The Brownsea Island Scout camp was a boys camping event on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell to test his ideas for the book Scouting for Boys. Boys from different social backgrounds participated from 1 August to 8 August 1907 in acti...
August 1 is the date of an ancient Pagan festival of Lammas or Lughnasadh (LOO-nah-sah). It marks the beginning of the last quarter of the Celtic year. The festival is associated with the god Lugh, or Samildanach, which means "he of many gifts".
Veteran astronaut Koichi Wakata is offering himself as a human guinea pig through a prolonged stay aboard the International Space Station. Wakata, 45, will become the first Japanese to spend three months in space following his scheduled lift-off aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kenne...
The Speedwell was a 60-ton ship, the smaller of the two ships (along with Mayflower) intended to carry the Pilgrim Fathers to North America. A vessel of the same name and size travelled to the New World seventeen years prior as the flagship of the first expedition of Martin Pring. The Leiden Separatis...
In 1498, during his third voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus sailed near the Orinoco Delta and then landed in the Gulf of Paria. Amazed, Columbus expressed in his moving letter to Isabella and Ferdinand that he had reached the heaven on Earth (the paradise) Read more
Rennie's "New" (19th-century) London Bridge was 283 m long and 15 m wide, constructed from Haytor granite. The official opening took place on 1 August 1831; King William IV and Queen Adelaide attended a banquet in a pavilion erected on the bridge. The recently constructed HMS Beagle was...
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck (Bazentin, Somme, 1 August 1744 - Paris, 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, academic, and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accor...
Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 - June 28, 1889) was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as the "Miss Mitchell's Comet". Read more
Richard Oswalt Covey (born August 1, 1946) is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut. Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, Covey became an astronaut in August 1979. A veteran of four space flights, STS-51-I in 1985, STS-26 in 1988, STS-38 in 1990, and STS-61...
Collaborative computing, pioneered at UWMadison, helped drive LHC analysis When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
All WISE Survey Data Now Available to the Public Today, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the NEOWISE project released the remaining set of observations collected by the WISE infrared space telescope, making all survey data now available to the public. This latest release of...
Chaos in India: one of the world's widest outages leaves HALF the nation powerless The lives of more than 600 million people in India were plunged into chaos in one of the widest power cuts the world has ever seen. Report by Matt Blake.
Theoretical physicists win massive awards A billionaire Internet mogul has awarded a record US$27 million to nine physicists for their work on fundamental theory. Yuri Milner, who has made his fortune investing in social-media companies, announced the new Fundamental Physics Prize this morni...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a Martian Dorsa. Aeolis Dorsa for a 459.17-km-wide Martian feature located at -5.05°S, 152.63°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature.
The first MetOp meteorological satellite arrived yesterday at its launch site, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, following shipment from the industrial prime contractor, EADS Astrium in Toulouse, on board an Antonov-124 transport plane.
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