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8 years ago+39 39 0 x 1A haunted, hidden world of caves
Nottingham is an English city with a secret: inhabitants have been digging caves here for 1700 years. More than 500 have been found – and a new project is revealing their secrets.
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8 years ago+34 34 022nd January 1998 - Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
In a Sacramento, California, courtroom, Theodore J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against him, acknowledging his responsibility for a 17-year campaign of package bombings attributed to the “Unabomber.”
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8 years ago+27 27 0The shape of wings to come
Future aircraft wings will ripple with adaptive, shape-shifting, quiet moving parts rather than noisy hinged flaps, writes Paul Marks.
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8 years ago+28 28 021st January 1976 - Concorde takes off
40 years ago today, from London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight. The London flight was headed to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris to Rio de Janeiro ...
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8 years ago+20 20 0Two former senators want to undo US political 'crisis point'
Lott and Daschle's diagnosis of the problem of hyper partisanship in the US is not particularly new - broadly, they believe, there's too much money in politics, centrist voters are apathetic, the boundaries of Congressional districts encour ...
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8 years ago+5 6 1Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say
Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon.
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8 years ago+56 56 0 x 2The tragic fate of the people who stop sleeping
A handful of families are cursed with “fatal insomnia”, a cruel disease that leads to months of sleepless nights and terrible exhaustion. Will a controversial cure save their lives?
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8 years ago+20 20 0Found: an ancient crocodile as long as a bus
The largest ever sea-dwelling crocodile has been uncovered in Tunisia. It was longer than a great white shark and its skull was as big as a person.
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8 years ago+27 27 0Sell everything ahead of stock market crash, say RBS economists
Royal Bank of Scotland warns of ‘cataclysmic’ year with slumps in shares and oil and advises clients to shift to bonds
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8 years ago+19 19 0January 14th 1875 - Albert Schweitzer born
The theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning physician Albert Schweitzer is born on this day in 1875 in Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin, France).
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8 years ago+19 19 0Can Faraday Future change the world?
The EV startup has a billion dollars and a bright idea. BBC Autos chats with the company's head of design and director of communications.
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8 years ago+16 16 013th January 1128 - Pope recognizes Knights Templar
Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. Led by the Frenchman Hughes de Payens, the Knights Templar organization was founded in 1118. Its self-imposed mission was ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0Bronze Age houses uncovered in Cambridgeshire are Britain's 'Pompeii'
Archaeologists have uncovered Britain's "Pompeii" after discovering the "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found" in the country. The circular wooden houses, built on stilts, form part of a settlement at Must Farm quar ...
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8 years ago+25 25 0Why Our Fascination with Tiny Houses?
Have you noticed the growing trend regarding tiny houses? In the past few years, I have noticed more and more TV programs devoted to the subject. There are more and more companies building and selling these homes. Websites are proliferating on the to ...
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8 years ago+19 19 0Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Music video by Soundgarden performing Black Hole Sun. (C) 1994 A&M Records
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8 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Rainmeter, desktop customization tool
Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control y ...
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8 years ago+44 44 0 x 1These aerial photos change familiar places into alien worlds
From the Lake District in England to the desert of Saudi Arabia, see familiar places as never before in these satellite images
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8 years ago+26 26 0Bello in Banff - A Time Lapse video - Daniel Waples
A seamless blend between live action and time lapse photography. Shot during a hike in Banff, Canada. Music by daniel Waples, video by http://www.scottportingale.com/
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8 years ago+32 32 028th December 1895 - First commercial movie screened
The world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their i ...
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8 years ago+25 25 027th December 2007 - Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Benazir Bhutto, a former Pakistani prime minister and the first democratically elected female leader of a Muslim country, is assassinated at age 54 in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. A polarizing figure at home and abroad, Bhutto had spent three de ...