News tagged with king
Deja vu: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD price war
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
Bedrock of a holy city: the historical importance of Jerusalem's geology
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important cities on the planet, according to a new study.
Florida bill would ban pythons as pets
Sep 23, 2009 |
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You wouldn't be able to buy a Burmese python as a pet anymore in Florida, under a bill drafted by a state senator who said the state should shut off the source of "dangerous reptiles" that have colonized the Everglades.
The man who could have been Henry VIII
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This year has seen the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession, and the start of the third television series of The Tudors -- yet we might so easily have been celebrating King Arthur I ...
King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty
Aug 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon - long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty.
Researchers find heroin, cocaine top drug treatment admissions in King County; prescription-type opiates cause most deat
Jul 22, 2009 |
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A community workgroup led by UW research scientist Caleb Banta-Green, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report. Heroin and cocaine led the list of county drug treatment ...
New study reveals king crabs go deep to avoid hot water
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Researchers from the University of Southampton have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant - the king crab. The results, published this week ...
Ancient handle with Hebrew text found in Jerusalem
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older than most inscribed artifacts unearthed ...
Archeologists discover temple that sheds light on 'Dark Age'
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey — thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age.
Feds vote to halt Calif. chinook salmon fishing
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- California's commercial chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of fish returned to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday.
King tides -- a glimpse of future sea level rise
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow, beach-goers will get a glimpse of what our coastlines may look like in 50 years, when New South Wales and South East Queensland experience the highest daytime ‘king tides’ forecast ...
Thoroughly moderate America
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The global credit crunch and Barack Obama's neutralisation of the 'religious right' in America are likely to sweep him to an historic victory in the US elections, according to an expert at The University ...
Under pressure at the nanoscale, polymers play by different rules
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules.
