On this day :
1532 Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa, 1776 Fort Washington Is Captured, 1901 Riker Torpedo Racer sets the world speed record for electric cars, 1863 Battle of Campbell Station Tennessee, 1945 German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology, 1957 Ed Gein kills final victim Bernice Worden, 1999 Construction begins on deadly bonfire, 1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, 1907 Oklahoma enters the Union, 1988 Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan, 2001 First Harry Potter film opens, 1849 Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death, 1959 The Sound of Music premieres on Broadway, 1821 Becknell opens trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 1973 Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline, 1957 Notre Dame ends Oklahoma record winning streak, 1961 Kennedy decides to increase military aid to Saigon, 1970 Ky defends South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia, 1971 US provides support to beleaguered Cambodians, 1914 New Fatherland League launched in Germany, 1941 Goebbels publishes his screed of hate,

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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...