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`` some day you may be on a real trip to the moon ...


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how long will the footprints left on the moon last ?


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for the gravity calculations , the students were shown a clip in which astronaut david scott , on apollo 15 , dropped a hammer and feather simultaneously to the moon and they hit the surface at exactly the same time .


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how far did the golf ball that alan shepard hit on the moon during the apollo 14 mission travel in the one-sixth gravity and no atmosphere to slow it down ?


Question: when was ulysses s. grant born

now a three -room frame cottage , grant 's birthplace has been furnished with period items and pieces owned by the family .


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in 1822 , the 18th president of the united states , ulysses s. grant , was born in point pleasant , ohio .


Question: when was ulysses s. grant born

in 1822 , the 18th president of the united states , ulysses s. grant , was born in point pleasant , ohio .


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in 1791 , the inventor of the telegraph , samuel morse , was born in charlestown , mass .


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david rice atchison , born in frogtown , aug. 11 , 1807 , who , as president pro tempore of the u.s. senate , effectively became leader of our nation for one day -- march 4 , 1849 , when president-elect zachary taylor , a staunchly religious man , refused to take office on a sunday .


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who is the only president born in california ?


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which president was born on the plantation where `` taps '' was composed ?


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william henry harrison -lrb- son of declaration of independence signer benjamin harrison , who also lived in the house , and grandfather of 23rd president benjamin harrison -rrb- was born on berkeley plantation in virginia .


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george washington -lrb- first president -rrb- : born feb. 22 , 1732 , in westmoreland county .


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john adams -lrb- second president -rrb- : born oct. 30 , 1735 , in braintree , now quincy , mass .


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john quincy adams -lrb- sixth president and son of president john adams -rrb- : born july 11 , 1767 , in quincy , mass. , next door to the house in which his father was born .


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william henry harrison -lrb- ninth president -rrb- : born feb. 9 , 1773 , on berkeley plantation halfway between richmond and williamsburg in charles city county , va .


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abraham lincoln -lrb- 16th president -rrb- : born feb. 12 , 1809 , in a one -room log cabin in hodgenville , ky. , in rolling hills in the central part of the state .


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andrew johnson -lrb- 17th president -rrb- : born dec. 29 , 1808 , in the kitchen of an inn where his parents worked in raleigh , n.c .


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ulysses s. grant -lrb- 18th president -rrb- : born april 27 , 1822 , in a one -room , 16x19-foot home in point pleasant , ohio , overlooking the ohio river .


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grover cleveland -lrb- 22nd and 24th president -rrb- : born march 18 , 1837 , in the parsonage of the first presbyterian church in caldwell , n.j. , where his father was a minister .


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theodore roosevelt -lrb- 26th president -rrb- : born oct. 27 , 1858 , in a manhattan townhouse .


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woodrow wilson -lrb- 28th president -rrb- : born at about midnight , leaving the date in doubt , dec. 28 or 29 , 1856 , in a presbyterian manse in staunton , va .


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franklin d. roosevelt -lrb- 32nd president -rrb- : born jan. 30 , 1882 , at the family estate on the hudson river in hyde park , n.y. bought by his father in 1867 , the home , called the franklin d. roosevelt national historic site , is filled with original furnishings and family memorabilia .


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harry truman -lrb- 33rd president -rrb- : born may 8 , 1884 , in lamar , mo .


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dwight d. eisenhower -lrb- 34th president -rrb- : born oct. 14 , 1890 , denison , tex. , in a two -story white frame house on what is now the eisenhower state historic site , 208 e. day st. , denison , tex. , -lrb- 214 -rrb- 465-8908 .


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john f. kennedy -lrb- 35th president -rrb- : born may 29 , 1917 , in a wood frame house in brookline , mass. , a suburb of boston .


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lyndon b. johnson -lrb- 36th president -rrb- : born aug. 27 , 1908 , in a small farmhouse on the banks of the pedernales river in gillespie county , tex. , about 15 miles west of johnson city , in the hill country of south-central texas .


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richard nixon -lrb- 37th president -rrb- : born jan. 9 , 1913 , in a small frame house in yorba linda , calif .


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gerald r. ford -lrb- 38th president -rrb- : born july 14 , 1913 , in omaha , neb .


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ronald reagan -lrb- 40th president -rrb- : born feb. 6 , 1911 , in an apartment above a bakery at 111 s. main st. in tampico , ill .


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george bush -lrb- 41st president -rrb- : born june 12 , 1924 , in a house at 173 adams st. in milton , mass .


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seven u.s. presidents -- ulysses s. grant , rutherford b. hayes , james a. garfield , benjamin harrison , william mckinley , william howard taft and warren g. harding -- were born in ohio .


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eight presidents were born in virginia : george washington , thomas jefferson , james madison , james monroe , william henry harrison , john tyler , zachary taylor and woodrow wilson .


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they were born on historic plantations on the river banks of virginia , in modest wood-frame homes on the midwestern plain , on ranches in texas cattle country .


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and some of the homes where they were born are open to the public .


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when our nation was born on the fourth of july , so were our opportunities .


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andrew jackson , born march 15 , 1767 , in waxhaw settlement on the farm of his aunt near the north carolina / south carolina border , but before the border was drawn .


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the house ford was born in was destroyed by fire in 1971 .


Question: how far away is the moon

while it only takes three days to go to the moon 250,000 miles away , a round-trip journey to mars at least 35 million miles away would take a minimum of 14 months .


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`` with a 28 -power telescope you can see it on the moon 250,000 miles away .


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instead , when it gets about 450 miles off the ground - the moon is 240,000 miles away - it will turn to face the ground and start taking pictures .


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additionally , the moon 's orbit will place it 17,223 miles closer to the earth on sunday than it usually is -- which is 238,855 miles away .


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now that president bush has endorsed `` a journey into tomorrow '' _ a tomorrow that includes people living and working on the moon and mars _ congress will first have to give nasa a space haven closer to home .


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returning to the moon and going on from there to mars would cost untold billions more and would require a buildup of nasa engineers and industrial machinery not unlike the apollo days of the 1960s .


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more than 400,000 people worked on the moon program ; today , nasa and its civilian contractors employ fewer than 150,000 .


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a nuclear-powered space truck would have to be developed to shuttle up and down from the moon and mars to an arriving vehicle .


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technology is needed to mine and process moon rocks and soil for the minerals needed to build moon structures and to extract oxygen needed for breathing and for rocket fuel .


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when the moon moves into the earth 's shadow wednesday night , creating a total eclipse visible to perhaps a billion people , art whipple will fire a laser beam at a breadbox-sized reflector on the lunar surface a quarter of a million miles away .


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if he 's not successful , whipple says he 'll still enjoy the lunar eclipse _ a rare opportunity to watch the full moon change from a bright silver to a polished copper or faint orange , or , perhaps , even vanish from view .


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in the central , mountain and western time zones , the eclipse will be under way already by the time the moon becomes visible .


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and in los angeles , the moon rises at 7 : 35 p.m. pdt , when the eclipse is already in totality .


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a lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through the shadow created by the earth blocking the sun 's light .


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`` anytime the moon sites are available , we fire the laser , '' he said in a telephone interview .


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but whipple said it is impossible to see the laser reflection from a full moon because the natural surface reflects sunlight so powerfully .


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by clocking the time it takes for light to travel from the laser to the moon and then back to the mcdonald telescopes , scientists are able to precisely measure the distance between the earth and its moon .


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whipple said in the years since astronomers have been laser ranging to the apollo reflectors , they have discovered that the moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of about two inches a year .


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during an eclipse , the moon can appear to be a bright coppery red if there is clean air between the lunar surface and the observer on earth .


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if smoke or dust obscure the view , the moon can dim to an faint orange color or even fade from view altogether .


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the eclipse starts when the moon enters what is called the penumbra , the outer fringe of the earth 's shadow .


