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Revellers can also go for something different and immerse themselves in pagan tradition at Stonehaven's Fireball Festival. Thousands come to watch locals swinging blazing fireballs of up to three feet in diameter above their heads as they march through the town to traditional piping and drummin...

The Wetumpka impact crater is the only confirmed meteorite crater in Alabama, United States. It is located east of downtown Wetumpka in Elmore County, Alabama. The crater is 7.6 km in diameter and its age is estimated to be about 83 million years (Cretaceous) old based on fossils found in the younges...

Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev (born 31 December 1948) is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and a test cosmonaut of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Read more

Orbital elements: 2012 VJ82 Earth MOID = 0.0717 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 258.42905 (2000.0) P Q n 0.62108655 Peri. 271.89939 -0.94598374 -0.18590919 a 1.3605086 Node 257.45765 +0.27011424 -0.90503711 e 0.3911152 Incl. 15.78992 -0.17931272 -0.38255144 P 1.59 H 19...

Hum, Scientists find Extraterrestrial genes in Human DNA A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life fo...

Robert Grant Aitken (December 31, 1864 - October 29, 1951) was an American astronomer. He worked at Lick Observatory in California. He systematically studied double stars, measuring their positions and calculating their orbits around one another. Read more

The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield, in West Yorkshire in Northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. Read moreSpoiler

The Tokyo Metro Ginza Line is a subway line located in Tokyo, Japan. It is part of the of Tokyo Metro network. The portion between Ueno and Asakusa was completed on December 30, 1927 and publicized as "the first underground railway in the Orient." Upon its opening, the line was so popular t...

John Milne (30 December 1850 - 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Read more

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his...

Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. Read more

Steven Lee Smith (born December 30, 1958), is an American technology executive and NASA astronaut. Read moreSpoiler

Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language. Read moreSpoiler

John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 - August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Read m...

Orbital elements: 2012 YP6 Earth MOID = 0.0648 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 17.07796 (2000.0) P Q n 0.73345711 Peri. 72.12584 +0.90162185 +0.21820509 a 1.2177353 Node 273.95997 -0.36672807 +0.84344325 e 0.2158211 Incl. 21.98373 +0.22932197 +0.49090734 P 1.34 H 21.4 G...