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Badgers: digging machines. (Column)
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February 1, 1993|
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COPYRIGHT 1993 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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Seen a badger lately? I haven't, and I live in Wisconsin, "The Badger State." Still, according to biologists who keep track of wildlife populations, badgers are doing just dine. The reason we don't see them (even in the 25 Western and Midwestern states where they are relatively plentiful) is that they are underground.
Badgers are nature's most efficient digging machines and spend most of their lives moving dirt. They dig to find food, they dig to escape danger, and they dig dens to raise young.
Its three-foot-long, low-slung body an short legs flatten out so ...
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Premji, First Indian to be awarded 2005 Faraday Award.
M2 Presswire
; ...formally presented by Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman...Thomson DSc1928Professor Sir Ambrose Fleming MA DSc FRS1929Guido Semenza1930The...FRS1937Professor Andre Blondel1938Sir John F C Snell GBE1939W D Coolidge...FRS1941Sir Arthur P H Fleming CBE DEng LLD1942Dr P Kapitza...
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Wireless operator saved hundreds on liner ; The following story about a Brigg man's role in the rescue of people from a sinking liner was researched by John Allen, a licensed radio amateur from Kirton in Lindsey, after being offered a cigarette card printed in 1909 by Lambert & Butler.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
; ...sinking liner was researched by John Allen, a licensed radio amateur...wireless operator in uniform, John Robinson Binns. John (later to become Jack) was...jars. It wasn't until 1904 Sir Ambrose Fleming invented the two electrode glass...
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 "Ballymoney & Moyle Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland)")
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Prestigious award for local Professor.
Newspaper article from: Ballymoney & Moyle Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland)
; ...contributions to Electrical Engineering. Professor John McCanny has been awarded the Faraday Medal by the Institution...of Technology. Previous Faraday medallists include Sir Ambrose Fleming who developed a device to enable commercial radio services...
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Anniversaries: 18th April 1996
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...playwright, baptised 1732; Sir Francis Baring, banker, 1740...Filippino Lippi, painter, 1504; John Leland, antiquary, 1552; John Foxe, author of The Book of...Chaminade, composer, 1944; Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, 1945...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Pope Alexander VI, 1480; Sir Francis Baring, banker and...Filippino Lippi, painter, 1504; John Leland, antiquary, 1552; John Foxe, author of The Book of...Chaminade, composer, 1944; Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, 1945...
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CEA Selects Seven To CE Hall Of Fame.
Magazine article from: TWICE
; ...His Master's Voice" marketing campaign. * Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) Fleming was the British scientist whose invention of the diode, or Fleming valve, in 1904 revolutionized radio telegraphy...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Births: Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1489; John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, baptised...1832; Gertrude Jekyll, landscape architect, 1843; Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, 1849; Busby Berkeley (William...
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CEA Honors New Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Inductees At 2001 International CES.
PR Newswire
; ...the 2001 Hall of Fame are: * Emile Berliner, patented flat phonograph disc and Gramophone Company founder * Sir John Ambrose Fleming, vacuum tube developer * Hugo Gernsback, journalist * Peter Laurits Jensen, car stereo and loudspeaker inventor...
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Hibberd lands four winners at trials
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...raced by Hanrahan, and Sir Ambrose, while for Kent Fleming he was impressed with...another success for the Fleming stable when Red Hot...like her, trained by John and Karen Parsons...52. Trainer: Kent Fleming. Maiden 800m: Super...
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Dictionary of Canadian biography v14: 1911-1920.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
; ...Edward Blake, 79; Sir Sanford Fleming, 88; Sir William...Charles Tupper, 94; Sir William Van Home, 72; and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 79...featured in this volume: Ambrose Small 53(?), Louis Hemon, 33, John McCrae, 46; and Tom...
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