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Death Dust
Every year, there are some hundred and fifty cases of coccidioidomycosis, otherwise known as valley fever, or cocci, a disease caused by inhaling the microscopic spores of Coccidioides immitis, a soil-dwelling fungus found in Bakersfield, California. Cocci is endemic to the desert Southwest and to the semi-arid parts of Central and South America. Digging stirs it up, and dry, hot windy conditions, a regional feature intensified by climate change, disperse it.
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How the discovery of a 460-year-old English shilling in B.C. could help rewrite the early history of Canada
The discovery of a 16th-century coin buried in clay on a Vancouver Island shoreline is rekindling interest in a controversial theory that English explorer Sir Francis Drake made a secret voyage to Canada’s Pacific Coast in 1579 — two centuries before Spanish sailors and the legendary British navigator Capt. James Cook made their famous “first” European visits to the future British Columbia in the 1770s.
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Çatalhöyük ‘Map’ Mural May Depict Volcanic Eruption 8,900 Years Ago
A new study suggests a mural excavated at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey may be based on the eruption of nearby Mount Hasan around 6900 BC.
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Digging for their lives: Russia's volunteer body hunters
Of the estimated 70 million people killed in World War Two, 26 million died on the Eastern front - and up to four million of them are still officially considered missing in action. But volunteers are now searching the former battlefields for the soldiers' remains, determined to give them a proper burial - and a name.
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Kids These Days: A 1950s Guide to Hooking Up
An archival film teaches the high school kids of yesteryear about how physical to get on a date.
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Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers
The glaciers of the Italian Alps are slowly melting to reveal horrors from the Great War, preserved for nearly a century
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See The Original Alice In Wonderland Manuscript, Handwritten & Illustrated By Lewis Carroll (1864)
The original version of Alice in Wonderland that Carroll presented to Alice Liddell in 1864, is presently housed in the British Library, which has graciously made it freely available online.
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This Old House
Uploaded by: sillygal This old house still standing along the dismal swamp canal on Va side. I had the pleasure of going into the house...Edgar Allen Poe supposedly stayed there for a while when he was writing the Raven. If walls could talk.
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The World Of Samsung (1993)
The World Of Samsung (1993)
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UK profited from East German forced labour, Stasi archives report claims
Western nations including the UK profited from goods produced under gruelling conditions in East German prison factories at the height of the cold war, a report claims. The study shows that goods sold in the 1970s and 80s by large companies including Aldi, Volkswagen, as well as British furniture group MFI, were originally produced by East German prisoners incarcerated for their political beliefs.
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How American is the French President's Affair?
In the 1988 movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” Steve Martin’s character tries to talk his way out of a French jail by claiming that was framed by a jealous woman. “She caught me with another woman,” he says. “C’mon, you’re French, you understand that!” The police inspector, unimpressed, replies, “To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.”
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How Houdini DIED (in Slow Motion)
There is much speculation about the death of Houdini. Many of the detail remain mysterious. I hope you enjoy this look into the possibilities.
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Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All
The Street Life Project, as it was called, was revolutionary in urban planning, changing not only the way we think about public spaces but also what can be learned in this kind of close observational research of human interaction. Whyte believed that if we knew how, say, the placement of benches, or a plaza’s orientation to the sun, affected people’s enjoyment of a public space, then we could go beyond mere observation into the realm of smarter policy.
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Japan WWII soldier who hid in PH jungle for 30 yrs, dies
A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades because he did not believe World War II was over, has died in Tokyo aged 91. Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out.
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Newly discovered pictures of the Challenger shuttle disaster
View the Newly discovered pictures of the Challenger shuttle disaster photo gallery on Yahoo News. Find more news related pictures in our photo galleries.
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What the 1984 Betamax ruling did for us all
Thirty years ago, the Supreme Court declared that Sony could continue to sell its Betamax videocassette recorder, a triumph for both consumers and copyright owners.
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Nintendo Chief: ‘We Failed’
Video game maker Nintendo is doing some soul searching after cutting forecasted sales of its new Wii U gaming system by almost 70 percent, forcing the company to radically reassess its strategy in a changing gaming industry. The company’s president, Satoru Iwata, told reporters Friday there would be a “major management shake-up” at the company but that he would not resign, Reuters reports. He also promised the company is “thinking about a new business structure.”
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Al Capone Was Sent to Prison, But Still Beat the Courts
Well informed Chicagoans differ as to whether Al Capone welcomed his conviction for evasion of federal income tax; but majority opinion seems to be that he did. While he has not yet been sentenced, it seems certain that he will receive only a couple of years' imprisonment and a fine of a few thousand dollars. The fine is nothing at all to a man of his wealth
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4,000-year-old erotica depicts a strikingly racy ancient sexuality
Museums are often misconstrued as dusty and lifeless — the least likely place to find something hot and steamy. But the Ancient Near East section in The Israel Museum’s Archaeology Wing features rare erotic art from the land between the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates), which predates India’s Kama Sutra by over 1,500 years. Such astonishingly intimate works reveal a side to the ancient Near East that contrasts sharply with the modesty prevalent in the modern Middle East
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Vinyl Won't Make A Comeback Until We Have More Record Presses
Guys! Have you heard? LPs are coming back. Collecting records is so trendy. Digital sucks. The future is vinyl. Yes, you've heard, because people have been hyping vinyl nostalgia for years. A recent report from Nielson SoundScan fanned the flame, revealing that LP sales climbed 32 percent last year, increasing for the sixth year in a row. On the flip side, digital album sales dropped for the first time since iTunes launched.
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