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The Heygate Stone
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Museum officers have left no stone unturned to get a prehistoric rock back to its moorland home. The Heygate stone with its intricate carved cup and rings returns to Baildon Moor this weekend after a five-year absence to go on permanent public view at Brackenhall Countryside Centre. The stone, whic...
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Typhoon Chebi
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Typhoon Chebi is forecast to strike land near San Jose (15.8 N, 121.5 E) in about 24 hours.
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Balmiki College
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Jayanta Acharya, 31, is a young guru of astronomy in Kathmandu’s Balmiki College. He’s also committed to taking the science to ordinary citizens.
The college is Nepal’s only centre for the ancient sciences. Two shastras (ancient knowledge) are taught there: Falit Jyotish (pure astrology) and...
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Riverbluff Cave
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The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800-pound body at up to 45 mph in a snarling dash for prey.
The claw mark by the extinct giant short-faced bear still looks fr...
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Typhoon Cimaron
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Typhoon Cimaron is forecast to strike land in the Philippines in about 36 hours.
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Hurricane Paul
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Hurricane Paul strengthened as it swept across the Pacific Ocean on Monday toward the beach resort of Cabo San Lucas on Mexico's Baja California peninsula and farming areas on the mainland.
The US National Hurricane Centre said the category 2 hurricane was gaining force. It could become a powerf...
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Tropical Cyclone Xavier
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Tropical Cyclone Xavier is forecast to strike land at the south pacific island of Vanuatu, in about 18 hours.
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Tropical storm 01P
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Tropical storm 01P is forecast to strike the Solomon Islands as a tropical cyclone at about 12:00 GMT on 22 October.
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Cloudy Weather
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Cloudy grey weather is sometimes caused by cosmic rays.
New evidence that events in outer space affect the weather and climate of Earth has been revealed in a study by meteorologists at the University of Reading published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on Wednesday 18 January, 2006.
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The Trippet Stones
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One of Bodmin Moor's most attractive and accessible stone circles is to undergo repairs. The Trippet Stones stand on Manor Common, between Bodmin and Blisland (Cornwall, England). The circle, which was originally comprised of 27 stones, was erected about 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age whe...
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Turkmenistan Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 17:08:20 (UTC) on Thursday, October 12, 2006, in the Turkmenistan region, about 45 km Northeast of Balkanabat (Nebitdag), Turkmenistan.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 41.2 km.
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Tropical storm Norman
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Tropical storm Norman is forecast to strike Mexico at about 18:00 GMT on 15 October. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall will be near 18.7 N, 104.6 W. Norman is expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of arou...
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Edderton standing stone
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Plans for a major housing development in an Easter Ross village have been changed to preserve the line of sight linking two ancient monuments with the setting sun on certain ancient Celtic festivals.
Earlier plans for the proposed development at Balblair Farm, Station Road, Edderton, by Tain...
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Narges Tappeh
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Archaeologists have discovered a goat statuette and a bas relief of a lizard buried along a skeleton of a woman in a cemetery in Narges Tappeh, an ancient site near Gorgan in Golestan province, reported Tehran Times on Monday.
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Jaadet al-Maghara Temple
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A team of Syrian and French archaeologists has discovered a Neolithic temple in northern Syria that could be the oldest in the Middle East. The discovery of the temple, dating to the Neolithic Age, was made by a joint Syrian-French archaeological team at Jaadet al-Maghara on the Euphrates river som...
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