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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
We’re sorry. Yahoo! Photos is closing on October 18, 2007 so we are no longer accepting new accounts or allowing users to upload photos if you don’t already have photos in your account. We’ve decided to focus all our efforts on Flickr – the award winning photo sharing community that has been called “completely addictive”. [...]
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