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The White Bird biplane
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The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc or The White Dove) was a French biplane which disappeared in 1927, during an attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York. The aircraft was flown by French aviation World War I heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli, who were a...
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Diamond Sūtra
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The Diamond Sutra is a Mahayana Sutra from the Prajñaparamita, or "Perfection of Wisdom" genre, and emphasises the practice of non-abiding and non-attachment. A copy of the Chinese version of Diamond Sutra, found among the Dunhuang manuscripts in the early 20th century by Aurel Stein...
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HMS Caroline
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Historic warship HMS Caroline gets £845,600 boost A project to transform the last surviving WW1 warship into a floating museum in Belfast has been boosted by a £845,600 grant. The Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed its initial support for the transformation of HMS Caroline. [url=http://www.bb...
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Frigate Bird test
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The Frigate Bird test of a fully-armed Polaris missile took place in the east-central Pacific on 6 May 1962. The launching ship, USS Ethan Allen, was stationed 1,300 miles southeast of the Hawaiian islands and established an aim point some 1,100 miles away - 525 miles east-northeast of Christmas Is...
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Rainbow Warrior
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Greenpeace Rainbow sails again The original ship, a converted British trawler, came to the most violent of ends in 1985 when it was blown up by French special forces in New Zealand, in an attempt to scuttle the Greenpeace campaign against French H-bomb tests in its Pacific colonies. As Greenpeace pu...
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Scientists have discovered a new strain of bird flu that appears to sidestep current vaccines. It's infecting people as well as poultry in Asia, and some researchers fear its evolution may have been steered by the vaccination programs designed to protect poultry from earlier types of the H5N1 flu....
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Eclipses
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In ancient times astronomy was astrology. Religious ceremonies were set in accordance with astronomical observation or prediction. Priests were astronomers. Eclipses because of their rarity have been considered to be very special phenomena throughout history. Eclipses were thought t...
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Gabriel's Revelation
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Gabriel's Revelation (also named Hazon Gabriel the Vision of Gabriel) or the Jeselsohn Stone, is a three-foot-tall (one metre) stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person and dated to the late 1st century BCE. [ur...
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Battle of Bautzen
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The Battle of Bautzen (or Battle of Budziszyn, April 1945) was one of the last battles of the Eastern Front during World War II. Read more
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Benxihu Colliery disaster
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On April 26, 1942, a gas and coal-dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549, making it the worst disaster in the history of coal mining. Read more
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Big Cat Sighting
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Stroud deer carcass tested for 'big cat activity' DNA tests for "big cat activity" are being carried out on a roe deer carcass found near Stroud in Gloucestershire. Read more
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Pontfadog Oak
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Pontfadog Oak: 1,200-year-old tree toppled by winds A 1,200-year-old tree, reputed to be the oldest and one of the largest in the UK, has been toppled by strong winds. It is understood the Pontfadog Oak, which has been growing near Chirk in Wrexham since the year 802, fell over during the gusts overni...
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Harimau Cave
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Art, bodies found in ancient caves Archaeologists at the University of Wollongong will soon be collaborating on discoveries in a cave in Indonesia. Professor Truman Simanjuntak from the Jakarta-based National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology was at the university yesterday to...
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American Civil War
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The first shots of the American Civil War On January 9, 1861, weeks after South Carolina had seceded (but before other states had done so to form the Confederacy) the steamship Star of the West was fired upon by cadets from The Citadel stationed at the Morris Island battery as the ship entered Charlest...
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1926 North Pole flight
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (25 October 1888 - 11 March 1957) was a naval officer who specialised in feats of exploration. On 9 May 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F-VII Tri-motor called the Josephine Ford. This flight went from Spit...
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