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Ceramic Fragments Point to Artistry in the Ice Age Thirty-six fragments of fired clay, excavated in the Vela Spila cave on an island off the Adriatic coast, make up the second-largest collection found so far of the earliest human experiments with ceramic art. They are 15,000 to 17,500 years old - the...

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China's first aircraft carrier enters service China's first aircraft carrier has entered into service, the Defence Ministry says. The 300m Liaoning - named after the province where it was refitted - is a refurbished Soviet ship purchased from Ukraine. For now the carrier has no operational aircr...

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China's lifting of the of ban on access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been reversed. The site has again been blocked to several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible. China first banned access to the English and Chinese versions in October last year, over...

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Experts warn of global water bankruptcy Experts have sounded warning bells on 'water bankruptcy' for many regions, after conducting a 20-year review of 200 major global projects. The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest public fund provider of projects to improve the global environm...

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Henri Giffard (8 February 1825 - 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. In 1852, he invented the steam injector and the powered airship. On 24 September 1852 Henri Giffard made the first powered and controlled flight travelling 27 km from Paris to Trappes. The wind was too strong to allow him to make way...

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New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw-Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as capital city of New Netherland. It was renamed New York in 1667 in honour of the Duke of York (later James II of England) when British Forces seized control of M...

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Mysterious site might be forgotten grave yard A forgotten burial ground may have been discovered in Gatehouse. Five rectangular shapes have been identified in an aerial photo at Barwhill, next to Girton Cemetery. The University of Glasgow thinks that they may contain the remains of Picts and has o...

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Roman military camp dating back to the conquest of Gaul throws light on a part of world history In the vicinity of Hermeskeil, a small town some 30 kilometres southeast of the city of Trier in the Hunsrueck region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, archaeologists from Johannes Gut...

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Medvedev's Russia summertime switch set to end Russia is expected to reverse a reform brought in last year by ex-president Dmitry Medvedev to reduce the stress of changing the clocks. His answer was for permanent summer time, with darker mornings during the winter but lighter afternoons. [url=ht...

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The Kolka-Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the northern slope of the Kazbek massif in North Ossetia, Russia on the 20th of September 2002 following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh, 4,780 m above sea level, and seriously affect...

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Young stargazers' appeal Stargazing pupils are putting their eyes to the skies as part of a new astronomy GCSE course offered at Robert Smyth Academy - but they need your help. The academy needs binoculars and telescopes to help students complete some of the practical elements of the course, which i...

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Garnet Sands in Nome, Alaska The beaches of Nome are rich in red garnet grains. The beaches of Nome are also very rich in grains of gold, and you can bet that if you pan some of the red garnet sand along the Nome beaches, you will find dozens of small flakes of gold. If you pan some of the more gravely beach mat...

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The Jun'yo Maru was a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was sunk in 1944 by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, resulting in the loss of over 5,000 lives. Read more

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Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition travelled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. Th...

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Wallasea Island nature reserve project construction begins Construction work has begun on Europe's largest man-made nature reserve, located in Essex. Wallasea Island is being transformed from farmland into a 670-hectare wetland. The site is using 4.5 million tonnes of earth excavated from th...

