Archive for the 'legends' Category
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The Voyager 1Â spacecraft is a 733-kilogram robotic space probe of the outer solar system September 5, 1977, and currently operational. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.
The US space agency’s (Nasa) venerable Voyager mission is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Its [...]
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Who is Shakespeare – The Bard of Avon ?
Did ghost writers author this playwright-dramatist’s books ? England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” (or simply “The Bard”) belonging to Stratford on Avon.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Rescuers searching for the adventurer Steve Fossett in the Nevada desert have found old wrecks of planes, some of them from crashes decades ago. Forty-five aircraft are involved in the search for the missing millionaire, who disappeared on Monday while flying alone in his small plane.
Teams have scoured an area of 10,000 sq [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Record breaking millionaire (billionaire ?) adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing for a few days now. (Its not Fosett or Fosset – Google corrected me)
Fossett, a Stanford University graduate with a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, went to Chicago to work in the securities business and ultimately founded his [...]
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
 Yahoo Photos is closing down! Yahoo! Photos is closing on October 18, 2007. Flickr is in ! Transfer your photos before it’s too late.
On the 16th June, 2007, Yahoo! Photos issued a press release stating that it would be terminating September 20, 2007 in order to focus their efforts on Flickr.
Yahoo! Photos has proposed a [...]
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