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half an hour later , the moon edges into the umbra , the dark , central part of the shadow .


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total eclipse , when all of the moon is covered by the umbra , will begin at about 10 : 20 p.m. edt and last for one hour , 36 minutes .


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when the moon leaves the umbra , the events will occur in reverse order .


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the eclipse ends about 1 : 53 a.m. edt when the moon edges out of the shadow altogether and regains its customary bright silver color .


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the moon plunges into the earth 's shadow tonight , creating the first total lunar eclipse visible in north america since 1982 , and thousands of telescopes are awaiting a celestial show of light and color .


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the moon will be overhead with twilight ending just as the eclipse begins .


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`` the moon will not become visible until sometime after 8 : 30 p.m. pdt , '' according to a statement by the griffith observatory in los angeles , and will be in eclipse as it rises .


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`` the last time the moon rose while totally eclipsed as seen from los angeles was on feb. 5 , 1841 , and it will not rise while totally eclipsed again as seen from los angeles until june 25 , 2029 . ''


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the first glimpse the texans will get of the moon will be about 7 : 55 p.m. cdt when it already is eclipsing .


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`` moon watch ii , '' a free outdoor celebration of the eclipse and the 20th anniversary of apollo 11 's lunar landing , will be held in new york city 's central park .


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a small rocket will be launched to open the event , followed by lectures on the eclipse and live entertainment featuring a dance called `` moon beams ii. ''


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at the mcdonald observatory near fort davis , texas , astronomer art whipple plans to fire a laser beam at the moon during the darkest part of the eclipse .


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he hopes the light will strike a reflector left on the moon in 1971 by the apollo 15 astronauts .


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usually , whipple said , the experiment is n't attempted during a full moon because the natural light is too bright to see the reflected laser beam .


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but when the full moon is eclipsed , the returned beam can be spotted .


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whipple said astronomers have discovered that the moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of about 2 inches a year .


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the moon will eclipse within view of north and south america , western europe and africa , and the antarctic .


Question: how far away is the moon

during an eclipse , the moon can appear to be a bright coppery red if there is a clean air between the lunar surface and the observer on earth .


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the combination of a full moon and the moon 's nearness to earth will conspire to raise the tide a couple of feet above average , the national ocean service reported .


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aiding in this is the fact that the moon will be at its closest point of the year .


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causing the high tide will be the fact that the moon is at perigee at the same time it is full , rutstein explained .


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the orbit of the moon is not perfectly round , but rather oval shaped .


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perigee is the time of the month when the moon is closest to earth , and that closeness allows it to exert greater pull on the oceans .


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that 's the closest the moon has come so far this year , although doggett said slightly closer passes are possible .


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the perigee in september , for example , found the moon 1,500 miles farther away .


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and in november , when high tides are again expected with the full moon and perigee occurring one day apart , the moon 's perigee will be about 300 miles farther away than this month .


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besides the perigee , the fact that the full moon occurs late on the 14th also encourages the high tide , said rutstein .


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the highest tides , called spring tides , occur every 14 days , when the moon is new and full .


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new moon occurs when the moon is on the same side of earth as the sun and the two pull together on the oceans .


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full moon means the moon is on the opposite side of earth from the sun and the two pull against one another .


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lower tides , called neap tides , occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to one another .


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the preparation showed as pupils afterward asked questions of michael collins , who flew the mother ship while astronauts neil armstrong and buzz aldrin made the walk on the moon in 1969 .


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what impresses you most from that far away from home ?


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hubble was an astronomer in the first half of the century who concluded not only that distant galaxies are moving away from earth but that the farther away they are , the faster they move .


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the lows come when experts have to issue urgent calls for sandbagging to keep coastal homes from washing away and emergency evacuation orders to save beachfront residents ' lives .


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the highest tide in 17 years is expected to be produced by an unusual lineup of the earth , moon and sun .


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there is no evidence that the gravitational pull from the moon and sun will have any effect on seismic waves , scientists said , debunking a widely circulated prediction that the heavenly bodies will trigger a major earthquake sunday or monday on the new madrid fault in the midwest .


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`` the moon has only been this close to the earth 30 times in the past 300 years .


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no more moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie .


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if the moon were gone , earth would rotate more evenly , the sun would warm the planet more evenly and the world would bask in what prof. abian calls `` eternal spring . ''


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a reduction of the mass of the moon , splitting the moon into two or more pieces or what he calls a `` controlled total elimination '' of the moon would have immediate effects on earth 's weather , he says .


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would n't blowing up the moon melt the polar ice caps and cause massive flooding ?


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what would happen to the tides , which the moon governs ?


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`` in some cultures , the moon is associated with ugliness and plainness , '' he says .


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`` i 'd hate to write the environmental impact statement on this one , '' says bevan french , a lunar expert at the national aeronautics and space administration and the author of a book all about the moon called `` the moon book . ''


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and what if a large chunk of the moon ending up hitting earth , mr. french asks .


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not only that , but lowell smith , a senior scientist with the environmental protection agency , worries that the use of nuclear force to blow up parts of the moon would probably violate treaties between the u.s. and the soviets .


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since then , he was interviewed by a german television station and two london newspapers and was featured in a supermarket tabloid with the front-page headline : `` scientists plot to blow up the moon . ''


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`` i do n't want to hurt your feelings , but the moon is by my window every night .


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my little sister loves the moon and so do i , '' danielle sugarman wrote to the professor .


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the moon averages about 240,000 miles away , though you did n't have to know that to solve the problem .


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`` some day you may be on a real trip to the moon ...


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how long will the footprints left on the moon last ?


Question: how far away is the moon

for the gravity calculations , the students were shown a clip in which astronaut david scott , on apollo 15 , dropped a hammer and feather simultaneously to the moon and they hit the surface at exactly the same time .


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how far did the golf ball that alan shepard hit on the moon during the apollo 14 mission travel in the one-sixth gravity and no atmosphere to slow it down ?


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

now that president bush has endorsed `` a journey into tomorrow '' _ a tomorrow that includes people living and working on the moon and mars _ congress will first have to give nasa a space haven closer to home .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

returning to the moon and going on from there to mars would cost untold billions more and would require a buildup of nasa engineers and industrial machinery not unlike the apollo days of the 1960s .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

a nuclear-powered space truck would have to be developed to shuttle up and down from the moon and mars to an arriving vehicle .


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soviet space officials have said the long flights are designed to test whether people can withstand weightlessness and the other conditions for a possible manned mission to mars , a journey that would take three years .


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some would stay longer to gain long-term exposure to weightless living , in preparation for a mars flight that might take as long as 18 months .


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but even with the most favorable conditions for the mission , the flight to mars and back to earth will take about two years .


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soviet television provided a live broadcast of the white rocket riding a long orange flame into the clear sky , and cut away as the rocket disappeared .


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while the soviet cosmonaut and afghan crew member will return to earth after eight days , polyakov will remain aboard mir to monitor the health of its long-time residents , vladimir titov and musa manarov , officials said .


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romanenko returned to earth from a 326-day flight on dec. 29 .


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his boss , vladimir shatalov , said titov and manarov will return to earth in late december but did not give an exact date or say whether polyakov will accompany them .


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a bulgarian cosmonaut and two soviet colleagues returned to earth june 17 after a 10-day flight that included a linking with mir .


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scientists at moscow 's space research institute , which developed the project to explore mars and phobos , its biggest moon , met throughout the day wednesday .


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a soviet tv commentator suggested that western news reports claiming the problem was `` catastrophic '' were exagerrated and cited successful studies by the craft of solar radiation and the surface of mars itself conducted before the communication failure .


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izvestia said the problem occurred monday when ground controllers were trying to reorient the spacecraft to take photographs of the martian moon .


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but the mars phase was a great success .


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we obtained unique information on the surface of mars , its atmosphere , its magnetic field and its environment , '' bonnet said .


