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| Rare fan painting of Bath gives glimpse of life in Georgian England The rare fan, which had been in a private collection, shows elegantly dressed people strolling in Harrison's Walk, a tree-lined riverside walk kept exclusive by paid subscription. The building in the background contained Bath's first assembly rooms, known as Harrison's Rooms, built for an entrepreneur in ...
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| Costa Rica: Tourists killed in plane crash Twelve people have been killed in a plane crash in western Costa Rica, officials say. The victims were 10 foreign passengers, including five members of a single family, and the Costa Rican pilot and co-pilot, local media say. The Nature Air single-propeller Cessna 208 Caravan was travelling from the ...
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| HQ Trivia is now available in beta from the Play Store The game launched this past fall on iOS. The Android app is still in beta, and the product page notes that the app is potentially unstable. Recode reported earlier this month that the company is working to raise money from venture capitalists for a potential $100 million valuation. The addition of an ...
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| Scan technique reveals secret writing in mummy cases Researchers in London have developed scanning techniques that show what is written on the papyrus that mummy cases are made from. These are the decorated boxes into which the wrapped body of the deceased was placed before it was put in a tomb. They are made from scraps of papyrus which ...
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| The Power Of Books To Propel Your Career In 2018 The most common New Year's resolution is to "exercise more." That's followed by the second most common resolution—to lose weight. Reading more books doesn't crack the top 10. But for leaders, maybe it should top the list. After reading more than 75 nonfiction books in 2017, many written by CEOs, ...
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| Brazil's Embraer in Boeing dogfight When Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games in summer 2016, the opening ceremony included a replica vintage biplane "taking off" from a makeshift runway inside the Maracana stadium. The wood and fabric plane was a recreation of the early aircraft flown by the grandfather of Brazilian aviation, ...
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| 5 Colorado deputies shot, 1 fatally, in 'ambush' attack A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff's deputies early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured.
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| Star Trek in 2018 Star Trek News - StarTrek.com looks ahead at Star Trek in 2018, including the return of Discovery, DS9's 25th anniversary and much more. Read on at...
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