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RMS Empress of Ireland
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RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River following a collision with a Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914. The accident, which claimed the lives of 1,012 people (840 passengers, 172 crew), remains the worst disaster in Canadian maritime history....
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Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for the German Kriegsmarine. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. Bismarck conducted only one offensive operation, in May 1941, c...
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Dracula
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Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham...
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Khufu solar boat project
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2nd phase of Khufu solar boat project to begin Monday At an international press conference held on Egypt's Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to announce the launch of the second phase of the Khufu solar boat restoration project, whic...
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The Venerable Bede
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The Venerable Bede, based at the Wearmouth-Jarrow twin monastery site, is famed for his theological works and for being the father of English history. But Bede, one of the leading scholars in 8th Century Europe, was also an outstanding scientist. Last night a new permanent gallery at Bede's World i...
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Operation Paperclip
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Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II (1939-45). It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), and in the context of the burge...
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Potato
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The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species.The And...
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The Battle of Dun Nechtain
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The Battle of Dun Nechtain or Battle of Nechtansmere (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Dhùn Neachdain, Old Irish: Dún Nechtain, Old Welsh: Linn Garan, Old English: Nechtansmere) was fought between the Picts, led by King Bridei Mac Bili, and the Northumbrians, led by King Ecgfrith on 20 May 685. Read more
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Manganese nodule
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Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer. The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called "nodules" - small miner...
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Book of the Dead
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In 1889, Andrew Dickson White's extensive travels found him in Cairo, where he purchased an 8-foot-long papyrus scroll found in an ancient tomb. A museum conservator told White it was Spell 125 from the "Book of the Dead," a traditional Egyptian funeral text. It quotes parts of the "...
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Hakim Omar Khayyâm
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150-year anniversary of translation of Khayyam's Rubaiyat by Fitz Gerald Many lovers of Persian poetry may recognize these lines as one of the famous Rubâiyâts of Omar Khayyâm, as translated by the 19th century British writer and poet, Edward Fitz Gerald (1809-1883). But few might know that coord...
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Israel academic boycott
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Stephen Hawking boycotts major Israel conference UK cosmologist Prof Stephen Hawking has withdrawn from a high-profile Israeli conference, in support of an academic boycott of the country. He initially planned to speak at the event in June but pulled out following advice from Palestinian acade...
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Nashíte
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New Mineral Named for U Geologist A new bluish-green mineral discovered in abandoned uranium mines in Colorado and Utah has been named nashíte in honour of University of Utah geology and geophysics Professor Barbara Nash, who has studied related minerals. [url=http://unews.utah.edu/news_re...
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The lessons of the Maya Shortly after its apogee, around 800AD, the Mayan civilization, the most advanced in the Western hemisphere, withered. Kingdoms fell, monuments were smashed and the great stone cities emptied. Tikal now stands as an eerie embodiment of a society gone wrong, of collapse. Ho...
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