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soviet space officials have said the mission would help them prepare a manned mission to mars early in the 21st century .


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only a few hours after bush spoke thursday , the station survived another financial cliffhanger in the house of representatives , one of a long series .


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when president ronald reagan proposed the station in 1984 , the cost for that single component of a moon- mars future was estimated to be $ 8 billion .


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`` our current estimates are roughly _ very , very roughly _ that if you went to mars by the year 2020 and did so first establishing a lunar base and then going from the moon , the pricetag over this 30-year period would be on the order of $ 400 billion , '' he told reporters .


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bush called the space station an essential bridge to the moon- mars proposals for the 21st century .


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`` to take on extra programs , we would need extra help _ technicians and engineers and facilities .


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nasa would have to tackle the problems of long duration flights on humans _ but that would be done on the space station .


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the station also would be used to transfer huge amounts of rocket fuel arriving from earth and serve as a way station for crews going to and returning from deep space .


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before embarking for mars , robot spacecraft would have to be sent to the red planet to scout potential landing sites .


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why mars ? '' the president asked as he extolled the accomplishments of 20 years ago .


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the manned station freedom , an orbiting outpost of america in the icy silence of space , will take center stage in the u.s. space effort in the 1990s , and be a springboard for human journeys to the moon and mars .


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at the same time , the soviets will continue development of a space shuttle and exploit their own space station mir as they pursue their stated goal of dispatching cosmonauts to mars early in the 21st century .


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he proposed `` a long-term , continuing commitment '' to completion of space station freedom in the 1990s and to a permanent base on the moon and a manned mission to mars early in the next century .


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freedom is the key element in the entire exploration plan , since it would serve as a training base and launchpad for the more ambitious flights to the moon and mars .


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orbiting 250 miles up , the station would provide living and working quarters for as many as eight people , with astronauts rotating back to earth after four to six months .


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the weightless world will permit the processing of new , pure medicines , metals and other products that can not be made in earth 's gravity .


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en route , galileo will probe venus and take the first closeup look at an asteroid .


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during the 1990s , nasa will also continue research , together with the defense department , on developing the national aerospace plane , which would take off from a runway like a jet plane and accelerate into orbit .


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however , while we have been enjoying this progress , these advances have imposed burdens on the earth , particularly in the degradation of the environment and in the depletion of energy and resources .


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two decades ago , the club of rome proposed , in `` the limit to growth , '' that there should be an overall zero growth to avoid the mankind 's crisis anticipated in the middle of the 21st century and to prevent continued environmental degradation of the earth due to industrial activities .


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although its predictions about the earth may be valid , we have been enjoying an affluent life .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

should human activities continue to expand , accompanying such population increase and economic growth , the support system provided by the earth , such an supply of food , resources and restoration of nature , may be destroyed .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

since the earth is finite , we must look beyond the earth to the infinity of space , the `` new frontier , '' with every effective means for developing space in order to overcome such obstacles and problems and achieve a sustainable development for mankind .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

the imminent challenge of the present space development in the `` mission to planet earth , '' which is also the major topic of international space year -lrb- isy -rrb- 1992 .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

i think that in the 21st century we will enter the era of `` mission from planet earth . ''


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

when we are going to expand our living sphere beyond the confines of the earth and to pursue new discoveries , it is inevitable and natural for space to become our theater .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

ever since the launch of sputnik , space development worldwide has undergone major advances : varieties of satellite use for communication , broadcasting , and earth observation ; man on the moon ; planet explorations ; manned space activities .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

it would also be impossible to include the planets beyond jupiter in this frontier because it takes more than a thousand days to reach from the earth .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

therefore , mars can be considered as one frontier for mankind in the middle of the 21st century .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

in the middle of the 21st century , it is conceivable that the artificial celestial bodies near the earth -- space station , spaceport -- the moon and mars would be the frontier , the area in which mankind would be conducting their activities .


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Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

in `` near space , '' the gravity , radiation and thermal environments are remarkably different from those on the earth .


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however , such experience does not enable us to fully understand the impact that long stays in space will have upon the human body .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

we must , hereafter , demonstrate how long mankind can stay in space ; assess long-term physical responses to low/micro gravity , establish the methods to maintain health in space .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

the method may include providing artificial gravity , physical training and rehabilitation after returning to the earth .


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if these challenges could be resolved through various experiments and tests on space stations , humans can stay about one year under microgravity on an artificial celestial body , and several years under low gravity on the moon -lrb- 0.17g -rrb- and mars -lrb- 0.38g -rrb- .


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control would also be feasible if residential areas were constructed underground on the moon and mars .


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it is simple to transport them from the earth .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

however , transportation cost becomes too much to support many people living in space for long period , it will be imperative to obtain materials as much as possible in `` near space '' and to recycle what is used .


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in addition , oxygen could be produced from the oxidized metals which constitute 42 % of the soil of the surface on the moon and by using carbon dioxide -lrb- co -lsb- . sup -rsb- 2 -lsb- / -rsb- -rrb- which constitutes 95 % of the atmosphere on mars .


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water can also be produced from lunar soil and from the atmosphere or permafrost of mars .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

for the transportation to the moon or mars , two-phase-method will be probably employed rather than the direct transporting method like apollo program .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

in this two-phase-method , two different types of space vehicles will be developed and used : one from ground to the spaceport in low earth orbit , and from spaceport to the moon or mars .


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and thus it is not necessary to develop and launch a huge space transportation system from the earth to low earth orbit .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

the existing largest launch vehicle has payload capability of 100 ton into low earth orbit .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

development of larger scale launch vehicle for the first phase , whose payload capability is 200 to 300 ton , may be considered economical in the long run because we can reduce the amount of launch .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

for the second phase of the transportation from earth orbit to the moon , mars , mission-oriented systems will be assembled at the spaceport .


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the net mass transported will amount to only one sixth of the total mass for the moon , and only one tenth for mars .


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it will , therefore , become necessary to produce propellant from resources on the moon and mars .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

the technological challenges for the future transport system are summarized in four thrusts : -- developing a large , economical rocket with 200 to 300 ton capability to low earth orbit .


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establishing the technology to assemble large structures in earth orbit .


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producing propellant on the moon and mars .


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when a man on the earth orders a robot on mars , `` the module has something wrong , please repair it , '' the robot will do it .


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Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

artificial celestial bodies , such as a spaceport , a space factory , solar power satellites , space experiment/observation laboratories , will be orbiting around the earth .


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a spaceport will be a transfer station for the moon and mars .


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propellants , supplies and foods will be brought to the spaceport from earth to the moon .


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there they will be loaded on a vehicle to be transported to the moon , to mars or to other artificial celestial bodies .


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if nuclear fusion power plant is operated on the earth , then mining of helium 3 on the lunar surface is probably on a large scale .


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there is no atmosphere on the moon to cause flickering which degrades observations from the earth .


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tourists from the earth may eventually have vacation on the moon .


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an outpost base will be established on mars in the middle of the 21st century .


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over ten people comprising various experts and specialists as well as appropriate facilities will be required to support the outpost on mars .


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at the outpost on mars , the first stage of the research will be completed , and pilot plants will be operating to conduct resource explorations , experimentally grow vegetables and breed animals , and produce oxygen and water .


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it is widely recognized that mars may have been inhabited by living creatures .


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by studying the cause of their extinction from mars , we may get important information about global environmental changes .


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the research in this area will advance on mars .


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the primary goal of the space activities in the 21st century might be the `` mission from planet earth . ''


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recent rivals are interested in collaboration in orbit


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according to the predictions of futurologists , a cherished dream of mankind will be fulfilled in 2017 -- the flight of an international crew to mars that will put researchers on the planet 's surface .


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the choice of that year for the mars mission was , of course , no accident : that 's the year of the next occurrence of the closest approach of the blue and red planets , during which their orbits will closest to each other .


