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The Jakarta incident
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British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or Jakarta incident, was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a 747-236B. On the third leg of the flight (from Madras to Kuala Lump...
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Rio+20 agreement
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Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and envi...
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Diprotodon
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'Giant wombat' grave found in Queensland, Australia Scientists have unearthed the biggest find yet of pre-historic "giant wombat" skeletons, revealing clues to the reasons for the species' extinction. The find, in Queensland, Australia, of about 50 diprotodons - the largest mars...
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Battle of Lake Trasimene
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The Battle of Lake Trasimene (June 21, 217 BC, April on the Julian calendar) was a Roman defeat in the Second Punic War between the Carthaginians under Hannibal and the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. The battle is one of the largest and most successful ambushes in military history. Read mor...
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Carajas mining complex
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In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Carajas mining complex is a series of vast man-made chasms, extracting iron ore around the clock. The owners, the Brazilian company Vale, say they are operating the mine in a sustainable way and will restore the landscape and trees. [url=http://www.bbc.c...
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Beer
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Iron-Age brewing evidence found in southeastern France Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that the occupants of southeastern France were brewing beer during the Iron Age, some 2,500 years ago. A paper in Human Ecology outlines the discovery of barley grains that had been sprouted in a proce...
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New Albion
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New Albion, also known as Nova Albion, was the name of the region of the Pacific coast of North America explored by Sir Francis Drake and claimed by him for England in 1579. The extent of New Albion and the location of Drake's landing have long been debated by historians, with most believing that he came...
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Battle of the Rosebud Creek
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The Battle of the Rosebud (also known the Battle of the Rosebud Creek) occurred June 17, 1876, in the Montana Territory between the United States Army and a force of Lakota Native Americans during the Black Hills War. The Cheyenne called it the Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother, because of an inc...
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The Dusky Seaside Sparrow
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The Dusky Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens, was a non-migratory subspecies of the Seaside Sparrow, found in Southern Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died on June 17, 1987 and the species was of...
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The Test Acts
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The Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. The principle was that none but persons professing the Established Church were eligible for public employment, and the...
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Medford streetlights
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Medford Won't Turn Out Lights For Stargazers Stargazers in Medford will have to head out of town to find the night time darkness they need to watch this summer's Perseid meteor shower. The Mail Tribune reports that the City Council voted last week to drop the idea of turning out streetlights in some w...
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The Great Vancouver Fire
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The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 13 June 1886. The fire began as a brush fire to clear land between present-day Main and Cambie Streets that was spread out of control by a strong gale. Dozens of li...
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Merneptah Stele
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King Meneptah's stelae in Silsila is safe after theft attempt Archaeologists and guards at Gabal Al-Silsila archaeological site, 20 kilometres north of Kom Ombo city in Aswan, succeeded in catching a group of thieves who in full view had tried to remove King Meneptah's stelae from its original po...
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Athenian coup of 411 BC
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The Athenian coup of 411 BC was a revolutionary movement during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta that overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens by replacing it with a short-lived oligarchy known as The Four Hundred. Read more
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Ixtoc I blowout (1979)
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Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135-F in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m deep. On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in one of largest oil spills in h...
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