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2008-2012


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Wednesday, June 4
June 4, 2008

Officials of the Madre de Dios regional government of Peru have decided to protect isolated tribes in the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging and oil exploration, after the Brazilian government released photographs of them taken in Brazil from a helicopter. The people had been pushed out of Peru by the destruction of their habitat. New […]

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Tuesday, June 3
June 3, 2008

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a “busy, noisy, dirty Roman district” at the site of a new campus for England’s University of Worcester. A hospital had also been built on the site in the eighteenth century, which was in use into the 1950s. A well-organized medieval cemetery was unearthed in the center of the English […]

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