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without their own long-duration orbital station , the americans were forced to be content with short-term `` runs '' into near- earth space .


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it could n't be saved even by the extravagant announcement of our postcommunist leader about the readiness of russia to take part in the further development of sdi , aimed now at either protecting against an attack by some third country or averting alien invasions predicted by astrologers or collisions between the earth and asteroids .


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the manned expedition to mars that the president endorsed is not simply a longer journey than a trip to the moon , which takes only about a day and a half .


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like a number of other scientists across the country , murray has been pushing for years for a manned expedition to mars .


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that criticism softened considerably thursday on the heels of the president 's speech because the space station , like so many other projects in the space program , could play a role in any effort to send astronauts to mars .


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the strongest criticism of bush 's statement stemmed from the fact that he did not outline the role that other nations would have in a manned expedition to mars , and many believe that only an international program is likely to succeed .


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a manned expedition to mars would be costly , `` probably hundreds of billions of dollars over a long period of time , '' but it 's `` not going to cost much extra over the next five years , '' logsdon said .


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many of the projects that would be precursors to a mars mission are already on the drawing boards .


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the jet propulsion laboratory is already developing plans for robotic , unmanned missions to mars that would collect the information needed long before a manned expedition could be launched .


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it would be followed by an `` international spaceport '' where large vehicles could be assembled in space so that they could be launched toward mars without having to burn the fuel necessary to overcome earth 's gravity .


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even if all of that could be carried out successfully over the next couple of decades , the actual trip to mars would be filled with such profound challenges that it may be beyond human endurance .


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throughout much of the trip , the craft would be so far from earth that the astronauts would be pretty much on their own .


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it would take about 30 minutes for messages to travel back and forth between the craft and earth by the time the astronauts reached the vicinity of mars .


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the astronauts would probably have to spend a year there , waiting for mars to reach the right point in its orbit for them to launch themselves back toward earth .


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and it would take about a year to get back .


Question: how long would it take to get from earth to mars ?

although the idea of a joint u.s. - soviet mission to mars was proposed several years ago by president gorbachev , planning for the effort never got under way and each country has been pursuing its own scheme. ;


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the stanford plan bypasses both the space station and the moon base in favor of going to mars directly. ; sometime around the year 2012 , a series of spacecraft carrying cargo and crew would be boosted into low earth orbit aboard the soviet energia rocket , which can carry much heavier loads than anything nasa now has to offer. ;


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they then would be flung out of orbit like rocks from a sling for the nine-month journey to mars . ; when the crew of three men and three women arrived , they would find apartments and a garage with tracked exploration vehicles waiting for them , sent up in advance by an unmanned rocket .


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the no-frills mission would also take two steps to protect the health of the astronauts during their long flight .


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colin said some people are hoping the stanford plan could push nasa into taking a mission to mars more seriously .


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the study was partly funded by nasa 's ames research center . ; stanford team ; the mars exploration plan was drafted by graduate students in a stanford space systems engineering class , assisted by : ; -lrb- box -rrb- bruce lusignan , professor of electrical engineering ; -lrb- box -rrb- emery reeves , a former vice president of trw 's spacecraft engineering division ; -lrb- box -rrb- thomas binford , an expert in robotics ; -lrb- box -rrb- larry colin , former chief of the space science division at nasa/ames


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our guides to mars ' rugged terrain are a pair of visionary engineers at the nasa/ames research center in mountain view with a `` virtual reality '' system that takes users to the red planet. ;


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if they get their way , the half-dozen adventurous astronauts chosen to blast off for mars will be accompanied by hundreds of geologists able to wander around mars in a `` virtual environment. '' ;


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mcgreevy , who has led the research team with a shoestring budget since 1984 , hopes his project will be included in next year 's mars observer mission .


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robots as camera carriers ; ultimately , mcgreevy dreams of a room -size virtual reality facility in which scientists at mission control or at a manned mars base could personally interact with the terrain through robotic rovers equipped with cameras , mechanical arms and other devices. ;


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wearing goggles and wired with sensors , geologists would wander around the virtual environment looking under virtual outcroppings and picking up virtual rock samples in the same way they would conduct field research on earth .


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their activities would send signals to the rover , which would carry out the tasks on mars . ;


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now , mcgreevy and hitchner can pick any coordinate on mars and load it up for exploration in less than 20 minutes .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

when the moon leaves the umbra , the events will occur in reverse order .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

the east coast will have the best view of the eclipse , which is expected to turn the moon orange or blood-red at its peak .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

the full moon will darken slightly beginning at 8 : 23 p.m. , and will be its most brilliant from 10 : 20 to 11 : 56 p.m. `` skywatchers will be able to see the earth 's shadow taking bites out of the moon , '' cooke said , `` but instead of being black where the bite is the moon will glow orange or red. ''


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a total lunar eclipse visible from five continents occurs after sunset wednesday when the full moon orbits into the shadow of the earth and slowly turns from a bright silver into a copper or orange disk .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

a total lunar eclipse will occur after sunset in five continents on wednesday when the full moon orbits into the shadow of the earth and slowly turns from a bright silver into a copper or orange disk .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

the moon blushed in alabama , turned taupe in minneapolis , glowed orange in maine and texas , and disappeared altogether in washington during a rare `` prime time '' full lunar eclipse that attracted awed sky watchers from coast to coast .


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in the nation 's capital , the moon rose as a golden orange , tinted grayish brown as the eclipse began , then winked out altogether as the lunar disk swept into the dark inner core of the earth 's shadow .


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for seattle , the moon will still be below the horizon at mid-eclipse , but will rise during the totality phase .


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the moon , in its orbit of the earth , usually passes above or below this shadowline , but every few years it follows a path that puts it completely in shade for a time .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

if smoke or dust obscure the view , the moon will diminish to an orange color or perhaps even fade from view altogether .


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Question: why does the moon turn orange

`` is the moon going to come back tomorrow ? ''


Question: why does the moon turn orange

in mobile , ala. , a sky watcher said the moon turned into `` a faintly glowing ball of red clay . ''


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astronomers at mcdonald observatory near fort davis , texas , said the moon faded to a faint orange glow with a slight tinge of blue .


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in portland , maine , amateur astronomer bill hoyt was elated when the moon dimmed to muted orange-neon disk .


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only a round earth could have a round shadow. ''


Question: why does the moon turn orange

the moon is dead in the middle of the earth 's shadow. ''


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everyone was just going `wow ! ' and then it disappeared again and everybody said `oh ! '' ' clouds blotted out the view at harvard college observatory and in portland , ore. ; philadelphia ; phoenix ; cheyenne , wyo. ; dallas and at other eclipse-watch gatherings around the country .


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rain spoiled a moon party planned in central park in new york .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

`` since the moon refused to shine , we 'll have to come back another day . ''


Question: why does the moon turn orange

if there is smoke or haze in the atmosphere , as there was in washington , d.c. , the moon can sometimes disappear from view altogether .


Question: why does the moon turn orange

eclipsing colors have ranged from vibrant copper -red to a faint orange glow .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

at capt. jan miles ' order , the crew hoisted a replica of the 15 - star , 15 -stripe u.s. flag that is believed to have flown over nearby fort mchenry during the war of 1812 ; the flag that tradition holds was still flying and inspired francis scott key to pen the national anthem .


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the bombardment of fort mchenry inspired francis scott key to write the poem `` the star-spangled banner , '' later adopted as the national anthem .


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paul kidwell would like to see manfred mann replace francis scott key as the man associated with the national anthem .


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today 's highlight in history : on sept. 14 , 1814 , francis scott key wrote his famous poem `` the star-spangled banner '' after witnessing the british bombardment of fort mchenry in maryland during the war of 1812 .


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afterwards , bush attended a ceremony at nearby fort mchenry marking the 175th anniversary of the war of 1812 battle against the british that inspired francis scott key to write `` the star-spangled banner . ''


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legislation that would scrap `` the star-spangled banner '' as the national anthem has riled people in the hometown of francis scott key , who wrote the song 175 years ago .


