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Pir Panjal railway tunnel
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The northern railways on Friday opened India's longest railway tunnel piercing through the Pir Panjal range in Jammu & Kashmir. The tunnel is part of the ambitious Udhampur - Srinagar - Baramulla rail link project of Northern Railways. At 10.96km long, the Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel is India's...
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Carnyx
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Carnyx discovery leaves archaeologists little the wiser When the remains of seven carnyx were unearthed recently, Christophe Maniquet, an archaeologist at Inrap, the national institute for preventive archaeological research (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives)...
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Lewes avalanche
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The Lewes avalanche occurred on 27 December 1836 in Lewes, Sussex, when a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people. It remains the deadliest avalanche on record in the United King...
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Cave of Swallows
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The Cave of Swallows, also called Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open air pit cave in the Municipality of Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The elliptical mouth, on a slope of karst, is 49 by 62 m wide and is undercut around all its perimeter, further widening to a room...
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HMS Beagle
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A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in scientific history. But a combination of painstaking detective work and archaeology have convinced maritime historian Dr Robert Prescott that the banks of the Riv...
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Rondane National Park
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Rondane National Park (Norwegian: Rondane nasjonalpark) is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962. The park contains ten peaks above 2,000 metres, with the highest being Rondslottet at an altitude of 2,178 m. The park is an important habitat for herds of wild reindeer...
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Neolithic Well
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The Age of the World's Oldest Timber Constructions is determined Scientists of the University of Freiburg document highly-developed construction techniques of wells built by early neolithic settlers. A research team led by Willy Tegel and Dr. Dietrich Hakelberg from the Institute for Forest G...
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HMS Challenger
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HMS Challenger was a steam-assisted Royal Navy Pearl-class corvette launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She was the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. She was picked to undertake the first global marine research expedition: the Challenger expedition. To...
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Crossword puzzle
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On December 21, 1913, Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England, published a "word-cross" puzzle in the New York World that embodied most of the features of the genre as we know it. This puzzle is frequently cited as the first crossword puzzle, and Wynne as the inventor. Read mo...
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Experimental Breeder Reactor I
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Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 29 km southeast of Arco, Idaho. At 1:50 pm on December 20, 1951 it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced suf...
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Therizinosauria
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Title: The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function Authors: Stephan Lautenschlager mail, Emily J. Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay E. Zanno, Lawrence M. Witmer Therizinosauria is one of the most enigmatic and peculiar clades among t...
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Solar-powered boat
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A group from Switzerland will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat.
The ship, named SUN21, a 6 berth, 14-meter-long catamaran, will leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 destined to ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007.
This boat will use photovoltaic cells to ac...
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The Battle of Verdun
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The Battle of Verdun was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front. It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. Read more[spoiler][video=htt...
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The Cliff Palace
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The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. Cliff Palace was first discovered on the 18th December, 1888, by Richard Wetherhill and Charlie Mason while ou...
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Tristan Stone
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Fury at plan to move Cornish ancient monument in homes scheme The shifting of an ancient monument dating back thousands of years to make way for affordable housing has been condemned as a "desecration." The Tristan Stone on the road to Fowey is said to mark the grave of a Cornish King's neph...
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