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USS Texas (BB-35)
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USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honour of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Read more
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Operation Smiling Buddha
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Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at Pokhran on 18 May 1974. Read more
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The Rhine
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Five millions years older than first thought Scientists at the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology (HEP) at the University of Tubingen and the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have examined the age of the Rhine based on fossils. They have discovered that the riv...
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Ra II
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Thor Heyerdahl sets sail on the papyrus boat Ra II on the 17th May, 1970 Read more Ra II 1970 - 2010. Thor Heyerdahl the environmentalist Spoiler Egyption era RA II reed boat reconstruction of the 1970 Thor Heyerdahl expediti...
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Wildlife Trust
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The Wildlife Trusts celebrate centenary year The movement that led to the formation of the Wildlife Trusts is 100 years old on Wednesday. Banker and naturalist Charles Rothschild bought Woodwalton Fen in Camridgeshire in 1910, founding the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves on 16 May 1...
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Hambledon Hill
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Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale five miles north of Blandford Forum. The hill is a Chalk outcrop, on the south western corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
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Language
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First multilingual dictionary based on universal words Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrids School of Computing have developed an original system for building multilingual dictionaries based on multiple term equivalences from what are known as universal words. System reli...
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Poem
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The Moon The stars about the lovely moon Fade back and vanish very soon, When, round and full, her silver face Swims into sight, and lights all space. - Sappho
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Jagiellonian University
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The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz (district of Kraków). It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world. A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 13...
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The National University of San Marcos
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The National University of San Marcos (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM) is the most important and respected higher-education institution in Peru. Its main campus, the University City, is located in Lima. It was chartered on May 12, 1551 by a royal decree signed by Charles...
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ISRO Satellite Centre
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Nepalese PM visits ISRO Satellite Centre[url=http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/ACFA...
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Ireland 6,000-year-old settlement
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6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago - one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland. Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden on Fanore Beach in north Clare have...
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Feathers
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Feathers show their true colours For millennia birds have been prized, even hunted, for their beautiful plumage but what makes their feathers so colourful? A new X-ray analysis of the structure of feathers from 230 bird species, led by Vinod Saranathan of Oxford Universitys Department of Zoology...
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Ziyaret Tepe
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Archaeologists discover lost language Researchers working at Ziyaret Tepe, the probable site of the ancient Assyrian city of Tuhan, believe that the language may have been spoken by deportees originally from the Zagros Mountains, on the border of modern-day Iran and Iraq. In keeping with a poli...
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Cyclops
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A cyclops, in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed". Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend, advanced by the palaeontologist Ot...
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