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`` just by a crazy chance we decided to look up when francis scott key wrote the national anthem , and it was september 14 , 1814 . ''


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francis scott key wrote the national anthem , while paul revere warned american revolutionaries the british were coming .


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barr 's unfortunate experience with francis scott key 's ode to old glory was no national disgrace , but it did call attention to an often-overlooked problem : our national anthem is unsingable


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walter lord wonders what francis scott key saw the morning he wrote `` the star-spangled banner '' during the war of 1812 .


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the date in the album title refers to the year francis scott key wrote the national anthem .


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the most famous local folks commemorated here -lrb- with a foyer and a bedroom -rrb- are `` star-spangled banner `` author francis scott key and union patriot barbara fritchie , whose legend decker , unlike some historians , staunchly upholds .


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heads up also notes that the flag that inspired francis scott key to write `` the star-spangled banner `` in 1814 was sewn by mary young pickersgill on the floor of a baltimore brewery .


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mchenry , whose bombardment inspired francis scott key to write `` the star-spangled banner . ''


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as they run , ray and the others carry a replica of the 15 - star flag that flew over fort mchenry when it was being bombarded by the british in 1814 , inspiration for francis scott key to write the star spangled banner .


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maryland also contains baltimore , site of the historic fort mchenry , where in 1812 francis scott key wrote `` the star-spangled banner `` to express the joy he felt after watching the orioles defeat the yankees in a critical american league east game .


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a small armada of about 50 private boats followed the vessel for about an hour until it sailed past fort mchenry and under the francis scott key bridge .


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the existence of some sort of old trench was known as early as 1984 , when a section was discovered during an earlier dig .


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`` we need a good , solid address in order to deliver mail , '' said postal service spokesman scott budny .


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in 1847 , u.s. forces under gen. winfield scott took control of mexico city .


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in 1964 , the third session of the roman catholic church 's 21st ecumenical council _ also known as vatican ii _ convened in rome .


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i think it is easier to sing , but francis scott key being frederick 's native son and having a lot of pride in my community , i do n't think we should change it. ''


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rep. andrew jacobs also says the poem penned by francis scott key after american troops repelled british forces at baltimore 's fort mchenry in 1814 is unsuitable because it celebrates war and because the tune 's origin is an old drinking song _ and an english one , to boot .


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key wrote the anthem to commemorate the defense of fort mchenry , where citizen soldiers withstood 25 hours of bombardment from british ships during the war of 1812 .


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key almost certainly took some poetic liberties in his most famous verse .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

and stuart said some scholars question whether the rockets ' red glare was sufficient to illuminate the banner through the smoke and mist from as far away as the truce ship which key was aboard .


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`` francis scott key must be spinning like a lathe , '' he quipped , referring to the anthem 's composer .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

key was forced to observe the british bombardment of fort mchenry in baltimore harbor from a flag-of-truce boat eight miles away .


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lord argues that it 's more likely key saw an ensign flag raised by the victorious americans over the fort 's guns - a flag that a british officer saw raised around 9 a.m. , not dawn .


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key however , `` knew that dawn is a more magic hour than 9 a.m. , '' lord writes .


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`` rhythm nation '' was chosen best pop album and best r & b album monday night .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

key was a prisoner of the british during that night of rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air , and at dawn , when he saw the flag still flying , he wrote his poem on an envelope .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

according to heads up , key 's words were published on a handbill the next day and were soon `` being sung in baltimore taverns . ''


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

if i were francis scott key , y'know , i 'd rise up out of my grave , y'know , and smack barr across her ever- lovin ' chops , y'know .


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the british did n't know how much of their plans key and dr. beanes had overheard , and so they detained the americans until after the battle had commenced. ;


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from here on the story is , or should be , rather well known by all american school children .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

key was so taken by the bombardment he witnessed from the deck of the ship that night -lrb- the british lobbed more than 1,800 bombs and rockets into and around the fort -rrb- and he was so stirred upon seeing the american flag still flying over the fort at daybreak , that he hastily composed several verses of a poem on the back of a letter or an envelope he found in his pocket. ;


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a year or so ago , i wrote a column about ray gatchalian , an oakland fire captain , who produced the video `` unheard voices `` that aired on pbs about the children of war-ravaged el salvador . ; ray , who ca n't sit still , is running across the united states , having left on flag day from the francis scott key monument in golden gate park with 19 other runners who plan to hit the francis scott key bridge in washington , d. c. on july 2 .


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the run across america is designed to call attention and contribution to a francis scott key memorial to be built at the foot of the bridge by july 4 , 1993 . ;


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baltimore has been the home at various times to baseball 's babe ruth and the legendary stripper blaze starr , writers edgar allan poe and f. scott fitzgerald , assassin john wilkes booth , pianist eubie blake , jazz queen billie holiday and the queen of the atheists , madalyn murray o'hair .


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composer francis scott key 's handwriting was strong and clear and is still easy to read , even with a few fold marks on it and a couple of words crossed out .


Question: what is francis scott key best known for ?

key , standing on the deck of a british truce ship observing the bombardment of fort mchenry during the war of 1812 , was inspired to write what would become our national anthem. ;


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the old fort , now a 43-acre national park , flies a giant replica of the 15 - star flag that key watched on that fateful night . ;


Question: who invented the paper clip ?

the paper clip , weighing a desk-crushing 1,320 pounds , is a faithful copy of norwegian johan vaaler 's 1899 invention , said per langaker of the norwegian school of management .


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a 22 -lcb- -foot-tall paper clip was unveiled outside a business college monday to honor the norwegian who invented the office helper 90 years ago .


Question: who invented the paper clip ?

`` the paper clip is 100 percent accurate and fully functional if anyone has big enough paper , '' said langanker , 23 , of the school 's student committee .


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the paper clip was made from steel tubing and is mounted on a 6-ton concrete base outside the institute in baerum , an oslo suburb .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

cheering crowds and a blaring siren greeted joe runyan on wednesday when he and 11 dogs pulled into this historic gold mining town to claim the 17th annual iditarod trail sled dog race .


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joe redington could n't run in the first iditarod trail sled dog race in 1973 because he was too busy organizing the 1 , 100-mile marathon from anchorage to nome .


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but redington , now 70 , has run in every other iditarod , a torturous test of people and dogs billed as `` the last great race . ''


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redington earned the title `` father of the iditarod '' 16 years ago when he spearheaded a movement to get alaskans off snowmobiles and back behind the dog teams that traditionally had provided winter transportation across the vast state .


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to galvanize the mushing revival , he promoted an idea that many thought impossible _ a race along the old iditarod trail , a supply route used earlier this century to reach interior alaska gold mining districts .


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rugged mushers and their teams of 12 to 20 eager dogs brave blizzards , wild animals , frostbite and 1,000 miles of sled-busting trail .


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duane `` dewey '' halverson , a perennial contender , remembers the days when many mushers regarded the iditarod as an extended camping trip .


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`` i think the competition is a little stiffer than it used to be , '' he said in mcgrath while his dogs rested on straw laid down in the snow .


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then he grinned and pronounced his own philosophy of racing dogs across the alaska wilds : `` i 'm going to have fun if it kills me. ''


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the 70-year-old founder of the iditarod trail sled dog race streteched his lead sunday as front-runners and their dog teams passed the last checkpoint on the yukon river section of the race .


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redington had left only nine of the 15 dogs with which he began .


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race rules require mushers to arrive in nome with at least five dogs in harness .


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buser still had 13 dogs in harness , one fewer than saturday .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

defending champion susan butcher , who won the last two races in record times , left at the tiny village at 8 : 18 a.m. , and four -time champion rick swenson at 9 : 58 a.m. , both with 12 dogs .


