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In the past, older economies had their fair share of mining disasters. Probably it takes time to learn to avoid them. In Britain, a tragic event over forty years ago brought mining safety into the nat...

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Many years ago,a young man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in northern Italy.He rented a small room on the top floor of a dark and ancient palace.Long ago, the building had b...

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In 1942, during World War II, a young Jewish girl went into hiding with her family. They hid in a secret room built especially for them. It was above a Dutch business in the city of Amsterdam. For two...

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The people of Washington DC won a long fought battle earlier this month.No, not statehood or a vote in the United States Congress.But, a little more representation than before.Lawmakers approved a mea...

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In 2005, scientists with NASA, the United States space program, took a picture of the earth from space. What they saw shocked them. The picture showed that the Arctic’s thick ice is shrinking. You ...

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England was the first country to compete with Spain for claims in the New World.Queen Elizabeth the First supported explorations as early as the fifteen seventies.Sir Humphrey Gilbert led the first En...

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Crowds of people gather. Some of them are rich and famous. Others hope that they will be rich and famous one day. They all have one thing in common - the film industry. Here in France, it is the Canne...

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An international team of scientists has found that up to four billion tons of methane gas could be trapped under ice-covered areas of Antarctica.The scientists say extremely small organisms may have c...