Shackleton hut to be resurrected
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Work has begun to restore a hut used by the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during his attempt to reach the South Pole nearly a century ago.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 19--SMITHFIELD -- An information workshop about the Mountains to the Sea Trail project will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Human Resources building, located at the corner of south 2nd and Johnston streets.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Army Corps of Engineers agreed Wednesday to redesign plans to repair a dike that experts say is in danger of failing if a hurricane strikes.
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The skeletal remains of 15 Aborigines are being returned home for reburial, nearly 90 years after a Swedish zoologist smuggled them out of Australia for display in a Stockholm museum.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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By Jane Wooldridge, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -- A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist Sydney Hollingworth that he asked to buried here.
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A Â£12m regeneration scheme for the top of the valleys is set to be announced by the assembly government.
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BELGRADE, Dec 30 (IPS) - The Tito train will remind many in the Balkans of  good old times as it resumes its run Dec. 31 after almost a  quarter of a century in the shed.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- Heritage Minister Andrew McIntosh today announced plans to list a unique seaside structure in Bournemouth, Dorset.
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OSLO: Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on their Kon-Tiki raft, six men will attempt to redo the feat next year, the head of the expedition said on Monday.
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PLYMOUTH -- A new athletic complex and convention center is going to replace the old Plymouth Sports Dome, a once-bustling regional sports facility that collapsed during the blizzard in 2005.
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DEMOLITION of a landmark former brewery got und
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NASA is becoming increasingly optimistic that the failing Hubble Space Telescope can be revived and rejuvenated at the hands of a robot rescuer.
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Parts of a ship thought to have lain in the Thames Estuary for 500 years are recovered intact.
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AIR CRASH SURVIVORS REUNITED AN EMOTIONAL reunion of some of the survivors of the Winter Hill air disaster will be screened on BBC1 next week.
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Construction at the International Space Station will resume - after a four-year hiatus - with arrival of Atlantis.