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15 October 1582 followed directly upon 4 October by decree of Pope Gregory XIII
15 October 1582 followed directly upon 4 October by decree of Pope Gregory XIII. Today is the birthday of the Gregorian calendar
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Theory of accidental hieroglyph overlay and the helicopters in Egyptian tombs
Helicopters in Egyptian tombs. There is a view that all manner of flying machines and futuristic vehicles in Egyptian wall paintings are the result of the chance overlaying of different hieroglyphs
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The thirteen Maya constellations and the bat that corresponded to Ophiuchus
On the thirteenth astronomical constellation, Ophiuchus. The Maya likewise had 13 constellations, which is to say that they too possessed astronomy and knew the constellations of the Milky Way. To odd-numbered Ophiuchus there corresponded the bat. It is curious that half of the Maya constellations were named after mammals,
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Museum larvae, cockroaches, beetles and worms help to free the skeleton from its flesh
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A foul, rotting snake will soon be gnawed to the bone by larvae, and the bones washed, treated and prepared for modelling, storage or museum display
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The Skeleton of a Man and the Skeleton of a Gorilla
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Fragment of the fossilised head of a ten-metre gharial-like crocodile of the Miocene epoch, from India
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The Hadrosaur's Braincase
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Birthday of the 16th-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi and his works on monsters
Today is the birthday of the eminent sixteenth-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. At this rate we shall soon be learning the natural sciences exclusively from the textbooks of those years: with mermaids, memory of the womb and man-eating trees
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One of Leonardo da Vinci's Favourite Inventions
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