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The whooper swan's nearest relatives, the trumpeter and tundra swans, share its musical tracheal loop. Zoologist D.G. Elliot reported in 1898 that a tundra swan he had shot and wounded in flight began a long glide down whilst issuing a series of "plaintive and musical" notes that "sounded at times like the soft running of the notes of an octave ...
"Little Red and the Big Bad" by Will Shetterly, published in Swan Sister (2003). James Thurber's short story "The Little Girl and the Wolf" features the heroine turning the tables on the Wolf by taking an automatic pistol out of her basket and shooting him. The moral says it all: "It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be."
Barnard's Loop (catalogue designation Sh 2 -276) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is part of the Orion molecular cloud complex which also contains the dark Horsehead and bright Orion nebulae. The loop takes the form of a large arc centered approximately on the Orion Nebula. The stars within the Orion Nebula are believed ...
Elon Musk. Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ ˈiːlɒn /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the ...
Lopatin was born and raised in Massachusetts, [12] and is the son of Russian-Jewish [13] "refusenik" emigrants from the Soviet Union, both with musical backgrounds. [14] Some of his first experiments with electronic music were inspired by his father's music collection [2] and his Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, an instrument that Lopatin would inherit and go on to use extensively in his own music ...
For earlier uncrewed Moon landings, see Moon landing. This article is about the 1969 crewed lunar mission. For other uses, see Apollo 11 (disambiguation). Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted by the United States from July 16 to July 24, 1969. It marked the first time in history that humans landed on the Moon.
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. co-production with Silver Screen Partners IV and Pegasus Entertainment. June 21, 1991. The Rocketeer. released under Walt Disney Pictures in North America and under Touchstone Pictures outside of North America; co-production with Silver Screen Partners IV and The Gordon Company. November 22, 1991.
Abby Ryder Fortson (born March 14, 2008) [1] is an American child actress. She played Ella Novak in Transparent, Harper Weil in The Whispers, Sophie Pierson in Togetherness, Cassie Lang in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Margaret Simon in Are You There God?