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"Once in a lifetime event" -- Check out the supernova in the Big Dipper constellation!

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 12:17 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 12:07 PM | Add Comment

Israel Museum returns art to Jewish artist Max Liebermann's heirs

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:53 AM | Add Comment

Found: Roman port where soldiers launched invasion of Wales 2,000 years ago

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2011 9:22 AM | Add Comment

Is this the coolest watch ever made? The 1923 Packard even has a star map!

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2011 9:17 AM | Add Comment

What's the age of the moon? It could be waning

Posted by kluciole at 8/17/2011 1:04 PM | Add Comment

August 19th -- 1st National Indigenous Music Awards in Darwin, Australia

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:57 AM | Add Comment

Interesting article: "One-child policy a surprising boon for China's girls"

Posted by kluciole at 8/14/2011 8:45 AM | Add Comment

'Remains' of St Edburga (620 BCE) discovered under apartment block

Posted by kluciole at 8/13/2011 1:27 AM | Add Comment

American painter Cy Twombly has died. Known for his abstract works using repetitive lines, scribbles, references to ancient empires

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2011 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Vatican opens archives for unprecedented exhibit

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2011 10:08 PM | Add Comment

Scientists take temperature of long-gone dinosaurs

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2011 1:27 PM | Add Comment

13,000-year-old image of ancient mammoth found on bone fragment in Florida

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2011 11:44 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Black holes tell tale of the infant Universe

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2011 1:12 PM | Add Comment

Right next to where I grew up: Blackbeard artifacts exhibit opens at NC museum

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 9:01 PM | Add Comment

Gold rush another blight to ailing Amazon jungle

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 8:30 PM | Add Comment

Guam mulls going its own way

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2011 8:24 PM | Add Comment

Ancient Assyrian dictionary finished — after 90 years

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2011 11:48 PM | Add Comment

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Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:32 PM | Add Comment

Archaeology: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2011 1:03 PM | Add Comment

Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2011 2:38 AM | Add Comment

Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2011 3:56 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:15 PM | Add Comment

Article: Tormented British sailor reveals how Germans tried to surrender before Bismarck was destroyed, costing 2,000 lives

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 9:07 PM | Add Comment

Egypt's lost pyramids: Spied from space by satellite, 17 tombs buried by sands of time

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2011 4:50 AM | Add Comment

'Earliest' Bronze Age battle site containing 100 bodies found on German river bank

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2011 1:15 AM | Add Comment

World's oldest panda dies in Chinese zoo at age 34

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2011 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Egyptian princess died of heart disease, shattering myth that it's only a modern problem

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2011 8:21 AM | Add Comment

American Indians say code name "Geronimo" offensive but not surprising

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Despite economic growth, India lets many of its girls die

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2011 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Peaks Friday

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2011 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at age 99

Posted by kluciole at 4/30/2011 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Did you know there was a short-term uproar about John McCain not being born in the US?

Posted by kluciole at 4/28/2011 2:13 AM | Add Comment

Report: Book "Three Cups of Tea" inaccurate

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Last two speakers of dying language (Ayapaneco) refuse to talk to each other - because they don't get along

Posted by kluciole at 4/15/2011 8:12 PM | Add Comment

Census spotlights India's 'missing girls'

Posted by kluciole at 4/4/2011 3:01 AM | Add Comment

Japan disaster sparks social media innovation

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:23 AM | Add Comment

How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:19 AM | Add Comment

Chilling testimony from the Gulags' forgotten victims

Posted by kluciole at 3/31/2011 2:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Pompeii - House of the Small Fountain

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2011 5:59 PM | Add Comment

For my mother, who would've loved this story: Elizabeth Taylor buried with Richard Burton's last love letter

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Vote ban angers Saudi women in era of change

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Japan steel city's 'last geisha' Tsuyako Ito defies tsunami

Posted by kluciole at 3/28/2011 1:17 PM | Add Comment

Texas find suggests earlier settlers in North America

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2011 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Art in motion: Sonia Delaunay textiles on view

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2011 5:59 PM | Add Comment

Thought-provoking article: In this age of globalization, "Japan tragedy seared into the world's imagination"

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2011 5:55 PM | Add Comment

Egypt votes freely for first time in half-century

Posted by kluciole at 3/19/2011 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Touching article filled with kindness: "With aid slow to come Japanese fend for themselves"

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2011 7:09 PM | Add Comment

Amid revolution, Egyptian designer Marie Bishara still makes it to Paris

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2011 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Tradition meets modernity at Nigeria fashion show

