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Carl Linnaeus published Species Plantarum on 1 May 1753, the work which, with his earlier work, Systema Naturae, is internationally accepted as the beginning of modern botanical nomenclature. Read more
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Didima Cave
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My latest tour took me around the countryside of the Argolid in the northern Peloponnese, north past the town of Kranidi, through the village of Fourni and west (left) from the village of Didima (or "Twins"), down a dirt track and to the Didima Caves. The Didima Caves are two large chambers...
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Soviet submarine K-19
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K-19, KS-19, BS-19 was one of the first two Soviet submarines of the 658, 658, 658 class (NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine), the first generation nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 (missile). Its official commissioning took place on 30 A...
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Prehistoric Nidderdale
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Prehistoric Nidderdale Project Some facts about Nidderdale's pre-history are well known but fieldwork recently carried out by by landowners and community archaeology projects in the area is bringing many new and exciting features to light - such as these at Dacre and Gouthwaite. [url=http://...
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Mantaphasmatodes
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Man Discovers New Life Form at South African Truck Stop Like many biologists, the German biologist Oliver Zompro spends thousands of hours looking at specimens of dead animals. He found his first new species when he was twenty. By the age of thirty he had named dozens of wild new forms. While other peo...
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Thermo-electric pump
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Heat pump can last 10 000 years Researchers now are testing an entirely new heat pump. While those we use today last ten to twenty years, the new one will last almost forever. The new heat pump consists of many miniature heat pumps as small as one cubic millimetre. To heat a house one needs several thousa...
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Ba kingdom
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Unknown ancient kingdom found in China An unknown kingdom dating back to 1046 B.C. has been unearthed in north China, archaeologists said. The kingdom is probably from the Xizhou dynasty (1046 to 771 B.C.), Xinhua reported. Engraving on bronze wares found in tombs in Shanxi provinces Linfen city i...
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Fin Cop Hillfort
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Mass burial suggests massacre at Iron Age hill fort Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre linked to Iron Age warfare at a hill fort in Derbyshire. A burial site contained only women and children - the first segregated burial of this kind from Iron Age Britain. Nine skeletons were discover...
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Abita-GKUP venture
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Isro satellite glitch robs farmers of data The centres, set up under Abita's Grameen Krishi Unnayan Prakalpa (GKUP), in collaboration with Isro, through the North East Space Application Centre, Shillong, had been equipped with two computers - one for weather updates and the other with video conf...
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Tsinghua College
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The Tsinghua College was established in Beijing, China, on 22 April 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince. It was funded by the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program, which consisted of unexpected surplus money from indemnities China had paid the United States fo...
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The Exodus
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The Exodus (the exit from Egypt) is the story of the departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt described in the Hebrew Bible. Narrowly defined, the term refers only to the departure from Egypt described in the Book of Exodus; more widely, it takes in the subsequent law-givings and wanderings in...
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The University of Alabama
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The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as 'Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Alabama opened its doors to students on April 18, 1831, with the Reverend Alva Woods as President. Read more
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Lewis Chessmen
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Pieces from the world's most famous chess set are going on display in museums in Aberdeen, Stornoway and Lerwick from next year, it was announced yesterday. The British Museum, National Museums Scotland and Scottish Government have teamed up to give people the opportunity to see 30 of the Lewis Che...
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Hurrian Hymn
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Syrian tablet fragment shatters long-held beliefs about origin of music The tablet sits in a quiet corner of the National Museum of Damascus. To the casual visitor it could be nothing more than another artefact housed in an institution brimming with such relics. Indeed, at the time of my visit, the a...
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Tufa mounds
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Mars in Catalonia A study coordinated by UAB's Geology Departament on the origin and evolution of peculiar morphologies created by ancient subterranean springs in the central pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia, Spain, pose new questions for planetary geomorphology research. Similar to small volcano...
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