The Cairo
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| Address | 1615 Q St NW, Washington, DC 20009, United States |
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| Opened | 1894 |
| Phone | +1 202-232-4020 |
| Architectural styles | Romanesque Revival architecture, Moorish Revival architecture |
| Architects | Thomas Franklin Schneider |
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| ID | 2375598 |
About The Cairo
The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D. C. , is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District of Columbia's tallest residential building.
Where is the The Cairo
Pro-Palestinian protests take place in London, Birmingham and Salford
... Speaking at The Cairo Peace Summit, he said: " This has been an issue which has long stimulated passions and we are now all seeing on social media and in our communities how divisive and polarising the current situation has become...
Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says
... The Cairo official said Israeli officials had played down the threat from Gaza, instead focusing on the West Bank...
Egyptians offered loans to buy books as inflation soars
... He was speaking as The Cairo International Book Fair, which last year attracted two million people, opens to the public...
Outcry in Egypt as iconic Nile houseboats are destroyed
... Egypt s government recently opened the first section of a new 5km-long (3-mile) walkway along The Cairo corniche, clearing away many small businesses such as felucca sailboat operators...
BBC Radio 3 to shine light on 'forgotten' composers
... Ali Osman (1958-2017)The Sudanese musician started out playing drums and guitar, but later wrote orchestral, chamber and vocal pieces, many of which were performed in The Cairo Opera House, as well as publishing theses on traditional Sudanese music...
Helping trans people escape death in their home countries
... Dancing became a way to combat her anxiety, and a job performing at The Cairo Opera house initially looked like a chance to start over...
Coronavirus: Why are British travellers, in order to get home?
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World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
...An Archaeopteris root system at The Cairo fossil forest site The earliest fossilised trees, dating back 386 million years, have been found at an abandoned quarry in New York...
World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
An Archaeopteris root system at The Cairo fossil forest site
The earliest fossilised trees, dating back 386 million years, have been found at an abandoned quarry in New York .
Scientists believe The Forest they belonged to was so vast it originally stretched beyond Pennsylvania.
This discovery in Cairo, New York , is thought to be two or three million years older than what was previously The World 's oldest forest at Gilboa, also in New York State.
The findings throw new light on the evolution of trees.
What did they find?It was More Than 10 years ago that experts from Cardiff University , UK, Binghamton University in the US and the New York State Museum began looking at The Site in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in the Hudson Valley .
Since then, they have mapped over 3,000 square metres of The Forest and concluded The Forest was home to at least two types of trees: Cladoxylopsids and Archaeopteris.
A third type of tree has yet to be identified.
Palaeobotanist Dr Chris Berry from Cardiff University is a co-author of the
"This is the oldest place where you can wander around and map out where fossil trees were standing back in The Middle part of the Devonian era. "
Researchers say they also discovered very long, woody roots that transformed the way plants and soils gather water.
"It's a very ancient forest from the beginnings of the time where The Planet was Turning Green and forests were becoming a normal part of the Earth's system," said Dr Berry.
It's understood The Forest was wiped out by a flood. The researchers have found fish fossils on The Surface of The Quarry .
How does this help us understand The Planet 's past?The Point In Time that the fossil trees date to marks a transition between a planet with no forests and a planet that is largely covered in trees.
Dr Berry says studying The Site can give us a better understanding of how trees evolved and how they draw down carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
"We're well aware at the moment that having forests is a good thing and burning down forests and deforestation is a bad thing.
Prof Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway , London says there's No Doubt this is the earliest fossilised forest that we know of.
"It may well be that in The Future , something even older pops up - palaeontology is full of surprises!
"But for the time being, this is incredibly exciting. "
forest, fossils, palaeontology
Source of news: bbc.com