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Author: Alaskalink.US editor A. A. Boiko
GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, PREPARE TO WRITE!
Earlier this month we were in the city of Verona, Italy as over 100,000 children and parents arrived to explore a free Literary Festival organised by the Italian Publisher Mondadori. For five days and in 25 different locations around the city, Mondadori set up workshops, performances, exhibitions, games and concerts for all the children to take part in and enjoy. |  |
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The letters contain a great message from Dr. Einstein to everyone who lives nowadays, when the fighting against nuclear weapons continues
Author: Alaskalink.US., editor Al...
The events, which happened on the different continents, are not only similar in their importance for the history of science but also curiously coincided in terms of time. While working with the catalogue of Isaac Newton's archival documents, researchers discovered several sheets of paper written by brilliant physicist and mathematician himself. They were considered lost for 70 years. |  |
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Blueberries... Mmm Mmm Good They are
Author: Alaskalink, Editor Al...
Blueberries (Vaccinium uliginosum) Mmm Mmm Good They are so good that every type of wildlife from ptarmigan (Alaskan Chickens) to insects, Grizzly Bears to little shrews, even humans, gorge on them. |  |
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Findings show that severely water-stressed vines yield juice with more color, while machine-pruning produces more color than hand-pruning
Author: Alaskalink.US, Editor Al...
This year's Unified Wine and Grape Symposium featured an interesting session about the possibility of determining winegrape quality by measuring the color of the grapes. Some Australian wineries are using color as one of six parameters they evaluate when determining grower payment. Given that premise, the session speakers discussed whether there is indeed a correlation between berry color and red wine quality |  |
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Abundant rain in July makes for full buckets in August and September
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Al...
The rains that torment Anchorage residents through the month of July can have had a berry, berry silver lining. All over the Chugach and Kenai mountains, hikers, climbers, hunters and, yes, even berry pickers have been reporting all that moisture bore fruit. |  |
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Leonardo da Vinci's secret lab discovered
Author: Alaskalink Editor, International Translated by: Anna Ossipova
The long-time-ago forgotten studio of the famous Florentine artist of the Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci containing ancient frescoes and a secret room for autopsy has been discovered in Florence, Italy. |  |
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Scientists found out that the Maya used severed human heads as soccer balls to play games with
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Vlad
It has been scientifically proved that America's ancient inhabitants, the Maya, used to wrap the deceased in caoutchouc and evaporate the mummies in humid tropical jungle, like in a sauna. |  |
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Normal human being is double-edged weapon
Author: Alaskalink.US., editor Al...
It may sometimes irritate when people describe this or that person as normal, or it may also happen as abnormal. What does it mean to be normal? And what is the definition of the norm? Even science cannot provide a proper answer to the question.In everyday well-regulated life we do not really need to know the range of the norm. But the issue immediately gets more important as soon as we feel something is wrong with the health. |  |
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Do not offend water: it remembers every word you say
Author: Alaskalink.US editor Al... by Vladimir Borovoy
One day theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making “water” computers controlled by telepathy. There seemed nothing to be as simple and as well studied in the world of science as water…until recently. |  |
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City life stresses develop insomnia, which results in post-insomnia depression
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Jasmin
Millions of men, women and children suffer from insomnia, tossing and turning in their beds every night. Numerous people have to go to work and spend “the worst day ever” there, dreaming about the end of the horrible working day. |  |
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Real Men Eat Real Meat And Drink No Beer
Author: AbcFz.com
Doctors and dieticians claim that the stronger sex has special nutritional requirements. It appears that there are considerable differences between the sexes at this point. The thing is that men’s and women’s metabolism goes in different ways.
Men suffer from cardiac arrests and strokes at a much greater extent than women. |  |
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One grapefruit provides a daily dose of vitamin C that a human organism needs
Author: Alaskalink.US., editor Al...
Winter is a season when we can enjoy citrus fruits, bright tangerines, aromatic oranges and juicy grapefruits. It is a disputable issue which of the citrus fruits is best for our health, but slightly bitter grapefruit is the most refined among them. |  |
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Archaeologists have never heard anything about a stone phallus of the Paleolithic era before
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Nata
Archaeologists uncovered a 28,000-year-old phallus in the area of Schwabische Alb mountain ridge in Germany. Scientists referred the finding, measuring 20 centimeters, to the Paleolithic era. They supposed that it was used both as a weapon and a symbol of masculinity. |  |
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Scientists make an inventory of all animals and plants living on planet Earth
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Al...
Specialists of the Russian Academy of Sciences decided to establish a new project entitled “Barcodes of flora and fauna in Russia.” The project continues the initiative of the world Consortium the Barcode of Life (CBOL), established in 2004. |  |
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Remains of an ancient civilization discovered in the depths of the Northern sea
Author: Alaskalink.US editor Nata
While some scientists spend all their time and efforts in search of Atlantis, others have already discovered remains of an ancient civilization that had existed on the same territory as present-day Northern sea. With the help of modern technology, archaeologists were able to get a better glimpse of the ancient world |  |
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The tomb of King Amenhotep I became the second non-looted tomb after the one of King Tut
Author: Alaskalink.US, editor Nata
There is a Russian joke, which is as old as mummies: a tomb-chest with a mummy was discovered during the archeological dig in Egypt. Experts could not determine whose mummy it was and invited Soviet experts for their expertise. |  |
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Another archeological discovery tells more about earlier epochs
Author: Alaskalink.US., editor Nata
Gobustan is a region with the territory of 100 square kilometers between the south-eastern bottom of the Caucasian mountains and the Caspian Sea; the territory is covered with numerous river mouths and gully. The name Gobustan originates from the word Gobu meaning a gully. |  |
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Archeologists discovered several paintings on the rocks located at the edge of the ancient city
Author: Alaskalink.US., editor Nata
Archeologists make discoveries in Greece on a regular basis. Yet the latest news regarding the find on Andros, the most northern island of 56 islands comprising the Cyclades, is quite a sensation, according to specialists. A team of scientists discovered the ruins of a city at the excavation site on Andros. The ruins date back to 1900 B.C., the Bronze Age. |  |
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Wild nature can give numerous examples of immortality and programmed death
Author: Alaskalink.US, Editor Nata...
A wise man said that the art of living was about being able to die young but to live as many years as possible. Almost every human being living on planet Earth is interested in the question of immortality. One may say that all world religions and arts sprang from the wish to preserve the passion of youth and deceive death. Generations of alchemists were racking their brains over the renowned youth elixir. Contemporary scientists are still trying to unveil the mystery of immortality ... |  |
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Dancing to Let Off Steam
Author: Alaskalink.us., editor Al...
Olga Rybalko, chief accountant with a big office furniture maker, has been leading a double life for two years now. In the daytime, in a severe business suit with her hair meticulously combed, she heads a 10-employee department. Her subordinates say that "She is a dead hand of formality." How surprised they would be if they caught her at an Argentinean tango club! |  |
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