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Anglo-Tibetan War, 1888.
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The Sikkim Expedition was a British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim. The roots of the conflict lay in British-Tibetan competition for sovereignty over Sikkim. Read more
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Spartobranchus tenuis
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Phallus-shaped fossils identified as new species Scientists have revealed insights into a peculiar, phallus-shaped creature discovered at a fossil site in Canada. The animal has been identified as Spartobranchus tenuis, a species from the Cambrian period that was previously unknown to scien...
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Seikan Tunnel
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The Seikan Tunnel was opened on 13 March 1988, having cost a total of ¥538.4 billion (US$3.6 billion) to construct Read more
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Kawazulite
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Naturally occurring topological insulator is cleaner than synthetic samples. They say it's what is on the inside that counts. But that is not true for topological insulators - exotic materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces. Physicists have now demonstrated this property i...
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The Nile
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The Nile (Ancient Egyptian Iteru or 'p) is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world Read more
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Giant camel
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Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria.
"This is a big discovery, a revolution in science. It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago" - Jean-Marie L...
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Gloster E28/39
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71st anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 jet aircraftLincolnshire.[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmV...
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Archaeologists in Perthshire will attempt to raise a Bronze Age boat from below the River Tay next month after undertaking excavation work yesterday.
The 3,000-year-old log boat was found by a man with a metal detector on the mudflats near Abernethy, six years ago.
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Mauritia
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Fragments of ancient continent buried under Indian Ocean Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago. The strip of land, which sci...
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Celts
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Princess sheds new light on early Celts German experts are carefully taking apart a complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celts' way of life, 2,600 years ago, in their Danube heartland. It wasn't the most glorious final journey for an aristocratic Celtic lady who, in life, cl...
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The Silk Road
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Researchers using satellite technology are drawing up maps of the ancient city of Milan in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in a bid to better protect this important point along the Silk Road. Milan is home to many cultural relics, inclu...
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Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boudica - on the site of a McDonald's restaurant.
Having spent her life in fierce resistance to one empire - the Romans - her last stand is thought to ha...
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Great Wall of China
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The Great Wall of Qi is the oldest existing Great Wall in China. Construction of the wall started in 685 BCE (during the Spring and Autumn Period) by the state of Qi, to defend against an invasion by the Kingdom of Chu. Read more China i...
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The Oracle of Delphi
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From Herodotus and Homer to the warriors of Ancient Greece the mystic utterances from the Oracle of Delphi were regarded as sacrosanct. But now the hugely influential pronouncements of the oracle are said by Greek and Italian arch...
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Iron age Shetland
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Storms expose iron age skeleton Shetland's pre-Christmas storms have revealed remains of an iron age building and a human skeleton believed to be 2,000 years old. Archaeologists said a structure was briefly exposed at Channerwick before being buried again by a rockfall over the festive period. [...
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