Fouad Ashraf
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Articles By Fouad Ashraf
This article is a continuation of ‘The most threatened forests around the world – Part 1’. Mountainous archipelago once dominated by temperate rainforests, New Zealand is a land of diverse landscapes, home to extraordinary levels of endemic species, including its most famous representative, the kiwi. None of its mammals, amphibians and reptiles are found elsewhere […]
Apr 20 2012 | Posted in
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2011 is the International Year of Forests and paradoxically forests had never been as threatened as they are in its aftermath. Forests in a worse state of preservation of the planet and have lost nearly all habitats, but are still home to many unique plants and animals in the world. If these forests are lost, […]
Apr 19 2012 | Posted in
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The Hill of Crosses, also known as the Mecca of Lithuania is situated about 13 km from Šiauliai, the fourth largest city in Northern Lithuania. Its origin dates back to 1236, when the city was founded to defend the area from the attacks of the Teutonic Knights, which does not get as they conquered the […]
Apr 18 2012 | Posted in
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In 1979 a flood forced them to retreat to a lot of snakes in upland areas and left them stranded on a large sandbar.When the waters retired, the young Jadav Payeng , who had 16 years with the snakes found dead. Snakes, who survived the water, died of heat for lack of a shadow on their heads. The […]
Apr 18 2012 | Posted in
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In July 2009, the Lunar Explorer Italia website published the first image that appears on these lines. It shows what appears to be a rock monument in the form of rectangular monolith. Nothing too mysterious if not, of course, by the fact that the photograph was taken on Mars, and also one of the best […]
Apr 16 2012 | Posted in
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This article is a continuance of ‘Discovery of a unique cave in Spain – Part 1’. The zaccagnaita was discovered in 2001 in Carrara (Italy) and the authors who described the mineral species only managed a few crystals of microscopic size as the mineral is extremely rare. This mineral is not like the cave of […]
Apr 14 2012 | Posted in
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A research team composed of specialists from the Geological Survey of Spain and the Complutense University of Madrid has discovered in the cave The polytype Soplao. A new mineral, zaccagnaita-3R , unique in the world by being the first reported case of a zaccagnaita formed in a cave, which turns this into a new mineral […]
Apr 14 2012 | Posted in
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Space science experts are trying to solve the mystery of a "UFO fragment" that recently crashed in a village in Siberia. Locals insist that the metal object, which resembles a giant garbage fell from the sky, but the experts concluded that there was any kind of missile or rocket. He is now under police custody, […]
Apr 12 2012 | Posted in
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This article is a continuance of ‘The Jerusalem Syndrome – Part 2.’ Artemio Vitores, Franciscan Custodian of Holy Land, many Christians believed that the passage through life changing Jerusalem, because "the holy places put you in connection with God," but believes the syndrome is another thing, which are isolated cases . "Coming to Jerusalem is […]
Apr 11 2012 | Posted in
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This article is a continuance of ‘The Jerusalem Syndrome – Part 1.’ In any culture it is difficult to draw a dividing line that separates sanity from insanity, here in Jerusalem, deciding when mysticism leads to psychosis is a mission that borders on the impossible. For people who would live elsewhere admitted to a psychiatric, […]
Apr 10 2012 | Posted in
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Men and women with the so-called Jerusalem Syndrome, a mental illness that a surface in this city as mystical delirium of Easter comes the pilgrimage season reaches its peak. You see them dressed in white, walking through the Old City of Jerusalem, or at odd hours praying at the Wailing Wall. Some believe they are […]
Apr 9 2012 | Posted in
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The Cassini spacecraft has captured molecular oxygen ions around Dione, an icy moon of Saturn, confirming the presence of a very thin atmosphere. The oxygen ions are very rare (one for every 11 cubic centimetres), showing that Dione has an extremely thin neutral atmosphere. The detection of this thin atmosphere, known as the exosphere, is […]
Mar 30 2012 | Posted in
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