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Adelaide scientists
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Descendants of Adelaide scientists sought A hunt is on for descendants of early Adelaide's brightest minds to see if a love affair with science runs in the blood. South Australia was the fledgling colony's first free settlement and many scientists flocked to the city in the early years, says Royal I...
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Kangelu monument
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A team of archaeologists working on the Kangelu monument in northern Iran’s Mazandaran Province has found evidence suggesting that it might have been a Mithraist temple during the Sassanid era, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
The team recently discovered engravings depic...
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The Phoenicians
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A Lebanese genetic scientist who has been following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenician civilisation across the Mediterranean for the last five years has found that close to one-third of modern-day Maltese share a genetic link with the ancient Phoenicians. Thirty per cent of DNA samp...
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Johnson Space Centre bar
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The Johnson Space Centre bar that became a local legend for serving NASAs astronauts and employees tasty hamburgers and cold beer was destroyed by an overnight fire Saturday. Fire officials said The Outpost Tavern, near the intersection of NASA Parkway and FM 270, caught fire early Saturday morni...
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Tirnony Dolmen
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Gotthard tunnel
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World's longest tunnel takes shape The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps today when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe. Read more
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Wind farm
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Plans to build one of Europe's biggest wind farms on the Isle of Lewis are set to be turned down, BBC Scotland understands. The BBC's Gaelic news service, Radio nan Gaidheal, has learned that Scottish Government ministers are "minded to refuse" the 181 turbine scheme. More than 5,000 let...
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Greek sun god
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A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, by University of Haifa diggers. When the ring was recovered from a waste pit near Hellenistic structures, it was covered with layers of earth and corrosion, and th...
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History of astronomy
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Prof. Joseph A. Burns chronicles the vast history of astronomy According to Prof. Joseph A. Burns, astronomy is the oldest science. So, when the distinguished scientific journal Nature asked him to chronicle the great history of astronomy in less than 4,000 words, he knowingly embarked upon a dif...
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Edmonton's Dinosaurs
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University of Alberta palaeontologist Dr. Phil Currie has a dinosaur bone yard in southwest Edmonton, Canada.
Originally discovered in the late 1980s by an Edmonton sculptor walking his dog, the site was left largely unexcavated until this summer when Currie and his field school students be...
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Bill Cullen
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Millionaire businessman Bill Cullen's dreams of becoming Ireland's first space tourist may be at an end because he is not a US citizen. The Apprentice star was one of two Irish people who paid Euro 200,000 to become part of Virgin boss Richard Branson's dream of space tourism. [url=http://www.inde...
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Special Areas of Conservation
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An area of seabed with a rocky reef gouged by icebergs at the end of the last ice age is to be given Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) status. Wyville Thomson Ridge 180km north of Lewis has "plough marks" thought to have been left by massive blocks of ice. North-west Rockall Bank about 330k...
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Vindunum
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Enormous religious site in French countryside may have been devoted to worshipping many gods Excavations near the antique city of Vindunum (now Le Mans) have revealed a vast religious site dating from the first to the third centuries AD with remarkably well-preserved offerings. Sometimes archa...
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Marine Conservation Zone
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The waters around Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel are home to more species of marine life than any other part of Britain. They were made into the UK's first Marine Conservation Zone at the beginning of 2010, in the hope that the numbers of lobsters and other rare marine life would increase. [url=ht...
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Ikom Monoliths
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For the past couple of years, these mysterious circles of carved stone figures, which villagers in southern Nigeria still worship on occasion, have been causing a frenzy of excitement here. Newspapers have trumpeted the Ikom monoliths - phallic-shaped pieces of volcanic rock largely ignored fo...
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