Topic: Cape of Good Hope
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Transit of Venus: Early 'tape measure' for size of our solar system (+video)
The next transit of Venus occurs June 5. Astronomers once used the transit of Venus across the sun to come up with the 'astronomical unit' – the distance from Earth to our sun.
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The Fourth Part of the World
The bizarre story of how the planet Earth came to be represented on paper.
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Nature's Great Events
This sumptuous companion book to a BBC series examines our planet and its wild inhabitants.
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Somali piracy hits every consumer
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A tasty reminder of home
The kitchen filled with the scents of a faraway land.
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Arab countries meet to tackle Somali pirate threat
Egypt hosted Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Sudan, Yemen, and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Thursday in a bid to protect valuable maritime trade routes from pirates.
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