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Causeway ring fort
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Man faces jail for demolishing ancient ring fort A Causeway man is facing a possible five-year jail term after he was prosecuted for demolishing an ancient ring fort on land belonging to his family. In the first case of its kind to be heard in an Irish Court, John O'mahony with an address at Clashmealco...
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Flight 19
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Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, during a United States Navy-authorized overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19]Read more[/...
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Mary Celeste
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The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned (one lifeboat was missing), despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able seamen. Read mor...
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African Middle Stone Age
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Title: The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia Authors: Jeffrey I. Rose, Vitaly I. Usik, Anthony E. Marks, Yamandu H. Hilbert, Christopher S. Galletti, Ash Parton, Jean Marie Geiling, Viktor Cerný, Mike W. Morley, Richard G. Roberts Despite the...
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Science pubs
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Science pubs create lively intellectual exchange Allen Sanderson invited his audience in the banquet room at Grady's Grille in Homewood one evening last September to treat his presentation as a seminar in economics at the University of Chicago. He welcomed interruptions and even rudeness, but d...
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Wicker Woman sculpture
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Wicker Woman toppled as Highlands battens down hatches in 60mph gale[url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/253...
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Altobridge
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Satellites and Sun connect isolated communities to the world A mobile phone unit connecting isolated communities to the rest of the world using satellites and solar power has caught the attention of ESA and the World Economic Forum. After developing a solar-powered base station for mobile phones...
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Minoan Calendar
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Imagine over 100 years of scientific digs into the foundations of Minoan Crete, and we knew nothing of how Minoan people reckoned the days of the year and the flow of time. No advanced and prosperous society could manage its agriculture, foreign trade and ritual life without a calendar. And yet, till...
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Nottingham's Particle Theory Group
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The University of Nottinghams School of Physics and Astronomy is celebrating a bumper crop of top new research brains in its Particle Theory Group after receiving a major new grant and an unprecedented number of postdoctoral researchers on fellowships from around the world. [url=http://www.no...
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Wave Gliders
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On November 17th, at San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club, Liquid Robotics launched four Wave Gliders on a record-setting journey across the Pacific Ocean - the longest distance ever attempted by an unmanned ocean vehicle. The purpose of this unprecedented Pacific crossing is to foster new sci...
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Voith Hydro Wavegen's plant
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Inverness firm hands over Spanish wave power plant An Inverness-based marine energy company has put what has been described as the world's first wave power plant into commercial operation. Read more
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Lochaber Geopark
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Lochaber loses Unesco geopark status Unesco has withdrawn geopark status from an area of the Highlands that inspired work by scientist Charles Darwin in the 1800s. Volunteers running Lochaber Geopark could not raise the funds needed to employ a full-time project officer, a requirement of the des...
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Ice Age hominids
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Archaeologists investigate Ice Age hominids adaptability to climate change Complex computational modeling provides clues to Neanderthal extinction Computational modelling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change d...
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Cassava
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UN warns of staple crop virus 'epidemic' UN scientists are warning that a virus attacking the cassava plant is nearing an epidemic in parts of Africa. Cassava is one of the world's most important crops providing up to a third of the calorie intake for many people. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/s...
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Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize
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A Ł1m prize - named after the Queen - is to be awarded for exceptional advances in engineering. The prize will be presented every two years to an individual or team of up to three people. It is designed to raise the profile of engineering and the recipients can be of any nationality. [url=http://www.bb...
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