This is an informal account of the creation of a thematic atlas of Ireland over a period of seven years. The first part relates to the setting up of an organisation for the project under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and touches also on some of the financial implications. The ...
The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms. Dublin, Ireland Added By Noel Donnellon Share Tweet Email Been Here Want to go Added to list The Grand Royal Arch Room. noeldonnellon / Atlas Obscura User About Freemasons' ...
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Ireland’s most infamous unsolved murder: a massacre intended to strike fear into the hearts of Catholics In a new book Edward Burke identifies the man he believes to have been responsible for the brutal killing of a Belfast Catholic family in 1922, a massacre whose repercussions continue to be...
Travel more comfortably with these road trip must-haves. Alissa Grisler and Amanda NorcrossMay 20, 2025 The 5 Best NYC Bus Tours Let a trained driver worry about the traffic while you enjoy the Big Apple's best sights. Holly Johnson and Marisa MéndezMay 20, 2025 Flight Canceled or Delayed...
Ireland's fierce nationalistic pride, as many were renamed after Irish figures upon the country’s independence. In this sense, it's fitting that the penultimate bridge of the river as it flows toward the Irish Sea is visually modeled after a Celtic harp, which is Ireland’s national emblem...
In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced the observation of a Higgs boson at a mass of around 125 gigaelectronvolts. Ten years later, and with the data corresponding to the production of a 30-times larger number of Higgs bosons, we have...
Complete human recombination maps Article Open access 22 January 2025 References Bachtrog, D. Y-Chromosome evolution: emerging insights into processes of Y-chromosome degeneration. Nat. Rev. Genet. 14, 113–124 (2013). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Repping, S. et al. Hi...
Artist and writer Andrew Barr is crowdfunding for what he is calling “the first major Scottish atlas for over 100 years”: a hand-drawn, hardcover Atlas of Scotland: Produced as a visually striking hardback book, combining text with illustrated maps, the Atlas will shed new light on Scotland...
Forget all the hand-wringing about whether captive bred specimens of uncertain provenance can survive in the wild, and how they will likely all quickly perish; the main damage they have done is that the very act of their release makes a complete mockery of nature conservation. Insects are in...