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UW-Madison: Inaugurates first overseas office in Shanghai The University of Wisconsin-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university's growing engagement in China and across East Asia, officially opened today. A Wisconsin delegation led by UW-Madi...
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HM Bark Endeavour
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Curtain Theatre
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Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre remains found Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theatre where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. The remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in 1577, were found behind a pub in Shoreditch, east London, as pa...
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Koongarra uranium deposit
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The struggle to protect Koongarra uranium is finally over There was a major victory this week in the struggle to protect the Koongarra uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council, which represents native title claimants in the Arnhem Land region of Northern Ter...
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D-Day
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The Geological Fingerprint of War Earle McBride and Dane Picard were travelling across France doing geologic field work in 1988 when they took time out to play tourists at Omaha Beach, site of one of the most ferocious battles during the D-Day invasion more than 40 years earlier. It was a miserably c...
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NASA Arctic mission
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Lingjing Paleolithic Site
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Zooarchaeological Study Indicating Hominids Already Practiced Sophisticated Hunting Techniques in East Asia More than ten thousands of bone fragments were recovered from the Lingjing site, Henan Province during 2005 and 2006. By taking statistical analyses of the skeletal elements of the tw...
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United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
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Stockholm: Birth of the green generation Economically, the world has never had it so good. But governments are beginning to realise that nature is paying a price. On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Envi...
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Bristol Dinosaur Project
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The Bristol Dinosaur comes to life in drawing competition The Bristol Dinosaur Project, based at the University of Bristol, asked entrants from around the world to recreate the Thecodontosaurus - affectionately known as Theco - who was only the fourth dinosaur to be discovered in the world. Ther...
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia
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Zimbabwe Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state that existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 December 1979. Read more
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Harappan civilisation
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Designers of the 17th century Taj Mahal, the finest piece of Mughal architecture, employed the same unit of measurement used by the Harappan civilisation as far back 2000 BC, according to a study by an IIT-Kanpur professor. These units were used by builders in India till the British imposed their ow...
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Prehistoric flute
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Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a compl...
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Cloak of invisibility
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Researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can "cloak" an item from detection by microwaves, report that they have expanded the number of wavelengths they can block. In 2006 the team reported they had developed so-called metamaterials that could deflect microwave...
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The Scopes Trial
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The Scopes Trial - formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial - was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to t...
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Bullaun
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'Cursing stone' found on Isle of Canna A stone discovered by chance on the Isle of Canna is Scotland's first known example of a bullaun "cursing stone", experts have revealed. Dating from about 800 AD, the stones are associated with early Christian crosses - of which there is one on the isl...
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