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The Penfield Lighthouse
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For sale: $1 property surrounded by Long Island Sound off the coast of Fairfield. Must be able to cope with possible haunting. The U.S. General Services Administration is seeking a buyer for the Penfield Lighthouse, built in 1874 about 1.1 miles from Fairfield Beach. It is said to be the site of stran...
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Sam seagull
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A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in the Castlegate, Aberdeen, when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started payi...
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Uranium Extraction
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Jim Bonner was happy to talk Thursday night about the geology of the Eocene Epoch and how Colorado looked during that time, 35 million years ago. He answered geology and hydrology questions for almost three hours and was unruffled by unfriendly ones, of which there were a few. Bonner, a geologist wit...
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Badlands
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Containing the worlds richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets...
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Mike Hutchinson
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Mike Hutchinson. -- whose day job is running a painting and carpet-cleaning business -- is an amateur astronomer, but he shouldn't be confused with somebody who enjoys speculating about what the moon is made of while gazing through a telescope that would be equally suited to whacking Wiffle balls....
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Thracian Gold
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Almost 600 gold pieces and a sensational, perfectly-preserved dagger, were discovered by archaeologists in central Bulgaria.
Martin Hristov's team unearthed the Thracian items at a previously discovered hotspot near Dabene, they announced on Sunday.
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Arlie Petters
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A boy from a rural village in Belize grows up to become a world-class mathematician and cosmologist. Arlie Petters' personal journey has taken him from a rural village in Belize to the streets of Brooklyn to the ivy-covered walls of academia. Through it all, he has gained a remarkable perspective an...
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Xu Xing
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China's fossil hunter -- a rock star of palaeontology Xu Xing doesnt know how many new species of dinosaurs he has discovered, saying he has lost count. In the unsexy world of palaeontology, Xu is perhaps the closest thing the science has to a rock star. [url=http://www.physorg.com/news103514995...
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Hypolimnas bolina
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Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly. The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria. Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in th...
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HMS Vanguard
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More than 800 men died. Britain suffered the worst loss of life in a naval disaster on home shores. But even to this day little notice has been paid in historical circles to the sinking of HMS Vanguard in 1917. The Vanguard the eighth Royal Navy vessel by that name was an aging ship in need of repair or repl...
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Devils Hole pupfish
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It's 110 degrees, hardly a heat wave for Death Valley. And in a small, bathtub-warm pool below a steep, rocky incline, small fish appear to be at play, darting and chasing each other through patches of algae. These are Devils Hole pupfish and, aside from the strangeness of finding fish in the middle of...
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Foula stone ring
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A team of archaeologists from Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (Bacas) has helped uncover an ancient stone circle in one of Britain's most remote locations. Members of the have taken part in a two-week excavation on Foula, part of the Shetland Islands (Scotland). The team was previously i...
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Flooding
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Parts of Mumbai have once again started getting heavy rain after a short breather from the non-stop downpour that brought life in the city to a halt on Saturday. There was no overnight rain in the city and the water had also begun receding considerably in the waterlogged areas. [url=http://www.ndtv...
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Ornithoputer
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Ancient instrument
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Txalaparta: an ancient instrument Historically it is believed that the Txalaparta was used as a means of communication between remote farmhouses. The txalaparta provides us with a typical Basque sound. It is an instrument made up of one or more thick wooden boards played by two people. The players...
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