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the 70-year-old founder of the 1 , 150-mile iditarod trail sled dog race lost the lead again today when two other teams beat him to the bering sea coast after battling biting wind and drifting snow during the night .


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martin buser of big lake arrived at this eskimo village at 5 : 49 a.m. with 13 dogs in harness .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

defending champion susan butcher pulled in at 5 : 57 a.m. with 12 dogs .


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redington started the race with 15 dogs and had dropped six of them at checkpoints along the trail by sunday .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

susan butcher left the competition behind on the icy bering sea coast and mushed through bone-chilling winds wednesday to claim her third straight victory in the 1 , 150-mile iditarod trail sled dog race .


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`` i 'm just amazed at what my dogs are doing , and what they 've done all year , '' said butcher .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

butcher started the race with 17 dogs , but dropped eight at checkpoints along the trail .


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`` i 'm really happy , '' said butcher 's husband , dave monson , who earlier this month won another long-distance alaska sled dog race , the 1 , 000-mile yukon quest .


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butcher 's longtime rival , four -time iditarod champion rick swenson of two rivers , was minutes behind buser for third place .


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joe garnie of teller was running fourth , and 70-year-old joe redington of knik , who organized the first iditarod in 1973 but has never won the race , was fifth .


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one of butcher 's lead dogs this year was granite , a husky that led her to victory last year .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

butcher , competing in her 11th iditarod , long dreamed of being the first woman musher to win , but that honor went to libby riddles of teller in 1985 .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the iditarod , named after an old supply route to the gold mining districts of interior alaska , draws its inspiration from a 1925 relay of diphtheria serum to nome , which was hit hard by an outbreak of the disease .


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redington , known as the father of the iditarod , has entered all but two of the race 's 16 runnings and has placed as high as fifth .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

four -time iditarod champion rick swenson was the first sled-dog racer to reach the highest checkpoint in the grueling race as leading mushers made their way through the rugged alaska range early today .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

swenson , driving 18 dogs through the darkness , arrived at rainy pass checkpoint at 5 a.m .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

in some spots , wind had blown the trail clean of snow and the ice underneath was wearing the dogs ' feet .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

under the rules of the race , mushers are required to make a 24-hour stop at one of the race 's 24 checkpoints ; at the others , they take whatever length of rest they believe they and the dogs need .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` you need an elevator to get over that one , '' said reddington , who injured his two rear dogs sunday when his sled crashed into them and opted to take a 24-hour layover at finger lake .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

inspired by a sled- dog relay of serum to nome for a diphtheria outbreak in 1925 , the iditarod was founded in 1973 .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

most of the iditarod mushers are from alaska .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

mushers in the 1 , 168-mile iditarod trail sled dog race charged along alaska 's frozen west coast today in a tight race to the finish line in this historic gold rush town .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the race , whose trail is named for the gold mining ghost town of iditarod at the halfway point , attracts dozens of volunteers from around the world .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` i think -lrb- author -rrb- jack london put it best _ `it 's the call of the wild , '' ' iditarod volunteer peter elstub said .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

elstub , a british army soldier , has used his annual leave for eight years to work for the iditarod , performing tasks ranging from telephone duty to dropping dog food along the trail .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

when military duty kept him away in 1987 , he telephoned iditarod headquarters for race updates .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

unlike some years in which weather was a major factor in the outcome , this year 's iditarod has been blessed with almost ideal conditions .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

pilots pointed out stretches of the trail and encouraged passengers to keep their eyes open for sled teams .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

singer hobo jim , known for a song with the refrain `` i did , i did , i did the iditarod trail , '' entertained customers at a front street saloon .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

for the locals , the iditarod days `` give people a reason to be outside and just walk around town and see what happened all winter long while they were holed up in their houses , '' said mary knodel , a shopkeeper whose store overlooks the finish line .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

last year , he won the alpirod , the more sedate european version of the iditarod , and in 1985 , he won the 1 , 000-mile yukon quest from whitehorse , yukon territory , to fairbanks .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

runyan said his dogs were in good shape after the grueling trek .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the only other musher to win more than one iditarod is four -time champion rick swenson of two rivers , who was running fourth when runyan finished .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

butcher , who came in second an hour and four minutes behind runyan , had struggled to keep up after beating him by two minutes at the race half-way point of iditarod , for which she won $ 3,000 in silver ingots .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

illnesses among her dogs made it difficult to run a stronger race , butcher said at the finish line .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` i 'm kind of feeling sorry for how we have to run the dogs at the end , '' jonrowe said tuesday .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

volunteers at the iditarod office a block away updated race standings from reports submitted by ham radio operators along the trail .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

in 1987 , when he was on duty in the falkland islands , he telephoned iditarod headquarters for race updates , he said .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

for locals , the iditarod days `` give people a reason to be outside and just walk around town and see what happened all winter long while they were holed up in their houses , '' said mary knodel , a shopkeeper whose store overlooks the finish line .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

marylou haggren , a kodiak resident , said she and her husband made hotel reservations a year ago for iditarod week in nome .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` we just got back from the lower 48 , and down there everyone 's talking basketball , '' mrs. haggren said as she lingered in the iditarod office .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

lavon barve clung to the lead monday as front-runners in the iditarod trail sled dog race began their run up the bering sea coast to nome .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` once they get onto the ice , they can expect sudden storms and an ample supply of wind , '' said gail somerville , an iditarod spokeswoman in anchorage .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

tim osmar of clam gulch , dee dee jonrowe of willow and rick swenson of two rivers , the iditarod 's only four -time champion , had reached unalakleet , the largest community on the trail between eagle river and nome .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

barve , driving 14 dogs , was first out of unakleet at 10 : 05 a.m .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

`` my dogs are getting stronger with less rest , '' barve said .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

butcher , whose team had dropped to 12 dogs , said she would like to be in front by the time the leaders reach white mountain , just 77 miles from the finish of the 1 , 158-mile race .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

before leaving kaltag , runyan said the leaders in the 18th running of iditarod had come under the spell of what he called the `` crazy syndrome. ''


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

since 70 teams left anchorage on march 3 , seven mushers have scratched and another has been disqualified because of sick dogs .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the iditarod , named for an abandoned gold-mining town along the trail , was started in 1973 to commemorate the 1925 emergency delivery of life-saving diphtheria serum from anchorage to nome by sled dog teams .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

lavon barve was first out of this yukon river checkpoint sunday , taking the lead in the iditarod trail sled dog race away from three -time winner susan butcher and heading overland to norton sound .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the two leaders were followed into kaltag by four -time iditarod winner rick swenson at 1 : 26 p.m. and 1989 champion joe runyan at 1 : 33 p.m. dee dee jonrowe and tim osmar of were next in just before 2 : 30 p.m. robin jaconson of arrived at 4 : 15 p.m. .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

butcher , who started the race with 17 dogs , had 12 sunday .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

named for an abandoned gold-mining town along one branch of the trail , the iditarod race was started in 1973 to commemorate the 1925 emergency delivery of life-saving diphtheria serum from anchorage to nome by relay dog sled teams .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

joe redington , the 73-year-old man considered the father of the iditarod , was last reported in 32nd place after pulling out of cripple , 510 miles from the starting line .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

joe runyan overtook susan butcher and martin buser early today as the half-dozen leaders in the iditarod trail sled dog race moved from the yukon river to the bering sea coast , setting up the final sprint to nome .


