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Collection on display
BRISTOL -- A collection of beautiful thimbles and other sewing items will be on display at the Bristol Public Library during April.
The collection belongs to Sue Wildman of Bristolville. She began collecting about 20 years ago with Avon collectible thimbles and then became interested in old family pieces. For more information, or to arrange to have your own unique collection of items displayed, call Cheryl at (330)-889-3651.
Some liked it hot?
If Earth's earliest life forms liked it hot, they had only a short time to get established, scientists have found.
Heat-loving bacteria that thrive near the boiling point of water are considered strong candidates for the first life on Earth. But new calculations suggest that surface temperature would have been hospitable for only about 100,000 to 10 million years -- a geologic instant, says a team led by Norm Sleep of Stanford University.
So hot life didn't have much time to get started on the surface, the scientists write in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rather, they suggest, life may have originated in a deep-sea vent or below ground.