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Guatemalas Pacaya volcano erupted on Thursday covering the capital with a cloud of black ash that closed the airport and forced evacuations of nearby villages. Read more Latitude: 14°22'51"N, Longitude: 90°36'04&qu...
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Starlight reserve
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South Canterbury's Mackenzie Basin could become a first in World Heritage status with the creation of a starlight reserve. Work is well under way with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (Unesco) to have the area designated as a reserve by 2009, the Internationa...
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Brian H. Mason (1917 - 2009)
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Brian H. Mason, 92, a Smithsonian scientist who was internationally known for his study of meteorites and moon rocks and who was the first to discover that a rock found in Antarctica came from the moon, died of renal failure Dec. 3 at his home in Chevy Chase. [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...
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Human remains excavated in a cathedral in northern Poland are very likely those of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolas Copernicus, archaeologists working in the cathedral said.
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The Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China, has been completed.
Construction of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world began in 1993. Structural construction was finished on May 20, 2006, nine months ahead of schedule.
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You may recall Isaac Newton's famous quote: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. One of those giants was the flamboyant silver-nosed Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. His accurate pre-telescopic observations laid the groundwork for modern astronomy. H...
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 08:26:45 (UTC) on Wednesday, January 09, 2008, in the Central Tibetan region, 445 km NE of Jumla, Nepal, at a Depth of 10 km Location 32.341°N, 85.146°E
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Leiden University
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Leiden University (Dutch: Universiteit Leiden), located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded on the 8th February, 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. Read more
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Greenwich Time Signal
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Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations to mark the precise start of each hour. The pips have been broadcast daily since 5 February 1924, and were the idea of the Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank W...
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Trefael
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This site is known as Trefael a single slab with at least 28 cupmarks, 17 of which are shallow depressions. Lynch suggests that this stone may well be a capstone from a now destroyed monument. Nash suggest that the cairn exists around the site, much of it incorporated into the surrounding field bounda...
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Nord-Statland tsunami
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At about 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, the small Norwegian village of Nord-Statland was struck by a localised tsunami, which reports have suggested was as high as 15 m (though this looks unlikely). The village is located in Nord-Trøndelag Read more
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The 1607 Flood
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A repeat of the 1607 storm surge that caused severe flooding in south Wales and south west England 400 years ago would be the UK's costliest natural disaster, claims a new report. A risk management company has...
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Grand Canyon
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New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the California Institute of Technology. The team used a technique known as radiometric dating to show the G...
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Tales about "Thunderbird" and "Whale" by native tribes along the U.S. West Coast, along with geological clues, point to at least two massive quakes and tsunamis that have hit the area in the last 1,100 years.
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Glacier-monitoring station inaugurated in Yunnan The inauguration for a Chinese Academy of Science observation station for glacier and environment was held at a symposium on glaciology held in late May at Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon and Snow-capped Mountain) in the suburban Lijiang County of...
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