Question: how many dogs pull a sled in the iditarod ?

the leaders -- butcher , buser , runyan , swenson , barve and jonrowe -- have been out front of the pack since they left the gold mining ghost town of iditarod , 558 miles into the race and its half-way point .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

adolph rickenbacker was a swiss immigrant who patented the first solid-body electric guitar in 1935 , the forerunner of today 's electric guitars .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

by the time adolph rickenbacker was ready to retire , he was convinced the electric guitar was a fad .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

`` george harrison had a rickenbacker , '' recalled roger mcguinn , who still remembers every guitar in the movie .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

a few days later , mcguinn traded in his folk guitar for a gleaming new rickenbacker electric .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

with a reputation for expensive quality -- a sort of guitar version of the bmw -- they 're big with yuppies and with foreign buyers these days .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

until the beatles , rickenbacker was just another guitar maker with an unlikely home in conservative orange county .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

and , unlike other u.s. guitar makers , it has refused to move its manufacturing overseas .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

`` a lot of the british rock groups in the '60s used them , and nostalgia 's a big part of their appeal now , '' said richard r. smith , a guitar collector and author of rickenbacker 's official history .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

the guitars ' sound is so distinct that guitar players can often instantly identify one on a record .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

and even non- experts know there 's something different about the sharp , scratchy guitar on the first few seconds of the beatles ' `` ticket to ride , '' or the 12 -string guitar that sounds like chimes on the byrds ' first hit , `` mr. tambourine man . ''


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

guitar players emerged from anonymity , and every kid wanted the same kind of guitar his idol played , or at least one that looked like it .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

the new stars of the guitar -- such as eric clapton -- usually played a gibson les paul , which could get the rougher sound .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

by the mid-1970s , things were n't going too well for the rest of the u.s. guitar industry , either .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

sales of electric and `` folk '' guitars and other fretted instruments had jumped from 400,000 in 1960 -- before folk music and rock hit it big -- to 2.5 million in 1972 .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

not only was the boom over , but first the japanese and then the koreans had ridden it right into the u.s. guitar market .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

some legendary names in the guitar business got hurt by imports , weak management and bad moves .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

in 1987 , for instance , all guitar manufacturers foreign and domestic shipped only $ 328 million worth of guitars at retail in the united states .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

and it 's by no means the most expensive guitar these days .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

a jackson -- a rakish semi-custom guitar often painted in garish reds or blues -- starts at $ 1,500 and goes up to $ 3,000 .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

it 's the guitar of choice for heavy metal bands these days .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

doc pittillo , a costa mesa guitar repairman , said , `` what 's really hot is usually what the kids saw on mtv last week .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

a guitar player , unlike his father , and a friend to some of his more renowned customers like mcguinn , hall has mostly tinkered with a few changes in the company 's marketing strategy .


Question: who invented the electric guitar ?

in marketing its guitars , rickenbacker has finally deigned to use one of the oldest ploys in the guitar industry : get a famous guitar player to endorse your product .


Question: name a flying mammal .

the 5 -lcb- -inch flying mammal bat turned up early last week on the balcony of a coral gables office and was handed over to specialists .


Question: name a flying mammal .

as batmania sweeps the nation , donald o'neill sweeps the film hero 's furry namesakes from michigan homes .


Question: name a flying mammal .

o'neill is known as the batman of oakland county , but he is n't a caped crusader .


Question: name a flying mammal .

instead of bathooks and batarangs , o'neill 's tools are a good flashlight , a net , and a 4-wheel -drive ford ranger for cruising the roads northwest of detroit .


Question: name a flying mammal .

o'neill 's bounty hunter pest control company rids old mansions and abandoned buildings of the flying mammals .


Question: name a flying mammal .

`` the batman is a nickname i picked up as a salesman for a pesticide company .


Question: name a flying mammal .

`` batman , '' the film , batted a week-old box office record out of the park to earn $ 42.7 million its first three days in release .


Question: name a flying mammal .

heidi hughes , who runs a bird -supply store in rockville , md. , lends further evidence : sales of her $ 22 and $ 49 bat-roost kits have jumped 300 % in three years .


Question: name a flying mammal .

is some of this increase due to the popularity of the movie `` batman `` ?


Question: name a flying mammal .

stephen j. gardell , a biochemist at merck sharp & dohme , a research lab in west point , pa. , has found an agent in vampire-bat saliva that could dissolve blood clots in humans .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

the external form of the magnetic shield room is a 6-meter pseudo-sphere with 32 sides that is made up of a 20 -sided hexagonal form exactly like a soccer ball and a 12 -sided pentagonal form .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

its 60 carbon atoms are arranged in a regular cage whose sides consist of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons - just like a soccer ball -lrb- which usually has the hexagons coloured black and the pentagons white -rrb- .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

initially , magnetic fields in the brain and heart will be measured with a system that has 64 channels using squid and 16 channels using high-temperature superconduction ; the interrelationship of this with data from imaging diagnostic and other equipment will be studied ; and the goal will be to complete a 200 -channel biological magnetic field measurement imaging system .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

but the scientists who discovered c in 1985 , harry kroto of the university of sussex in england and richard smalley of rice university in texas , were not soccer fans .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

two armed bandits forced a goldsmith to pull off a turin highway and stole a nine-pound silver soccer ball worth more than $ 100,000 , police said today .


Question: how many hexagons are on a soccer ball ?

the ball , a trophy that was to have been presented to the outstanding goalkeeper at the 1990 world cup soccer championships in italy , had been on display at a jewelry exhibit in torino .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

its 60 carbon atoms are arranged in a regular cage whose sides consist of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons - just like a soccer ball -lrb- which usually has the hexagons coloured black and the pentagons white -rrb- .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

and they are delighted that pure carbon - long known to exist in two forms , graphite and diamond - can take a third form so different to both of the others .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

that 's partly because the buckies are such oddballs , chemically speaking -- they are only the third pure form of carbon to be discovered , after graphite and diamonds .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

their process requires heating chemical vapors at normal air pressure or less and then getting carbon from the vapor to crystalize on a surface at temperatures of about 900 degrees celsius -lrb- 1,440 degrees fahrenheit -rrb- .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

graphite _ the soft black material used in pencil leads _ is the normally stable form of carbon at room temperature , butler explained .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

but by heating carbon-containing gases like sewer gas or acetylene the harder form of carbon can be made to grow on a surface .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

methane , a combination of carbon and hydrogen , is a primary constituent of sewer gas .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

researchers in other countries have performed some similar experiments , butler said , adding that such sources of carbon as vodka also have been used .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

and if burning of the waste gas is halted that also would reduce pollution and release of carbon dioxide , a product of the burning which scientsts fear will add to the so-called greenhouse warming of the earth .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

but already these soccer ball-shaped carbon cages , incorporating 60 or 70 carbon atoms , have become the subject of application research .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

in one experiment , they attached six atoms of cesium to carbon - 70 , and then evaluated the ability of this complex to facilitate the synthesis of compounds containing hydrogen and tritium -- a standard test for catalytic activity .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

groups from the university of tsukuba , kyoto university , the tokyo metropolitan university and various other places are attempting to synthesize super polymers of carbon - 60 in the hopes of developing new types of plastics and electronic materials .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the standard method now is to pass a current between two carbon electrodes , and then scrape off the fullerenes which form as a result .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

in the method being developed by the shizuoka university group , fine powdered carbon is supplied to a single carbon electrode .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the company generally asks for a `` cost contribution '' for very pure fullerene -lrb- 99.4 percent pure -rrb- of $ 135 per gram ; the contribution for larger quantities is negotiated or they are given away if a financially badly off university laboratory decides to collaborate with the company .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the cage -like structure on the existing double bonds of the carbon atoms can be forced open and then many other molecules can be incorporated into and added onto it .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

individual carbon atoms can also be successfully replaced with other atoms , boron , for example .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

encapsulated , in the form of so-called nanocapsules , they appear to be less well-suited to this because their molecular structure is probably too stable , which is why the encapsulated active substances are hardly released again .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

but it could lead to many industrial applications for carbon nitride -lrb- cn -rrb- as an ultrahard coating which could resist wear better than any other material .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the researchers have made a thin film of carbon nitride by a technique known as reactive sputtering .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

this involves firing carbon atoms from a graphite electrode at a smooth metal surface in a low-pressure atmosphere of nitrogen .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the university recently received a three-year grant from the us national science foundation to make more carbon nitride and investigate its applications .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

but if carbon nitride is to become more than a scientific curiosity some questions remain .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

