In anticipation of the expected landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on 25 May, NASA engineers applied a trajectory correction to the flight path. Further modifications to the flight path are expected after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs the designated landing area. The Phoenix spacecraft will most likely ... |
11 April 2008
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Those Vikings were like working bees. A Viking treasure made of 472 ancient silver coins was found near Sweden's main international airport, Arlanda, Stockholm, last week, showing that Vikings used foreign currency much earlier than previously believed. The 1,150-year-old treasure comprises mainly Arabic coins a... |
11 April 2008
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Viking men may have been cruel warriors, but their women were really hot. Viking women wore colored-silk gowns embellished with metallic breast coverings and long trains. This type of wardrobe was found in a tomb from the 10th century discovered in the Pskov region (Russia), close to Novgorod. "Now we can say the pre... |
27 February 2008
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If we take a look at modern-day Danish people, they do not seem to resemble their ancestors, the bloody Viking warriors. Still, a modern day replica of a Viking ship has managed to re-create the route of the ancient Vikings, entering Dublin's harbor on Tuesday, after an arduous 1,000-mile (1,600 km) journey from... |
16 August 2007
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From the end of the 8th century till the end of the 10th, the Norsemen caused tremendous terror among those living on the shores of Western Europe, from Baltic Sea to Scotland, Ireland and northwestern France. Their ships went to Spain, North Africa, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and by the 11th century, Vikings detained l... |
14 August 2007
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Pirates…wild…bloody barbarians. This is how the Vikings were seen by their contemporaneous southern Europeans, who during the 9th and 10th centuries suffered their pillaging expeditions. Still, these Northern people also left a rich culture and a developed trade network till Persia and discovered America 500 years be... |
13 August 2007
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Vikings were like ants: raided everybody and everything and buried the loot for better times. And as they could all die during their bravery acts, some Viking treasures remained hidden till nowadays. Now one of the biggest Viking treasures ever has been found on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunter... |
20 July 2007
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Who discovered America? When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped on the New World. It seems that 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors and warriors were roaming northern Africa, eastern... |
20 March 2007
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