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Dark Places Of The Earth: Author Details Voyage Of The Antelope Slave Ship

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Fifteen years before Amistad, there was the Antelope: a slave ship with 275 captives whose fates were argued before the U.S. Supreme Court not just…

Dark Places Of The Earth: Author Details Voyage Of The Antelope Slave Ship

Photographer Discovers Mysterious "Bearded" Antelope

Photo by Paolo Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer , Paolo Torchio, made an interesting discovery while visiting Kenya’s Msai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious “bearded” antelope. Torchio has lived and worked in Kenya for two decades and is intimately familiar the beasts that occupy the 600-square-mile reserve. He initially thought the animal was a dog and “was wondering, what is this dog doing?” he said. “And when it came out from the grass, that was a surprise.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First U.S. solar towers produce home electricity

The first U.S. solar “power towers” have produced electricity for commercial use, Scientific American reports. The feat occurred yesterday in the Antelope Valley, north of Los Angeles on the edge of the Mojave Desert

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