The largest coin hoard ever found from the period of turmoil immediately following the Norman Conquest has been bought by the British government on behalf of the nation. Consisting of 2,584 silver pennies, it was likely buried for safekeeping during a time when virtually the whole country was at war, and…
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A young Connecticut student is vowing classmates, students, and even state senators with her work designing cheap new air filters for classrooms. Her name is Eniola Shokunbi, and before she reaches her goal of becoming President of the United States, she wanted to help keep classrooms free from cold and flu…
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Missing only a hand, a life-sized statue of a Roman citizen unearthed recently in Bulgaria is about as pristine as they come. Found during construction work near the walls of the old fortress in the city of Varna, it depicts a middle-aged man holding a scroll and wearing a Roman-era toga—and…
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An international team of neurosurgeons and organ transplant specialists recently discovered that a brain can be revived 50 minutes after being removed from the body if connected to a liver. It was a bit of a ghoulish experiment, but the results could be vital to improving common resuscitation methods in cases…
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Artists come from all corners, in all shapes and sizes, and from every race and religion; John Pavart and his painted coconuts are a perfect example. The former opal miner turned painter from Australia’s state of New South Wales has been painting coconut husks for years, leaving them around the beaches…
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This is Daniel Kinsella, a 16-year-old Liverpudlian who recently rescued three separate groups of paddleboarders in the family’s dinghy. North Wales Live in the UK suggested it may have felt to young Daniel like he was settling up for a bill he owed—his own life having been saved twice as a…
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Dreamt of since the Roman Empire, the men and women, taxpayers and taxspenders of the Italian Peninsula are preparing for an engineering project unrivaled by any in the nation’s history. Set to begin in the waning days of 2024, a suspension bridge linking Sicily with the mainland across the Messina Strait…
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