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The Leiden Sphere, a mechanical armillary sphere or orrery, was built around 1670 by the clockmaker Steven Tracy, for the mayor of Rotterdam. It is among the earliest and most elaborate mechanical planetaria to be operated by a clockwork mechanism. The device depicts the Copernican solar syste...
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Exmoor National Park
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Dark sky bid for Exmoor National Park[url=http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/somer...
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On the 24 May the Colombian government ordered the evacuation of ~9,000 people living near the volcano Galeras due to an increased activity.
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Anders Celsius
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Anders Celsius (27 November 1701 25 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name. Read more
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Karnataka Menhirs
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Udupi: Archaeologists Unearth Menhirs of Megalithic Iron Age Menhirs (standing stones) marking the burial of pregnant women belonging to the Megalithic Iron-Age period have been found at Gollarakatte, on the southern slope of Chikka Tirupati Betta, near Arsikere. Due to their gigantic nature...
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Bolivian Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred at 19:26:49 (UTC) on Thursday, November 17, 2005, in Potosi, Bolivia, at a hypocentral depth estimated to be 105 km, 110 km East of Calama, Chile.
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Baltic Sea circle
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Mysterious circles in the Baltic Sea An algal bloom? A mine? A UFO? No one knows. But it is clear that Swedish treasure hunters have found a giant circle on the Baltic seabed. The bay was a mirror in the morning on June 19. Six of the nine crew members aboard the fishing vessel lake was still asleep in their...
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Burin's tsunami
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Shortly after 5 pm on 18 November 1929, an earthquake shook Canada's eastern provinces. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, a seismometer needle jumped right off track. Across the Gulf of St Lawrence, on Newfoundland's Burin peninsula, the tremors sent people running into the streets. But for them...
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Eel River
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Evidence of Ancient Lake in California's Eel River Emerges A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake - which has since disappeared - and leaving a living legacy found today in the genes of the region's steelh...
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Poway facility
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[url=http://www.10news.com/news/29756215/detail.html]Rea...
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Horary quadrant
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Cattle station shed yields rare 14th century artefact An extremely rare 14th-century English time-keeping device found in a bag of old spare parts in a shed on a Central Queensland cattle property could fetch up to $300,000 at auction in London next month. Christopher Becker and his brother were pl...
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Global Hands-On Universe
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Berkeley Lab-founded Program Brings Astronomy to Africa Susan Murabana majored in economics, but science is her true calling, or more specifically, science education and outreach. She loves nothing more than inspiring young people to engage in science and discover new concepts. So when she cam...
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Rujm al-Hiri
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Rujm el-Hiri (Arabic: Rujm al-Hirr, also Romanised as Rujm Hiri or Rujum al-Hiri; Hebrew: Gilgal Refaim or Galgal Refaim) is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center Read more R...
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SUMPAC
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SUHPA effort to mark 50th anniversary of world's first human-powered flight 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the world's first human-powered flight, when a group of University of Southampton students designed and built SUMPAC (Southampton University Man Powered Aircraft). To commemorate t...
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South-West Indian Ocean Ridge
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Second mission to scale deep mountains announced Scientists are set to begin a six-week mission to explore the Indian Ocean's underwater mountains. Aboard the UK research vessel the RRS James Cook, the team will study animals thousands of metres below the surface. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/n...
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