12-year-old expert brings top encyclopaedia to book A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest - the fifteenth - edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at

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A gem stone plucked from the earth, the sea, or riverbed, often travels across continents to cutting and polishing workshops; and those are increasingly found in India. Far away, the Belgian city of Antwerp is still king in diamond trading. In these

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Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. For the last 50 years, scientists and astronomers

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When will it be possible for us to think seriously about colonising Mars? The Moon is likely to become the industrial hub of the Solar System, supplying the rocket fuels fro its ships, easily obtainable from the lunar rocks in the from of liquid oxyg

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Its seaweed. Kelp is not wildly exciting, but it does contain carbohydrates and some protein too. The cub must find acrobatics rather strange. Hungry bears eat virtually anything. Its a question of making the most of whats around, and its never too s

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By Sophie Kanter Washington, DC 01 September 2006 watch Beach Boys report The Beach Boys, 1963 The Beach Boys formed in 1961 and are considered one of the most influential bands in American pop music history. They have dozens of top 40 hits, several

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Remember The Steve Miller Band, whose unbroken string of infectious pop-rock hits included Abracadabra and The Joker? Since 1984, the band's recording output dwindled to a mere three albums. But, fans are cheering their long-awaited return to the stu

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And now a question we're all pondering: Whats on the mind of an unmarried man? Day to Day contributor Brian Unger is single, but even he doesnt have a clue, still he says the New York Times is searching for an answer. On Friday, gawker.com, a website

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By Efam Dovi Accra 22 August 2006 Women ministers and members of parliament from Anglophone West Africa countries are meeting in Accra to sharpen their leadership and advocacy skills. The Accra meeting, being organized by the Network of African Wome

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Glass Art Evokes World's Natural Wonders Glass artist Josh Simpson's fascination with the natural wonders of the universe is evident in his intricate platters, which resemble galaxies, as well as his one-of-a-kind planet-like spheres. All of my work

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Black Muslim leader Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), 26 March 1964, waiting for a press conference at an unknown location One of the foremost, if controversial, figures of the civil rights movement in the United States was Malcolm X. He, himself

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Actor Robert Davi Sings Sinatra After spending more than half of his lifetime making movies, Robert Davi has released Davi Sings Sinatra - On The Road To Romance . Coming from an Italian-American home you know there are two figures that you look up t

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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Focuses on Revered US President The time is January 1865. After four bloody years, the American Civil War is nearing an end. President Abraham Lincoln, just elected to a second term, wants Congress to do away with one of the con

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We may be in the middle of a seltzer bubble. Americans are drinking nearly 170 million gallons each year, and seltzer sales have gone up 42 percent over the last five years with no signs of slowing down. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Furthe

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Artist David Hockney Says The Drive To Create Pictures 'Is Deep Within Us' play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0006:54repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update

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Space aliens and extraterrestrials have long been popular subjects of Hollywood movies and science fiction literature. But the idea of intelligent life in outer space is no longer limited to fiction. 外星人和天外来客长期以来一直是好莱坞

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Field Study: Worms Leave 'Til No-Till无犁也来把田耕 Charles Darwin is, most famously, the author of The Origin of Species. But the last book he ever wrote gets far less attention today. It's called The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the

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Long before this was a national park, it held the fascination of a man who wrote this lovely old book, Mr. GA Farini and he fell in love with this place when it was undiscovered, wild frontier land. The Great Farini, otherwise known as William Hunt,

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 16 March 2008 David Paterson is replacing Eliot Spitzer as New York governor. Spitzer resigned last week over an affair with a call girl that made international headlines. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the private lives of Euro

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Meanwhile I examined the Nautilus's engine with a fascination easy to imagine. 这时我以极大的兴趣研究着诺第留斯号的机器设备。 You observe, Captain Nemo told me, that I use Bunsen cells, not Ruhmkorff cells. The latter would be

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