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NRO Celebrates 50 Years Of National Service The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) celebrated 50 years of national service with a cake-cutting ceremony on September 8, 2011. The event was part of an 18-month commemoration, which will include the formal unveiling of the Gambit and Hexagon le...

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Mark Mulligan is selling what appears to be a shiny glob of tangled fishing line for at least $8,500. These 8-millimeter thin threads are worth more than $600 an ounce because they are .999 percent pure gold. These are left over from a spool of golden thread that went to space several years ago in satell...

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Prehistoric clay disks found at Noatak National Preserve Four decorated clay disks have been discovered at a prehistoric site in Alaska, apparently the first artifacts of their type discovered in the state, the University of Alaska Museum of the North said. The disks were found during a summer exp...

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The Areni-1 cave complex is a cave in the Areni village of southern Armenia along the Arpa River. In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was announced to be found in the cave. Read more

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Cardiff University Health Board take lessons from space It's unusual for the paths of the NHS and NASA to cross yet those two working environments have a lot in common, as staff from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have been finding out. In the past two months, health board staff have partici...

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The Qiantang River (also known as the Qian River) is a southeast Chinese river that originates in the borders of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces and passes through Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, before flowing into the East China Sea through Hangzhou Bay. The river and bay are known for the...

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The ancient turquoise mines of South Sinai "His majesty of this God has sent the God's treasurer, the assistant and leader of the troupe, Her-Wer-Re, to the mining lands and he said: there is abundant turquoise in the hill." With these words, Chief Her-Wer-Re began documenting the work o...

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Tiny Toshima island big on natural attractions On the small island of Toshima, roughly 140 km south of Tokyo's Takeshiba Port, a narrow forest path covered with damp leaves and lined with moss-covered trees weaves toward a lookout near the 508-meter-high peak of Mount Miyatsuka. If you're unlucky...

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On ancient Susquehanna, flooding's a frequent fact Early settlers called the Susquehanna River "a mile wide and a foot deep." It's just a folk saying, but it hints at the forces behind a river that is, in fact, exceptionally likely to flood. And flooding it is, with record or near-record...

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Using recently discovered fossil snapshots found in rocks more than 500 million years old, three University of Kansas researchers have described the oldest definitive jellyfish ever found. In a paper to be published in PLoS ONE on October 31, the researchers describe four types of cnidarian foss...

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Les secrets d'adaptation de la "bactérie du désert" Un consortium de chercheurs, notamment du CNRS, du CEA, de l'Inra et des Universités de la Méditerranée, de Paris-Sud, Toulouse et Grenoble 1, ont réalisé l'analyse du génome de la bactérie Ramlibacter tataouinensis TTB310, appelé...

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Historic Boonalla Aboriginal Area co-management accord signed Aboriginal elders and community members have signed an historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) for co-management of Boonalla Aboriginal Area near Gunnedah. NPWS area manag...

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Archaeologists dig at Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen Archaeologists are launching a new dig to try to unearth the secrets of a 9th Century stone monument on a prehistoric mound. Bangor and Chester university experts will begin excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen, Denbighshire....

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Victoria (or Nao Victoria, as well as Vittoria) was a Spanish carrack and the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Read more Nao Victoria REPLICA NAO VICTORIA JUAN MATASSI [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Q...

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Carnuntum was a Roman city and army camp in what is now Austria. It belonged originally to Noricum province, but after the 1st century was part of Pannonia. Its remains are on the main road halfway between Vienna and Bratislava, on the "Archaeological Park Carnuntum" in Lower Austria, ex...

