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Gorgan Great Wall
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British and Iranian archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 200 kilometre long wall, the second longest wall in Asia after the Great Wall of China, in northern Iran. Experts believe the Gorgan Great Wall in northern Iran's Golestan Province was built at about the same time as the 'Great Wall' a...
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Aspen High School planetarium
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Aspen High Schools planetarium has come a long way since it originally was built in the mid-1960s. With a new projector recently installed in the former planetarium, images from the famed Hubble Space Telescope or a perfect representation of the night sky can be projected onto the ceiling. [url=ht...
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Caesarea
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Experts have restored a 1,400-year-old glass mosaic glowing in gold, recovered from a site next to the Sea of Galilee, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday. Read more
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Ancient iron ore mine
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A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore. "Archaeologists know people in the Old and New worlds have mined minerals for thousands and thousands of years. I...
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IsoTruss technology
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IsoTruss technology combines two different lightweight ideas into one for the first time ever. The first is carrying the truss design into the tubes just like the traditional bike frame takes advantage of the triangle geometry. Second you take the lightweight characteristics of advanced compos...
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Ballahot Standing Stone
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Ballahot Farm, Cross Four Ways, was the place to be on Sunday afternoon, when nearly 200 people came to raise a stone using the same techniques employed thousands of years ago. Organised by Manx National Heritage in conjunction with Bournemouth University, the event was one of dozens taking place t...
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Como stonecircle
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Excavations at the new St Anna hospital in San Fermo della Battaglia, near Como (Italy), in July 2007 revealed a double concentric ancient stone circle. The site is thought to date back to 3000 BCE. "[It is a ] highly articulated prehistoric structure that could be either an ancient astronomic...
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Ainsbrook Hoard
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Expand (112kb, 560 x 359) Expand (43kb, 560 x 359) A Yorkshire archaeological site has artefacts from the ninth century, including silver coins including a silver Baghdad coin, and the fragments of two swords. Known as the Ainsbrook Hoard, it is regarded as one of the most important Viking discove...
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Megalania prisca
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A giant dragon capable of killing a rhinoceros is related to the world's largest living lizard, scientists have discovered. The 23ft Megalania prisca, or ancient giant ripper, lived in Australia nearly 20,000 years ago. It was the largest lizard to have stalked the Earth, weighing more than two to...
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Antilles Sloth
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Antilles Sloth Fossil Exhibited in Havana The 20-million-year-old fossil was one of several that have been found since the 1970s in an area known as Domo Zaza, in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus. They were discovered during the excavation of a canal. Discovered in the 1970s, the fossi...
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Very Short Movies Festival
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Theres a new way to catch Worcester native Maryanne Galvins documentary Whats Going on Up There? Its playing on a computer near you. A winner last year at the Very Short Movies Festival in Los Angeles, the film can be viewed on VSMs new online platform. VSM Cinema presents films (short documentaries,...
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Häpna
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Häpna! var en svensk science fiction-tidskrift som utkom med 119 nummer mellan 1954 och 1966. Den sammanföll med den stora vågen av science fiction i Sverige, och den dog när samma våg hade ebbat ut. Mellan mars 1954 och januari 1966 hann den introducera flera av de mest kända sf-författarna för de sv...
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Stinky bay container
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Experts are trying to identify a huge metal container that has been washed up on a beach in the Western Isles. The tank, which is 27m high, has no markings and is thought to have fallen from a ship before being washed up on the west of Benbecula. It was discovered by a dog walker on Poll Na Crann beach - known...
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Lake Issyk-Kul
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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia. According to a report in RIA Novosti, the team consisted of Kyrgyz historians, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of S...
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RS-24 Missile test
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Russia has test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian military officials say. The launch took place at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1420 (1020 GMT) on Tuesday. The missile, called RS-24, can be armed with up to 10 warheads and was designed to evade missile de...
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