Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (29 December 1856 - 31 December 1894) was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions. Read more
The northern railways on Friday opened India's longest railway tunnel piercing through the Pir Panjal range in Jammu & Kashmir. The tunnel is part of the ambitious Udhampur - Srinagar - Baramulla rail link project of Northern Railways. At 10.96km long, the Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel is India's...
Heritage Malta invites young people to 'Excavate Gozo!' This event is aimed at children aged between 10 and 14 years and it will take place at the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, The Citadel, Gozo, on Friday, the 4th of January 2013. The maximum number of participants is 20. The price is 5 each and Culture C...
Carnyx discovery leaves archaeologists little the wiser When the remains of seven carnyx were unearthed recently, Christophe Maniquet, an archaeologist at Inrap, the national institute for preventive archaeological research (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives)...
Japanese rocket scientist gives up lucrative career to join Cirque du Soleil Born in Okayama, Yusuke Funaki became an engineer in the Research & Development department at Bridgestone, a world leader in tire technology, before he gave it all up to pursue his dream to join the circus. [url=http:...
Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer (September 22, 1933 - December 27, 2012) was a German-American aerospace engineer and senior NASA manager from Leipzig. Read more
Japanese archaeologists find 1,400 year old Kofun-period warrior still in armour A 1,400 year old Kofun-period warrior, still dressed in his lamellar suit of armour, was unearthed at the Harunayama Futatsudake excavation site. The warrior, together with an infant, were probably killed and bur...
The 1989 Newcastle earthquake was a Richter magnitude 5.6 earthquake that occurred in Newcastle, New South Wales on Thursday, 28 December 1989, at 10:27 am. Read more
Akihiko Hoshide (born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the United World College of South East Asia in 1987, a Bachelors degree in Mechanica...
Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...
Maarten Schmidt (born December 28, 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars. Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden Observatory in 1956. Read more
Two experimental satellites are being developed for the Galileo System Test Bed – Version 2, which will make up the first phase of in the 'in-orbit validation' of the Galileo system.
Both spacecraft are now approximately six months away from launch.
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The 893 Dvin earthquake occurred on 28 December at about midnight. It had a magnitude of about 6 and a maximum intensity of about IX (violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It destroyed the city of Dvin in Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties. Read more
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