What's Up for January 2011
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NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. |
Get the latest updates on NASA missions - click here |
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Hunting Tornados
Joshua Wurman talks about
chasing tornados and how
science is revealing their secrets |
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THE LOST CITY of PETRA |
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It is believed that the ancient, mysterious and hauntingly beautiful site of Petra in Jordan has been inhabited (in one way or another) for approximately 9000 years Read more ........ |
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Sir Richard Branson's spacecraft completes successful solo flight |
Virgin Galactic's space tourism |
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Pirates of the Caribbean Black Beard |
The True Story: Pirates of the Caribbean Black Beard |
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The Restoration of the Marshes of Southern Iraq |
Saddam Hussein's draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq was |
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'Tomb Raider' |
An amateur actress has been nicknamed the Tomb Raider by friends after she helped find a long-lost church vault - by literally putting her foot in it.
Kathy Mills uncovered the ...... |
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Mayan king's tomb |
A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala
by a team of archaeologists. The tomb is packed with carvings, ceramics, textiles |
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Marsupial Fossils |
Scientists have discovered a cave filled with 15-million-year-old fossils of
prehistoric marsupials in the Outback, a rare find that has revealed some
similarities |
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'Noah's Ark' |
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed." |
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'Doomsday Ark' |
If the human species should be destroyed on Earth, our future may reside on the Moon if plans being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon. |
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Taranis is the first
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Named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis is the first step in the development of unmanned strike aircraft, capable of penetrating enemy territory |
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Galileo's fingers |
A tooth, thumb and finger cut from the body of the famous renaissance astronomer Galileo will go on display this week in Florence after an art collector .......... |
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Iceland's
disruptive volcano |
18 photos of Icelands volcano.
Ash from the Iceland volcano has halted flights across Europe,
leading to thousands of commuting headaches across the continent.. .......... |
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| Prison Cell of Ludger Sylbaris |
Ludger Sylbaris of St. Pierre, Martinique was lucky enough to be arrested for
getting into a drunken brawl.
The prison cell that he was placed into saved his life
when a volcanic eruption destroyed the city on May 8, 1902. |
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PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT |
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The Mayan Calendar
The end of days. A theory about december 21st 2012.(From the series "Decoding the Past").
see video |
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VIRGIN GALACTIC |
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip |
Tourist spaceship makes 1st flight Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has completed its first flight
attached to the wing of its mothership |
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THE LOST CITY of PETRA |
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It is believed that the ancient, mysterious and hauntingly beautiful site of Petra in Jordan has been inhabited (in one way or another) for approximately 9000 years Read more ........ |
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| Global warming 'will NOT |
Fears that global warming will shut down the Gulf Stream and plunge Britain into a mini-ice age are unfounded, a study shows.
There is no evidence the phenomenon – which brings a constant flow of warm water. .......... |
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| Earth Hour 2010 |
Beginning in Sydney, Australia three years ago, Earth Hour has grown into a global observance. States, large organizations and individual people observed Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday March 27th. .......... |
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| Water Droplets |
Glistening in the early morning, these insects look like creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their sleeping bodies.
Captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig. .......... |
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| Diploma Thesis |
The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer. ........... |
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| The Real Alien Ant Farm |
Generations of children have been fascinated by ant farms, not to mention adults. NASA technology and macrophotography come together to produce a stunning set of images of the real alien ant farm ........... |
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| New human ancestor |
Genetic material pulled from a pinky finger bone found in a Siberian cave shows a new and unknown type of pre-human lived alongside modern humans and Neanderthals, scientists reported on Wednesday. Skip related content ........... |
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| Hadrian's Wall 'torched' |
quote [ Hadrian's Wall came to life last night as 500 volunteers lit flaming torches along its length to celebrate 1,600 years since the end of Roman rule. ] There's no mention of the Scots being invited... |
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| YikeBike |
YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of
our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial
expression of the mini-farthing concept, created up by a bunch of .......... |
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Lost tribe of Israel |
In Africa, confirmed by science.
