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Knights Templar cave
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Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave An apparently ordinary rabbit's hole in a farmer's field leads to an underground sanctuary once said to be used by the Knights Templar - a medieval religious order that fought in the Crusades. The Caynton Caves, near Shifnal in Shropshire, app...
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Toy company Lego to produce Women of Nasa set Children's Lego boxes may already contain yellow Batman, Harry Potter and Star Wars characters, but soon they will also contain female Nasa pioneers. The Danish toy company is making a new set of five figurines, based on real female scientists, engineer...
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Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs
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'Oldest' Iron Age gold work in Britain found in Staffordshire Two friends have unearthed jewellery which could be the oldest Iron Age gold discovered in Britain. Mark Hambleton, who went back to metal detecting after advice from his late father, made the find with Joe Kania on Staffordshire Moorla...
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Globster
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What is the 'hairy blob' or globster found on the Philippines shore? A six-metre-long "hairy" sea creature has washed up on the shore of Dinagat Island in the Philippines and people have been questioning what it is. An unidentified creature like this is often known as a "globster" and they've been wa...
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The Ordovician period
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Whenever you visit a beach resort or sea side town, you will also find plenty of sea shells for sale. But a group of scientists went looking in a very different location They were rewarded with the discovery of marine fossils in land locked Sichuan province. The fossils are the remains of ancient sea l...
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Foxfire diamond
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Uncovering the secrets of North America's largest diamond Canada unearthed the biggest diamond ever found in North America - the Foxfire. It has spent the last couple of months on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Read more The 187.63 carat Foxfire dia...
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Hyoliths
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Mysterious sea creature part of a new family One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today as a team of scientists have revealed what a bizarre group of cone-shaped sea creatures actually are, as reported in Nature. Hyoliths first appeared 530 million years ago during the early Cambrian pe...
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SteadXP camera gadget
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CES 2017: SteadXP camera gadget lets video recordings glide See more
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Laser weapon
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UK military to build prototype 'laser weapon' The UK Ministry of Defence has officially awarded a £30m contract to produce a prototype laser weapon. The aim is to see whether "directed energy" technology could benefit the armed forces, and is to culminate in a demonstration of the system in 2019. Re...
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Monju nuclear reactor
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Japan cancels failed $9bn Monju nuclear reactor Japan is a scrapping an experimental reactor which has worked for just 250 days of its 22-year lifespan and cost $9bn (£7.2bn). The Monju reactor, in western Japan's Fukui city, was designed to burn most of its own spent fuel, eliminating the need to de...
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Heimlich Manoeuvre
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On June 19, 1974, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that retired restaurant-owner Isaac Piha used the 'Heimlich Manoeuvre' to rescue choking victim Irene Bogachus in Bellevue, Washington. Abdominal thrusts, also known as the Heimlich Manoeuvre (after Henry Heimlich, who first descri...
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British Columbia Object
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Object found off British Columbia coast not missing nuke An object found off the coast of Canada which the military believed may have been a missing decommissioned nuclear weapon is actually just a piece of machinery. The military investigated and found that it was not the missing weapon that disap...
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Nimrud
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Islamic State: Ancient Nimrud ruins 'bulldozed' in Iraq Islamic State (IS) militants have begun bulldozing the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraqi government officials say. The ministry of tourism says IS used heavy machinery to destroy the site - one of the most celebrated jewels...
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Mysterious Arctic pinging
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Canada military probes mysterious Arctic pinging noise The sound, sometimes also described as a "hum" or a "beep", has been heard throughout the summer in Fury and Hecla Strait, legislative assembly member Paul Quassa told CBC, about 120km north-west of the hamlet of Igloolik. The area is a narrow...
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What a wonder: The Southern Wall
Archaeological site by southern Temple Mount is one of Jerusalem’s most impressive.
Many people think that only about 200 feet of the Western Wall remain, but we all know the area underneath the Jewish Quarter. Later we rediscovered the Western Wall tun...
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