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Welsh slate
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The slate deposits of Wales belong to three geological series: Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian. The Cambrian deposits run south-west from Conwy to near Criccieth; these deposits were quarried in the Penrhyn and Dinorwig quarries and in the Nantlle Valley. There are smaller outcrops elsewher...
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Bedbug
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Bean leaves can trap bedbugs Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers have documented how microscopic hairs on kidney bean leaves effectively stab and trap the biting insects, according to findings published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Scient...
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Australian space race
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China has signalled that it will play a significant role in the exploration of the solar system. Japan is building a substantial program, and India may not be far behind. Almost all Western nations have national space programs of some sort, as do several nations in South-East Asia. Australia stands...
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Kalamakia cave
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Kalamakia Cave was formed many hundreds of thousands years ago and was occupied by palaeolithic men. The deposits and the archaeological remains, which appear today, date approximately between 80.000 and 40000 years ago (Middle Palaeolithic period). After that the entrance of the cave was bloc...
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Mên-an-Tol
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The Mên-an-Tol (also Men an Toll) is a small formation of standing stones near the MadronMorvah road in Cornwall, United Kingdom (grid reference SW426349). It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone". [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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William Herschel
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Herschel relatives visit Slough Hanoverian grandmother, Margrit Wesphal, and her niece, Claudia Assmann, made the 450 mile trip from West Saxony on Sunday to learn more about their distant relative: Sloughs favourite son, William Herschel. [url=http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/articles...
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Tell Khaiber
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University of Manchester archaeologists have started the excavation of an enormous building complex in Iraq, thought to be around 4,000 years old. The team, directed by Professor Stuart Campbell and Dr Jane Moon, both from Manchester, and independent archaeologist Robert Killick, first spott...
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Canaan
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Tel Aviv University uncovers evidence that a woman led in Canaan The legend is that the great rulers of Canaan, the ancient land of Israel, were all men. But a recent dig by Tel Aviv University archaeologists at Tel Beth-Shemesh uncovered possible evidence of a mysterious female ruler. Tel Aviv Uni...
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Ploutonion
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Pluto's Gate Uncovered in Turkey A "gate to hell" has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced. Known as Pluto's Gate -- Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin -- the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology...
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Peter Hawkins RIP
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Peter Hawkins, a British actor who voiced the sinister Daleks on "Dr. Who," has died at the age of 82.
Hawkins began his acting career on stage after World War II service in the Navy. He helped create the distinctive sound of the Daleks, the sinister robotic enemies of Dr. Who, and of another Dr. Who ad...
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African Fairy Circles
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Mysterious African 'Fairy Circles' Stump Scientists In the sandy desert grasslands of Namibia in southern Africa, mysterious bare spots known as "fairy circles" will form and then disappear years later for no reason anyone can determine. A new look at these strange patterns doesn't...
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Fabre Hydravion
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The Fabre Hydravion was a French experimental floatplane designed by Henri Fabre, notable as the first seaplane in history to take off from water under its own power. Read more
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Kaikoura Canyon
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NIWA survey work helps assess Kaikoura tsunami risks Surveying work carried out by NIWA scientists this week is helping provide new insights into the tsunami risk from undersea landslides in the Kaikoura Canyon. The Kaikoura Canyon is a submarine canyon just off the east coast of the South Island,...
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Stone ship
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The Stone ship or ship setting was an early Germanic burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship. They are often found in grave fields, bu...
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Doomsday Argument
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Title: The Doomsday Argument in Many Worlds Authors: Austin Gerig You and I are highly unlikely to exist in a civilization that has produced only 70 billion people, yet we find ourselves in just such a civilization. Our circumstance, which seems difficult to explain, is easily accounted for if (1) m...
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