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While shepherds watched their flocks on 'Ilkely Moor'
'While shepherds watched' was the first carol to cross over to the Church of England from the secular, folk tradition and carol singers might be surprised to hear that it used to be commonly sung to the tune 'Cranbrook', ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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New computer techniques to analyze historic Hebrew, Arabic documents under development
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will combine the scientific and scholarly expertise of their humanities and computer science experts in a new project to analyze degraded Hebrew documents.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Dirty books reveal secret lives of people living in mediaeval times
(Phys.org) -- They feared illness, were selfish and fell asleep reading late at night, just like us, new research has revealed about our mediaeval ancestors.
Apr 24, 2012 |
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With Breitbart gone, what becomes of his empire?
(AP) -- Can you have Breitbart.com without Andrew Breitbart?
Mar 02, 2012 |
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New book explores meaning of figurines in Delos
The sectarian wars raging around the globe attest to the rigidity of many religious outlooks today. But in the second century BCE, residents on the Greek island of Delos saw nothing wrong with using others' ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Piecing together the priceless 'Cairo Genizah'
A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in the Genizah ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Jobs and his celebrity: A love-hate relationship
(AP) -- It was the 1980s, relatively early in his career, and Steve Jobs was traveling in Japan. In a hotel lobby, a gaggle of girls came up and asked for his autograph.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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One reporter's look back at the space shuttle era
(AP) -- A space shuttle commander once confided that countdowns were invented merely to make astronauts nervous, and he was - every time. But when the count reached zero and the booster rockets ignited, he ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak
(AP) -- Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries - an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Anthropologist: 'Body Worlds' visitors confront bodies but not death
In two new works, an anthropologist tackles a perplexing question relating to the enormously successful "Body Worlds" exhibits: How does society tolerate – and even celebrate – the public display ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2011 |
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The dual nature of dew: Study measures the effect of dew on desert plants
When the scientific and spiritual worlds collide, they do so in the most surprising ways. Classical meteorological and plant science has, in the last century, insisted that dew negatively affects plant life, leading to rot ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Modern Muslims use dreams to make major life decisions
The traditional practice of using night dreams to make major life decisions is in widespread use among modern Muslims, reveals a new study whose author is speaking at the British Science Festival on Thursday September 16*.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2010 |
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