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UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly ...
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Researcher Uses DNA Testing to Unlock Secrets of Medieval Manuscripts
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thousands of painstakingly handwritten books produced in medieval Europe still exist today, but scholars have long struggled with questions about when and where the majority of these works originated. Now ...
Feared by the bad, loved by the good? Scientists discover previously unknown document on Robin Hood
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A freshly-discovered document highlighting negative attitudes towards Robin Hood has been deciphered by an academic at the University of St Andrews.
Medieval ruins found near Stockholm castle
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Archaeologists have found the foundations of medieval buildings near the Royal Palace in Stockholm, dating from the city's early years.
The Gough Map: the earliest road map of Britain?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 04, 2008 |
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One of the most important and earliest maps ever made in Britain is the subject of a new book just published by the Bodleian Library.
Use of ghostwriters, guest authors appears frequent for studies involving rofecoxib
Apr 15, 2008 |
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An examination of medical articles about rofecoxib (a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and court documents from litigation related to this product indicates that company employees or other unacknowledged authors were ...
Carl Linnaeus invented the index card
Jun 16, 2009 |
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As a consequence of overseas discoveries, early modern scientists faced serious information overload. The sheer amount of exotic, hitherto unknown species reaching the shores of Europe forced naturalists to reconsider the ...
Atlantic dynamo turned up the heat over Medieval Europe
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the April 3rd edition of Science a collaborative group of scientists from Switzerland, California and the UK report that medieval climate over Europe was heated by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). ...
Study finds advanced 20th-century geometry in 15th-century tilings
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists ...
Archaeologists find key to Devon's Medieval past
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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University of Exeter archaeologists may have found the key to Stokenham’s Medieval manor house. Along with local schools and members of the community, the team has been digging a site in the South Hams village throughout ...
Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niño phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...
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