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Ancient Greece

Archimedes: The Genius of Syracuse

Discovering the secrets of water, levers, and numbers in Ancient Greece.

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2008
The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.
2002
Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.
2000
Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.
1998
Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.
1995
Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting 51 Pegasi as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.
1989
About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP.

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