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- Archaeologists claim to have discovered the first physical evidence of the Battle of Bannockburn. A pair of horse stirrups, found earlier this year on a flood plain believed by most historians to be the site of the decisive second day of the battle, have been dated to the 14th century. They were unearthed by Tony Pollard and Neil Oliver, two archaeologists working on the final day of excavations for the forthcoming BBC2 series 'Two Men in a Trench'. |
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- I listened to PPD's Q3 conference call today. Some of my takeaways: - The company is apparently accumulating a large cash pile now. It has $30M on hand, and is committed to withdrawing all of the $25M credit line for... |
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- I think this is the most irrational nonsense yet to come out of the SCO camp. SCO attacks open-source foundation reports on SCO as stating: "The GPL violates the U.S. |
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- How to keep spam e-mail messages out of your Inbox? Eric Lee writes how he succeeds in doing just that - using cascading filters on the server side as well as in the newest free e-mailclients like Eudora 6 and |
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- This small stone circle or ring cairn is situated just beyond the north-eastern edge of the southern end of Harwood Dale Forest on Standingstones Rigg close to several cairns and barrows. There are originally thought to have been around 24 stones here with the 15 that remain set into a low 14 metre earth bank, the circle itself having a diameter of 8 metres - it is possible that an earth mound extended over, and covered the stones but has since been eroded away leaving the circle visible. The tallest of ... |
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- How to keep spam e-mail messages out of your Inbox? Eric Lee writes how he succeeds in doing just that - using cascading filters on the server side as well as in the newest free e-mailclients like Eudora 6 and |
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Sorry Steve (Oct 29 2003 22:58 GMT) - Sorry SteveI meant to blogroll your new blog address sooner Steve McLaughlin, but things have been busy around here at Halley's Comment Central. I like what you write about Nick Denton's new site called Fleshbot very much. Let me quote:Nick Denton is a genius and appears to have the attachments to go with it. The president of Gawker Media, and the man behind news service Moreover, gossip-blog Gawker, techno-blog Gizmodo, and the super-secret Lafayette Project, will unveil his latest creation next week called Fleshbot. |
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- Well I got rid of the chatterbox for now. It seemed to make the site to busy looking...... I want it to not be so cluttered. If anyone has any comments on how things look or should look feel free... |
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- An easy walk southwest along the track from the barrier at SE982975 then follow the line of trees that run southeast. A word of warning though, when I visited in summer after a dry spell the track along the edge of the forest was a real quagmire, no idea why it was so wet or churned up or what it would be like in winter. Also within the forest is said to be a carved rock with a cup and three concentric rings - I made an attempt to locate it but couldn't find it (my GPS went haywire under the tree cover!) |
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- Tim Hall edited the Babel Text profile for Old Kandar. URL has changed. |
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- In case anyone was watching, a couple of our inimitable readers were to be seen on "Future Flight" earlier tonight. The show, on ITV Channel 5, spent fifteen minutes out of an hour program showing the EZRocket in flight and on the ground. Jeff Greason showed up as a talking head, as did Aleta Jackson. I think I saw Dave Jones also but I'm uncertain. Maybe he'll confirm to us if he was in camera... |
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- As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother's first flight, numerous web sites offer a look at the historic occasion. |
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- The Montana Front lands join America's heated debate over energy production and wildlife. |
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- Undersea observatories could unlock secrets about everything from fisheries to climate shifts. |
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- Jedi Holocron writes "The full article is at Space.Com and reports on the current status of Brian "Rocket Guy" Walker's home-brew space program. This is the ... |
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- Jedi Holocron writes "The full article is at Space.Com and reports on the current status of Brian "Rocket Guy" Walker's home-brew space program. This is the ... |
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- Rock carvings engraved into strange shapes are baffling UK archaeologists. One resembles a heart, another a human footprint. Aron Mazel and Stan Beckensall, who stumbled across the unusual carvings close to England's border with Scotland, believe they are the first such designs to have been discovered in the UK. Mazel and Beckensall are puzzled by their discovery and have consulted experts in the field such as English Heritage, but no one has been able to shed any light. "We are keen to draw people's attention to them - seeing the pictures of the markings may prompt somebody to come forward with new information, perhaps relating to similar rock art samples they have viewed elsewhere," says Beckensall. |
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- WASHINGTON - The number of people killed or injured using all-terrain vehicles is rising, the government said Tuesday. |
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- WASHINGTON - National driver education standards should be adopted so teen-agers everywhere receive uniform training before hitting the road on their own, traffic safety experts said Tuesday. |
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- WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, filling a four-month vacancy with a lopsided vote that did not reflect the efforts by some Democrats to turn his nomination into a referendum on President Bush's environmental policies. |
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- WASHINGTON - THG, a newly detected steroid that is casting a shadow on Olympic and professional sports, is an illegal drug that may pose considerable health risks, the government warned Tuesday. |
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- WASHINGTON - Motherhood not only makes females smarter, but it makes them calmer under pressure and more courageous, a U.S. researcher said Tuesday. |
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- I'm hoping this is just because we live near the Marine base. Within the last 10 to 15 minutes or so, there has been helicopter after helicopter after plane after plane flying overhead. It SOUNDS like they're heading north, but... |
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