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From dust to life – the birth of the Earth
This edited article about the Solar System originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1048 published on 10 April 1982. How the earth formed out of cosmic dust into the familiar world we know,...
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Lancaster, the city with a Plantagenet past
This edited article about Lancaster originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1048 published on 10 April 1982. The old coat of arms of the City of Lancaster with the new arms beneath and...
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The perilous evolution to the Arabian thoroughbred
This edited article about the horse originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1048 published on 10 April 1982. Some twenty million years into prehistory, the three-toed mesohippus had evolved...
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The indestructable malignant mosquito
This edited article about the mosquito and malaria originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1048 published on 10 April 1982. The Mosquito by R B Davis Anyone who has slept fitfully on a warm...
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James Bruce, proud discoverer of the Blue Nile
This edited article about James Bruce and African exploration originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1048 published on 10 April 1982. When James Bruce visited the Sudanese kingdom of Fung,...
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Marconi makes waves in thin air
This edited article about Marconi originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1049 published on 17 April 1982. Radio spanned the Atlantic for the first time in 1901 when a morse signal sent from...
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Chesterfield – a gateway to the Peak District
This edited article about Chesterfield originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1049 published on 17 April 1982. The coat of arms of Chesterfield with (inset) George Stephenson; the twisted...
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From chivalric steed to noble shire horse
This edited article about the horse originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1049 published on 17 April 1982. Farmers used oxen before the middle ages, but the invention of the horse collar...
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The inhospitable neighbours in our Solar System
This edited article about the Solar System originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1049 published on 17 April 1982. Halley’s Comet by Harry Green The Earth’s closest planetary neighbours in...
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The Battles of Prestonpans and Culloden
This edited article about the Battles of Prestonpans and Culloden originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 1049 published on 17 April 1982. The Battle of Culloden, the last full-scale combat...
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