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Antarctica is the remotest part of the world, but it is a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change. It was officially discovered 200 years ago, on Jan. 27 ...
In May 1965, the American physicist Carl R. Disch went missing during the course of his routine research near Byrd Station, Antarctica. His body was never found. [135] [failed verification] A baby, named Emilio Marcos de Palma, was born near Hope Bay on 7 January 1978, becoming the first baby born on the continent. He also was born farther ...
2012 – Felicity Aston becomes the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power, as well as the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Her journey began on 25 November 2011, at the Leverett Glacier , and continued for 59 days and a distance of 1,744 km (1,084 mi).
When paleontologist Thomas Mörs was peering into a microscope while sorting through tiny 40 million-year-old fossils unearthed on Seymour Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, he came ...
Only found within the deuterocanonical First Book of Maccabees which is found in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox bibles. Girgashites [ 1 ] Gog (various times, mainly in the Prophets ) [ 19 ]
Apart from the 200-year-old message, the students also discovered plenty of 2,000-year-old artifacts—mostly pieces of pottery—as they searched for evidence of Gallic occupation.
Chronicles was composed between 400 and 250 BCE, probably in the period 350–300 BCE; [38] Ezra–Nehemiah (two books in modern Bibles, but originally one) may have reached its final form as late as the Ptolemaic period, c. 300–200 BCE.
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