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When Charles Stuart was executed didn't parliament and all the new republicans have the right to strip him of all his titles? How was he addressed on the day of his execution? Were they trying to send a message, ie we can and will execute a king if he's guilty of tyranny? Or am I over thinking it all? #ThinkingAloud

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Burial places of British royalty http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - -

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Uncovered: hidden tunnel where the infamous Judge Jeffreys walked more than 400 years ago http://www.bournemouthech... Not sure if you've already came across this? - Halil - -

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word of the day: unfettered - in terms of how the Tories will rule the next 5 years thanks to the Lib Dems who betrayed us and an unconvincing Labour leader!

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Now that the election is all but over and the the next 5 years will quite literally be blue, I can now be more attentive to my online social friends, sorry if I've been neglectful yet again! - Halil - -

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As an italian, when I read comments about elections in foreign countries and the "X will rule the next 5 years" sentence, my thoughts are always "awwww how cute!" - FelisCatus - -

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16 Breathtaking Walks To Take In London (http://www.buzzfeed.com/c... )

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“I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.” Noël Coward - Halil - -

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Westward’s colourful plan to tackle dog mess http://www.24dash.com/new...

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Westward Property Services grounds teams will from this spring, as part of their usual maintenance of grass and landscaped areas, be spraying dog mess to shame pet owners into picking it up. - Halil - -

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No, I don't think group shaming the dog owners will work very well. A dog DNA register, a simple turd probe, and little flags with the owner's face and home address to plant in the offending turd. That should do it :) - Eivind - -

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suffrage (http://www.etymonline.com... )

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suffrage (n.) late 14c., "intercessory prayers or pleas on behalf of another," from Old French sofrage "plea, intercession" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium "support, ballot, vote; right of voting; a voting tablet," from suffragari "lend support, vote for someone," conjectured to be a compound of sub "under" (see sub-) + fragor "crash, din, shouts (as of approval)," related to frangere "to break" (see fraction). On another theory (Watkins, etc.) the second element is frangere itself and the notion is "use a broken piece of tile as a ballot" (compare ostracism). - Halil - -

Meaning "a vote for or against anything" is from 1530s. The meaning "political right to vote" in English is first found in the U.S. Constitution, 1787. - Halil - -

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T minus 1 week...please help!

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$750K in funding to advance Noble technology | Peterborough Examiner (http://www.thepeterboroug... )

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âThe results of this research will not only further our knowledge and understanding of euglena as a wastewater management solution, but it will also further the development of the technology and provide a cost-effective alternative solution to current wastewater treatment methods,â Fleming director of applied research Mary Lou McLean stated. - Halil - -

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Carmichael mine may push rare bird to extinction, scientists warn Greg Hunt | Environment | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... ) http://i.guim.co.uk/media...

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The creation of Australiaâs largest mine will have âserious detrimental and irreversible consequencesâ for the endangered black-throated finch and may even push it to extinction, a recovery team for the species has advised Greg Hunt, the federal environment minister. - Halil - -

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Date Assessed: 2012-05-01: This species has been downlisted to Least Concern as, although its population is suspected to be declining, the rate of decline is no longer suspected to be moderately rapid and the species does not approach any of the other thresholds for Vulnerable under any of the Red List criteria. http://www.iucnredlist.or... --- Why does this happen? I've seen this before with other animals that were and still are threatened! - Halil - -

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Three cheetah cubs to enjoy new life after rescue from illegal pet trade https://www.youtube.com/w...

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Top 10: Most Beautiful Birds of Costa Rica | Wild Travel Central America (http://www.wildtravelcent... ) http://www.wildtravelcent... http://www.wildtravelcent... http://www.wildtravelcent...

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Home of more than 900 species of birds, Costa Rica is a chapel for birdwatchers; from the Pacific to the Caribbean, from South to North and, from the shore of the oceans to the tip of the mountains, birds are virtually on display in their diverse habitats. From small hummingbirds, that remind little gems to cryptic colored herons, stunning species as the Resplendent Quetzal and the hawk eagles, toucans, tanagers and more, it is strongly hard to say what are the most beautiful birds of Costa Rica, since each has a talent for its song, colors, bill, behavior, flight, relations with other species, and many more. - Halil - -

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In future you will be held liable by just thinking about it, Halil. I can't see how pasting a URL is worse than uploading them here (rather the other way around). - Stephan - -

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Phylogenetic structure and host abundance drive disease pressure in communities : Nature : Nature Publishing Group (http://www.nature.com/nat... )

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Pathogens play an important part in shaping the structure and dynamics of natural communities, because species are not affected by them equally1, 2. A shared goal of ecology and epidemiology is to predict when a species is most vulnerable to disease. - Halil - -

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Here we show that the phylogenetic and ecological structure of the surrounding community can be important predictors of disease pressure. We found that the amount of tissue lost to disease increased with the relative abundance of a species across a grassland plant community, and that this rare-species advantage had an additional phylogenetic component: disease pressure was stronger on species with many close relatives. - Halil - -

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New perspectives on how ecological communities are assembled (http://phys.org/news/2015... ) http://cdn.phys.org/newma...

