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rchaeologists may soon unravel the mysteries of ancient Egypt using a new imaging technique that offers a better look inside mummies without removing a single piece of wrapping.
The new kind of CT scan has been successfully tested on cat mummies from the collections of the South Australian Museum. While the exact ages of these mummies are unknown, feline mummies were fairly common in Egypt from about 600 B.C. until A.D. 250.
Like any single male with a bachelor suite, the Bombay night frog knows that getting lucky is all about location. In India’s Western Ghats mountain range, near the Koyna Lake south of Mumbai, this means a branch, leaf or rock overhanging a mountain stream. Once he sets up his seasonal abode, he’ll start calling a serenade to any nearby females moving around in the dark.
The local men rounded up 30 wild horses and mules from the surrounding savannah in the plains of Venezuela and forced them into a muddy pool of water filled with electric eels. It was March 19, 1800, and Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian explorer, naturalist and geographer, was intent to conduct an open-air experiment on the power of the eels’ shock. He and his retinue watched as the fish emerged from their muddy refuge in the bottom of the pond and gathered on the surface of the water. The eels shot electric shocks, and within a few minutes, two of the horses were already stunned and drowned.
Keith Clarke grew up on the ice. He started on outdoor rinks in North York at around six years old, playing hockey till the cold early hours of the morning throughout his childhood and building on the love of the game that he developed in the more organized arena of minor hockey.
“When I was a kid there were huge snowbanks, there was tons of snow. It was freezing from December to March,” he says.
Over the years, things have changed for outdoor skating rinks. Increasingly erratic weather due to climate change has made it harder for many outdoor rinks in Ontario —particularly in the south.
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