1. Henry VII thus became the first Tudor monarch and the last King of England to gain the crown on the field of battle. 2. His father, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, died aged 26 three months before Henry was born. 3. Henry’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, was only 13 when […]
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Walmart offers the LEGO Star Wars Resistance Trooper Battle Pack for $8.99. Choose in-store pickup to dodge the $5.99 shipping fee. (Amazon charges the same.) That’s $1 under our February mention and the lowest price we could find by $2. It includes 112 pieces.
Cheyenne Cameron knew something was wrong. It wasn’t just jitters before the start of her freshman year of high school. She felt dizzy, her heart was racing — she didn’t “feel right.” “I felt like a car was sitting on my chest,” Cheyenne, 16, told NBC News. “Like a heavy […]
ABOARD ‘SOLAR ONE’ ABOVE THE PACIFIC OCEAN — Scientists know how to party. Fueled by strong coffee and blue- and green-frosted doughnuts, a small army of astrophysicists, astronomers and planetary scientists cheered and applauded as “Solar One” — a special Alaska Airlines flight — launched to give them the world’s […]
Using the most precise seafloor maps ever created of Antarctica’s Ross Sea, researchers have discovered a long-dead river system that once flowed beneath Antarctica’s ice and influenced how ice streams melted after Earth’s last ice age.
New research has identified small sequences in plant DNA that act as signposts for shutting off gene activity, directing the placement of proteins that silence gene expression.
View photos FILE – In this April 8, 2006 file photo, protesters stage a rally with an inflatable doll of dugong opposing the U.S. military base relocation in Okinawa, outside Japan’s defense agency in Tokyo. A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit Monday Aug. 21, 2017, that seeks to […]