A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Archeologists accept they may have discovered the remaining parts of a house where individuals who manufactured Avebury stone circle may have lived. The three-week Between the Monuments task is looking into the every day lives of Neolithic and Bronze Age occupants at the Wiltshire site. The burrow is being driven by The National Trust and Southampton and Leicester University archeologists. The National Trust said in the event that it is a house they will have "hit the big stake". Representative Dr Nick Snashall said: "I could check the quantity of center Neolithic houses that have been found on the fingers of one hand.
"This site dates from a period when individuals are simply
beginning to manufacture the most punctual parts of Avebury's earthworks, so we could be taking a gander at the home and working environment of the individuals who saw that happening."The site being unearthed is by the West Kennet Avenue - a 1.5-mile (2.5km) ancient road of two parallel lines of stones - and was initially found by excavator and businessperson Alexander Keiller 80 years prior. The group has put in three years inquiring about his diaries and drawings together with current geophysical review methods to pinpoint the uncovering range.
They have additionally found pointed stones, groups of scrubbers for working shroud and plant materials, scaled down rock saws and ceramics. Dr Snashall said: "It's very amazing, a large number of individuals have gone to this site throughout the years however few of them can have thought about what they were remaining on.
The finds have been coming up three or four at once, in bunches. It's as though the individuals were staying here living up to expectations away making pointed stones, scratching skins and doing their every day undertakings and after that they just got up and left."
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