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Hanshan Temple
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Hanshan Temple is one of the symbols of Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province. With a history of over thousand years, the ancient building has got a new world record. The temple owes its fame to a poem written by Zhang Ji during the Tang Dynasty, more than 13-hundred years ago. [url=http://www.c...
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Sphinx
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The Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion, it is claimed. And it could be much older than previously thought, investigations led by a British geologist suggest. Egyptologists have long argued the monument outside Cairo, which has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion, was b...
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Fairness
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Dogs, like people and monkeys, seem to have a sense of fairness. "Animals react to inequity. To avoid stress, we should try to avoid treating them differently" - Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria, who lead a team of researchers testing animals at the school's Clever D...
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Chun Castle
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Chûn Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on the summit of Chûn Downs, commanding extensive views north and north-west to the Atlantic Coast and south towards Mounts Bay. Pottery evidence from excavations carried out in the late 1920s and early 1930s suggests that the main period of occupation extended f...
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Korea Ocean Satellite Center
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Ocean Satellite Center Aims to Prevent Future Disasters Korea has had its share of ocean disasters such as red tide outbreaks and the disastrous oil spill in Taean a year ago. They wreak havoc on ocean life, leading to financial losses for fishermen and related businesses. The Korea Ocean Satellite...
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Dripping Rock, Georgia
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"Dripping Rock" is a little-known rock formation hidden by woods in the southern tip of Laurens County. Dr. Jim Kennedy, State Geologist with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division said while he was not aware of this particular rock formation, there is a good chance it develope...
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Butser Ancient Farm
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Butser Ancient Farm is a research site on Little Butser, Hampshire, England. The site is a permanent working "ancient farm" run by the Research Committee on Ancient Agriculture of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Council for British Archaeology. [url=ht...
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Lake Makgadikgadi
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Lake Makgadikgadi is an ancient lake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. It may have once covered as much as 80,000 km² and been 30 m deep. The Okavango, Zambezi, and Cuando rivers once all emptied into the lake. Approximately 3 million years ago, strong easterly winds brought...
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Icebreaker
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The technical design of the European Research Icebreaker - Aurora Borealis (Berlin) The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association and the engineering company Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany (formerly Schiffko, GmbH) today presented the technical desig...
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Green Alps theory
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The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren't around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps...
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Paul Drayson
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On a chill November Friday, Baron Drayson of Kensington can be found inside what looks like a giant UFO deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. The doughnut, as it is known to locals, is a huge laboratory full of sprawling robots, radiation-proof hutches and a machine that produces beams of light 100 bi...
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Vaka Moana
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Vaka Moana Voyages of the Ancestors Starting more than 3000 years ago, the worlds first blue-water mariners set out from south-east Asia in sailing canoes to explore the vast ocean that lay before them. Over succeeding centuries and millennia, against enormous odds, they extended the boundary of...
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Oldest Shipwreck
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A replica of the oldest known shipwreck, Uluburun II, built by the 360 Degree Historical Research Association in Urla, Izmir, arrived in Bodrum for display as part of activities marking the 80th anniversary of Cabotage Day. Previously the ship had anchored in Istanbul, Marmaris, Cyprus and Kas re...
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ballistic missile test
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India joins the undersea nuclear capable ballistic missile club. America, Russia, China, France and UK have that capability. DRDO developed indigenous missile K-15, with a range of 650 miles, was test fired from a pontoon immersed in the sea. [url=http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/19129...
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Gaer Fawr hillfort
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From the air, its hidden tree-covered slopes give little clue to the settlement that existed there 3,000 years ago. And its position in one of the quietest corners of the nation may seem a million miles away from the bustle of todays towns and cities. But historians have now described an ancient Iron A...
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