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The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren and Irishman Charles Barrington, who climbed the west flank on August 11, 1858. The north face, 1,800 m (German: Nordwand, "north wall"), was first climbed in 1938 by an Austrian-German expedition an...
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Egyptian Pyramids
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Google Earth satellite imagery survey may have revealed two possible pyramid complexes in Egypt. Satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, N.C said that the complexes were located about 90 miles apart, and contained unusual grouping of mounds with intriguing features and orien...
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Fire use
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Humans used fire a million years ago Wonderwerk Cave shows fire used 300,000 years earlier than believed An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, al...
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Balloon flight
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The first documented balloon flight in Europe was by the Portuguese priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão. On August 8, 1709, in Lisbon, Bartolomeu de Gusmão managed to lift a small balloon made of paper full of hot air about four meters in front of king John V and the Portuguese court. Read more
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Kon-Tiki
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Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Oc...
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Amluk-Dara stupa
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Amluk-Dara stupa: Excavators discover unique complex Local and foreign excavators revealed on Wednesday that a unique part of a previously-discovered site of the Gandhara civilization at Amluk-Dara, Swat, has been uncovered jointly by Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan and Khyber-...
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Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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The treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT) (although the latter also refers to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) is a treaty pr...
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Arctic balloon expedition of 1897
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S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. The Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition, studying the glaciers and seas of the Svalbard archipelago from the Norwegian sealing vessel Bratvaag of Alesund, f...
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Manyikeni
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Manyikeni is a Mozambiquean archaeological site, situated around 52 km west of the coastal city of Vilanculos. The archaeological site dates from the twelfth to seventeenth century. It is believed to be part of the Great Zimbabwe tradition of architecture. Not only is the central stone enclosure...
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A giant clock being built in the holy city Mecca could bring competition to GMT Watches around the world could soon be set by another reference point instead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The challenge to the observatory in south-east London comes as a giant clock, costing ~£500 million, is nearing c...
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The Battle of Chaeronea
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The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in 338 BC, near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia, between the forces of Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of Greek city-states (the principal members of which were Athens and Thebes). The battle was the culmination of Philip's campaign in Greece (339-338 BC) and r...
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The Battle of Cannae
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The Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a numerically s...
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Porcupine Abyssal Plain
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Autosub surveys deep ocean floor off Land's End A British robotic sub has photographed a vast tract of deep ocean floor some 560km southwest of Land's End. The images will be stitched together to provide a seamless view of what is happening on the seabed over an area the size of a city. The 4,800m-deep s...
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Nanchang Uprising
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The Nanchang Uprising (August 1, 1927) was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Communists to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China. Read more
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The Speedwell
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The Speedwell was a 60-ton ship, the smaller of the two ships (along with Mayflower) intended to carry the Pilgrim Fathers to North America. A vessel of the same name and size travelled to the New World seventeen years prior as the flagship of the first expedition of Martin Pring. The Leiden Separatis...
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