the ground climbed to 812 degrees on Friday for unknown reasons. Possible theories include that natural hydrocarbons such as oil or gas are burning deep in the earth. But nobody knows for sure what might have ignited the materials....
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