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RANKIN INLET, NUNAVUT Almost everyone here remembers OJs laugh. The 11-year-old was a jokester at home and school. I demanded he call me uncle, but he never would. He was a little bugger that way, his uncle Louis Taparti said last year, laughing from his living room couch. The sounds of passing all-terrain vehicles and […]

Tuesday 25 June 2019, 17:00 – This rare phenomenon is not as rare as it used to be. The strangely beautiful clouds that glow in the twilight sky are having a flag season in 2019. Noctilucent clouds (literally, "clouds that shine at night") – normally an elusive summer visitor only to the northern fringes of […]

Take to the water in the Costa Baffin Polarized 580G Sunglasses, and enjoy guilt-free clear vision. Frames made from recycled fishing nets work to reduce plastic waste instead of adding to it, and are completely recyclable at the end of their life. Even the PLUSfoam nose and temple pads can be…

https://www.livescience.com/65709-arctic-permafrost-melts-decades-early.html Arctic Permafrost Is Going Through a Rapid Meltdown — 70 Years Early By Grant Currin, Live Science Contributor | June 13, 2019 03:20pm ET Melting permafrost on the Jamal region of Russia. New research suggests that permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is melting rapidly, and large swaths of permafrost worldwide are vulnerable to this accelerated thawing Credit: […]

History is only valuable when presented in its unblemished condition. If presented in any other way, which is to say, watered down to placate the sensitivities of one group or another, then important lessons of history go unheeded, resulting in repeated mistakes. Besides this, actual history is far more interesting than its revised version. Raw history is […]

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/ac57da6d-edf1-3c8a-8dcd-72df834223d7?component=7ba8c658-a71f-3d2a-80fa-3a093c7b246f Scope and Content PAPERS MS 819/1-7;D The Collinson cryptograms in The Times, 5 May 1944 [With accompanying correspondence and notes] 18 leaves, typed MS 1063;D The unsolved problem of the Franklin Expedition records supposedly buried on King William Island, undated [Draft of article published in Mariner's Mirror, 1969] 23 leaves, holograph (Xerox) CORRESPONDENCE MS […]

Scopus EXPORT DATE:23 Jun 2019 James, N. 24398895400; Franklin’s fate: Discoveries and prospects (2017) Antiquity, 91 (360), pp. 1647-1651. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038425110&doi=10.15184%2faqy.2017.194&partnerID=40&md5=d1fadca554c1be5d4283c3eecb5b0f9d DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.194 AFFILIATIONS: Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, United Kingdom ABSTRACT: 2014, at last, revealed the wreck of HMS Erebus off Canada’s Arctic mainland. Two years later, her companion, […]

Killer whale 91 Orcas! Killer whale[1]Temporal range: Pliocene to recent [2] PreЄЄOSDCPTJKPgN Transient killer whales near Unimak Island, eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska Size compared to a 1.80-metre (5 ft 11 in) human Conservation status Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[3] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Infraorder: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Genus: OrcinusFitzinger, 1860[5] Species: O. orca Binomial name Orcinus orca(Linnaeus, 1758)[4]   Orcinus orca range […]

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pkfz2-b56958 Archives – 830 – June Trance 2017 (Part 5) Mixed by Maco42 Tracks 1 Dogma – Andretta vs Krypton2 Whirlpool – Harmonic Rush and Pablo Anon pres UNiTY3 We are (remixes) – Hector Toledo4 State of Mind – Heterogenesis5 Baffin Bay – Horizons6 Two Worlds – Illumina7 Drawing Skies – Nick Boults8 Hopeful – […]

Folktales and Fairy tales pertaining to the ironic names given to Iceland and Greenland date back to the 7th century. We can speculate about the true origins of the names but it is likely we will never know the real story. What we do know is what makes these countries vastly different despite their being […]

Imagine entering your garden through this gate draped with Blue Moon Wisteria and gazing upon the climbing William Baffin Roses. All of this beauty on a normal early summer morning, armed with bug repellent and getting ready to weed. How can it get better? Care of William Baffin Roses William Baffin roses (Rosa x ‘William […]

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The Arctic receives more solar radiation this time of year than any place else on Earth, and temperatures can be very hot north of the Arctic Circle. The total energy received each day at the top of the atmosphere depends on latitude. The highest daily amounts of incoming energy (pale pink) occur at high latitudes […]

What’s happening in and around London this weekend and next week

Francis Drake was a magnificent sailor raised to the status of myth in England for having circumnavigated the globe (fifty-nine years after Elcano) and for his confrontations with the Spaniards, some successful and others not so much. But it was not the only one. That sixteenth-century England was open to the sea since Enrique VIII […]