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Fish
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Captured just before midnight on November 13 by fishers in Cambodia, this Mekong giant catfish is 8 feet long (2.4 meters long) ands weighs 450 pounds (204 kilograms). Read more...
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Shot GRABLE
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The first Nuclear artillery test was on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. Fired as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole and codenamed Shot GRABLE, a 280 mm (11 inch) shell with a gun-type fission warhead was fired 10,000 m and detonated 160 m above the ground with an estimated yield of 15 kilotons. Rea...
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Yeti
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Gigantic, hairy, ape-like... was all that Abu Marak could utter in between gasps for breath. Surrounded by villagers in the safety of his house near Durabanda in the West Garo Hills, Abus eyes still mirrored the excitement of spotting the animal. Within a few days, Abus account, coupled with those o...
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Ostreidae
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Shetland trawler catches 'biggest oyster' A Shetland trawler has caught what experts believe could be the largest oyster ever found in the UK. The Fidelitas was trawling 27 miles off Bressay when it caught the shell, which measures 201mm across and weighed just over a kilogramme. [url=http://ww...
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Operation Grapple
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Operation Grapple was the name of a British nuclear test of the hydrogen bomb. Short Granite was a two-staged nuclear weapon that had a predicted yield of about one megaton. The bomb was dropped by a Vickers Valiant XD818, piloted by Kenneth Hubbard, over Malden Island on 15 May 1957. Read more Britis...
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Wenlok Jug
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Wenlok Jug stolen from Stockwood Discovery Centre A "nationally significant" bronze medieval jug has been stolen from a Bedfordshire museum. The Wenlok Jug was taken from the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton at about 23:00 BST on Saturday. Read more
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Pokharan-II underground nuclear testing
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Pokharan-II refers to test explosions of five nuclear devices, three on 11 May and two on 13 May 1998, conducted by India at the Pokhran test range. Read more
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Bristol Robotics Laboratory
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Robots of the future designed at new Bristol laboratory Electrical engineers, psychologists, surgeons and more work together creating robots of the future at the University of the West of England. There are small robots and big ones; flying robots and swarming robots; even whiskery robots. The...
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The PEPCON disaster
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The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The chemical fire and subsequent explosions claimed two lives, injured 372 people, and caused an estimated US$100 million of d...
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The Old Man of the Mountain
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The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the north, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. The first recorded mention of the Old Man...
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In Flanders fields
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, ...
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Battle of Mactan
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The Battle of Mactan was fought in the Philippines on April 27, 1521. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of Mactan Island, defeated Spanish forces under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle. Read more ...
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Gruinard Island
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Gruinard Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately 2 kilometres long by 1 kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. In 1942, during the Second World War, Gruinard was the site of a biological w...
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Online news
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Online-only news outlets 'struggle to find funding' The first report to systematically assess how online-only news websites across Western Europe are faring has found that new start-ups are struggling to find business models that can cover their operating costs. It suggests that the funding e...
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David Tennant
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David Tennant quits as Doctor Who David Tennant is to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show. Read more
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