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Arctic search for Franklin's lost ships continues
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Canadians are heading back to the Northwest Passage this summer to continue searching for the wrecks of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships from 1845.
Parks Canada will use an autonomous underwater vehicle to aid with this year’s search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent said Thursday.
The ships were lost during the British explorer’s...
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Solved puzzle reveals fabled Cambodian temple
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP) - It has taken half a century, but archaeologists in Cambodia have finally completed the renovation of an ancient Angkor temple described as the world’s largest three dimensional puzzle.
The restoration of the 11th-century Baphuon ruin is the result of decades of painstaking work, hampered by tropical rains and civil war, to take apart...
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Nope, I still look like a potato.
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“I’m proud to read YA novels with cringe worthy covers. It’s like a secret: The...”
– Adult Literary Fiction Can Bite Me: A YA Manifesto (via apsies)
An essay by A. S. Byatt on Harry Potter that some... →
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Ms. Rowling’s magic world has no place for the numinous. It is written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip. Its values, and everything in it, are, as Gatsby said of his own world when the light had...
Time to go get my new driver’s license. Will I finally manage a photo where I don’t look like I have a potato for a head?
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The Shortest Horror Story Ever
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The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
-Frederic Brown
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“Look at me now”
– Medusa (via historysaidwhat)
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Slideshow - A Trip Down the Nile →
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Slideshow - Early Photos: Egypt in the 1800's →
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Slideshow - King Tut: Ancient Egypt Revealed →
World's saddest story
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Archaeological News: Site Made Famous by Indiana Jones Yields Archaeology Treasure Trove
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Indiana Jones came so close!
Painted, carved and inscribed thousands of years ago, hundreds of stone blocks that most likely formed a sacred temple were discovered in the ancient Egyptian capital once raided on the fictional explorer’s quest for the ark, the country’s...
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