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Friday, February 5
February 5, 2010

 A new survey of Stonehenge suggests that the monument was surrounded by two circular hedges 4,000 years ago. There may also have been a shallow mound within the circle of stones. Five crates of whisky and brandy have been retrieved from the Antarctic by a team from New Zealand. The drinks had been left 100 […]

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Thursday, February 4
February 4, 2010

 Genetic tests indicate that a 2,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in eastern Mongolia was a man of European or western Asian descent. “We don’t know if this 60- to 70-year-old man reached Mongolia on his own or if his family had already lived there for many generations,” said DNA analyst Charles Brenner.    Scientists will open the grave […]

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