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1955 Vimy Ridge explosion
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On July 17th 1955, 26000 lbs of high explosives - a MINE, laid deep under German trench lines on the Franco-Belgian border during the First World war - explodes in a thunderstorm at t...
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Roominate
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Playfully Inspiring Girl Engineers After studying and observing how girls play, three inventors Alice, Bettina, and Jennifer, invented Roominate, "a kit of wooden building pieces and circuit components with which a child can use her creativity to design, build, wire, and decorate her ow...
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Waldseemueller America map
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Rare copy of Waldseemueller's early America map found in Germany A copy of a rare 16th century map known as "the birth certificate of America" has been discovered in Germany. The map, by the famous cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, is credited with being the first to document and name...
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The boomerang propeller
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July 4th, 1853 Another trial of Sir Thomas Mitchell's boomerang propeller took place this morning on-board her Majesty's ship Conflict, under the command of Captain W. H. Henderson, O.B., of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, attended by Mr. Murray, chief engineer and inspector of machinery in the do...
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Red helleborine orchid
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Rare red helleborine orchid blooms in Cotswold woodland An "extremely rare and endangered" orchid which was once on the brink of extinction in the UK is blooming again in Gloucestershire. Red helleborine, Cephalanthera rubra, is normally found in Europe where it is classed as "v...
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Friesach Castle
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4.000 Tonnen mit der Kraft von Menschen und Tieren bewegen: HistorikerInnen begleiten Burgbau in Friesach Ganz im Stil mittelalterlicher Baumethoden wird in der Stadt Friesach eine Burg gebaut. Historikerinnen und Historiker begleiten das Projekt, das für eine Laufzeit von 30 Jahren geplant...
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Haplotypes
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Genetic map of Britain goes on display A genetic map of the British people has been produced by Oxford University researchers. It forms the centrepiece of their display at the Royal Society's free Summer Science Exhibition, which opens today. The remarkable thing about the map is how much people sh...
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Great Auks
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The last pair of Great Auks, Pinguinus impennis, found incubating an egg, was killed on the island of Eldey on 3 July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQb...
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Floating Instrument Platform
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Vertical ship marks 50 years at sea Researchers have been showing off a 355 ft vertical ship in the Pacific Ocean, as it marks its 50th birthday. FLIP, or Floating Instrument Platform, is owned by the US Navy, and flips from horizontal to a vertical position by pumping 700 tonnes of seawater into the 'h...
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Whale sanctuary
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Whale sanctuary bid for South Atlantic falls short A proposal to declare a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting. Latin American countries argued that declaring a sanctuary would help whale conservation and wh...
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Maotianshan Shales
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The Maotianshan Shales are a series of lower Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, or high number of fossils preserved in place. The Maotianshan shales form one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preserv...
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Hawthorn Ridge Mine Crater
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The Hawthorn Ridge mine was the northern-most of the ten mines dug by the Royal Engineer tunnelling companies. It was detonated on July 1, 1916, one of the three large mines, the other two being the Lochnagar mine and the Y Sap mine at La Boisselle. The mine contained about 40,000 pounds (18 t) of explos...
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Al-Hayatham
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Al-Hayatham, known in Latin as Alhazen, wrote books on medicine as well as Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy. He wrote commentaries on the works of Aristotle and Galen, and also did original experiments with light, coming up with some of the first accounts of refraction, a mathematical method to...
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Gower cave
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Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago....
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Carboniferous Period
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With his discovery of what may be the world's oldest fossil imprint of a flying insect, R.J. Knecht is tackling a new dimension of New England historyone that dates back hundreds of millions of years. What did the ecology of the Boston area look like more than 300 million years ago? This question is wha...
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