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Shibuya spa explosion
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A geological survey company warned of a possible natural gas explosion if hot water was pumped up from the spring source indoors in a report about 10 months before the opening of the Shiespa spa facility in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, where an explosion killed three people on June 19, it has been learned. [ur...
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Leland Melvin
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As a boy, Leland Melvin loved to watch the world go by from the back seat of the family car during camping trips to the beach and the mountains. In six months, Melvin, who grew up in Lynchburg and played football at the University of Richmond, will watch the entire world go by from the space shuttle Atlant...
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Lake Somin Monster
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A huge monster with the head of a serpent and the body of a crocodile is rumoured to lurk at the bottom of a lake in Western Ukraine. The monster has been frightening residents of a nearby village for more than one hundred years. Now and again the gruesome creature comes ashore and attacks domestic anima...
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Helo 66 helicopter
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There are no famous helicopters. Many people are familiar with the Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright Flyer, the Spruce Goose, and the Memphis Belle. Maybe even Glamorous Glennis. But name a famous helicopter. You cant. Yeah, lots of people can name the Huey, but thats a type, not a particular aircraft....
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Spider silk
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Along Came a Spider--Spinning Silk For Cross-Hairs Spider silk has been used for centuries by various civilizations and for a variety of purposes because of its strength and other remarkable characteristics. In more recent times new uses for it have been found in the support of science. Spiders us...
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Aksum obelisk
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre today signed the contract with Lattanzi SRL construction company to begin the re-erection of the Aksum obelisk. Also known as Stela 2, it is the second largest stela on the Aksum World Heritage site...
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Imperial Walker Pushchair
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A Star Wars AT-AT Imperial Walker baby pushchair IMAGE Source
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Wat Saohin Temple
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Ancient temples suffer quake damage Cracks have been found in an historic 400-year-old temple in the northern province of Chiang Mai following several recent earthquakes, moderate in impact but adding to the cumulative damage suffered over time. Cracks were found in the walls of the over 400-yea...
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Gillies Hill
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With its historic woodland, stunning scenery and protected wildlife, Gillies Hill is a well known and popular site for locals and visitors alike. Rare red squirrels, Peregrine Falcons, Buzzards and Roe Deer have been regularly spotted in the vast area of woodland near Cambusbarron, in Stirling....
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Kemnay Quarry
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Place of Origin aims to draw attention to the historic quarry at Kemnay in Aberdeenshire. The project involves the construction of a new vantage point at the Southern rim of the Quarry and the creation of a community woodland leading towards the hill, passing through landscape features which revea...
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Munros
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Experts have been called in to determine whether two mountains in the Highlands can be called Munros.
Ordnance Survey maps put both Beinn Dearg, north of Glen Torridon, and Foinaven, near Rhiconich, Sutherland, at a height of 914 metres.
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ISEF Award for physics and astronomy
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A Scottish schoolgirl has been named as the world's brightest young physicist at an international science festival. Holly Batchelor, 18, a pupil at the Mary Erskine School in Edinburgh, made her own cosmic ray detector - out of a plastic fish tank, an aluminium sheet and some felt - to win the Intel In...
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Michael Griffin
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NASA sought today to deflect criticism its chief received following skeptical comments he made on the topic of the agency's role in global warming research. During an interview Wednesday with NPR, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin expressed doubts that global warming was an issue that humans c...
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South America land bridge
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Large populations of frogs in Central America and the Caribbean "rafted" over the ocean from South America more than 29 million years ago, reports a new study published in the June 4 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Genetic analysis of eleuthe...
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Mysterious circular patterns
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A mysterious circular pattern on moss-covered logs has scientists scratching their heads. Last winter, researchers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park discovered the symmetrical bull's-eye pattern on patches of liverwort (a close relative of moss) growing on pine trees that had died an...
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