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1 day ago · Most launches from Earth. 10 launches. Frederick W. Sturckow (USA), Space Shuttle and SpaceShipTwo (1998–2024) Note: The six SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight (50 mi (80.47 km)), but fall short of the Kármán line (100 km (62.14 mi)), the definition used for FAI space recordkeeping.
1 day ago · History Background Pete Townshend attended Ealing Art College in west London (pictured in 2010), and his experience there contributed to the Who's career. The founding members of The Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend's father, Cliff, played saxophone and his mother, Betty, had sung in the ...
- London, England
- 1964–1982, 1985, 1988–1991, 1996–1997, 1999–present
4 days ago · There's a moon rock in the lobby of NASA's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Visitors are urged to rub their fingers over its smooth, worn surface to connect with one of the greatest achievements in ...
2 days ago · Procter & Gamble also was the first company to produce and sponsor a prime-time serial, a 1965 spin-off of As the World Turns called Our Private World. In 1979, PGP produced Shirley, a prime-time NBC series starring Shirley Jones, which lasted 13 episodes.
- October 31, 1837; 185 years ago
- US$82.01 billion (2023)
- 107,000 (2023)
- Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
3 days ago · Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church. The Unification Church ( Korean : 통일교) is a new religious movement, derived from Christianity, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) began gaining followers after the Second World War.
- FFWPU, UC
- Sun Myung Moon
- New religious movement
- 1 May 1954, Seoul, South Korea
1 day ago · Etymology Main articles: Ēostre and Names of Easter The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern Dutch ooster and German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, Ēastron, or Ēastran ; but also as Ēastru, Ēastro ; and Ēastre or Ēostre. [nb 4] Bede provides the only documentary source for the etymology of the word, in his eighth-century ...
2 days ago · The Full Moon in May 2024 is the Flower Moon and that will happen at 9:53 a.m. on Thursday, May 23. It's the fifth Full Moon of the year.
