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Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,
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In closed diplomatic talks, American officials are demanding explanations from China over alleged low-yield nuclear tests and the rapid expansion of its strategic infrastructure at no fewer than seven secret sites. The talks took place on the margins of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, against the
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The icebreaker Krasin in 1934. I look at these photographs and cannot get it into my head on what grounds, or by what leap of imagination, anyone decided to rename an icebreaker with the splendid name Svyatogor after a Party functionary.
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In 20 BC the Emperor Augustus set up the Golden Milestone in the Roman Forum, from which distances along all the roads of the empire were symbolically measured. A team of researchers led by Tom Brughmans has analysed this network, which covers some 300,000 kilometres of roads in Europe,
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I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River". The author is tentatively identified as a certain J. Phillips. The piece belongs to the collection of the
Architecture · Geography · Heritage
Grandiose subterranean halls with vaulted tiers came to light in August during repair work in the courtyard of the Melik-Azaryants tenement house on Rustaveli Avenue, on the side towards Republic Square. Naturally, talk of buried cities at once revived, which is, on the one hand, perfectly understandable: how can
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Melon seeds found during the 2024 excavations at the submerged medieval port of Shomen Gugan, in the present-day city of Wenzhou in south-eastern China, have preserved their DNA thanks to airtight, waterlogged sediments. Four seeds were found in all. Two of them contained enough genetic material for sequencing,
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A reminder that, purely hypothetically, had Catherine II's plans for "armed neutrality" and war against Great Britain been realised, Russia could have bought or leased the Faroe Islands from Denmark, then an ally, as a year-round base for the Russian fleet. What prevented it was
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Delivery of goods by camel. Kurgan station on the South Ural Railway, 1890s
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One must understand that the feral hordes now storming Spain are making their way not to the mainland part of the kingdom, but to Spain's African possessions. And this is not about the arrival of yet more multitudes of thousands in Europe, since they are arriving there quite
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In southern Brazil, on a high plateau in the coldest part of the country, an araucaria forest grows. The araucaria is a coniferous tree whose ancestors were alive in the days of the dinosaurs. The forest does not form a solid mass but is interspersed with grassy glades, onto which