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• A tale of hardihood to stir any mans heart

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Twitter is an adolescent craze - but it could bring to the attention of a new generation the heroism of Captain Scott, says Simon Heffer.
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• The ice at the South Pole is melting

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 129
  Humans are very clever; they have figured out that object have mass. Mass is often thought of as weight but scientifically it is more than weight. It can describe the properties of a body when it moves, or the properties of a body when it active or passive gravity is applied to it. Einstein told us that energy is ...
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• Eight Women from Eight Countries Ski to South Pole

  
  The Outside Blog — Authority: 494
  There may not be much powder skiing in Antarctica. Nonetheless a team of eight women from Commonwealth countries set off on skis toward the South Pole yesterday. Hailing from Cyprus, Ghana, Singapore, India, Brunei, New Zealand, Britain, and Jamaica, they are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth with ...
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• The Water Car: Episode 4 – Listen and Write

  
  English Conversations — Authority: 116
  Download audio file (watercar4clip.mp3) Download the entire Water Car series. This is the first half of Episode 4 of The Water Car , an Interactive Story series for intermediate level English language learners. It focuses on present progressive verbs. Listen and Write: listen to Aaron and write ...
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• Antarctica 2009: Kaspersky Commonwealth Team Heads South!

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 470
  There was lots of activity down in Antarctica over the weekend, as steady progress was made by the teams. Weather conditions fluctuated wildly though, but that is to be expected this time of year, and the explorers seem to be settling into their routines as they begin their long journey to the pole. The Kaspersky ...
  6 days ago

• Comets may have delivered water on Moon

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 21 (ANI): Evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction with the solar wind.In October, the mission crashed two impactors - a spent rocket stage and a few minutes ...
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• Antarctica 2009: Progress!

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 470
  With weather improving and momentum in their favor, the adventurous men and women already in the Antarctic have started to make real progress in their expeditions, while others leave home for Punta Arenas, as they make the final preparation for their polar adventures as well. Updates from Eric Larsen and the Save ...
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• Ice trekker posts from Antarctica

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Track posts from Eric Larsen as he skis towards the South Pole on the first leg of a journey he hopes will also take him to the North Pole and Mt. Everest. read more
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• Explorer hopes to visit "three poles" in one year

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Climbing , Skiing , Asia , Antarctica , Nepal , Ecotourism Polar explorer Eric Larsen has just begun an epic adventure that will literally take him to the ends of the Earth over the course of the next year. Eric has set out on his Save The Poles Expedition , in which he plans to travel to the ...
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• Getting Thrown into the Fire (Freezer)

  
  Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists — Authority: 418
  SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA– The first few weeks on station have been hectic to say the least. Generally, the idea is to get the previous station chief and electronics technician (Marc Weekley and Patrick Cullis) off the ice as soon as we can. This gives only a little over a week of overlap with them to digest all the ...
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• Antarctica 2009: Save The Poles Expedition Officially Underway!

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 470
  There has been a slow, steady build-up to the start of the Antarctic season for 2009, with expeditions arriving first in Punta Arenas, Chile, where they organize their gear and take care of last minute needs, before ALE shuttles them over to Patriot Hills. For those that are already on the ice, it has been a ...
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• Women unite in a 900 km trek through ice and snow

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 158
  Eight women from commonwealth countries Cyprus, Ghana, India, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand, Jamaica and the United Kingdom are undertaking what seems like the impossible – skiing over 900 kilometers from Antarctica to the geographic South Pole. Marking the 60th aniversary of the Commonwealth, the expedition ...
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• In Search of Shackletons Whiskey!

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 470
  Some people will go a long way for a stiff drink. The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has announced plans to recover two cases of McKinlay and Co whiskey that have been encased in ice in the Antarctica for more than 100 years. They were left there by famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on one of his failed ...
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• Weird News: Whiskey Hunt in Antartica!!!

  
  Discover the World — Authority: 124
  When I read this news item on MSN , my first reaction was something like "Can people get any crazier?" Apparently in 1909 a few cases whiskey that were sent for an expedition to the South Pole. Now after a century a New Zealand based beverage company has suddenly woken up and recruited a drilling company to bore ...
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• Shackleton’s Scotch off the rocks

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Fresh from the South Pole, a bottle of Rare Old Scotch by McKinlay & Co, is to be cut from one of two cases buried in Antarctic ice for over a hundred years, a relic of Shackleton’s doomed expedition.Once freed from the ice by A New Zealand expedition at the Pole, the bottle is to be [...]
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• Antarctica 2009: High Winds in Patriot Hills

  
  The Adventure Blog — Authority: 470
  Last week the first Antarctic teams descended on Patriot Hills as they began their acclimatization process for their journeys to the South Pole, Vinson Massif, or where ever they might be headed on the frozen continent. For most, the first day or two is used as a way to get use to the environment, check their gear one ...
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• Rosetta comet chaser captures spectacular image of Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Paris, November 16 (ANI): The OSIRIS instrument on ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Rosetta comet chaser recently captured a spectacular image of the Earth.The image was acquired with the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from a distance of 633,000 km.The resolution is 12 km/pixel.The image is a part of a sequence of ...
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• South Pole explorers to drill for Sir Ernest Shackletons whisky

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons illfated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.
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• Photo Sunday – Journey Through the Arctic Ice

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 492
  photo credit: country_boy_shane Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. Susan Collins photo credit: nick_russill Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States’ oil reserves ...
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• NASA says “significant” water was found on the moon

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 130
  In a briefing yesterday at NASA ’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California , scientists announced that a “significant amount” of water was found on the moon, on the basis of preliminary data gathered by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). The LCROSS ...
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