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Geographical Notes - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE Rev. G. Grenfell has recently explored the Mobangi, which enters the right bank of the Congo, forming a great delta, between 26′ and 42′ S. lat., nearly opposite Equator Station, and is ...
Whirlwind on “Rydal Water” - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoSOME friends and myself were staying at Lowwood Hotel, Windermere, for a few days, and on Friday, October 16, we were walking by “Rydal Water,” on the opposite side from the road, when we noticed ...
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoTHE Institution of Mechanical Engineers held their summer meeting last week, at Edinburgh, under the presidency of Mr. E. H. Carbutt. The meetings were held in the Library Hall of the University ...
The Highest Inhabited House - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIt would be an easy matter for the inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau to become acclimatised to that altitude, living, as they do, at a height of between 15,000 and 16,000 ft. I wonder, however ...
Radium and Geology - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoJOLY'S interesting discovery (NATURE, May 2, p. 8) that typical rocks in the Simplon Tunnel contain quantities of radium considerably in excess of the average of igneous rocks raises a question ...
Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ star, dead at 53 | CNN
CNN.com· 1 day agoShannen Doherty, an actress who starred on the popular series “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed”...
Pre-Glacial Topography 1 - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoWright o and Muff, recently issued by the Royal Dublin Society, directs attention to an ancient rock-platform on which Glacial deposits were laid down in southern Ireland. At Courtmacsherry ...
3rd hiker dies in Grand Canyon in last 3 weeks
ABC News via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoA man hiking in the Grand Canyon has died after being found unresponsive over the weekend, marking the third death in the national park within the last...
Previous assassinations and other political violence targeting US presidents
Wandsworth Guardian· 2 days agoAbraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated, shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14 1865 as he and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, attended a special performance of the comedy Our ...
Scientific Serials - Nature
Nature· 12 hours agoThe diffusion of air through water is studied by observing the gradual loss of the air contained in a Cartesian diver, and this loss is determined from the change in the temperature coefficient ...
