* Astronomy

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RE: December 18th

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The Epona feast day in the Roman calendar was on December 18
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t11104480/epona/

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The Battle of the Trebia was the first major battle of the Second Punic War, fought in December of 218 BC
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46862881/battle-of-the-trebia/

The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun

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The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line is a bridge-tunnel combination across Tokyo Bay in Japan.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46846587/tokyo-bay-aqua-line/

The Cliff Palace was first discovered on the 18th December, 1888
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51948442/the-cliff-palace/

The Tupolev Tu-160 bomber made its first flight on 18/19 December 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160

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Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first communications satellite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SCORE

Soyuz 13 was launched on the 18th December 1973
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t39994113/soyuz-13/

On December 18, 1999, NASA launched Terra, the first of a series of Earth monitoring satellites
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t12533140/terra-satellite/

The PARASOL satellite was launched on December 18, 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasol_(satellite)

JAXA Engineering Test Satellite ETS-VIII (Kiku 8) was launched on December 18, 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETS-VIII

On December 18, 2009, the SOFIA aircraft performed the first test flight in which the telescope door was fully opened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_Infrared_Astronomy

Helios 2B was launched on December 18, 2009
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t32327216/helios-2b-satellite/

Göktürk-2 was launched on December 18, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk-2

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Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born December 18, 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Volynov

Andrew Sydney Withiel Thomas (18 December 1951) is an Australian-born American aerospace engineer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Thomas

Dr. Reinhold Ewald (born December 18, 1956) is a German physicist and ESA astronaut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Ewald

Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson (18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940) was a British physicist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46846599/sir-joseph-john-j-j-thomson-1856-1940/

Roger Clifton Jennison (18 December 1922 - 29 December 2006) worked as a radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Clifton_Jennison

Schelte John "Bobby" Bus (born 1956) is an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schelte_J._Bus

Stacie Powell (born 18 December 1985) is a British diver and astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacie_Powell

Gottfried Kirch (December 18, 1639 - July 25, 1710) was a German astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Kirch

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (December 18, 1922 - November 11, 2006) was an American microbiologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg

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The Piltdown Man was a hoax started on December 18, 1912.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t51739747/piltdown-man/

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The Nutcracker premièred at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker

The word "photon" appeared in a letter to the editor of Nature magazine (Vol. 118, Part 2, December 18, 1926)
http://www.nobeliefs.com/photon.htm

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NGC 1032 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 18th December 1783.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t55961005/ngc-1032/

NGC 2319 was discovered by William Herschel on the 18th December 1783.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t55961109/ngc-2319/

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Arche a moon of Jupiter was discovered on December 18, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arche_(moon)

On December 18, 1966, Richard Walker discovered Epimetheus.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3387122/epimetheus/

The Great Comet of 1680 passed closest to the sun on December 18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1680

The December Coma Berenicids meteor shower peaks between December 18 and 25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Berenices