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AMiBA(pictured) is a radio telescope on Mauna Loa in Hawaii that is being used to observe the cosmic microwave background and the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies
Although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher
Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia
Plate 5 from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur showing a variety of calcareous sponges, a class of about 400 marine sponges found worldwide, mostly in shallow tropical waters.
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