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Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
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Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Read more
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Oldbury nuclear power station
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Oldbury nuclear power station near Bristol has stopped generating electricity after 45 years. Both of the station's reactors were scheduled to be turned off in 2008, but had their operational life extended. Reactor two was turned off in 2011 and reactor one was finally shut down at 11:00 GMT on Wedn...
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H1N1 virus
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Achill-Henge
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Theresa McDonald, Managing Director of the Achill Archaeological Field School, voiced her objections this week over the Achill-Henge which was built at Pollagh in November by Joe McNamara. The archaeologist believes that a prehistoric site could be less than half a kilometre from where Achill-...
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Gerboise Bleue nuclear test
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Gerboise Bleue ("blue jerboa") was the name of the first French nuclear test. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the middle of the Algerian Sahara desert on 13 February 1960, during the Algerian War (1954-62). Read more
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Coso Artifact
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The Coso Artifact is a spark plug found encased in a lump of hard clay or rock on February 13, 1961 by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California, and long claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact. Read more Ed ~ I...
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The Senator
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One Of World's Oldest Cypress Trees, 'The Senator,' Burns In Florida Investigators are now saying arson was not the likely cause of a fire that on Monday destroyed a cypress tree in Central Florida that was an estimated 3,500 years old - making it perhaps the oldest such tree in the nat...
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Galanthophiles
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Forget trainspotting and bird twitching, a snowdrop hunting craze is starting to take hold. Understated they may be, but snowdrops have a very dedicated following. Record prices are being paid for single bulbs and a lucrative industry is developing to satisfy the demand of the growing number of ga...
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France nuclear testing
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1996; French President Jaques Chirac announces an end to nuclear tests PARIS, 29 January, 1996 -- With today's announcement by French President Jaques Chirac that the sixth French nuclear test conducted Saturday will be the last, Greenpeace welcomed the news saying that a global ban on nuclear te...
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Operation Ranger "Able" test
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The 1951 Operation Ranger "Able" test was the first continental US nuclear detonation after the 1945 Trinity test Read more
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HMS Victory (1737)
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HMS Victory 'set to be recovered' from seabed The remains of a 300-year-old warship are to be raised from the sea bed, according to reports. The wreck of HMS Victory, a predecessor of Nelson's famous flagship, was found near the Channel Islands in 2008. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-166714...
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The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
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The 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, Thule affair or Thule accident was an accident on January 21, 1968, involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber. The aircraft was carrying four hydrogen bombs on a Cold War "Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Bay when a cabin fire forced th...
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Copyright
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The U.S. Copyright Office has recently updated its exemptions to Copyright protections.
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Chagan nuclear test
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Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965. Read more
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Totem pole
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Totem pole carver revives dying art Totem pole carving was once a thriving tradition passed on through the generations. But when David Boxley tried to learn the craft there was nobody left alive to teach him. A member of the Tsimshian tribe from Alaska, he began researching the lost art, visiting mus...
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