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Elizabeth II Outlives Victoria Today Posted: 9 months ago by mandolinorange
Just past teatime in London today (or about 10 a.m. Eastern time), Elizabeth II will become the oldest monarch in Britain’s history, surpassing Victoria, who was 81 years, 7 months and 29 days old when she died in 1901.
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A Haunting Perfume Posted: 11 months ago by DrNothing
In a remote region of Romania, in the delicately spired summer castle of Pelisor, once lived the beloved “Saint Queen” Marie, granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her favorite room was the lushly ornate Gold Salon and this is the room that she chose to lavish with her mystical violet perfume both while alive, and long after she was dead.
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Meaty Art Posted: 2 weeks ago by psycmoe
Victoria Reynolds creates oil paintings of raw meat.
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Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole.
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Devil’s Pool : Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls Posted: 7 months ago by wildminou
Devil’s Pool is a natural rock pool at the very top of the Victoria Falls, at Zimbabwe, with a height of about 100 metres, where you can swim safely and take pictures.
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Mother gives birth to naturally conceived triplets, twice. Posted: 9 months ago by xiatethebish
Victoria Lasiter beat odds of 64 million to one
A mother of triplets has beaten odds of 64 million to one by giving birth to her SECOND naturally conceived set of triplets.
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Giant squid netted in Victoria Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
A giant squid has been found off Portland in Victoria's south-west.
The six-metre long, 230-kilogram squid was still alive when it was netted by commercial fishermen last night.
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Oldest Australian crayfish fossils provide missing evolutionary link Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin, who headed up a study on the finds.
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Termites, bugs kept prospector Theo Rosmulder alive Posted: 1 month ago by Maxriter
A GOLD prospector from Victoria ate termites and other bugs before he was rescued by an Aborigine after a harrowing four-day ordeal in a remote part of Western Australia.
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Naked newscasters strip away all but the bare facts Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Some people have a dress down day at work. Victoria Sinclair has dress off day -- every day.
See more photos here.
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For The Woman In Your Life - The $6.5 Million Bra! Posted: 2 years ago by musicgirldani
It's back, the yearly Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra. This years version is $6.5 million and weighs 800 carats made up of 2000 diamonds.
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Scientists in race to build superchook Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
CSIRO scientists in Victoria are aiming to be the first in the world to develop a genetically modified chicken immune to the killer bird flu.
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Beer-loving Aussies are turning to a softer brew Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivalled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober. After 113 years, the country's biggest selling beer, Victoria Bitter, or VB, is to be produced in a mid-strength version to keep pace with the country's fast-changing beer tastes.
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Firefighters brace for super fire Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
Firefighters and military from around Australia and New Zealand have been called in to help battle 18 different fires raging across Victoria before windy weekend conditions threaten to combine bushfires into a single conflagration.
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Bend It Like Holmes Posted: 2 years ago by musicgirldani
Katie Holmes is to 'star as Victoria Beckham in a new biopic of David Beckham'? They are all really good friends so even though poor Tom can't look like Beckham, perhaps Katie can fill Posh Spice's shoes.
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Mars rover to descend into gaping crater *VIDEO* Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
The crater is about 60 metres deep, allowing a rover to "dig" deeper into the ground – and into Mars's past – than ever before. "We're going to see more of the history of Mars here than we've seen anywhere else," Squyres says.
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Posh Spice: I look really awful naked. Posted: 2 years ago by icepigs
Every man in the world: Let me be the judge of that.
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Mars rover "Opportunity" nears Victoria Crater Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
In the next week or so, Opportunity will reach the edge of Victoria Crater after about 950 sols on Mars. Expect "the coolest picture of the surface of Mars you’ve ever seen,” says lead scientist Steve Squyres.
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24-hour curfew for Nillumbik Council's cats Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
A round-the-clock curfew would restrict thousands of cats to their own homes under a draft plan proposed by a Victorian council.
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Blogging Mars enthusiasts create and publish Victoria Pan in Aviation Week Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
A detailed, colorized pan of the interior of Victoria crater was created by merging the navigation camera's B&W photos, and published in this week's Aviation Week. This demonstrates the benefits of the JPL rover team's decision to make the raw data from the rovers available to the public in near real time. Click through to see the panorama! (By the way, the far rim of the crater is half a mile away!)
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