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71Odyssey Moon — On December 6, 2007, Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Google Lunar X Prize competition,[1] an event that hopes to rekindle the efforts of humans to return to the moon. The competition is referred to as Moon 2.0 and is composed… …
72Jinnah, Mohammed Ali — born Dec. 25, 1876, Karachi, India died Sept. 11, 1948, Karachi, Pak. Indian Muslim politician, founder and first governor general of Pakistan (1947–48). He was educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and London, where he became a lawyer at age 19. After …
73Shaw, George Bernard — born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ire. died Nov. 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, Eng. Irish playwright and critic. After moving to London in 1876, he worked for years as a music and art critic, wrote book and theatre reviews, and was an… …
74folk high school — ▪ Scandinavian education type of residential school for adults that is standard in Scandinavian countries and has also been adopted elsewhere in Europe. The concept of the folk high school was originated in Denmark by the theologian N.F.S.… …
75Giacconi, Riccardo — ▪ Italian physicist born October 6, 1931, Genoa, Italy Italian born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for his seminal discoveries of cosmic sources of X rays, which helped lay the foundations for the field of X ray… …
76Bl. John of Avila — Bl. John of Avila † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bl. John of Avila Apostolic preacher of Andalusia and author, b. at Almodóvar del Campo, a small town in the diocese of Toledo, Spain, 6 January, 1500; d. at Montilla, 10 May, 1569. At the… …
77The Benedictine Order — The Benedictine Order † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Benedictine Order The Benedictine Order comprises monks living under the Rule of St. Benedict, and commonly known as black monks . The order will be considered in this article under… …
78Dumbo the Flying Elephant — Disneyland Land Fantasyland Coordinates …
79Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament — The Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (MCBS) is a congregation of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church in southern India. Contents 1 The Birth of MCBS 2 MCBS on the Road to Growth 3 Founders of MCBS …
80neweurasia — is a network of weblogs about Central Asia and the Caucasus. neweurasia s central idea has revolved around bridge blogging , enlisting bloggers who speak both English and local languages to serve as links between the English and local language… …
