Archive for the ‘Interesting Tidbit’ Category
Mari likes meteor showers, but has yet to see one. The weather always goes to crap before Mari gets the chance.
The show gets its name from the constellation Gemini, because the meteors appear to stream from near the constellation's ...
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12 December 2007, 04:56
New Yorker Elizabeth Gibson who found a painting in a rubbish skip in Manhattan, which turned out to be Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo's 'Three People', a painting stolen from storage years ago, and worth $1 million!
She had it hanging ...
Mari loves interesting tidbits like this. The mummy of an ancient 15 year old Incan girl found in 1999 high atop a volcanic mountain was put on display Saturday in Argentina.
Hundreds of people packed a museum in Salta, Argentina, ...
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9 September 2007, 21:16
This year's Perseid meteor shower—which got underway this week—will light up the night for about two weeks, with the event's peak happening late on Sunday, astronomers announced.
"It's going to be a great show," Bill Cooke, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight ...
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12 August 2007, 20:19
Yeah, twelve-headed jellyfish. Mari said it.
Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes.
The genetic experiments could shed light on how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first ...
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1 August 2007, 17:15