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What do you get when you combine a professor who literally wrote the book on community ecology and another who has more than 40 years experience as a leader in the field of evolutionary biology? You get a new way to look at how organisms of all sorts interact and evolve to form ecological communities. Two Michigan State University professors published their results in the current issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and together they have come up with a new way to think about how evolution and ecology interact in community assembly. - Halil - -

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Black flamingo, possibly unique, spotted in Cyprus | euronews, world news (http://www.euronews.com/2... in-cyprus/) http://static.euronews.co... #nature #birds #wildlife

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An extremely rare black flamingo has been spotted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, exciting nature lovers who said it may be the only bird of its type ever seen. The flamingo, seen on the banks of a salt lake on Wednesday morning, is thought to have a genetic condition known as melanism, which causes it to generate more of the pigment melanin, turning it dark, rather than the usual pink colour. - Halil - -

Update: Experts think it may be the same black flamingo that birdwatchers spotted in Israel in 2014. It’s believed the bird could have melanism, which is a rare condition that affects skin pigments and can turn the features of birds black. The condition is the opposite of what causes an albino. http://www.earthweek.com/... - Halil - -

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Citrus evolution history revealed with genomes - Science News - redOrbit (http://www.redorbit.com/n... ) http://www.redorbit.com/m...

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From oranges, lemons, and limes, to kumquats and multi-colored grapefruits, the whole world loves us a good citrus fruit. Citrus are among the most important cultivated fruit trees worldwide. The high commercial value of citrus as a crop means that it has been the subject of a lot of research, but the evolutionary history and the origins of citrus as âdomesticatedâ cultivated citrus species were poorly understood. Now, advances in genome technology have allowed scientists to build an accurate picture of the evolution and variability of the genus. - Halil - -

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^^^That's an old English nursery rhyme and the ending is not very pleasant, the origins/meaning of most are actually quite grim! - Halil - -

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Francis Walsingham matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, in 1548 with many other Protestants but as an undergraduate of high social status did not sit for a degree. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

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I'm confused, was this normal for the time that people of so called high status enrolled but didn't actually bother to sit for the degree? So highborns got free degrees in any field they wanted? - Halil - -

It sort of sounds like legacy admissions at US universities. - John B. - -

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Baikal teal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w... ) http://upload.wikimedia.o...

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The Baikal teal (Anas formosa), also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in East Asia. - Halil - -

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They are gorgeous birds. - Jenny H - -

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Elixir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w... ) http://upload.wikimedia.o...

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An elixir (via Arabic term of "Al Iksir" itself from Greek "xá¸rion") is a clear, sweet-flavored liquid used for medicinal purposes, to be taken orally and intended to cure one's ills. When used as a pharmaceutical preparation, an elixir contains at least one active ingredient designed to be taken orally. - Halil - -

Just another word from the Arab language we use all the time, well maybe not this word, but it's a lovely word! - Halil - -

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Scientists reveal how a sea sponge gets its remarkable strength - physicsworld.com (http://physicsworld.com/c... ) http://images.iop.org/obj...

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The clever design underlying the remarkable strength of a sea sponge's anchoring fibres has been unravelled by scientists in the US. The team found that the strength of a fibre comes from the particular way that it is made from about 25 concentric silica cylinders. The researchers believe that this natural design could be copied to make strong artificial materials for use in larger structures such as buildings and aeroplanes. - Halil - -

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Wildlife Extra News - 15 animal species have the lowest chance for survival (http://www.wildlifeextra.... ) http://www.wildlifeextra.... #nature #extinction #wildlife

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Climbing rats, seabirds and tropical gophers are among the 15 animal species that are at the absolute greatest risk of becoming extinct very soon. Expertise and money is needed to save them and other highly threatened species. - Halil - -

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Two new rooms; 1) Nature http://www.frenf.it/early... and 2) Science http://www.frenf.it/early... Please join and post, feel free to invite others!

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Alashiya; possible ancient name for Cyprus but I wonder if it's not Turkey? If you say the name slowly it has similar phoneme to the word Asia and Turkey was called Asia Minor, I know I'm pushing it with that theory! Anyway, any thoughts?

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The name of the state translated as "Alashiya" is found on texts written in Egyptian, Hittite, Akkadian, Mycenean (Linear B) and Ugaritic. http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - -

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Akkadian is the common link here! Akkadian language http://en.wikipedia.org/w... - Halil - -

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Plant science: Potato gene guards against blight : Nature : Nature Publishing Group (http://www.nature.com/nat... )

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A gene in a wild potato plant boosts the plant's resistance to the destructive potato-blight fungus. For ten years, Vivianne Vleeshouwers of Wageningen University in the Netherlands and her colleagues combed the Andes â the ancestral home of the potato â for genes involved in defence against the fungus Phytophthora infestans. - Halil - -

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Any chance flickr import could be available at some point? I appreciate these things aren't easy to code, it would just be nice to be able to import other services too. Thanks.

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«is meant for gathering together in one place all your interests and a re-collection of most of your personal social networks feeds like twitter, tumblr, instagram, foursquare and so on» (http://sourceforge.net/p/... ) - reloj - -

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Yay! I was hoping :) - Jennifer D. - -

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apparently the yellow spectrum is the forbidden colour for fuchsias! there is an orange one, but it resembles more a salmon pink to me on closer inspection of the image at least, never seen one in real life! Hmm, link doesn't work, just google orange fuchia image - Halil - -

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Fuchsia arborescens - Perennial & Biennial Plants - Thompson & Morgan (http://www.thompson-morga... )

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This tender species fuchsia bears large panicles of delicately scented cerise pink flowers in summer, followed by decorative spherical purple fruits. Fuchsia arborescens is an elegant evergreen fuchsia for a large patio container or conservatory specimen. Take a trip back in time and discover some of the original species, from which the plethora of today's new varieties are derived. Height: 180cm (72"). Spread: 150cm (59"). - Halil - -

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I do see this as a DM, or in my feed as from the Plant Love room, since I'm subscribed. - Jennifer D. - -

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