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Egypt Targets 20% Rise in Gold Deliveries as Mining Expansion Accelerates

Egypt is targeting a 20% increase in gold deliveries to the Central Bank of Egypt this year as Cairo intensifies efforts to formalise gold production, attract mining investment and expand one of the country’s most promising non-oil industries. State-owned Shalateen Mineral Resources Company aims to deliver approximately 1.5 tonnes of gold to the central bank […]

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Will the exploitation of raw materials on planets irreversibly destroy unnoticed life ?

Is there life out in Space ? do we know what we are looking for ? and what if we are missing the signs ? Researchers at Utrecht University have been posing the tricky questions around ‘false negatives’ – missed opportunities to detect life forms on other planets. Astrobiologists are very aware of the possibility […]

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Agiba Discovers 330 Bcf of Gas and 10 Million Barrels of Condensates in Western Desert

Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced that Agiba Petroleum Company, the joint venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Eni S.p.A., has achieved its largest Western Desert discovery in approximately 15 years. The discovery was made through the exploratory well “Bustan South 1X,” drilled using the EDC-9 rig operated by Egyptian Drilling […]

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What Do We Think Carrie Bradshaw Smelled Like?

Have you ever wondered what Carrie Bradshaw or Queen Charlotte smelled like?

Aiming to capture the olfactory essence of these beloved women, Marc-Antoine Barrios sent PAPER a sample set of their latest collection, with five signature fragrances matched to the personality of iconic TV heroines.

The scents include Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl), Yasmin Kara-Hanan (Industry) ,…

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13-year-old goes metal detecting, casually uncovers Viking king's treasure

A 13-year-old with a metal detector on the German island of Rügen managed to do what treasure hunters dream about, accidentally uncovering a cache of Viking-era artifacts linked to Harald Bluetooth. Yes, the Bluetooth current wireless tech is named after.

In January 2018, Rene Schoen and his young student Luca Malaschnitschenko were doing what many weekend hobbyists do on the German…

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Peary Monument in Arlington, Virginia

Visitors to the Arlington National Cemetery looking to visit the gravesite of Admiral Peary will appropriately find themselves at the farthest edge of the complex. Unexpectedly, however, one must walk to the far southwest end to reach the memorial for the famous North Pole explorer.

Robert E. Peary's ambitious expeditions to be the first documented person to reach the North Pole were deemed a…

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J’ai fait le tour du Lac aux Oiseaux

Pour fêter le printemps, j’ai fait le tour du Lac aux Oiseaux. Le lieu artificiel, est assez sinueux pour m’avoir donné le sentiment ou l’espoir de me perdre. Et j’ai marché dans un mélange étrange de joie et de tristesse. Faut-il revenir là où nous sommes allés ensemble ? Je voulais revoir le lac. Je n’avais […]

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Book Review: ‘The Apollo Chronicles, Engineering America’s First Moon Missions’

Review by Duncan Lunan. The Apollo Chronicles, Engineering America’s First Moon Missions (2019), Brandon R. Brown, Oxford University Press, hbk, £19.99, xiv + 269 pp. First published in different form, Concatenation, April 2020. In total, roughly 400,000 people worked in the Apollo programme. The astronauts, and particularly Neil Armstrong, have always emphasised that their accomplishments […]

Lewis and Clark Statues in Clarksville, Indiana

History has well documented the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery departing from Camp River Dubois on May 14, 1804. This marked the Corps’ westward journey toward the Pacific Ocean. However, the beginnings of the Lewis & Clark expedition occurred seven months earlier, on October 14, 1803, in tiny Clarksville, Indiana, at the Falls of the Ohio. It was here that Meriwether Lewis arrived from…

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