The Lemba people are easy to distinguish from most other Zimbabweans - they wear skull caps, pray in a language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic. - BBC News |
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In a ball |
quote [ These are panorama pictures, giving you a full view left, right, up, and down. Hold the mouse button and move the mouse to look around. ] |
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Panoramic photography in a ball. |
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UFO Sighting at Seabrook |
20/02/10 6.30 pm - I was driving through Seabrook when I saw something cross the sky from Dover to maybe 5 miles out to sea at incredible speed. It was like a dark stretched oval shape that's sur... |
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Dinosaur Extinction |
A massive asteroid was to blame for the demise of the dinosaur, and not a volcanic eruption, scientists have said. The team of 41 international scientists have come to their conclusion after analysing the past 20 years of research. |
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Airplane on Mars
From its unique vantage point
1.5 km above the surface of Mars,
ARES will target and explore....
Read more - new window |
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Chile earthquake |
Chile earthquake changed earth's axis, shortened earth's day.
The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, |
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Americas Book |
The Oldest Book from the Americas
"The height of Maya civilization in what are now parts of Central America and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula lasted for most of the first millennium ....... |
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THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS |
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The mystery of the lost city of Atlantis still captures the imagination of millions.
Was it real or just myth. If you are genuinely interested in the story of Atlantis then the only place to start is the source - Read More ......... |
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The genome of a man |
The genome of a man who lived on the western coast of Greenland some 4,000 years ago has been decoded, thanks to the surprisingly good preservation of DNA
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The Egyptian "boy king" |
The Egyptian "boy king" Tutankhamun may well have died of malaria after the disease ravaged a body crippled by a rare bone disorder, experts say.
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Shakespeare mystery |
Will opening this tomb prove
Shakespeare didn't write his plays? quote [ Tucked away in a seldom-visited corner of a Warwickshire chapel sits a monument of incongruous grandeur for its surroundings.
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Hobbit-rewriting history |
The discovery of the bones of tiny primitive people on an Indonesian island six years ago stunned scientists. Now, further research suggests that the little apemen, not Homo erectus, were the first to leave Africa and colonise other parts ......
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First big air clash in history of mankind....and tribute to British, Czechoslovakian, Polish, American and many other pilots fighting for freedom of Europe...
See videos from You Tube |
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World's 'biggest' plane cemetery up close. Dubbed The Boneyard, but officially known as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility, - Read more...... |
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Extracts from a television documentary about the Shakespeare authorship controversy
which has been sold around the world.
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Who was the man who wrote these plays and poems?
Was the author a grain-dealer named
William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon
or Edward de Vere, the 17th Ear... |
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PAMUKKALE - TURKEY -
The strange and weirdly beautiful terraced pools of Pamukkale have been appreciated for over two millennia and yet still remain a little known wonder of the world. Thousands of years ago earthquakes, which are common in Turkey, created fractures that allowed powerful hot springs to bring water rich in calcium carbonate to the surface. As the water evaporated the chalky material condensed and formed layer-upon-layer of Travertine and thus slowly built up the walls over time in the same way that a stalactite forms in a cave. Apparently Pammakale means Castle of Cotton but the Greco-Romans built a town above it called Heirapolis – meaning “Holy City” or “Sacred City”. They too recognised it as a rare and important place attributing healing powers to the milky-white waters. |
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The story of two new
aircraft carriers |
The USS Obama and the HMS Gordon Brown which set sail today from its home port of Skegness - Read more ...... |
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Starry-eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years Of
Awe And Discovery |
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The first video on YouTube, uploaded on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. |
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WHERE IS TRANSMANCHE ?
Its part of the new United States of Europe, a new state which includes our county of Kent as part of France, with the English channel being nothing more than a pond.
Brussels is disolving the English identity, something that 2 world wars failed to do. |
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Are we losing England ? |
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This driver narrowly avoids getting hit by a train.
For more FAIL videos and pictures, visit - http://failblog.org/ |
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This woman decides to drive through a big puddle. For more FAIL videos and pictures, visit , - h ttp://failblog.org/ |
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