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    National Museum of Scotland reopens after three-year redevelopment

    Friday, July 29, 2011 Today sees the reopening of the National Museum of Scotland following a three-year renovation costing £47.4 million (US$ 77.3 million). Edinburgh’s Chambers Street was closed to traffic for the morning, with the 10am reopening by eleven-year-old…

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    Wikinews Shorts: November 9, 2007

    A compilation of brief news reports for Friday, November 9, 2007. Glasgow in Scotland was today announced to be the host of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The result which was announced in Sri Lanka was witnessed by thousands of people who…

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    Chess champion is “Fritzed” by computer

    Tuesday, December 5, 2006 Russian chess grandmaster, Vladimir Kramnik lost the final match of his man versus machine match against the Deep Fritz chess program. The six game match in Bonn, Germany had a final result of 4-2 for the…

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    Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 browser

    Friday, March 18, 2011 At 9:00 p.m. PDT Monday (0400 UTC Tuesday), Microsoft rolled out the first stable Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) release, available in 39 languages, for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Internet Explorer is the most used web…

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    Vibrating Sieves Exactly What Are They?

    More On This Topic: Energy Savings Adelaide Vibrating Sieves – Exactly What Are They? by Caz Vibrating sieves are a type of sieves used to separate particles of different sizes, they separate wet and dry material with more detail than…

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    Drug-resistant staph deaths surpass AIDS in the United States

    Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005 alone, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is more people than were killed…

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    Australian government announces study of tax system

    Monday, February 27, 2006 The Australian federal treasurer, Peter Costello, has announced a study to compare the Australian taxation system with those of other countries. It will include overall tax levels, as well as indirect tax, income tax and company…