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Josephoartigasia monesi
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Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America four million years ago. Read more
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Helium balloon distance record
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Balloonists surpass world distance record Two pilots have surpassed the world distance record for a flight in a helium balloon after crossing the Pacific Ocean. American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev also hope to set a new duration record. Read more
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In his maiden speech to the House of Commons, the Hon. Member for Copeland, Jamie Reed MP, announced that he is a Jedi:
“I crave the indulgence of the House in interrupting such an important and enjoyable debate to deliver my maiden speech. Furthermore, as the first Jedi Member of this...
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Ireland's first farmers
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Ireland's first farmers settled the island later than some sites from Ulster have long suggested, but did so in a short period which may also have seen parallel migration into western England and Scotland. Radiocarbon dates indicate that sites from Co Kerry in the South West to Co Derry in Northern I...
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Philae obelisk
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Egyptian Philae obelisk revealed anew Fresh information is being obtained on the Philae obelisk, the stone monument that played such a key role in helping to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, the pink granite shaft stands on the UK National Trust's Kingston Lacy estate in Dorset, where it was...
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Book of Silk
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The Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena, also known as Book of Silk is an ancient astronomy silk manuscript compiled by Chinese astronomers of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) and found in the Mawangdui tomb of China in 1973. Read more From November 19 to December 13, 1973,...
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First Europeans
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Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans' They may be yellowed and worn but these ancient teeth and jaw fragment have something very revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe. The specimens, unearthed in Italy and the UK, have just been confirmed as the earliest known remains of...
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Harriet the tortoise, the world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176. The giant Galapagos tortoise died of a suspected heart attack. She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Recor...
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The Phaistos Disc
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The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). Read more...
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The Colosseum
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Italy's Colosseum to be restored with private donation The Italian authorities have approved a controversial plan to restore the Colosseum using a private donation, with work to begin in December. Speaking at a news conference, Rome's superintendent for archaeological heritage, Mariarosari...
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Skomer Island
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Skomer Island's 'hidden' prehistoric buildings found by archaeologists A team of archaeologists have found "hidden" remains of prehistoric buildings and fields on Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast. Using new technology, they "X-rayed" fields and found buri...
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HMS Royal Oak
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Images of the British Battleship, HMS Royal Oak, which sank in World War II has been revealed for the first time. Expand (39kb, 640 x 443) Expand (53kb, 640 x 445) Expand (71kb, 640 x 447) Expand (59kb, 640 x 443) HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, torpedoed in Sc...
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AIDS
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AIDS was first clinically observed between late 1980 and early 1981. In 1983, two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting AIDS patients, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Sc...
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Cerro Rico
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Looming over the city, the mountain has been exploited ever since silver was first discovered in 1545, but after almost five centuries it is showing warning signs of exhaustion. Its peak has lost its once perfect cone-like shape. In January a huge crater formed at the top, and geologists are worried...
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Franklin Expedition
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A Canadian team is to search for two ships lost in an 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The British ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were trapped in the Arctic ice as Sir John Franklin sought a northern route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He and his 128 crew died - although their exact fate...
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