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Tematangi Island
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Tematangi also known as "Bligh's Lagoon Island" is an atoll in the southeastern area of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Tematangi's nearest neighbour is Mururoa, which is located 161 km to the ESE. Tematangi is the closest land area to the antipode of Mecca. This means that t...
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BBC Amateur Scientist of the Year
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Material World, Radio 4's weekly science show, is searching for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. It's not just working scientists who have light bulb moments. Anyone, anywhere can have a brainwave that's worth investigating. But most of us never get the chance. This is that chance. [url=ht...
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Hans Rudi Giger
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Hans Rudi Giger (born February 5 1940) is a Swiss artist. Giger is known for developing the style, which he calls "biomechanical art". Read more
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Geneseo Astronomy Club
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The recently established Astronomy Club prides itself on making the beauty and intrigue of the sky available to every student at Geneseo. Astronomy Club is an event-based group, without weekly meetings, that was started about two years ago. Junior Pedro Rodriguez serves as the club's webmaster a...
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Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis
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Sic ferebantur per octo dies. Jam autem viderunt insulam non longe ab illis valde rostam et saxosam atque scoriosam sine arboribus et herbis plenam officinis fabrorum. Venerabilis pater ait fratribus suis: «Videte fratres; angustia est mihi de hac insula quia nolo in illam ire aut etiam sibi appr...
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Mount Conner
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Mount Conner, also known as Attila and Artilla, and occasionally found as Mount Connor, is a mountain reaching to 859 m above sea level and to 300 m above ground level. It is located southeast of Lake Amadeus in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory, 88 km east-southeast of Uluru/Ayers Rock a...
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Oxford English Dictionary
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary]Read
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Parys Mountain
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Parys Mountain - in the Welsh language Mynydd Parys - is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales. It is the site of a large copper mine that was extensively exploited in the late 18th century. The mountain was mined for copper ore in the early Bronze Age, as shown by sub-surface d...
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Biomass station
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Most people wouldn't want to live within a stone's throw of a volcano. But the residents of Stockton-on-Tees in the northeastern U.K. may soon rely on their friendly neighbourhood "peak" for green power. With construction due to start in late 2010, a proposed tower of power would produc...
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Mayans pyramids
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Ancient Mayans made pyramids to make music for rain god Researchers have discovered that many pyramids in Mexico were created by the ancient Mayans to create "raindrop" music to communicate with their rain god. Take for example, Mexico's El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza. As visitor...
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Dr Timothy Garn (1983 -2010)
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Scientist dies after mountain fall A scientist from Edinburgh has been killed while climbing on Ben Lui, near Tyndrum, it has emerged. Dr Timothy Garn, 27, a researcher in extragalactic astrophysics at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, fell more than 300ft near the summit. [url=http://news.b...
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Fred Watson
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A well-known astronomer has been honoured on Australia Day for something he just can't help himself doing: talking to the public about astronomy. Professor Fred Watson, astronomer-in-charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, was today appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order...
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Buthiers-Boulancourt
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Evidence of Stone Age amputation The surgeon was dressed in a goat or sheep skin and used a sharpened stone to amputate the arm of his patient. The operating theatre was not exactly Harley Street - more probably a wooden shelter - but the intervention was a success, and it has shed light on the medical ta...
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Professor Andrew E. Lange
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It is with great sadness and regret that I must report to you the death of Professor Andrew Lange, a valued member of the Caltech faculty. Andrew was found this morning off campus, and it appears that he took his own life. Among the most difficult things that people have to deal with in life are tragedies...
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Friedrich Argelander
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Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (March 22, 1799 - February 17, 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. The crater Argelander on the Moon and the asteroid 1551 Argelander are named for him. [url=http://en.wikiped...
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