Chasing the Northern Lights
A solar storm in 1859 lit skies so bright that gold miners got up to make breakfast.
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A solar storm in 1859 lit skies so bright that gold miners got up to make breakfast.
31 sentences
1After the 1755 quake, Lisbon tested its new buildings by marching soldiers round them.
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1A single eruption in 1815 left Europe and America without a summer the following year.
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1The legends, thefts and fakes behind the world's most famous stones.
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1Rivers of ice that carve valleys, calve icebergs and creep downhill a few metres a day.
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1A black hole began as a guess by an English clergyman in 1783.
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1Hong Kong raises a number to tell the city how strong the coming storm will be.
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1The rich soil that feeds them is the same ash that once buried their towns.
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1The rockets, astronauts and robots that went to the Moon, and what they found there.
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1A Mars rover built for 90 days kept driving for almost fifteen years.
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1Long before rockets, people saw rabbits, gods and omens in the Moon.
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1On one distant planet it may rain molten glass, sideways.
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