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Dingwall Thing
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Dig to reveal secrets of Dingwall 'Thing' The first ever excavation of a Viking assembly site on the Scottish mainland is being carried out in Dingwall this week to unearth the towns historical origins. The archaeologists digging in a trench at the Cromartie Memorial Car Park are hoping to find arte...
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Zulu class submarine
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The Soviet Navy's Project 611 (NATO reporting name: Zulu class) were one of the first Soviet post-war attack submarines Six were converted in 1956 to become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed with a single R-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds each. Soviet subm...
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Battle of Britain
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Day 51 - 29th August 1940 The morning was quiet but the afternoon produced massive fighter sweeps flown by the Luftwaffe. Over 500 Me109s, together with 100 Me110s, flew over Kent. Read moreSpoiler[spoiler][video=http...
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Tropical East African flora survey
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Tropical East Africa's epic flora survey completed The complete flora of tropical East Africa has been recorded by scientists, 60 years after the project first began. Read more
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Cine film
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World's first colour moving pictures discovered The world's first colour moving pictures dating from 1902 have been found by the National Media Museum in Bradford after lying forgotten in an old tin for 110 years. The discovery is a breakthrough in cinema history. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ne...
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Radiophonic Workshop
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop revived online The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, which created theme tunes and sound effects for programmes including Doctor Who and Blake's 7, is to reopen after 14 years. Composer Matthew Herbert, known for his use of "found sounds", has been appointed creat...
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World Wide Fund for Nature
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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. WWF was co...
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OAO Peleng
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Belarus aims for record-breaking space telescopes The A.V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus cooperates with the Belarusian company OAO Peleng for the sake of creating promising equipment for magnetorheological polishing of mirrors for opti...
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Lahugala Forest Reserve
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Ancient monuments found in forest reserve Around 115 archaeological monuments have been identified by the Archaeological Department within the Lahugala Forest Reserve during research carried out centred on the Neelagiriya Stupa, Archaeological Department sources said. [url=http://www...
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1942 Newark B-25 crash
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70 years later, declassified documents shed new light on B-25 crash Throughout the years, Licking County has experienced its share of plane crashes. The worst, however, occurred on Sept. 8, 1942, when a B-25C bomber plummeted from the skies, slamming into a residential area of Newark. The crash ki...
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Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System
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Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The official name of the system is the Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave System for the ridge under which the cave has formed. On September 9, 1972, a six-...
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Ismoil Somoni Peak
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Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Soviet Union, named after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty. The first ascent was made 9 September 1933 by the Soviet mountaineer Yevgeniy Abalakov. Read more
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Horseshoe crab
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A new fossil species of horseshoe crab shows that the primitive marine creatures have existed for at least a hundred million years longer than previously believed, researchers say. The well-preserved fossils, found in Manitoba, Canada, suggest that the animals scuttled through shallow tropic...
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Ancient Syrian hunting
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Gazelles caught in ancient Syrian 'killing zones' Hundreds of migrating gazelles would be funnelled into enclosures where they could be butchered en masse. This was the practice of communities living some 6,000 years ago in what is now north-eastern Syria. Archaeologists say they have unearthe...
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First Wave/MC Lyte Scholarship
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UW-Madison announces First Wave/MC Lyte Scholarship presented by Hip Hop Sisters Network A full-tuition First Wave scholarship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was named today for the legendary pioneer for women in hip-hop, MC Lyte. The development results from a partnership involving...
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