When I was four years old, I scared my mother by telling her that one day I was going to be an astronaut. I had stars that glowed in the dark scattered all around my room, I was obsessed with the idea of anything that related to going somewhere new, with the mechanics of how planes could fly, and how something could zoom off into space. I remember my dad waking me up and taking me out to see a meteor shower one cold night, asking what they were and instead of receiving the answer “shooting stars”
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You did it! We've already given you parts one, two and three of 30 shocking facts about NASA, and we're here with the final installment! Check out the final seven interesting and straight up shocking facts about NASA below. Number Seven: Moon Flag Mystery. Though most children will be able to tell you that Betsy Ross sewed the American flag, it is still unknown who designed and made the Apollo 11 Moon flag. There are two hypotheses currently in circulation: that the flag is one of three that NASA
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ension and release in Hank Mobley's playing have been too often ignored by critics and academics alike. Few attempted to study Mobley as it was much easier to pigeon hole his playing to that of a “Charlie Parker-influenced” hard bop player. Mobley's overall playing aesthetics were hard to be categorized into hard bop. This is supported by the fact that he once told journalist John Litweiler that he was “working on his own style” (Litweiler 1973). Most of the online publications or studies focused
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The trip around the moon was uneventful as it should have been; they were now floating in space equidistance between the moon and Earth. Major Wakowski, Senior Master Sergeant Smith and the other PJ’s had already prepped the drones, loaded them onto launch bay, where a specifically designed launch tube had been designed to fire the drones out into space. Once satisfied with everything, they left the launch bay, Major Wakowski returned to the weapons and security station on the bridge and reported
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La storia del jazz, come quella di molti altri generi musicali popolari, soprattutto quelli che affondano le loro radici nella tradizione degli schiavi afroamericani e indonesiani, è assai povera di documenti e riferimenti, in special modo per quanto riguarda le origini e i primi anni. Le prime fonti orali sulla nascita del jazz a New Orleans risalgono ai primi anni del XX secolo mentre le prime fonti scritte al decennio successivo. Il jazz fu creato dagli africani deportati negli Stati Uniti e
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My experience as the first space colony recruit was something else. Exploring the dark side of the moon was somewhat frightening. It was a lot darker than what I imagined it to be. The very first day of the exploration the people from the space station gave me a very good flashlight. They told me it could last up to thirty-six hours of lightness. My hopes dropped after The first day I went out with my supposed to be “good flashlight”; it died. The dumb flashlight lasted only like twenty-one minutes
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New Jersey Palisades. This was where Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio built Alpine Tower, also known as “Armstrong Tower” in 1937. As the discoverer of frequency modulation “FM” in 1933, Armstrong spent many years experimenting on this discovery while working for RCA. Armstrong went through several legal battles throughout his thirteen years of FM discovery and research (and following his death). On April 10, 1938 Armstrong broadcasted for the first time on FM radio, from his experimental
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doubt brought a huge amount of financial success to the writers and composers of the composition. According to The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), there are three original writers of this composition, being Billy Joe Armstrong (singer), Mike Pritchard (bassist) and an outside collaborator, Frank E. Wright. The publishers listed are Green Haze Music and W B Music Corp. In addition, according to the U.S. Copyright Office, the claimant of the copyright to the entire collection
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Theory to Practice: The GCI/Armstrong Press Scenario Daniel Ilario LAW/421 February 24, 2014 G. Alan Williams Is Armstrong’s addition of the delivery term binding on GCI? Explain the UCC analysis governing the additional terms added by Armstrong: Yes it is likely that Armstong’s modification of terms would be binding upon Graphic Communications, Inc. (GCI). UCC articles 7-2 through 7-4 speak to contract modifications. Article 7-2 stipulates that modifications are acceptable and normal in
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Chief Sitting Bull. The Great Sioux wars in the year of the 1870s would lead to the Battle of Little BigHorn. Sitting bull and his tribe and confederation of tribes would go into battle with federal troops. The federal troops were lead under George Armstrong Custer. After the several years of war in Canada,Sitting Bull and his tribe finally surrendered to the U.S forces In Sitting Bull’s early life he was the son of the esteemed Sioux warrior named Returns- Again. Sitting Bull
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