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Athens
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The Port of Athens was once an island Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 - 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. This discovery was made by a French-Greek team led by Jean-Philippe Goiran, a CNRS researcher at the 'Archéorient - Enviro...
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Skara Brae
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Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BC-2500 BC. Read more For obvio...
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W12 8QT
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The BBC has announced that Television Centre is up for sale. The West London home of corporation for over 50 years, it has played a central role in the history of the BBC. Here stars share their favourite memories of working in the place. The For Sale sign is going up at BBC Television Centre. Shows recor...
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Legio XIX
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Legio undevigesima (Nineteenth Legion) was a Roman legion levied (drafted into military service) in 41 or 40 BC by Augustus. It was destroyed in 9 in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The emblem of the XIXth legion is unknown, but probably was the Capricorn as other legions levied by Augustus. The a...
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Goddess Coventina
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Coventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs. She is known from multiple inscriptions at one site in Northumberland county of the United Kingdom, an area surrounding a wellspring near Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventina]Read more[/u...
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Plas Newydd Burial Chamber
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Plas Newydd Burial Chamber This chambered tomb is in the private grounds of the Plas Newydd country park owned by the Marquess of Anglesey and the National Trust and cannot be approached directly but can be viewed at a distance from the car park and picnic area. Although it cannot be seen from the tomb t...
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Twitter Journal Club
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Twitter Journal Club provides a place where doctors, medical students, and anyone else who is interested, can discuss publications relevant to clinical medicine. In many respects it operates in same way as any other journal club, except that the forum is Twitter. [url=http://twitjc.wordpress...
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Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Project
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Ancient world dictionary finished after 90 years It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of chariots and concubines, royal decrees and diaries and omens that c...
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USU Geology Building break-in
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Mammoth Teeth, meteorite, stolen from USU Geology Building Police are trying to apprehend a person who stole an estimated $3,000 worth of minerals, meteorites and huge teeth from the Department of Geology at the University of Utah. Division David Liddell said the thieves broke through a window in...
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Tri-Tek Electronics Inc
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Tri-Tek Electronics Inc. often works on many top-secret, mission-critical projects for the military and aerospace industries. Located in Valencia, Tri-Tek specializes in the design and construction of bulk cable for advanced multiconductor electrical wiring harnesses. The 24-year-old co...
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Golden Cap burial mounds
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Golden Cap's ancient burial mounds excavated in Dorset Work has started to excavate three Bronze Age burial mounds on Golden Cap in Dorset. The 4,000-year-old mounds are at risk from coastal erosion and are being excavated by the National Trust before they are lost to the sea. [url=http://www.bbc...
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1950 monster fire
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The beginning of what some people thought was the end of the world started on June 2, 1950, with a small wildfire in the northeast corner of British Columbia. The blaze burned for 222 days and torched a stretch of forest that was 245 kilometres long. It was and still is the biggest forest fire to hit Canad...
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Pune
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Ever imagined the Romans taking a circuitous sea route around Africa to reach the Persian Gulf and further touch the western Indian shores of Bharuch in Gujarat for trade with Pune over 2,000 years back? Archaeologists from the Deccan College here have come across a plethora of evidence at the Junna...
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Vikings
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Fake swords found across northern Europe Scandinavia's Vikings were not only great warriors but also savvy businessmen who were among the first groups to sell cheap copies of a well-made original, according to British scientists. Specifically, a strong steel sword called the 'Ulfberht' was wid...
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The Marlborough Mound
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The Marlborough Mound: Prehistoric origins confirmed Jim Leary, who led the recent archaeological investigations for English Heritage at nearby Silbury Hill, and is co-author of the recently published The Story of Silbury Hill, coordinated EH's contribution to the investigation of Marlboro...
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