Images Dated 6th January 2006

CMS detector, CERN

CMS detector. Part of the CMS (compact muon solenoid) detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland. The detector will be placed around the large hadron collider (LHC), CERN's highest energy particle accelerator. Proton beams will be accelerated and collided head on in the LHC, and the CMS will detect the resultant particles. The main goal of the experiment is the discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, but yet to be directly detected (as of 2006). A pilot run of the LHC is scheduled for summer 2007

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A female crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) in the 18

A female crowned lemur (Eulemur coronatus) in the 18, 000ha Ankarana Special Reserve. These lemurs are only found in Northern Madagascar Lemurs belong to a group of primates called the prosimians, meaning before monkeys'. Everywhere in the world except Madagascar, monkeys replaced them 35 million years ago. Madagascar has outstanding biodiversity; most of its flora and fauna is unique to the island and can be found nowhere else

© Nigel Pavitt/John Warburton-Lee Photography Ltd

International Scorers XV in 1933/4

Rugby Union - 1933 / 1934 season - North Midlands XV vs. International Scorers XV
The International Scorers XV team group before the game at Villa Park on 3/3/34.
Back-row (left to right): Referee, Edgar Jones (Llanelli & Wales), H. W. Hill, John Dicks (Northampton & England), Robert John Barr (Leicester & England), Joseph Thomas Wade Berry (Leicester & England), D. I. Brown, Philip Edward Dunkley (Harlequins & England), G. Years.
Sitting: Wiliam Henry Weston (Northampton & England), Alfred Denzel Carpenter (Gloucester & England), Christopher Champain Tanner (Cambridge University & England), Donald William Burland (Bristol & England), Henry Arthur Fry (Liverpool & England); Bert Jones (Llanelli & Wales), Thomas James Mountstevens Barrington (Bristol & England).
On Ground: Graham WIlliam Churchill Meikle (Waterloo & England), A. P. Hughes (Leicester)

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