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  Solar Flare
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  Antikythera mechanism

  The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to digital computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the ... > more
• Ice Ages
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
  Climate
  Snow and Avalanches
  Geography
   
  

  Little Ice Age

  The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling lasting approximately from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries, although there is no generally agreed start or end date: some confine the period to ... > more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Lost Treasures
  Cultures
   
  

  Amarna letters

  The designation Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna correspondence") denotes an archive of correspondence, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and ... > more
• Charles Darwin
  Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Nature
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
   
  

  Charles Darwin

  Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community of the occurrence of evolution and proposing the ... > more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Sports Science
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  Archaeology
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  Aviation
   
  

  Catapult

  Catapults are siege engines using an arm to hurl a projectile a great distance. Any machine that hurls an object can be considered a catapult, but the term is generally understood to mean medieval ... > more
• Apes
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
  Sports Medicine
  Endangered Animals
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Common Chimpanzee

  The Common Chimpanzee, also known as the Robust Chimpanzee, is a great ape. Colloquially, it is often called the chimpanzee (or simply "chimp"), though technically this term refers to both species in ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Extinction
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Early Birds
  Fossils
   
  

  Dinosaur

  Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  Early Birds
  Extinction
  New Species
  Fossils
  Birds
   
  

  Pterosaur

  Pterosaurs, "winged lizards," often referred to as "pterodactyls" were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period (228 to 65 ... > more
• Dinosaurs
  New Species
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Extinction
  Apes
   
  

  Hadrosaurid

  Hadrosaurids or duck-billed dinosaurs are members of the superfamily Hadrosauroidea, and include ornithopods such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. They were common herbivores in the Upper ... > more
• Lost Treasures
  Human Evolution
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Cultures
  Anthropology
   

  List of shipwrecks

  This list of shipwrecks is of those sunken ships whose remains have been ... > more

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