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NessFest
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Plans for a new summer Celtic music festival to showcase the rich culture of Fort Augustus to visitors and locals were unveiled at the weekend. NessFest, a project led by Feis Gleann Albainn and inspired by Highland 2007, will be on August 3 and 4, featuring concerts in the beautiful grounds of the fo...
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J-10 aircraft
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For more than two decades, China has laboured to build its first state-of-the-art jet fighter as part of the country's drive to become a leading military power. In December, it appeared to have closed in on that ambition when it revealed, in an unusual blaze of publicity, that its new fighter, th...
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Mauna Kea decision
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A judge in Hilo has reversed a permit to build six new telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea -- a decision that could block future NASA projects on the mountain.
The revoked permit was for a $50 million project that NASA already had cancelled because of federal budget cuts. Circuit Judge Glenn Hara...
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Magi
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Seasonal complaints that the nativity story is being subverted by a contemporary multicultural presentation of the events surrounding the alleged birth of the infant Jesus have become commonplace. Some Christians play down the essentially Jewish character of the entire story. But even mainst...
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Apostle Paul
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Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.
The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least A.D. 390, has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was c...
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Naming the stars
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Newton standing stone
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The Newton stone is a small, rather unassuming pillar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. On one side is faded, ancient writing, on the other a curling snake and cylindrical patterning. Many would say that it is a typical example of a Scottish standing stone.
Yet one man claims that this is no ordinary sto...
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Goat cull
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Goats have roamed Snowdonia for 10,000 years; now they face secret cull
Marksmen begin killing to halt damage to woods and gardens - and make way for sheep
They are shaggy symbols of national independence and a well-loved feature of the landscape of north Wales, but up to a quarter of all the wild g...
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Ica Stones
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Do these strange artefacts challenge modern palaeontology?
There are explorers who believe in the possibility that some dinosaurs somehow survived extinction 60 million years ago and continue to live in isolated, largely unexplored areas of African rain forest. The only evidence for their e...
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NASA Accident
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Two workers at the Kennedy Space Center are alive thanks to their safety equipment according to NASA.
The workers fell from a platform inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. That's where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for its next mission.
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Subcritical Test
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According to the US National Nuclear Security Administration, British and US government scientists performed an underground nuclear experiment at the Nevada Test Site on Tuesday.
The experiment involved detonating high explosives around subcritical radioactive processed nuclear plu...
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Rocketdyne Study
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A new study has shown that radioactive emissions from a 1959 nuclear accident at a Boeing Co. research lab near Simi Valley, California, could have caused hundreds of cancers in surrounding communities.
Chemical contamination from rocket engine testing at the site appears to have been much gre...
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Firefox Crop Circle
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Alleged Plot
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An alleged plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.
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Faked Wired News
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Wired News has removed three articles from its website after an internal investigation failed to confirm the authenticity of a source used in the stories.
"Tribal Curse Haunts Launch Pad" (June 27, 2006), "NASA Boosts Heart-Monitoring Tech" (July 7, 2006) and "Don't Flus...
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