'if carbon nitride sticks well to a large number of substrates , it could be a winner . '


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

however , carbon nitride still exists only as a microscopic coating and as yet there is no practical technique for making gem -sized crystals .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the most significant molecule discovered in the past 10 years is c , the football-shaped form of carbon known officially as buckminsterfullerene - fullerene or buckyball for short .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

kroto believed , on the basis of spectroscopic evidence , that long chains and other clusters of carbon atoms existed between the stars .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

they found that molecules with 60 carbon atoms were particularly stable - and proposed the correct fullerene structure - but could only produce them in microscopic quantities .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the breakthrough towards practical applications came in 1990 when wolfgang kratschmer of the max plank institute for nuclear physics in heidelberg and don huffman of the university of arizona in tucson discovered a simple way of making relatively large amounts of c. they vaporised graphite electrodes in a low-pressure helium atmosphere , producing a sooty black mist from which pure fullerene could be extracted as a reddish solution and then crystallised as a slippery yellow solid .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

for example , dynamic enterprises , a uk supplier , sells more than 99.5 per cent pure c at pounds 100 a gram - and an educational buckybox kit for schools to make their own fullerene costs pounds 95 .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

they are the finest wires ever made and are potentially far stronger than the conventional carbon fibres used in industry .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

at the same time , scientists are making chemical derivatives of c by attaching other elements to its carbon atoms .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

another avenue of research is to make fullerenes in which the cage itself is made of elements other than carbon .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

xerox recently received us patents for a process to improve the resolution of photocopies , taking advantage of the fact that carbon buckyballs are 1,000 times smaller than the particles in conventional toner .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

unlike other forms of pure carbon , buckyballs dissolve in various solvents , making them easy to chemically manipulate , says ibm 's mr. johnson .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the best-known buckyball contains 60 carbon atoms ; but larger ones , some with hundreds of atoms , also are thought to exist .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

recent studies suggest buckyballs themselves can be turned into highly charged particles by well-known methods that strip away one or more of their carbon atoms ' electrons .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

and researchers recently found that the balls form exotic crystals resembling hovering rows of spinning tops .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

such diamond-on-diamond thin films are far too expensive to be used in mass-produced electronic devices .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the new method involves first shooting or implanting ions of carbon , or charged carbon atoms , into a copper substrate , according to the report by jagdish narayan and v.p .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

once the carbon ions are implanted in the copper , they are blasted with a powerful pulse of laser light lasting only 45 billionths of a second .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

if confirmed , the method would be `` a very important achievement '' said john angus , a prominent diamond-film researcher at case western reserve university .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the finding also may lead to the first major commercial use of buckyballs , tiny balls of pure carbon formally called buckminsterfullerenes because they resemble the geodesic domes of architect buckminster fuller .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

in a separate discovery , researchers at japan 's nec corp. reported last month at a scientific conference in richmond , va. , that they had discovered a tubular form of buckyballs .


Question: what precious stone is a form of pure carbon

the new `` buckytubes ' -- long cylindrical meshes of carbon atoms capped by domes resembling buckyballs cut in half -- may be the strongest fibers ever made , according to an article on the conference to appear in next month 's issue of scientific american .


Question: where was george washington born ?

it is sited in 10 acres of formal terraced boxwood gardens on the james river , virginia route 5 , charles city , va. call -lrb- 804 -rrb- 829-6018 .


Question: where was george washington born ?

the land is tilled by oxen and the crops are the same as those planted during washington 's childhood .


Question: where was george washington born ?

washington 's great-grandfather , grandfather and father are all buried there , about 38 miles east of fredericksburg , va. , near the potomac river .


Question: where was george washington born ?

william henry harrison -lrb- son of declaration of independence signer benjamin harrison , who also lived in the house , and grandfather of 23rd president benjamin harrison -rrb- was born on berkeley plantation in virginia .


Question: where was george washington born ?

george washington -lrb- first president -rrb- : born feb. 22 , 1732 , in westmoreland county .


Question: where was george washington born ?

george bush -lrb- 41st president -rrb- : born june 12 , 1924 , in a house at 173 adams st. in milton , mass .


Question: where was george washington born ?

eight presidents were born in virginia : george washington , thomas jefferson , james madison , james monroe , william henry harrison , john tyler , zachary taylor and woodrow wilson .


Question: where was george washington born ?

they were born on historic plantations on the river banks of virginia , in modest wood-frame homes on the midwestern plain , on ranches in texas cattle country .


Question: where was george washington born ?

washington , jefferson , madison , monroe , tyler , william howard taft and john f. kennedy all are buried in virginia .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

prime minister rajiv gandhi of india and chinese leader deng xiaoping agreed today to restore friendly ties between the world 's most populous countries despite a long-standing border dispute .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

suraj prakash malhotra , a local leader of prime minister rajiv gandhi 's congress party , and gajjan singh , a state leader of the communist party of india , were among the victims in a series of attacks , press trust of india said .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the election commission tossed out thousands of suspected fraudalent ballots cast wednesday at more than 600 polling booths in six states and sent a team to investigate charges of vote fraud in the amethi constituency , where gandhi is facing raj mohan gandhi , the grandson of india 's beloved independence leader mohandas k. gandhi .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

hosting a banquet for the visiting leader , mr. rao said india looked forward to a further expansion of relations with the asean , with which it was a sectoral dialogue partner .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the federal government and german industry were following india 's policy of reforms with close attention and sympathy and `` modern india , with its reform-oriented economic policy aimed at liberalisation , is one of our most important partners on the asian continent , '' the german leader told mr rao .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

on that day , indian prime minister jawaharlal nehru , the hindu leader of india 's movement for independence , said : `` at the strike of the midnight hour , when the world sleeps , india will awake to life and freedom .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the election also was billed as a report card on gandhi 's five years in power , during which the young leader had vowed to usher in a new era of science and prosperity in long-impoverished india .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

with parliament set to resume on thursday , the congress party leadership is working under a deadline in which it will either choose the leader and present the choice as a fait accompli to lawmakers , or leave it up to the rank-and-file members of the party , who are seeking a stronger voice in the control of india 's dominant party after rajiv gandhi 's death .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

while gorbachev 's visit to india last week underscored close ties between moscow and new delhi , the soviet leader and prime minister gandhi fell short of affirming each other 's positions on asia .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

two years later , india and china fought a war over the border and china occupied a large chunk of indian territory .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

xinhua also said li expressed `` admiration '' for india 's position on tibet , a chinese province bordering india .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india has reiterated that tibet is part of china and forbids tibetan refugees in india from engaging in political activities .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

in 1959 , the dalai lama , tibet 's leader , and thousands of tibetan refugees fled to india after an abortive , anti- chinese uprising .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india was one of the first non-socialist countries to recognize communist china soon after beijing 's 1949 revolution .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india rejects the claim and demands that china return the 15,200 square miles it took in the war .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

china and india are expected to sign agreements on civil aviation , border trade and science and technology .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india said in the past it would improve indian - chinese ties only after progress was made on the border .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

china is improving its relations with the soviet union and maintains strong relations with pakistan , india 's traditional enemy on its northeastern border .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

li also praised india 's position on the restive region of tibet , which india recognizes as part of china .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india recognizes the current government of cambodia , which was installed by vietnam after the hanoi government invaded the country in december 1978 .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

india says china should return 15,200 square miles of territory it took in the 1962 war .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the indian leader spent much of his second day in china sightseeing .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the tibetan issue has long been a source of tension between the two countries because india has provided refuge to the tibetan religious leader , the dalai lama , and his followers , who have demanded independence for tibet .


Question: who is the leader of india ?

the dalai lama fled to india in 1959 after he led a failed uprising against chinese military forces .