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Bronze Age burial site excavated on Dartmoor An early Bronze Age burial cist containing cremated bones and material dating back 4,000 years has been excavated on Dartmoor. Archaeologists uncovered items from the site on Whitehorse Hill including a woven bag or basket and amber beads. [url=http:...
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1958 Tybee Island B-47 crash
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The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 3,400 kg Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. Read more
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This April, Oni Press will join the space race by releasing the all new original graphic novel FIRST IN SPACE by talented newcomer James Vining, winner of a 2006 Xeric Award. Set in the early 1960s and extensively researched, FIRST IN SPACE tells the true adventures of Ham, Americas first chimpanze...
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Tanganyika laughter epidemic
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The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria - or mass psychogenic illness (MPI) - rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) near the border of Kenya. Read more [...
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Echo
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New world record for longest echo set near Invergordon A new world record for the longest echo in a man-made structure has been set in an underground fuel depot constructed in Scotland before World War Two. Read more
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Harvey Nininger
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This month, another anniversary has taken place, but one quite obscure except to some dealers, collectors and researchers of meteorites. Eighty-six years ago, on Nov. 9, 1923, a then-unknown, middle-aged science professor named Harvey Nininger was walking home from work in McPherson, Kan. Sud...
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Battle of Raphia
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War Elephant Myths Debunked by DNA Through DNA analysis, Illinois researchers have disproved years of rumors and hearsay surrounding the ancient Battle of Raphia, the only known battle between Asian and African elephants. Read more The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was a batt...
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Catalhoyuk
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Çatalhöyük: a Stone Age city In 1961 the British archaeologist James Mellaart began excavating a 20-meter-high hüyük (a mound built of man-made debris, otherwise known as a tel) in the Konya Plain, near the small town of Çumra. Although he failed to unearth either a cave girl's fur bikini or a stone T...
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Aircraft carrier Hosho
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Hosho (Japanese: "flying phoenix") was the world's first commissioned ship that was designed and built as an aircraft carrier, and the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Commissioned in 1922, the ship was used for testing carrier aircraft operations equipme...
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Able Archer 83
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Able Archer 83 was a ten-day NATO command post exercise starting on November 2, 1983 that spanned Western Europe, centred on the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Headquarters situated at Casteau, north of the Belgian city of Mons. Able Archer exercises simulated a period of conf...
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Lava lamp
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Briton Edward Craven-Walker invented the lava lamp in 1963. His U.S. Patent 3,387,396 for "Display Device" was filed on the 4th March, 1965 and issued in 1968. Craven-Walker's company was named Crestworth and was based in Pool...
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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New Mexican Skies Protected with Dark Sky Park Designation The 34,000-acre Chaco Culture National Historical Park is home to many ancient wonders including the remains of a civilization that thrived over 1,000 years ago. The park, which has been protecting its archaeological riches since it was...
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Woodwalton henge
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Sunset ceremony opens henge at Woodwalton Fire and beating drums marked the opening of the first henge to be built in Britain in modern times. Rings of bog oak trees dating back 9,000 years have been recovered from the fen soil to create the moonhenge - dedicated to the feminine energy of the world - at W...
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New World
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Oldest Globe To Show New World, 509-Year-Old Map Engraved On Ostrich Egg The oldest known globe to show the New World has been discovered, according to a Washington Map Society news release. The 509-year-old globe was engraved on an ostrich egg the size of a grapefruit. The carvings show a group of sc...
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Former astronaut Neil Armstrong will be given his honorary degree from Edinburgh University in Washington DC later this week. The ceremony is part of a series of events designed to celebrate the university's strong ties with the United States. [url=http://news.scotsman.com/education/City...
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