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| Loving Poetry |
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| Helpfull Hints Home and land |
| Winter at Home |
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| Thought for Today |
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| Every great family is headed by a commanding leader, and Echo's clan is no exception. Echo, an African elephant, is a true matriarch, a wise and experienced mother who has guided and protected her family for many years. Ely is Echo's new born. Read his story and don't forget the hankies. |
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| My Album |
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| Deimos and Phobos are probably asteroids perturbed by Jupiter into orbits that allowed them to be captured by Mars. |
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| This week, NATURE travels to the banks of the Ruaha for a suspenseful look at this high-stakes contest. INTIMATE ENEMIES: LIONS AND BUFFALO profiles both predator and prey, and chronicles moments both tender and fierce, from a mother lion caring for her cubs to an enraged bull buffalo fending off a pride of attacking lions. Also video footage |
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| Vikki's Fairies & Fantasies |
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| Starwatch This Week |
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| a s t r o n o m y w i t h t r u |
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| A little seal pup was born on the Skeleton Coast one extremely hot sunny day. From the moment it is born it faces danger and it is up to the mother seal to provide all the protection she can muster against the scorching sun, the freezing ocean and the jackals roaming the beaches to scurry off with an unprotected baby seal. |
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| BPE Experiments Medicine |
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| For decades paleontologists have been searching for vital clues in Africa -- the remains of creatures nearest to the event that changed the world, the split between man and ape. |
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| Everest has become a Mecca for mountaineers of all stripes and nationalities. Sir Edmond Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the top in 1953. Now, nearly two hundred more have died trying. |
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| BPE T&E Egypt |
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| BPE T&E Journey to Mars |
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| Giant rats of rock called tectonic plates are continuously on the move. An experiment on video by silly rabbit and myself to show how one motion of mass will cancel out another motion of mass. |
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| 65 Million Years ago an asteroid devastated earth and the majority of its inhabitants changing the course of evolution. One hundred million years before that evolution had been altered because of an impact on earth and so scientists have concluded through fossil findings that our planet earth had undergone changes in evolutionary outcome at least 5 times due to major impacts through the course of the 4.5 billion years of earth. |
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| Ah, Martian summer! Finally, the days are long, just like on dear old Earth. And daytime highs rocket all the way up to a balmy 20°C (68°F) from the summer nighttime low of -90°C (-130°F), |
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| I’ve always been interested in the behaviour of elephants, their family loyalty towards one another. Their complete trust in the matriarch’s decisions of where there is water or where there is nourishment and shade. |
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| A fossil which is the oldest known of a mammal which had a placenta it was recently unearthed in China. It was found in Strata dating back to 125 million years ago at a time when dinosaurs were at their peek. This could be the ancestral from which all placenta animals including humans have evolved. |
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| I watched as a gigantic male Polar Bear offshore some distance quietly observed the island where a herd of male sea lions, along side the females with their cubs were basking in the northern sun. |
| A major quake striking northeastern Japan could set off a 22-meter tsunami, kill nearly 3,000 people and cause more than a trillion yen in damage, according to a worst-case government scenario, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday. According to the study, which centred on the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan as well as the east coast of the northernmost island |
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| The male sea lions close to the ocean’s edge leaving the females and their babies protected along the east side where the cliff’s edge rose high above the water. But the Polar Bear had other intentions. |
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| Our sun is only one of two hundred billion stars that make up our galaxy, the Milky Way. Like our sun each star could be orbited with its own system of planets. Today astronomers are piecing together incredible new evidence in the search for distant worlds. Theirs is the ultimate scientific quest, they are the planet hunters. |
| FISH LEGS? Findings coming out Thursday report the discovery of a fish that sported the skeletal beginnings of shoulders, wrists, and legs 375 million years ago. The fossil fills a crucial gap in the record of sea creatures' move to land, scientists believe. Scientists have long surmised that four-limbed land animals evolved from early fish. In recent years, they have been slowly closing the fossil gap between these fish and the first land vertebrates. |
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| New DNA analysis indicates that a 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps may have been sterile — a hypothesis that would support the theory |
| We are trying to imagine how some of life could survive in the most extreme environments and yet some of the most extreme conditions are |
