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In 1960, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives. In 1963, Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis was attacked by right-wingers after delivering a speech in Thessaloniki; he died five …
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | North American P-51C, "Excalibur III": On May 29, 1951, Capt. Charles F. Blair flew Excalibur III from Norway across the North Pole to Alaska in a record-setting 10½ hours. Using a system of carefully plotted "sun lines" he developed, Blair was able to navigate with precision where [...]
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NASA will launch a new rover to Mars in 2020. That plan was among the science news NASA made at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Also, Voyager 1 travels “magnetic highway”; Van Allen Probes reveal structures and dynamics in Earth’s radiation belts; Kelly and Kornienko on mission; new [...]
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October 7 is the launch date for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. This will be the first of 12 contracted flights by SpaceX to resupply the space station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract and will restore an American capability to transport cargo to and from [...]
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Louisville, Colorado. The spawling Indian Peaks development in it’s last phase. It’s really a shameful continuance of the destruction of beautiful open spaces, as are most housing developments. The US has created a monster called the "American Dream" — owning a home. This dream has morphed into Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the financial crisis, huge [...]
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Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the Central American Volcanic Arc, or CAVA. The volcanoes result from [...]
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