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	Ceramic art Ceramic (Preview) Ceramic Fragments Point to Artistry in the Ice Age Thirty-six fragments of fired clay, excavated in the Vela Spila cave on an island off the Adriatic coast, make up the second-largest collection found so far of the earliest human experiments with ceramic art. They are 15,000 to 17,500 years old - the...	Blobrana	0	Sep 26 01:31 2012 by Blobrana
	Aircraft carrier Liaoning (Preview) China's first aircraft carrier enters service China's first aircraft carrier has entered into service, the Defence Ministry says. The 300m Liaoning - named after the province where it was refitted - is a refurbished Soviet ship purchased from Ukraine. For now the carrier has no operational aircr...	Blobrana	0	Sep 25 16:10 2012 by Blobrana
	Wikipedia Book (Preview) China's lifting of the of ban on access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been reversed. The site has again been blocked to several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible. China first banned access to the English and Chinese versions in October last year, over...	Blobrana	5	Sep 25 17:34 2012 by Blobrana
	Water projects (Preview) Experts warn of global water bankruptcy Experts have sounded warning bells on 'water bankruptcy' for many regions, after conducting a 20-year review of 200 major global projects. The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest public fund provider of projects to improve the global environm...	Blobrana	0	Sep 24 17:08 2012 by Blobrana
	Giffard dirigible (Preview) Henri Giffard (8 February 1825 - 14 April 1882) was a French engineer. In 1852, he invented the steam injector and the powered airship. On 24 September 1852 Henri Giffard made the first powered and controlled flight travelling 27 km from Paris to Trappes. The wind was too strong to allow him to make way...	Blobrana	0	Sep 24 05:21 2012 by Blobrana
	New Amsterdam (Preview) New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw-Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement on the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as capital city of New Netherland. It was renamed New York in 1667 in honour of the Duke of York (later James II of England) when British Forces seized control of M...	Blobrana	0	Sep 24 05:19 2012 by Blobrana
	Gatehouse survey (Preview) Mysterious site might be forgotten grave yard A forgotten burial ground may have been discovered in Gatehouse. Five rectangular shapes have been identified in an aerial photo at Barwhill, next to Girton Cemetery. The University of Glasgow thinks that they may contain the remains of Picts and has o...	Blobrana	0	Sep 24 03:42 2012 by Blobrana
	Hermeskeil Roman camp (Preview) Roman military camp dating back to the conquest of Gaul throws light on a part of world history In the vicinity of Hermeskeil, a small town some 30 kilometres southeast of the city of Trier in the Hunsrueck region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, archaeologists from Johannes Gut...	Blobrana	0	Sep 21 19:00 2012 by Blobrana
	Russian summertime (Preview) Medvedev's Russia summertime switch set to end Russia is expected to reverse a reform brought in last year by ex-president Dmitry Medvedev to reduce the stress of changing the clocks. His answer was for permanent summer time, with darker mornings during the winter but lighter afternoons. [url=ht...	Blobrana	0	Sep 21 07:11 2012 by Blobrana
	Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide (Preview) The Kolka-Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the northern slope of the Kazbek massif in North Ossetia, Russia on the 20th of September 2002 following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh, 4,780 m above sea level, and seriously affect...	Blobrana	0	Sep 20 05:44 2012 by Blobrana
	Robert Smyth Academy (Preview) Young stargazers' appeal Stargazing pupils are putting their eyes to the skies as part of a new astronomy GCSE course offered at Robert Smyth Academy - but they need your help. The academy needs binoculars and telescopes to help students complete some of the practical elements of the course, which i...	Blobrana	0	Sep 18 18:25 2012 by Blobrana
	Garnet Sands (Preview) Garnet Sands in Nome, Alaska The beaches of Nome are rich in red garnet grains. The beaches of Nome are also very rich in grains of gold, and you can bet that if you pan some of the red garnet sand along the Nome beaches, you will find dozens of small flakes of gold. If you pan some of the more gravely beach mat...	Blobrana	0	Sep 18 08:07 2012 by Blobrana
	Jun'yo Maru (Preview) The Jun'yo Maru was a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was sunk in 1944 by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, resulting in the loss of over 5,000 lives. Read more	Blobrana	0	Sep 18 05:42 2012 by Blobrana
	Old Faithful (Preview) Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition travelled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. Th...	Blobrana	0	Sep 18 05:41 2012 by Blobrana
	Wallasea Island nature reserve (Preview) Wallasea Island nature reserve project construction begins Construction work has begun on Europe's largest man-made nature reserve, located in Essex. Wallasea Island is being transformed from farmland into a 670-hectare wetland. The site is using 4.5 million tonnes of earth excavated from th...	Blobrana	0	Sep 17 13:50 2012 by Blobrana
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