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Beckingham Marshes wildlife reserve
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RSPB's Beckingham Marshes wildlife reserve opens A wetland area the size of 100 football pitches which is designed to attract wildlife has opened to the public. Read more
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World War 2 Nominal Roll
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Ten years ago this month, John Howard's Minister for Veteran Affairs, Danna Vale, launched a searchable internet database known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll. It was intended to be a virtual war memorial, listing all Australians who served in World War II as one of the ways to honour the nation's ann...
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Eileen Collins
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Eileen Collins: Space Pioneer Click to Play | View Details Born in Elmira, New York, Eileen Collins became an astronaut in 1991, after being selected for the astronaut program while attending the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California. Fifteen years ago, On February 3, 1995 she clai...
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2012 Australian PM's Prize for Science
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Astronomer wins PM's prize for discovering dark matter An Australian astronomer, Professor Ken Freeman, has won the 2012 Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science - more than 40 years after revolutionising his field with his research on dark matter. Freeman helped bring the concept of dark m...
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Einstein refrigerator
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The Einstein-Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd and patented in the US on Novembe...
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X-rays
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Sticky tape generates X-rays[url=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2...
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge
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The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940. It received its nickname "Galloping Gertie" due to the vertical movement of the deck observed by construction workers during windy conditions. The bridge collapsed into Puget Sound the morning of November 7, 1940, under high w...
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Xayaburi dam
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Laos approves Xayaburi 'mega' dam on Mekong Laos has given the go-ahead to build a massive dam on the lower Mekong river, despite opposition from neighbouring countries and environmentalists. A formal ceremony marking the start of full construction at Xayaburi would be held on Wednesday, the gov...
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Leiden University Library
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Leiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment. T...
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Mount Rushmore
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Isles of Scilly
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The Isles of Scilly, is an archipelago of approximately 150 islands, located about 44 kilometres southwest of Lands End, England. Expand (447k...
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German submarine U-559
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German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She sank five ships but is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from...
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Ralph Allen School
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Telescope helps Bath pupils enjoy night with the stars Budding young astronomers at a Bath school have been given a helping hand with their GCSE studies thanks to the loan of a telescope. The William Herschel Society - set up to remember the 18th-century astronomer from Bath - is lending it to Ralph Al...
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Aryabhata
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Aryabhata, the great astronomer, was born in Kerala in 476 AD. He completed his studies at the University of Nalanda. He laid the basic foundation for the field of astronomy in India. When he was 23-years-old, he wrote his first treatise on the Sun. Around the 5th Century AD, many contributions were...
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Lake Geneva
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Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline In ad 563, more than a century after the Romans gave up control of what is now Geneva, Switzerland, a deadly tsunami on Lake Geneva poured over the city walls. Originating from a rock fall where the River Rhône enters at the opposite end of the lake to Ge...
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