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Venezuela
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In 1498, during his third voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus sailed near the Orinoco Delta and then landed in the Gulf of Paria. Amazed, Columbus expressed in his moving letter to Isabella and Ferdinand that he had reached the heaven on Earth (the paradise) Read more
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"New" (19th-century) London Bridge
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Rennie's "New" (19th-century) London Bridge was 283 m long and 15 m wide, constructed from Haytor granite. The official opening took place on 1 August 1831; King William IV and Queen Adelaide attended a banquet in a pavilion erected on the bridge. The recently constructed HMS Beagle was...
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Power Grid
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Chaos in India: one of the world's widest outages leaves HALF the nation powerless The lives of more than 600 million people in India were plunged into chaos in one of the widest power cuts the world has ever seen. Report by Matt Blake.
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Delphinidae
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Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinida...
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Baghdad
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Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Province. On 30 July 762 the caliph Al Mansur commissioned the construction of the city and it was built under the supervision of the Barmakids. Mansur believed that Baghdad was the perfect city to be the capital of the I...
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Battle of Stiklestad
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The Battle of Stiklestad in 1030 is one of the most famous battles in the history of Norway. According to Snorri Sturluson, the battle coincided with a nearly full solar eclipse, as reflected in the description of an ill-fated 'blooded red sun', which was interpreted as a certain omen of bad things to...
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Republic of Stellaland
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The Republic of Stellaland was formally created on 26 July 1882, under the leadership of its elected president Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, a farmer from Transvaal, and was given the name Stellaland (Star Land) in reference to a comet that was visible in the skies at the time. [url=http://en.wikipe...
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Blériot XI
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The Blériot XI is the aircraft that was used by Louis Blériot on 25 July 1909 to make the first flight across the English Channel made in a heavier-than-air aircraft. This achievement is one of the most famous accomplishments of the early years of aviation, and not only won Blériot a lasting place in...
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Kimmeridge Clay Formation
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Jurassic 'burn-down' events explain patterns of organic matter richness in Kimmeridge Clay Formation The sediments of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation were deposited during the Late Jurassic between around 160 and 145 million years ago, the age of the reptiles. They are the main oil source rock in t...
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The Battle of Harlaw
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Call for new examination of the Battle of Harlaw as 600th anniversary approaches The Battle of Harlaw was one of the most significant in Scotlands history but little is known about the event which changed forever the cultural and linguistic face of the nation. As the 600th anniversary approaches, a...
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polar bear
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What may be the oldest known remains of a polar bear have been uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. The jawbone was pulled from sediments that suggest the specimen is perhaps 110,000 or 130,000 years old. Professor Olafur Ingolfsson from the University of Iceland says tests show it w...
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NS Savannah
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NS Savannah, named for SS Savannah, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies as a demonstration project for the potential usage of nu...
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SS Gairsoppa
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The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. She sailed with several convoys, before joining Convoy SL 64. Running low on fuel, she left the convoy and headed for Galway, Ireland, but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. [url=http://en.wikip...
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Petermann Glacier
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Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge iceberg An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland's largest glaciers. For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack in the floating ice shelf of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it ha...
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Beechwood Iron Age site
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New 'Iron Age' discoveries made in Inverness New discoveries made in Inverness have fuelled speculation among experts that it was an important area of prehistoric iron production. Rare finds of well-preserved metalworking hearths, or furnaces, have been uncovered at Beechwood during work by E...
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