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	National Reconnaissance Office (Preview) NRO Celebrates 50 Years Of National Service The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) celebrated 50 years of national service with a cake-cutting ceremony on September 8, 2011. The event was part of an 18-month commemoration, which will include the formal unveiling of the Gambit and Hexagon le...	Blobrana	0	Sep 17 01:24 2011 by Blobrana
	Pure gold gold (Preview) Mark Mulligan is selling what appears to be a shiny glob of tangled fishing line for at least $8,500. These 8-millimeter thin threads are worth more than $600 an ounce because they are .999 percent pure gold. These are left over from a spool of golden thread that went to space several years ago in satell...	Blobrana	2	Sep 16 16:58 2011 by Blobrana
	Prehistoric clay disks (Preview) Prehistoric clay disks found at Noatak National Preserve Four decorated clay disks have been discovered at a prehistoric site in Alaska, apparently the first artifacts of their type discovered in the state, the University of Alaska Museum of the North said. The disks were found during a summer exp...	Blobrana	0	Sep 15 12:27 2011 by Blobrana
	Areni 1 Cave Cave (Preview) The Areni-1 cave complex is a cave in the Areni village of southern Armenia along the Arpa River. In January 2011, the earliest known winery in the world was announced to be found in the cave. Read more	Blobrana	1	Sep 14 18:02 2011 by Blobrana
	Cardiff University Health Board (Preview) Cardiff University Health Board take lessons from space It's unusual for the paths of the NHS and NASA to cross yet those two working environments have a lot in common, as staff from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have been finding out. In the past two months, health board staff have partici...	Blobrana	0	Sep 12 21:32 2011 by Blobrana
	Qiantang river (Preview) The Qiantang River (also known as the Qian River) is a southeast Chinese river that originates in the borders of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces and passes through Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, before flowing into the East China Sea through Hangzhou Bay. The river and bay are known for the...	Blobrana	2	Sep 12 16:33 2011 by Blobrana
	Serabit el-Khadim turquoise mines (Preview) The ancient turquoise mines of South Sinai "His majesty of this God has sent the God's treasurer, the assistant and leader of the troupe, Her-Wer-Re, to the mining lands and he said: there is abundant turquoise in the hill." With these words, Chief Her-Wer-Re began documenting the work o...	Blobrana	0	Sep 11 14:14 2011 by Blobrana
	Toshima island Island (Preview) Tiny Toshima island big on natural attractions On the small island of Toshima, roughly 140 km south of Tokyo's Takeshiba Port, a narrow forest path covered with damp leaves and lined with moss-covered trees weaves toward a lookout near the 508-meter-high peak of Mount Miyatsuka. If you're unlucky...	Blobrana	0	Sep 11 12:53 2011 by Blobrana
	Susquehanna River River (Preview) On ancient Susquehanna, flooding's a frequent fact Early settlers called the Susquehanna River "a mile wide and a foot deep." It's just a folk saying, but it hints at the forces behind a river that is, in fact, exceptionally likely to flood. And flooding it is, with record or near-record...	Blobrana	0	Sep 9 22:23 2011 by Blobrana
	Ancient jellyfish (Preview) Using recently discovered fossil snapshots found in rocks more than 500 million years old, three University of Kansas researchers have described the oldest definitive jellyfish ever found. In a paper to be published in PLoS ONE on October 31, the researchers describe four types of cnidarian foss...	Blobrana	2	Sep 8 10:29 2011 by Blobrana
	Ramlibacter tataouinensis (Preview) Les secrets d'adaptation de la "bactérie du désert" Un consortium de chercheurs, notamment du CNRS, du CEA, de l'Inra et des Universités de la Méditerranée, de Paris-Sud, Toulouse et Grenoble 1, ont réalisé l'analyse du génome de la bactérie Ramlibacter tataouinensis TTB310, appelé...	Blobrana	0	Sep 7 06:50 2011 by Blobrana
	Boonalla Aboriginal Area (Preview) Historic Boonalla Aboriginal Area co-management accord signed Aboriginal elders and community members have signed an historic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) for co-management of Boonalla Aboriginal Area near Gunnedah. NPWS area manag...	Blobrana	0	Sep 6 16:52 2011 by Blobrana
	Pillar of Eliseg (Preview) Archaeologists dig at Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen Archaeologists are launching a new dig to try to unearth the secrets of a 9th Century stone monument on a prehistoric mound. Bangor and Chester university experts will begin excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg near Llangollen, Denbighshire....	Blobrana	0	Sep 6 10:30 2011 by Blobrana
	Nao Victoria Boat (Preview) Victoria (or Nao Victoria, as well as Vittoria) was a Spanish carrack and the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. Read more Nao Victoria REPLICA NAO VICTORIA JUAN MATASSI [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-Q...	Blobrana	0	Sep 5 23:26 2011 by Blobrana
	Carnuntum (Preview) Carnuntum was a Roman city and army camp in what is now Austria. It belonged originally to Noricum province, but after the 1st century was part of Pannonia. Its remains are on the main road halfway between Vienna and Bratislava, on the "Archaeological Park Carnuntum" in Lower Austria, ex...	Blobrana	1	Sep 5 20:54 2011 by Blobrana
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