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Siphon
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A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) physics lecturer has found a 99-year-old mistake in the Oxford English Dictionary - and is having it corrected. Dr Stephen Hughes said he had discovered last year that the dictionary's definition of the word siphon, and most other dictionaries', was in...
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Pharaonic Ship
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The oldest known remains of seafaring ships have been identified in a series of cave stores on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Built of cedar and acacia wood, the ships had been attacked by marine worms, and the site seems to have been a shipbreaker’s yard dating to the middle of the second millennium BC.
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Karampudi mandal menhir
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A megalith menhir with rock engravings, called petroglyphs, carved on it has been discovered on an open field on the left bank of Nagaleuru, a tributary of the Krishna at Karampudi, 100 km from Guntur. Read more...
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Lembit Opik
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Lembit Opik has lost his seat in the Commons to the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrat was beaten by the Conservatives in the mid Wales constituency of Montgomeryshire. Lembit Opik was a supporter of the UK NEO Task Force, and the Spaceguard Centre. Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat MP for Montgo...
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Shropshire Hills starlight sanctuary
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I was delighted to see Andy Boddington's letter on April 19 about reducing street lighting to give us back the night skies. As an astronomy enthusiast living in the Strettons I particularly support his proposal for a starlight sanctuary in the south Shropshire Hills. [url=http://www.shropshire...
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Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Centre
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MIT President Susan Hockfield and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of the Italian energy company Eni, today celebrated the opening of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Centre (SFC), headquartered on the MIT campus, which promotes research in advanced solar technologies through projects ranging from new material...
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Grossmugl
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Austrian village seeks UNESCO protection for its starry skies Daytime visitors to Grossmugl might wonder why this plain Austrian village is seeking to become a UNESCO world heritage site. But the question is quickly answered at sunset, when the village's grain silo and church tower blend into the...
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Polynesian Voyage
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Ancient navigation skills revived A Marshall Islands outrigger canoe has arrived in an outlying atoll after finishing the first long-distance voyage in the country using ancient navigation skills for 60 years. The 9.1-metre outrigger canoe 'Jitdam Kapeel' left 145 kilometres and arrived 21 ho...
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East India Company telescope
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1818-make telescope seized from smugglers[url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/66507/1818-make-telescope-seized-smug...
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Arctic superflood
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A catastrophic 'superflood' following the rupture of a massive glacier-dammed lake in Canada at the end of the Ice Age probably plunged the world into centuries of climatic chaos.
That single event was likely responsible for the most dramatic climate change of the last 10,000 years, accordin...
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Bloop
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This sound was repeatedly recorded during summer, 1997 on the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. The sound rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km. It yields a general location...
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Crom Cruach
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Crom Cruach or Cromm Crúaich, also known as Cenn Cruach or Cenncroithi, was a deity of pre-Christian Ireland, reputedly propitiated with human sacrifice, whose worship is said to have been ended by St.Patrick. Read more
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Asphalt Volcanoes
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Impressive landmarks hidden for 40,000 years rise from sea-floor Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist. The deposits were discovered rece...
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Oxus River
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The Oxus River of the Greeks has been known to historical record for literally thousands of years. Its present-day name is the Amu Darya (or Amu river) and its course can be traced in any atlas. Turn to the map of Western Asia and find it: the river springs up in the Pamir mountains, runs west through what...
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Dinocochlea Ingens
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A spiral of rock almost three metres long that looks like a giant snail but is a mystery. Dinocochlea Ingens (terrible/huge unknown snail) No one knows what this bizarre object is. It, and a few others like it, have been found in East Sussex in southern England, in rocks that are about 135 million years...
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