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Michelangelos
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Three academics from the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg have written a five-volume study that casts doubt on the works held in Britain, which are among up to 40 per cent of the worlds Michelangelos that they believe should be dismissed as copies. The three academics argue that hundreds of drawi...
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Humans in Space
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Space-faring nations are heading again for human exploration of the Moon and, eventually, of Mars. They might soon be prepared with regards technology development, but what about the viewpoint of the humanities (history, philosophy, anthropology), the arts as well as the social sciences (poli...
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Thanatocoenosis
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Scores of wildebeest washed up dead at a bend in Kenya's Mara River after some 10,000 of the animals drowned in a bizarre mishap there last week. The deaths, which occurred over the course of several days, are said to account for about one percent of the total species population. [url=http://news.na...
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Sunda Strait bridge
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Indonesia is planning to build a suspension bridge from Sumatra to Sangian and on to Java. The bridge will be 50 kilometres long and cost about $12 billion. It will also be about 70 meters high to allow ships to pass beneath it. It will be the longest suspension bridge in the world and pass near some of the...
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Alan Rufus
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marijuana
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The first use of marijuana can be traced way back in the Neolithic age as evidenced by a burnt marijuana seed that was found in the sacrament brazier in a very old interment spot in Romania today. It is said that in the past, the people who were using marijuana the most were the Hindus from Nepal and India,...
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Naegleria fowleri
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A species of amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri [url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298339,00.html...
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Whale trapped in sea loch
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A badly injured whale has become trapped in a large sea loch on the west side of Lewis. The adult northern bottled-nosed whale, an endangered species, was discovered in Loch Roag at about 0900 BST. It was beached for a short period during the low spring tide but later managed to get back into the water. T...
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KH-13 Military Satellite
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This story just keeps getting stranger by the day. The available evidence strongly points to the Peru meteorite as being a deliberately and hastily scuttled military satellite. Let us take a closer look. Thousands of meteorites have fallen to Earth and people have not fallen ill. Why now? The early...
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Teej
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"Teej" is the fasting festival for women. It takes place in August or early September. The festival is a three-day long celebration that combines sumptuous feasts as well as rigid fasting. Through this religious fasting, hindu women pray for marital bliss, well being of their spouse an...
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The Great War
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International conference examines Great War impact on Eastern Europe The social and cultural impact of the First World War across Eastern Europe is explored for the first time this week, at an international conference hosted by the University of Southampton. Sacrifice and Regeneration: The Leg...
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The Darien Expedition
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For centuries the ruins in the swamps of southern Panama have been testament to Scottish folly, an attempt to create a tropical empire to rival those of the Spanish and Portuguese. The five ships which sailed from Leith in the summer of 1698 carried the hopes of a nation. Success in Darien, a central Am...
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Guatemala sinkhole
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A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood. Officials blamed the sinkhole on recent rains and an underground sewage flow from a ruptured main. [yo...
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Lake Tianchi Monsters
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A TV reporter said he shot a 20-minute video of six "Lake Tianchi Monsters", near the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Zhuo Yongsheng, who works for a local TV station run by the administration office of the nature reserve at Mount Changbaishan, Jilin, has se...
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JPL Checks
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JPL Workers Sue Over HSPD-12 Checks Scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are suing NASA and the California Institute of Technology, which manages JPL, over what they say are unwarranted and overly personal background checks under the government wide access cards required u...
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