"Moonbots" Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X Prize Missions With Lego Robots The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired's GeekDad will announce "MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge"...
It took the television game show "Millionaire," a radio commentary and printed column by Manitowoc Mayor Kevin Crawford, and a suggestion by Kim Geimer, owner of Persimmons Art Gallery, to bring back the idea of a special festival here to commemorate the day fragments of the Russian spa...
Maximilian Hell, S.J. (Hungarian: Hell Miksa) (May 15, 1720 - April 14, 1792) was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. Read more
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the last U.S. Mercury spaceflight manned space mission, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was named Faith 7 and it completed 22 Earth orbits piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me...
Mercuralia is a Roman celebration known also as the "Festival of Mercury". Mercury was thought to be the god of merchants and commerce. On May 15 merchants would sprinkle their heads, their ships and merchandise, and their businesses with water taken from the well at Porta Capena. Read m...
The fortress of Kuelap (or Cuélap), associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings. The structure, situated on a ridge overlooking the Utcubamba Valley in northern Peru, is roughly 600 meters in length and 110 meter...
Marconi and the first radio messages across open sea Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on 13 May 1897, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was...
A possible magnitude 15.9 Supernova was discovered on the 12th May, 2011, by T. Puckett. X. Gao and Z. Jin, in the galaxy NGC 5425 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 15.6" west and 8.4" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position(2000): ...
Meteor likely caused mysterious boom Virginia Beach is a city full of sound. Waves crash at the Oceanfront and fighter jets scream overhead. However, a boom Tuesday night caught hundreds of normally unfazed residents from Virginia Beach to the Eastern Shore completely off-guard. [url=http://w...
Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow (Horrebov) (May 14, 1679 - April 15, 1764) was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. Read more
Romania recovers parts of ancient Dacian treasure Romania has recovered more pieces of a valuable ancient treasure which had been stolen from the archaeological site of Sarmisegetusa Regia in Transylvania, according to Ernest Tarnoveanu, the head of the national history museum. The site is par...
A Romanian man planting potatoes almost died when a meteorite believed to be from the tale of Halley's Comet thudded into the ground inches from where he was working. "I heard a brief whoosh of air and then something hit the ground just to one side of me with an enormous thud. I didn't see a meteor, b...
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), whose launch was scheduled in the summer of 2005 has been postponed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The reason for the delay is that JAXA found an anomaly in the Infrared Imaging Surveyor Satellite (ASTRO-F) dur...
Maamme laulu (Finnish; Maamme for short) or Vårt land (Swedish) ("our land") is the title of Finland's national anthem. There is no law on an official national anthem in Finland, but Maamme is firmly established by convention. The music was composed by the German immigrant Fredrik Paci...
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