The Armenia was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. Armenia was sunk on 7 November 1941 by German torpedo-carrying He 111 aircraft while the ship was evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff from several of Cr...
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution, Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally d...
Mussels Living in Extremely Acidic Water on a Submarine Volcano With respect to the effects of ocean acidification on various forms of marine life, the authors write that "experiments provide insight into instantaneous responses of organisms to increased CO2 levels, but information from...
A spot on the Sun observed as early as 807 is believed by some experts to have been a transit of Mercury. The first observation of a transit of Mercury was on November 7, 1631 by Pierre Gassendi. Johannes Kepler had however predicted the occurrence of transits of Mercury and Venus some time before that....
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American military science fiction film, written by Edward Neumeier (screenplay), directed by Paul Verhoeven, loosely adapted from Starship Troopers, a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It was the first of three films released in the Starship Troopers fran...
The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2007 GF made a close pass (73.0 lunar distances, 0.1875 AU), travelling at 13.39 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th December, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940. It received its nickname "Galloping Gertie" due to the vertical movement of the deck observed by construction workers during windy conditions. The bridge collapsed into Puget Sound the morning of November 7, 1940, under high w...
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 - 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of t...
Happy Birthday, Marie Curie The first woman in France to receive a doctorate degree, scientist Marie Curie is remembered for her discoveries in radioactivity and radioactive elements. Her work won her two Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry, but unfortunately also led to her death. [url=http:...
William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (7 November 1687 - 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as "probably... the most important of the early forerunn...
This composite picture shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars taken by the spacecraft. Daily global images were acquired at Ls 211° during a previous Mars year.
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The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through D...
Loner galaxy is seed of giant black hole NGC 4178 enjoyed the single life. Even though the flat, disc-shaped galaxy was getting on a bit, it had a svelte spiral figure to be proud of. Its central black hole was perfect: not too small, not too large. It had never been involved in a major merger with another...
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