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New 'Sars-like' coronavirus identified in the UK A new respiratory illness similar to the Sars virus that spread globally in 2002 and killed hundreds of people has been identified in a man who is being treated in Britain. Read more
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German submarine U-110
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Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say. Reading University researchers claim "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the most ancient, dating back tens of thousands of years. Their computer model analyses the rate of...
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Gask Ridge frontier system
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The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 70s AD, 50 years before Hadrian's Wall and 70 years before the Antonine Wall. Read more [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gask_Ridge]Read mor...
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Charles Messier
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Charles Messier (26 June 1730 - 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects". Read more
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Manaslu
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Manaslu, also known as Kutang is the eighth highest mountain in the world, and is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. Manaslu was first climbed on May 9, 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu, members of a Japanese expedition. The first...
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Thonis-Heracleion
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Maritime trade thrived in Egypt, even before Alexandria New research into Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC, is being examined at an international conference at the University of Oxford. The port city, situated 6.5 kilometres of...
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The Mayflower
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The Mayflower was the ship that transported English and Dutch Separatists and other adventurers referred to by the Separatists as "the Strangers" to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers and about 30 c...
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Brinicles
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Ice tubes in polar seas - "brinicles" or "sea stalactites" - provide clues to origin of life Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice - sometimes called "sea stalactites" - that grow downward into cold seawater near the...
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Battle of Lyme Bay
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On the morning of 28 April, 1942, the D-Day invasion rehearsals was blighted when a convoy of follow-up troops was attacked by nine German E-boats in Lyme Bay. As a result of official embarrassment and concerns over possible leaks just prior to the real invasion, all survivors were sworn to secrecy b...
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Dounreay nuclear site
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Orcadian sea
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A north-east marine aquarium is offering visitors the chance to view examples of sea creatures millions of years old. A display of fish fossils drawn from various collections has gone on show at Macduffs aquarium. The collection includes species which would have flourished locally when the Moray...
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Neolithic house
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How did Neolithic people build their homes? Archaeologists at English Heritage are hoping to learn more about how our Neolithic ancestors lived by trying to build replica homes. Read more
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Copper Age Bhopal
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4,000-year-old stone tools, earthenware unearthed from banks of river Narmada in Bhopal Archaeologists have found 4,000-year-old stone tools and earthenware in a remote village on the banks of river Narmada in Harda district of Bhopal. The treasures that have emerged could change our whole und...
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Keros
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Island of broken figurines On a June morning in 1963 Colin Renfrew stepped from a caïque boat onto the scrub-covered Aegean Island of Keros on the basis of a tip-off. In search of material for his graduate studies, the young Cambridge graduate had been intrigued by rumours of a recent looting of the al...
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