On this day :
1493 Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids, 1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, 1965 Bond movie features Aston Martin, 1861 Star of the West is fired upon, 1952 Truman warns of Cold War dangers, 1984 The Hillside Stranglers, 1972 Fire breaks out on Queen Elizabeth, 1768 First modern circus is staged, 1806 Nelson buried at St Pauls Cathedral, 1972 Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire, 2007 Steve Jobs debuts the iPhone, 1976 Stallone starts filming Rocky, 1924 Virginia Woolf buys a house in Bloomsbury, 1979 Pop luminaries gather at the UN for the Music for UNICEF concert, 1887 Record cold and snow decimates cattle herds, 1913 Richard M Nixon is born, 1972 Laker winning streak comes to an end, 1965 Support is pledged to civilian government, 1967 US officials try to counter claims of Saigon corruption, 1917 Battle of Khadairi Bend begins, 1945 United States invades Luzon in Philippines,

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Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings futuristic science and technology space travel parallel universes extraterrestrial life and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction making it a "literature of ideas”.

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Santa Claus

Santa Claus
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Santa Claus! This name is very famous in the whole world. Many say he is real and many say he doesn't exist.

My Space Encounter

My Space Encounter
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Space, the final frontier..... it is something that intrigues all of us. Read on to a captivating experience!

A Day On The Moon

A Day On The Moon
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At first, I had always heard of and read of people going to the moon and eating cheese. I really thought that the cheese found there was tastier than our Earth...