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US defence firm Lockheed Martin says it has come under a significant cyber-attack, which took place last week. Few details were available, but Lockheed said its security team had detected the threat quickly and ensured that none of its programmes had been compromised. The Pentagon said it is worki...

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Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. The first part of the product's name comes from Latin bos (genitive bovis) meaning "ox" or "cow." Johnston took the -vril suffi...

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Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 [O.S. 16 May] 1703. Read more

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Bran Castle for sale. Last year Romania's former royal family got the Castle back from Romania's former Communist Government. And now it is on the market - Offers of $135 Million or over will be accepted.. Positioned on a cliff in Transylvania, with stunning views, the 800-year-old Castle was once o...

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Spiders protect webs with decorations The delicate web decorations spun by some orb-weaving spiders are a strange but well-known phenomena, but exactly why the spiders adorn their webs is unclear. Now a study by researchers in Australia suggests that the creatures use decorations to protect the...

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ATA spitfire women Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferried military planes from the factories to the military airfields. This clip is about the woman who joined this organisation.

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China fossil shows bird, crocodile family trees split earlier than thought A fossil unearthed in China in the 1970s of a creature that died about 247 million years ago, originally thought to be a distant relative of both birds and crocodiles, turns out to have come from the crocodile family tree afte...

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Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Sanctuary of Greek Goddess Demeter A temple of Ancient Greek goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone has been discovered by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists near the town of Sozopol on the Black Sea. The archaeological team of Prof. Krastina Panayotova fo...

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Barry Bronze Age site protection plea An archaeology group has called for the site of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan to be protected. The remains of a Bronze Age village at Bendrick were first uncovered near the Atlantic Trading Estate near Barry in the 1980s. [url=http://www...

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A draco was a Roman cavalry military standard borne by a draconarius. It was the standard of the cohort as the eagle was that of the legion. Draco took the form of a gaping wolf's head and mouth formed from cast metal, to the end of which was attached a 'body' of cloth or silk fabric in the form of a windsock....

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Dürer star charts light up auction offering Albrecht Dürer may not be the name most people would think of as producing the earliest printed star charts, but his will be the name that counts when Sotheby's offer a very rare pair of charts in a March 30 print sale. In fact, the artist and master printmaker...

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Pseudo-satellites, ground-based substitutes used when signals from real satellites are not available, can deliver accurate positioning information in places where conventional solutions fail. This was demonstrated on 27 June in Helsinki harbour as part of a project supported by ESA. For ge...

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When the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off in April, joining the astronauts on board will be an unlikely passenger: Krtek the Little Mole. The Little Mole- actually, an eight-inch plush version engineered to meet NASA specifications - will be making one giant step for Czech pop culture during a two...

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Europeans were the real cannibals, according to new book European royalty and eminent scholars swallowed parts of the human body as medicine, including its flesh, blood and bones, right up until the end of the 18th century, a new book on medicinal cannibalism reveals. For well over two hundred yea...

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Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Mine In The Americas Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that marks the oldest evidence of organised mining ever found in the Americas, according to a report in the June issue of Current Anthropology. A team of researchers led b...

