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cutaway drawings of multipair and coaxial cables

How underwater cables connect the world's continents

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Artist interpretation of space asteroids impacting earth and moon. Meteoroids, meteor impact, end of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Doomsday Predictions, comet

Major Mass Extinctions

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.

6 Lakes That Are Drying Up

Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.

Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms

Middle East bee locator map

Are the Middle East and the Near East the Same Thing?

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Key People

Giovanni Battista Pirelli

Italian industrialist