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One stargazer in this family is enough Astronomy class seemed like an easy way to pick up some hours during my senior year of college. The class itself turned out to be rather difficult, but I should have expected it when the professor mentioned that he had wanted to be an astronomer when he was five. We a...
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Chinese archaeologists claim that findings unearthed in the areas along the Qinghai-Tibet railway proved that human beings lived there at least 30,000 years ago.
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Research vessel Thetis
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A Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a cargo ship and sank off the coast of Sicily on 3 August. The ship, Thetis, was measuring marine biomass around seven kilometres off the island's coast when it was struc...
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The island of Failaka
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On his way back west from India, Alexander the Greats Admiral Nearchos reached the island of Failaka, about 20 kilometres from what is now Kuwait City, and founded a town there called Icaros. Twenty-five centuries later, that Hellenistic city is slowly coming to light again on the 24-square-kilom...
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Dar al-Hajjar
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More and more visitors are pouring into Dar al-Hajjar, Yemens iconic castle atop a rock, according to government statistics. Some, 86,000 people traveled to Dar al-Hajjar in the first half of 2007. These numbers included 70,000 Yemeni visitors, and 16,000 visitors from other countries. Only 46...
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I-35W bridge
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Six people have died after a freeway bridge over the Mississippi river collapsed in the evening rush hour. An entire span of the four-lane I-35W bridge in the city of Minneapolis fell into the river at 23:05GMT.
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Energia
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Shareholders of Energia, the country's flagship space industry company, met on Tuesday to dismiss Nikolai Sevastyanov as president of the Korolev-based firm, and to replace him with the little-known director of a St. Petersburg research institute. The appointment of Vitaly Lopota, who until r...
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Forest fires
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Lion of Babel
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Galilee caves
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Discovering ancient Galilee's hidden shelters A pleasant coolness greeted Yinon Shivtiel when he crawled into the cave at Mt. Berenice, as did a poisonous snake. Shivtiel, a doctoral candidate in Land of Israel Studies at Bar-Ilan University, who teaches at Safed College, is used to being surpri...
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Intoxicated Astronauts
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A panel reviewing astronaut health issues in the wake of the Lisa Nowak arrest has found that on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk.
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Mapinguary
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Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it is real, as those who claim to have seen it avow. But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant slothlike monster of the Amazon, is enough to send shivers down the spines of almost all who dwell in the world's largest rain forest. Th...
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2,500-year-old mirror
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A 2,500-year-old mirror worth £500,000 was dropped and smashed on a Chinese TV show. A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor. Read more
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Gas pipeline explosion in Russia
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A large mushroom cloud was formed by an explosion at a gas pipeline beside the city of St Petersburg in north-west Russia. "This will not affect supplies to Russian or foreign consumers of Russian natural gas in any way" - Sergei Gustov, head of Gazprom's local subsidiary Peterbugg...
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Tripoli Rocketry Association
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A representative from Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, an amateur rocket club, a spaceport development corporation and land owners are hoping to put some space between themselves after a recent launch that had some club members venturing onto private property seeking downed craft.
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