“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.” – Robert Fortune
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“Man is what he reads.” – Joseph Brodsky
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
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“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” – William Inge
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“The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness, are linked together.” – Saadi
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25 years ago today, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) – Shoemaker spacecraft successfully orbited and landed on the asteroid Eros 433, a first...
25 years ago today, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) – Shoemaker spacecraft successfully orbited and landed on the asteroid Eros 433, a first for humanity. The second-largest known near-Earth object, Eros was the perfect target for landing as NEAR Shoemaker could orbit its 13 by 33-kilometer bulk—which it did, for a whole year from February 2000 to February 2001 when it landed on the surface. READ what we learned... (2001)
