Rotuma Day is an annual celebration on the island of Rotuma, a Fijian dependency. It falls on May 13, the anniversary of the island's cession to the United Kingdom in 1881 Read more Atumatu Helava - Rotuma Spoiler tiap hi1 Rotu...
First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 with about 1,487 people, including 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in New South Wales. Read more First Fleet Arrives 1788 [spoiler][video=http://w...
Red Fort declared world treasure The wait has been worth the while. After trying for more than a decade, the Red Fort has finally made it to the exclusive list of UNESCO's world heritage sites, a status which it rightfully deserves. World Her...
The Revelations of Divine Love (which also bears the title A Revelation of Love - in Sixteen Shewings above the first chapter) is a book of Christian mystical devotions written by Julian of Norwich. It is believed to be the first published book in the English language to be written by a woman. At the age...
Rochechouart is an impact crater in France. The crater diameter is still under study but expected to be about 21 km and its current age estimate is given as 214 ± 8 million years, placing it in the Upper Triassic period. Since then the crater has been deeply eroded, and no trace of its original surface mo...
The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is a large connected magma flow formed during the breakup of Pangaea during the Mesozoic Era. The initial breakup of Pangaea in early Jurassic time provided a legacy of basaltic dikes, sills, and lavas over a vast area around the present central North A...
High-quality, single-crystal, ultra-cold solid helium exhibits supersolid behaviour, suggesting that this frictionless solid flow is not a consequence of defects and grain boundaries in poor-quality, polycrystalline, solid helium, according to a team of Penn State researchers. In 2004, P...
Seattle photographer captures the entire night sky in 37,440 exposures Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronised cameras about 60,000 miles to capture an image of t...
UA astronomer Chris Impey to repeat 'Big Bang' talk Acclaimed Steward Observatory astronomer Chris Impey will repeat his popular talk, "The Big Bang," describing the origin of the universe and the astronomical evidence underlying current theories of its birth, Wednesday afternoo...
ASA Women In Astronomy Workshop Friday 13 May 2011 09:00 to 17:00 ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre The ASA Women in Astronomy Chapter is holding a 1-day workshop on Friday 13th May ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre in Sydney. This workshop will present some of the issues women face during their astronom...
Asteroid (7291) Hyakutake makes its closest approach to the Earth (2.764 AU)on the 12th May, 2011. Asteroid (7291) Hyakutake (1991 XC1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 13, 1991 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato. It is named after Yuji Hyakutake. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7291_H...
Cornerstone laid for Pannon Observatory upgrade Officials laid the cornerstone on Wednesday for a HUF 421 million renovation and expansion of the Pannon Observatory in Bakonybél (C Hungary), Balaton Highlands National Park Director László Balogh announced on Wednesday. [url=http://bbjonl...
Chip satellites -- designed to blow in the solar wind -- depart on Endeavour's final launch A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, radiation a...
Khirbet Qeiyafa is a forgotten Biblical site. This is most surprising in view of its massive fortifications of megalithic stones which still stand to a height of 2-3 m, and its strategic geopolitical location. Read more
