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Virunga, Africas oldest national park, now under new threat
2015-11-16 10:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: WWF is warning of renewed danger to Virunga National Park from oil exploitation. The organization is urging governments to cancel two concessions posing a risk to the World Heritage site, and is cautioning multinational enterprises against their involvement. Earlier this month, and after years of local protest and international outcry, UK oil company SOCO International relinquished its license to Block V, which overlaps Virunga National Park. Socos chairman Rui de Sousa described the exercise as...
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Beast of Turin, oldest Land Rover among nominees for IHMA Car of the Year
2015-10-19 18:20:03| Automakers - Topix.net
It is, by all accounts, massive and violent, standing nearly as tall as the men who built it. Its fire-spewing 28.5-liter inline four-cylinder engine proved powerful enough to propel the Fiat S76 Grand Prix car to a top speed of 132.27 MPH in 1911, though this failed to set a record.
Oldest, Longest Ancient Egyptian Leather Manuscript Found
2015-09-14 16:16:20| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Using a powerful X-ray procedure, researchers led by Vito Mocella, a physicist from the National Research Council's Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Naples, have for the first time been able to read letters hidden inside two carbonized papyri without unrolling them. Until now it has appeared impossible to distinguish ink from papyrus inside a scroll using conventional X-ray techniques.
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Oldest survivor of San Francisco earthquake of 1906 dies
2015-09-02 19:26:14| Food - Topix.net
William Del Monte, seen here at the 2011 commemoration ceremony for the 1906 earthquake at Lotta's Fountain, is now the only known earthquake survivor still living. More than 1,000 people were killed in the April 18th 1906 earthquake and ensuing fires.
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'Oldest' Koran found in Birmingham
2015-07-22 01:30:13| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
What could be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham.
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