Posted by kluciole at 3/13/2011 6:38 PM | Add Comment

Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou: "(God had a wife) Ancient Israelites worshipped a God and Goddess in the same temple"

Posted by kluciole at 3/5/2011 7:51 PM | Add Comment

Cheetah cubs pictured climbing trees at Masai Mara safari camp

Posted by kluciole at 2/22/2011 9:00 PM | Add Comment

Scientists hope disc of older stars found in Andromeda will reveal the building blocks of our own galaxy

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:42 PM | Add Comment

My grandmother was from the Cherokee res. in Oklahoma, so this is interesting for me to see: "Hispanics now outnumber Native Americans in Okla. "

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:23 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake"

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2011 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Secret life of the Amazon Indians: Incredible images show near-extinct Awá tribe at work and play

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2011 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Australians giving up on Aboriginals, according to poll

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2011 4:35 PM | Add Comment

18 items missing from Egyptian Museum after unrest

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2011 4:28 PM | Add Comment

Fashion: Mother Nature's gone glam in an enchanted forest

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2011 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Katrina's ruins home to thousands of homeless

Posted by kluciole at 2/12/2011 9:42 PM | Add Comment

Scientists finally work out age of mystery Voynich manuscript -- early 15th century

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2011 6:53 PM | Add Comment

Historic temple caught in Thai-Cambodia crossfire

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Maurice Sendak mural has new home in Philadelphia

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 9:59 PM | Add Comment

Third-century Roman sculptures discovered

Posted by kluciole at 2/10/2011 1:40 AM | Add Comment

John Galliano pays tribute to illustrator René Gruau in latest haute couture collection for Christian Dior

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 6:01 PM | Add Comment

Egypt asks Berlin to return Nefertiti bust

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Happy Birthday! At 54, Eeyore is the world's longest lived donkey

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Life sentence for 1975 reservation slaying of Annie Mae Aquash in South Dakota

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2011 5:32 PM | Add Comment

As edgy NYC disappears, does its character go too?

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2011 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Painting of muse by lovestruck Picasso up for auction

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 9:10 PM | Add Comment

Mystery visitor missing second year in a row at Poe's grave

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:54 PM | Add Comment

Study IDs 9,400-year-old domesticated dog, "earliest confirmed in the Americas"

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:39 PM | Add Comment

Female Genital Mutilation Banned by Islamic Leaders in Mauritania

Posted by kluciole at 1/19/2011 8:36 PM | Add Comment

Famous Crab Nebula Shoots Off Mysterious Gamma-Ray Flares

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2011 9:39 PM | Add Comment

Banksy Says His Movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" Is All True

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2011 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Popular culture goes back to the Thirties

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2011 5:28 PM | Add Comment

Hilarious -- read an "American guide" to the British series Downton Abbey, to be shown on PBS

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2011 5:24 PM | Add Comment

Photo: constellations in the night sky above the Libyan desert

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Rousseff becomes first woman to lead Brazil, vows to "to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all"

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2011 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2010 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Thomas Hardy's beloved home to throw its doors open to the madding crowd

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2010 4:00 AM | Add Comment

Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2010 1:47 PM | Add Comment

Quantum mechanics, invisibility cloaks and water on Mars: The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past decade

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2010 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Massive haul of 20,000 ancient fossils in China shows new life after biggest mass extinction of all time

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2010 4:41 AM | Add Comment

Animal rehab centers still working after BP spill

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Mummy Head (and Brain) Identified as Long-Lost French King Henry IV

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Storm in Israel uncovers ancient statue

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Remember, it is not the "Arabian Gulf," but the "Persian Gulf"

Posted by kluciole at 12/14/2010 5:56 PM | Add Comment

Why are hundreds of Dartmoor ponies being slaughtered and fed to tigers at the zoo?

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2010 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 8:03 PM | Add Comment

Workmen discover body of 'huge' gladiator who was 'stabbed six times and thrown out with the rubbish'

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 7:58 PM | Add Comment

Custer's 'Last Flag' sold for $2.2 million

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2010 7:55 PM

2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down

Posted by kluciole at 12/9/2010 6:46 PM | Add Comment

Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2010 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Tigers could be extinct in 12 years if unprotected

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:33 AM | Add Comment

Avedon auction in Paris reaps $7.5 million

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:25 AM | Add Comment

Senate approves $4.6B for black farmers, Indians

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2010 9:01 PM | Add Comment

Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's remains exhumed in Prague

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:28 PM | Add Comment

The Desperate Romantics – as never seen before

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2010 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Ancient tree to help turn Jericho into tourism hub

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2010 10:09 PM | Add Comment
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