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Russell Crowe to tour Duncarron Fort in Scotland Hollywood star Russell Crowe is to make his first trip to Scotland this weekend and will spend it deep in a forest in the Carron Valley, near Stirling. He is due to visit Duncarron Fort, a replica medieval village being built by heritage charity the Clan...
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BBC Doomsday Reloaded Project
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In 1986 the BBC launched an ambitious project to record a snapshot of everyday life across the UK for future generations. A million volunteers took part... Now, 25 years later you can explore the archive online, see the pictures, update the information and make your mark on this fascinating record o...
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New College of the Humanities
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British academics launch private university in London A new British university aiming to rival Oxford and Cambridge has been launched by leading academics. New College of the Humanities (NCH) offer the "highest-quality" education to "gifted" undergraduates, its creat...
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Balloon Boy
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Balloon Boy's UFO-like craft for sale Balloon Boy's UFO-like craft is now for sale. Richard Heene, who now lives in Florida, tells 10 News he is selling the balloon through a sealed bid auction to try and raise money for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. [url=http://springhill.wtsp....
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Grado shipwreck
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Roman ship had on-board fish tank A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. Italian researchers now suggest that the pipe was part of an ingenious pumping system, designed to feed on-board fish tanks with a continuous supply of oxygenated water. Their anal...
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Longstanton Iron Age dig
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Archaeologists invite public to Longstanton Iron Age dig Archaeologists have opened a dig site in Cambridgeshire to the public for one day before new homes are built over it. The dig is in the village of Longstanton which is in an area that has already thrown up Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and mediaeval fin...
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land on the moon
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A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling land on the moon.
The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. managed to sell large swathes of pristine lunar property before being shut down.
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A nuclear waste vault in New Mexico will long outlive our society. Experts are working on elaborate ways to warn future civilizations.
Roger Nelson has a simple and unequivocal message for the people of the year 12006:
As chief scientist of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Nelson oversees...
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Pi-Ramesses
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Pi-Ramesses (Pi-Ramesses Aa-nakhtu, meaning "House of Ramesses, Great in Victory") was the new capital built by the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt Pharaoh Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great, reigned 1279 - 1213 BC) at Qantir near the old site of Avaris. The city had previously served as a sum...
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USS Sailfish
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USS Sailfish (SS-192), a Sargo-class submarine, was originally named Squalus. Due to mechanical failure, Squalus sank during a test dive on 23 May 1939. She was raised, renamed, and recommissioned on 15 May 1940 as Sailfish. Read more
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Tollense Valley battle site
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Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle. Archaeological excavations of the Tollense Valley in northern Germany unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs a...
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$1.7 million moon rock
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NASA sting leads to arrest of woman allegedly trying to sell moon rock for $1.7 million A woman claiming to sell a moon rock was arrested in Lake Elsinore on Thursday morning as part of an undercover sting by NASA investigators aided by local police. The investigation, which spanned several months, l...
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Land speed record
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Kuelap fortress
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The fortress of Kuelap (or Cuélap), associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings. The structure, situated on a ridge overlooking the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru, is roughly 600 meters in length and 110 meter...
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Radio message
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Marconi and the first radio messages across open sea Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on 13 May 1897, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was...
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