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	Lockheed Martin (Preview) US defence firm Lockheed Martin says it has come under a significant cyber-attack, which took place last week. Few details were available, but Lockheed said its security team had detected the threat quickly and ensured that none of its programmes had been compromised. The Pentagon said it is worki...	Blobrana	0	May 29 09:35 2011 by Blobrana
	Bovril (Preview) Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. The first part of the product's name comes from Latin bos (genitive bovis) meaning "ox" or "cow." Johnston took the -vril suffi...	Blobrana	0	May 27 01:03 2011 by Blobrana
	Saint Petersburg (Preview) Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 [O.S. 16 May] 1703. Read more	Blobrana	0	May 26 23:35 2011 by Blobrana
	Bran Castle (Preview) Bran Castle for sale. Last year Romania's former royal family got the Castle back from Romania's former Communist Government. And now it is on the market - Offers of $135 Million or over will be accepted.. Positioned on a cliff in Transylvania, with stunning views, the 800-year-old Castle was once o...	Blobrana	1	May 25 22:34 2011 by Blobrana
	Spiders webs (Preview) Spiders protect webs with decorations The delicate web decorations spun by some orb-weaving spiders are a strange but well-known phenomena, but exactly why the spiders adorn their webs is unclear. Now a study by researchers in Australia suggests that the creatures use decorations to protect the...	Blobrana	0	May 25 00:51 2011 by Blobrana
	ATA spitfire women (Preview) ATA spitfire women Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) ferried military planes from the factories to the military airfields. This clip is about the woman who joined this organisation.	Blobrana	0	May 24 15:05 2011 by Blobrana
	Xilousuchus sapingensis (Preview) China fossil shows bird, crocodile family trees split earlier than thought A fossil unearthed in China in the 1970s of a creature that died about 247 million years ago, originally thought to be a distant relative of both birds and crocodiles, turns out to have come from the crocodile family tree afte...	Blobrana	0	May 22 22:45 2011 by Blobrana
	Temple of Demeter at Sozopol Temple (Preview) Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Sanctuary of Greek Goddess Demeter A temple of Ancient Greek goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone has been discovered by a team of Bulgarian archaeologists near the town of Sozopol on the Black Sea. The archaeological team of Prof. Krastina Panayotova fo...	Blobrana	0	May 22 15:19 2011 by Blobrana
	Barry Bronze Age site (Preview) Barry Bronze Age site protection plea An archaeology group has called for the site of a 3,500-year-old settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan to be protected. The remains of a Bronze Age village at Bendrick were first uncovered near the Atlantic Trading Estate near Barry in the 1980s. [url=http://www...	Blobrana	0	May 22 10:24 2011 by Blobrana
	Dacian Draco Roman (Preview) A draco was a Roman cavalry military standard borne by a draconarius. It was the standard of the cohort as the eagle was that of the legion. Draco took the form of a gaping wolf's head and mouth formed from cast metal, to the end of which was attached a 'body' of cloth or silk fabric in the form of a windsock....	Blobrana	0	May 21 10:43 2011 by Blobrana
	Albrecht Dürer (Preview) Dürer star charts light up auction offering Albrecht Dürer may not be the name most people would think of as producing the earliest printed star charts, but his will be the name that counts when Sotheby's offer a very rare pair of charts in a March 30 print sale. In fact, the artist and master printmaker...	Blobrana	3	May 20 22:45 2011 by Blobrana
	Pseudolites (Preview) Pseudo-satellites, ground-based substitutes used when signals from real satellites are not available, can deliver accurate positioning information in places where conventional solutions fail. This was demonstrated on 27 June in Helsinki harbour as part of a project supported by ESA. For ge...	Blobrana	1	May 20 14:11 2011 by Blobrana
	Krtek (Preview) When the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off in April, joining the astronauts on board will be an unlikely passenger: Krtek the Little Mole. The Little Mole- actually, an eight-inch plush version engineered to meet NASA specifications - will be making one giant step for Czech pop culture during a two...	Blobrana	2	May 20 12:56 2011 by Blobrana
	Cannibals (Preview) Europeans were the real cannibals, according to new book European royalty and eminent scholars swallowed parts of the human body as medicine, including its flesh, blood and bones, right up until the end of the 18th century, a new book on medicinal cannibalism reveals. For well over two hundred yea...	Blobrana	0	May 20 12:02 2011 by Blobrana
	Taltal Mine (Preview) Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Mine In The Americas Archaeologists have discovered a 12,000-year-old iron oxide mine in Chile that marks the oldest evidence of organised mining ever found in the Americas, according to a report in the June issue of Current Anthropology. A team of researchers led b...	Blobrana	0	May 20 05:45 2011 by Blobrana
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