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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

Fastest Gun In The World! (0 - 76,000mph in one second). The Z Machine is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster than the 30 kilometers per second that Earth travels through space in its orbit about the Sun. That's 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravitational field. [digg]
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Bridge project uncovers Revolutionary War battle site. A bridge project across the Broad River between Chester and Union counties has uncovered the exact location of a Revolutionary War battle site and will now be preserved by the state. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Va. Scientists Go Abroad to ID Skeleton. NORFOLK, Va. Jun 7, 2005 , Virginia preservationists are nearing the end of a two-year quest to determine whether a skeleton discovered at the site of the Jamestown settlement is that of one its founders. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Burst museum pipe damages artifacts. Artifacts and research materials at the University of Alaska Museum were drenched when a water pipe was accidentally broken by construction workers at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Jefferys reviews The Privileged Planet. June 7, 2005: In light of the recent controversy over the screening of the film The Privileged Planet at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, William H. Jefferys's review of the book on which the film is based i ... [National Center for Science Education]
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