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
1Socrates died from a cup of hemlock, and he was not the last famous victim of a plant.
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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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1Victorians went so mad for ferns that collectors stripped whole valleys bare.
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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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1One fungus turns ants into zombies and makes them climb before it sprouts.
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