Mummy wheat and ancient seeds fail to germinate or revive
A discussion cites experiments on ancient seeds and tomb microbes. Seeds from 237 year old Nelumbium speciosum germinated after acid treatment, while mimosa seeds aged 147 years germinated in a herbarium, but many ancient claims are debunked by sterile tomb tests from Tutankhamen.
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J. Bunker
Fric
Egypt
Ramsbottom
British Museum of Natural History
South Kensington
China
Nile
Kew Gardens
Manchuria
Tutankhamen
England
Coronation Scot Returns Home After World War II Service
The Coronation Scot, famed British train seen by millions at the New York World’s Fair, has gone back to England to resume passenger service. The locomotive was sent back in 1942 for war use, while the rest of the train was given to the American Army for use at Jeffersonville Indiana’s Quartermaster Depot headquarters.
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England
Jeffersonville
Ind
New Crystal Palace Aims To Symbolize Peace Prosperity And Industry
The design by Birana architects Herbert Jackson and Reginald Edymonds for a new Crystal Palace replaces the fire‑destroyed London landmark with a steel framed reinforced concrete complex. It features a main entrance hall an opera and ballet amphitheatre a small theatre concert hall and dance hall. The stadium seats 100000 plus a swimming pool an ice rink and skating facilities. Estimated cost is 60000000 and completion could take five to six years according to St Thomas Times Journal.
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Crystal Palace
London
England
Britain
Herbert Jackson
Reginald Edymonds
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Status of Women Urges UN Action for Equal Rights World
A UN sub commission report says women have a definite role in building a free healthy moral world and should attain equal footing with men in all fields. It calls for political rights equality and progress in civil educational social and economic areas to be pursued simultaneously and urges a UN women’s conference and world opinion support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations
Huge Wai Poua log felled in far north forest
A dry kauri tree of unusual size in Wai poua State forest, far north New Zealand, measured forty seven feet long with a 30 foot girth. Four men worked two days to fell the mammoth trunk using a 12 foot saw, estimating timber to build five or six average houses.
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Waipoua
New Zealand
Pre-Stressed Concrete Adopted by Canadian Army
The Canadian Army overseas first used pre-stressed concrete in military operations. G Magnel of Ghent University credited the Canadian Engineering Corps under Maj Gaetan Cote of Sherbrooke with pioneering the method in September 1944 by placing two pre-stressed beams as a bridge over the Terneusemn Canal to carry gasoline pipelines from Ostend to Ghent.
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G. Magnel
Department of
Civil Engineering
University of Ghent
Belgium
Quebec
Engineering Institute of Canada
Canadian Engineering Corps
Gaetan Cote
Sherbrooke
Que
Ghent
Terneusemn
Ostend
British official bans Nazi linked music in Germany zone
J B Hynd the British minister in charge of occupation policy told the House of Commons that music primarily associated with Nazism or militarism is not permitted in the British zone of occupation in Germany. He clarified the policy and its enforcement.
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Germany
J. B. Hynd
House of Commons
Artificial Breathing Could Aid Tuberculosis Treatment
Dr. Alvan L. Barach of Columbia University reports a new technique using enclosed chambers to ventilate lungs, potentially dispensing with voluntary breathing for hours. In the last decade this method helped six of twelve patients with advanced bilateral tuberculosis recover.
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Philadelphia
Alvan L. Barach
Columbia University
Barach
American College of Physicians
Fashion Thought Sparks Drink Habit in Kingston
A fashion authority notes men drink when down and women buy hats, and after seeing the hat the man often drinks again. The observation links mood, shopping, and drinking behavior in a Kingston context.
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Kingston Whig-Standard
Anniversary of Liberation of Channel Islands
The Channel Islands were occupied from 1940 with civilians evacuated and 10,000 joining the armed forces. After liberation, King honors, rationing, and rebuilding followed. The UK pledged seven and a half million pounds toward thirteen and a half million for reconstruction as the islands resume ties with Britain.
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Channel Islands
Britain
United Kingdom
BBC
Yeading
Jersey
Alderney
Normandy
William the Conqueror
England
Assist Norway Will Use Landing Craft For Post War Reconstruction
Britain supplied ten tank landing craft to Norway to aid reconstruction after wartime damage along the coast. The flat bottom vessels can beach, form a ramp, and unload heavy cargo directly onto beaches. Five craft have arrived and begun operation, aiding inaccessible quays and derelict jetties in North Norway.
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Norway
Not A Surprise: Death Sentence For Karl Frank Executed
The article reports Karl Herman Frank, former protector of Czechoslovakia, being executed for ordering the Lidice massacre and the deaths of at least 300,000 Czechs. He admitted issuing the Lidice order but sought trial at Nuremberg. He stated nationwide hatred, while the Buffalo Courier Express called the execution punishment.
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Karl Herman Frank
Czechoslovakia
Frank
Lidice
Reinhold Heydrich
International Tribunal
Nuernberg
Buffalo Courier-Express
Navy tests new fog disperser and sonic devices at Arca ta field
The Navy experiments at Arcata California test a device called ELMER to disperse fog by producing high frequency waves. Earlier attempts used sirens to turn fog into rain but caused nausea. sound waves at up to 40 000 cycles per second are inaudible and aim to be cheaper and more effective.
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Navy
Arcata
Calif
Elmer
Science Newsletter
Glass Dyeing Breakthrough Lets Glass Textile Dye Like Fabrics
A United Kingdom firm reports a new process to dye glass like textiles, overcoming glass’s poor dye absorption. The method enables dyeing without high temperature treatment or special settlements, promising simpler textile-like coloration of glass materials.
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United Kingdom
Peacocks On Linen Pattern Wordings From 1946 Book
Embroidered linens with peacocks offered as a simple stitchery project. Pattern 7297 transfers eight peacocks on fabric sizes 6x11 and 5x6x3 inches. Send twenty cents to Winnipeg Household Arts Depart and include name address and pattern number. The 1946 Needlework Book available for twenty cents more with 104 illustrations and four free potholder patterns.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Engineers build pontoon river ferry for rail link
British engineers construct a pontoon river ferry across Bangkok Siam to establish a direct rail connection between Singapore and Northern Siam.
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Bangkok
Siam
Singapore
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