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The Mounting Stone The Old Ship Inn on Sunderland Road, South Shields is reputed to be one of the oldest public houses in the town. Read more

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For decades, hundreds of people worldwide have been plagued by an elusive buzzing noise known as "the Hum". Some have blamed gas pipes or power lines, others think their ears are faulty. A few even think sinister forces could be at work. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/8056284....

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Edward Bransfield (1785-1852) on 30 January 1820 sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland. Unknown to Bransfield, two days earlier, 28 January 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen may have caught sight of an icy shoreline now know...

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The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a former German cruise liner which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian, military personnel, and officials from Gdynia, Poland, as the Red Army advanced. Read more

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MS Hans Hedtoft was a Danish liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January 1959 on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland. Like the RMS Titanic, Hans Hedtoft was said to be the safest ship afloat, being described as "unsinkable" by some. Read more

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The USS Monitor, designed by the Swedish-born engineer and inventor John Ericsson, was the first ironclad warship. Monitor's hull was built at the Continental Iron Works in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York, and the ship was launched there on 30 January 1862. Read more

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Significant number of unknown bugs living above the clouds Scientists have discovered a significant number of bugs living in the middle and upper troposphere, the airy layer eight to 15 kilometres above the Earth's surface. The microbes could have a previously unrecognised impact on cloud forma...

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The first boat specialised as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne in England on January 29, 1790. Read more

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Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 49,070 km² lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island w...

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Dung beetles guided by Milky Way They may be down in the dirt but it seems dung beetles also have their eyes on the stars. Scientists have shown how the insects will use the Milky Way to orientate themselves as they roll their balls of muck along the ground. Humans, birds and seals are all known to navigat...

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The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash refers to an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 24 January 1961 when a B-52 Stratofortress carrying two nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process Read more

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The Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe ("deep boat") with a crew of two, which reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres, in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam, on 23 Ja...

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Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary opera...

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Nullarbor region once full of fast-flowing rivers University of Adelaide geologists have shed new light on the origin of Australia's largest delta, the Ceduna Delta, and the river systems which drained the continent millions of years before the Murray-Darling system came into existence. It has...

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Adélie Land is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a coastline area along the Great Southern Ocean inland all the way to the South Pole. The coast of Adélie Land was discovered in 1840 by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842) who named it after his wi...

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	Old Ship Inn (Preview) The Mounting Stone The Old Ship Inn on Sunderland Road, South Shields is reputed to be one of the oldest public houses in the town. Read more	Blobrana	1	Feb 22 22:54 2013 by Blobrana
	The Hum (Preview) For decades, hundreds of people worldwide have been plagued by an elusive buzzing noise known as "the Hum". Some have blamed gas pipes or power lines, others think their ears are faulty. A few even think sinister forces could be at work. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/8056284....	Blobrana	4	Jan 31 10:23 2013 by Blobrana
	Trinity Peninsula Antarctic (Preview) Edward Bransfield (1785-1852) on 30 January 1820 sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland. Unknown to Bransfield, two days earlier, 28 January 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen may have caught sight of an icy shoreline now know...	Blobrana	0	Jan 30 07:45 2013 by Blobrana
	MV Wilhelm Gustloff (Preview) The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a former German cruise liner which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilian, military personnel, and officials from Gdynia, Poland, as the Red Army advanced. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 30 07:31 2013 by Blobrana
	MS Hans Hedtoft (Preview) MS Hans Hedtoft was a Danish liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January 1959 on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland. Like the RMS Titanic, Hans Hedtoft was said to be the safest ship afloat, being described as "unsinkable" by some. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 30 07:29 2013 by Blobrana
	USS Monitor (Preview) The USS Monitor, designed by the Swedish-born engineer and inventor John Ericsson, was the first ironclad warship. Monitor's hull was built at the Continental Iron Works in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York, and the ship was launched there on 30 January 1862. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 30 07:28 2013 by Blobrana
	Aerial life (Preview) Significant number of unknown bugs living above the clouds Scientists have discovered a significant number of bugs living in the middle and upper troposphere, the airy layer eight to 15 kilometres above the Earth's surface. The microbes could have a previously unrecognised impact on cloud forma...	Blobrana	0	Jan 29 20:57 2013 by Blobrana
	Lifeboat (Preview) The first boat specialised as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne in England on January 29, 1790. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 29 20:47 2013 by Blobrana
	Alexander Island Island (Preview) Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 49,070 km² lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island w...	Blobrana	1	Jan 28 07:43 2013 by Blobrana
	Scarabaeinae (Preview) Dung beetles guided by Milky Way They may be down in the dirt but it seems dung beetles also have their eyes on the stars. Scientists have shown how the insects will use the Milky Way to orientate themselves as they roll their balls of muck along the ground. Humans, birds and seals are all known to navigat...	Blobrana	0	Jan 25 02:12 2013 by Blobrana
	The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (Preview) The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash refers to an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 24 January 1961 when a B-52 Stratofortress carrying two nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process Read more	Blobrana	2	Jan 24 07:43 2013 by Blobrana
	Bathyscaphe Trieste (Preview) The Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe ("deep boat") with a crew of two, which reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres, in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam, on 23 Ja...	Blobrana	2	Jan 23 10:38 2013 by Blobrana
	Operation Hannibal (Preview) Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary opera...	Blobrana	0	Jan 23 10:19 2013 by Blobrana
	Nullarbor Plain (Preview) Nullarbor region once full of fast-flowing rivers University of Adelaide geologists have shed new light on the origin of Australia's largest delta, the Ceduna Delta, and the river systems which drained the continent millions of years before the Murray-Darling system came into existence. It has...	Blobrana	0	Jan 22 10:13 2013 by Blobrana
	Adélie Land (Preview) Adélie Land is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a coastline area along the Great Southern Ocean inland all the way to the South Pole. The coast of Adélie Land was discovered in 1840 by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842) who named it after his wi...	Blobrana	0	Jan 21 10:31 2013 by Blobrana
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