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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Moon, Sun Myung Born 1920. Korean-born American religious leader and founder of the Unification Church (1954). He was found guilty in 1982 of conspiracy to evade taxes in the United States.
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Etymologies
- From Old English mōna, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *mē-² (“to measure”) (Wiktionary)
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“A moon landing became a U.S. priority only in 1961, when President John F. Kennedy - under the prodding of his vice president, Lyndon Johnson - announced the goal of "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
The Washington Post: The Fact Checker: Obama's State of the Union address
“This small moon, about the size of Earth's Moon, is one of the Galilean moons first discovered 400 years ago by Galileo.”
“According to Charles Schneer (see above), Judd got to the moon well before Neal Armstrong, in Schneer's H.G. Wells 'First Men in the Moon.”
The Huffington Post: Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed
“In the "Rare Earth" hypothesis, this is a Goldilocks criterion; unless the tilt is kept stable (by a moon like our Moon), and at a "just right" angle, the climates will swing too wildly for multicellular life to form: too many snowball Earths (the whole globe covered in snow and ice), or too much risk of a runaway greenhouse.”
Nailing Down Goldilocks: What's "Just Right" for Exo-Earths? | Universe Today
“He did so much work on the Apollo moon missions, at the Washington Geophysical Laboratory, and was quite instrumental in the chemical examination of the rocks from the Moon.”
“That's a crap excuse. robear yeah go on any torrent site type in moon there are dozens and dozens of different downloads for Moon.”
Sony Says Moon Oscar Screeners Were Held Back Due to Piracy Concerns | /Film
“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'NASA moon bombing violates space law & may cause conflict with lunar ET/UFO civilizations'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'So, now we\'re going to bomb the Moon?”
“A lunar eclipse happens near the transiting moon nodes – now in Aquarius/Leo – when the Earth lines up with the Sun and the Moon.”
“Here are the tweets with respect to a question on what impact the FY2010 budget would have on moon planning: - We are still looking at what we mean by Moon, is that an outpost that is very expensive or is it an Apollo”
“Later, at 3pm, I was on a panel called MEDIA MOON which went into the use or featuring or involvement of the Moon in media Sf, which was agreed to be everything except for books.”
Satellite 2: Glasgow Convention on Spaceflight – Report « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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