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Battle of Bautzen
1813 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition
Geography of Sudan
Overview of the geography of Sudan
Abbo of Fleury
monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey (c.945-1004)
STS-44
STS-44 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using Atlantis that launched on November 24, 1991. It was a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) space mission.
STS-42
STS-42 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission with the Spacelab module. Liftoff was originally scheduled for 8:45 EST (13:45 UTC) on January 22, 1992, but the launch was delayed due to weather constraints. Discovery successfully lifted off an hour later at 9:52:33 EST (14:52:33 UTC) on her 14th flight. The main goal of the mission was to study the effects of microgravity on a variety of organisms. The shuttle landed at 8:07:17 PST (16:07:17 UTC) on January 30, 1992, on Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, California. STS-42 was the first of two flights in 1992 of Discovery, the second of whi
STS-80
STS-80 was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia. The launch was originally scheduled for October 31, 1996, but was delayed to November 19 for several reasons. Likewise, the landing, which was originally scheduled for December 5, was pushed back to December 7 after bad weather prevented landing for two days.
Philander C. Knox
American lawyer, banker, and politician (1853-1921)
STS-55
STS-55, or Deutschland 2 (D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple Earth observations.
Ethiopian National Defense Force
combined military forces of Ethiopia
Arnold Janssen
German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest and saint
STS-39
STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, and the 40th orbital shuttle mission overall. The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
canonical hours
Christian concept of periods of prayer throughout the day
Kriangsak Chamanan
Thai politician (1917-2003)
Northfield
town in Washington County, Vermont, United States
William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai, Vietnam (1943–2024)
Soyuz T-9
crewed flight of the Soyuz programme
Louis Bourdaloue
French sermon writer
Geography of Sri Lanka
Overview of the geography of Sri Lanka
Geography of Oman
Overview of the geography of Oman
STS-71
As the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, STS-71 became the first Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir. STS-71 began on June 27, 1995, with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on July 7 with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis, and the second Shuttle mission to land wi
Vanguard
American small-lift launch vehicle
Bombardier Global Express
executive jet family
Soyuz 15
Failed attempt to dock with Salyut 3
Girnar
Girnar is an ancient hill in Junagadh, Gujarat, India. It is one of the holiest pilgrimages of Jains, a Mahatirth, where the 22nd Tirthaṅkar, Lord Neminath attained omniscience, and later nirvana at its highest peak (Neminath Shikhar), along with other five hundred and thirty three enlightened sages. This is well described in ancient texts such as Kalpa Sūtra written by acharya Bhadrabāhu and Shri Uttaradhyayana Sutra by Arya Sudharmaswami. It is administered by the Junagadh Municipal Corporation.
interdict
In Catholic canon law, an interdict () is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.
Battle of Idistaviso
16 AD battle between Roman legions and Germanic peoples
Sciron
thumb|right|300px|Sciron beaten by Theseus, Attic red-figure cup, 500–490 BC, [[Louvre (G 104).]]
Urbain Grandier
French priest
STS-38
STS-38 was a Space Shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 37th shuttle mission and carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It was the seventh flight for Atlantis and the seventh flight dedicated to the Department of Defense. The mission was a 4-day mission that traveled and completed 79 revolutions. Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility's runway 33. The launch was originally scheduled for July 1990 but was rescheduled due to a hydrogen leak found on during the STS-35 countdown. During a rollback to the Or
Widsith
thumb|First lines of "Widsith"
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Ground Forces branch of the Republic of Vietnam’s military Forces
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
disease of the blood characterized by destruction of red blood cells by the complement system, a part of the body's innate immune system
geography of Lebanon
overview of the geography of Lebanon
history of the Dominican Republic
aspect of history
Soyuz 14
crewed flight of the Soyuz programme
STS-51
STS-51 was a NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) in September 1993. Discovery's 17th flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space. A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission later that year. STS-51 was the first shuttle mission to fly a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, a Trimble TANS Quadrex. It was mount
STS-50
STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory-1) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter. Columbia landed at Kennedy Space Center for the first time ever due to bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base caused by the remnants of Hurricane Darby.
Soyuz 18
crewed flight of the Soyuz programme
Explorer 2
American research satellite, lost during a launch vehicle failure
Geography of Mauritania
Overview of the geography of Mauritania
Portersville
borough of Pennsylvania
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
clause in the Constitution of Japan outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes involving the state
primary amebic meningoencephalitis
extremely rare type of amoebiasis that infects the brain
Fairchild C-123 Provider
1949 airlifter family by Fairchild
Bear Grass
human settlement in Martin County, North Carolina, United States of America
STS-35
STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, in the 38th shuttle mission. It was devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1, a Spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 2, 1990. It was also the first shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster with a crew of seven astronauts.
Cainites
The Cainites or Cainians (, Kainoi, and , Kaianoi) were a heresy allegedly venerating Cain and celebrating him for his sins, described by Irenaeus.
Idas
son of Aphareus, husband of Marpessa, argonaut in Greek mythology
politics of Finland
political system of Finland
Corona
series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites
Pegasus
air-launched rocket
Ferdinand Brunetière
French writer (1849–1906)
Chad of Mercia
Archbishop of York; Bishop of Lichfield
STS-57
STS-57 was a NASA Space Shuttle-Spacehab mission of that launched June 21, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
history of Benin
aspect of history
Kingdom of Cambodia
1953-1970 monarchy in Southeast Asia
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet, translator, lawyer, and politician
Benedict Biscop
Anglo-Saxon abbot
George Grey
British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer (1812–1898)
Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L
unsuccessful crewed flight of the Soyuz programme