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Durham Oriental Museum
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Durham University's Oriental Museum to reopen Durham University's Oriental Museum is set to reopen this Monday, April 16, after being temporarily closed following a break-in when two ancient Chinese artefacts were stolen. The museum, on Elvet Hill, in Durham City, was temporarily closed to th...
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Musical instrument
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Prehistoric stringed instrument found in Skye Experts believe they have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe - dating to more than 2,300 years ago - at an excavation on the Island of Skye. Cabinet Secretary for Culture Fiona Hyslop today revealed the sm...
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Divine Women
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Historian Bettany Hughes's latest series will be broadcast on April 11, 18 and 25 on BBC 2 at 9pm. Historian Bettany Hughes reveals the hidden history of women in religion, from dominatrix goddesses to feisty political operators and warrior empresses. In this provocative upcoming series, Bettan...
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Dead Sea
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Dead Sea drilling to unearth scientific treasures Scientists in Israel are about to realise a long held ambition to drill a core from the bed of the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth. Zvi Ben-Avraham and Mordechai Stein devised their plan around a decade ago, and applied to the German-based Interna...
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Mitsubishi Ki-15
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The Kamikaze was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane aircraft, (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun. It became famous on April 9, 1937 as the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe. Read more
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Phonautograph
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In 1857, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph, the first device for making sound waves viewable. It used a membrane (which vibrated in response to sound) attached to a pen, which traced a line roughly corresponding to the sound's waveform onto a roll of paper. Read more Re...
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Charles University in Prague
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On this day in 1348, Charles University in Prague (Universitas Carolina/Univerzita Karlova) was established Read more
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The Declaration of Arbroath
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The Declaration of Arbroath is a declaration of Scottish independence, made in 1320. It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unj...
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USS Akron (ZRS-4)
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USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the United States Navy that was lost in a weather-related accident off the New Jersey coast early on April 4, 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crew and passengers on board. Read more
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American Rocket Society
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The American Rocket Society (ARS) began its existence on April 4, 1930, under the name of the American Interplanetary Society. It was founded by science fiction writers G. Edward Pendray, David Lasser, Laurence Manning and others. The members originally conducted their own rocket experiments i...
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Neotropical Rainforest
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First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3...
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Eiffel Tower
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The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. The main structural work was completed at the end of March 1889 and on the 31st Gustave Eiffel celebrated this by leading a group of government officials, accompanied by representatives of the press, to the top of t...
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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The Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka. The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral island...
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Australian megafauna
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Humans killed off Australia's giant beasts Humans hunted Australia's giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded. The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory. Howeve...
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iCoast project
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A new project is being launched that will help forecast what the UK's coastline will look like in the future, up to 100 years' time. The four-year £2.9m iCoast project is bringing together a number of UK universities, research laboratories and leading consultants, to develop new methods that will c...
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