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August 25 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222534) • United States 25 Aug 19

National Banana Split Day Kiss and Make Up Day 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1835 - The first Great Moon Hoax is published in The New York Sun. It announced the discovery of...

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Still Catching Up On January History

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 13 Jan 17

I’m beginning to wonder if I will catch up by the end of the month. I’m trying to do TWO dates each time, but I’m still not catching up. I will continue to try. January 7, 1789: The very first U.S. Presidential election was...

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Another Day In History For You

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 15 Feb 16

For those in Canada: February 15th , 1965, was the day the new maple-leaf flag was unfurled in Ottawa. For those in Italy: Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer was born in Pisa, in 1564. I wonder if this day is celebrated in...

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Galileo, the Genome and the Survival of Christian Dogma

Chiang_Mai_boy @Chiang_Mai_boy (3882) • Thailand 17 Aug 11

In the time that Galileo lived he represented a serious threat to the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. The church at the time considered itself to be the ultimate arbiter of reality and incapable of error. Galileo's...

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War in the Travel Market - Global Distribution System

jorgeairesjr @jorgeairesjr (11) • Brazil 31 Jan 10

You, as a travel agent, wich GDS would you choose? And why? a) Amadeus b) Sabre c) Galileo d) Worldspan e) Other

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Galileo

3cardmonte @3cardmonte (5098) 4 Jul 09

I was in one of our local shops today, and the guy behind the counter was doing a crossword, and from across the other side of the shop, I heard a voice shout "Galileo!" now I'm in a dilly of a pickle right? I don't know these...

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Who is your favorite inventor?

lcdelmendo18 @lcdelmendo18 (990) • Philippines 25 Jun 09

Who among the famous inventors and scientists do you admire most? For me, Albert Einstein is still the best...He invented and introduced so many things. Yet, he was dropped out from school. I also like Galileo Galilei, who first...

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" Galileo wasn’t the first one to discover…"

UPLANA @UPLANA (3159) • India 27 Dec 06

The great scientist apparently wasn’t the first to have observed Jupiter’s four biggest moons. Yep there was another one who was too shy to publish his findings! Everyone knows Galileo was the first astronomer to point a...

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Galileo

kapilgoela123 @kapilgoela123 (134) • India 3 Nov 06

The first spacecraft designed to orbit the planet Jupiter and send a probe into its atmosphere, Galileo was launched on Oct. 18, 1989, from a Space Shuttle. Its path took it by Venus once and Earth twice for gravitational assists...