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Docent has 30 years of stories
There has to be something fascinating about Calistoga’s Petrified Forest. You need only to ask David Storck, the groundskeeper and docent. But you don’t really need to ask … His 30 years in that post speaks for itself.

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Families of Bloody Sunday: 38 years on, desire for justice still burns
Relatives of the 13 people who died on 30 January 1972 want loved ones exonerated and their killers held to account Before he reads the first page of the report into the Bloody Sunday massacre in which his brother died, John Kelly may have a new grandson. His daughter-in-law, Adele, is due to give birth on the day that – Kelly hopes – will close a decisive chapter in a 38-year struggle for …

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Mother receives gift 68 years in the making Play Video
On December 20, 1941 Gohner gave birth to a baby boy, but he soon developed pneumonia and died within a month. Unable to afford a headstone, his grave was marked with a number instead of a name.

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Copernicus invented geology more than 500 years ago
Washington, March 12 : In a new study, two geologists have determined that Copernicus, the renowned Polish astronomer, had invented the field of geology more than 500 years ago.

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The Thomas family in Mitchell County continues its 200 years of mining tradition
Ira Thomas’ family has been mining in the mountains for 200 years, and it’s a fair bet he could talk about it for that long — nonstop. Thomas, 69, an inveterate rockhound and chin-wagger, works old and new mine sites with his nephew, Matt Housley.

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Geology? or Theology?
Article states that rocks are 4.28 billion years old and comments are religious in nature not scientific Why?

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Our Planet is full of life its always changing! Beautiful!

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Geologists have reported a cycle of about 600 million years, and Prof Afanasiev of Moscow has determined the period of this cycle as 586.24 million years. I was pleased to meet Prof Afanasiev when I visited Russia in the mid 1990s and I gave the keynote speech at a cycles conference where he was the chair of the geological committee. With improvements in the measurement of the Hubble constant, the spacing of megawalls of galactic clusters can now be found to be about 588 million light years …

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