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Cultureteca 08.03.20

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Chastened but not deterred, Paris Fashion Week promised something of a respite for the ragged fashionistas who were able to make the trek over from Milan. With Lombardy the epicentre of a growing crisis in Italy, Milan Fashion Week closed under a cloud, as the number of coronavirus cases in the country reached 150, ten towns were placed under...

Cultureteca 21.05.17

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Best-Preserved Nodosaur Goes on Display in Alberta This week the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada unveiled what has been described as the world's best-preserved armoured dinosaur. A newfound species of nodosaur, with thorny armour to deter predators, it would have stretched 18-feet long and weighed almost 3,000 pounds during its lifetime between 110 million and 112 million years...

Cultureteca 28.02.16

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Russian Ice Swimmers Play Chess in a Near-Freezing Urals Lake In Lake Shartash near the city of Yekaterinburg - the administrative centre of the Urals region which straddles Europe and Asia - Russian ice swimmers have taken to playing chess in just their underwear, as a means of physical and mental preparation ahead of their swim meets. The idea emerged...