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Mole Day originated from a celebration by educator Margaret Christoph. [5] She wrote an article about her experiences in The Science Teacher in the 1980s. [6] Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, a high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.
Project Mohole was an attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. [2] The project was intended to provide an earth science complement to the high-profile Space Race.
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from early USAF concepts of crewed space stations as reconnaissance satellites, and was a successor to the canceled Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar military reconnaissance space plane.
An MP has called for an end to what she called a "whack-a-mole strategy" for energy projects in the East of England. Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, Labour MP for Suffolk Coastal, said a "void of no ...
For the third annual Call to Earth Day, schools around the world took action to protect the environment.
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At Omaha and Utah, 6,614 tons of cargo was discharged in the first three days. A month after D-Day, Omaha and Utah were handling 9,200 tons, and after a further month, they were landing 16,000 tons per day. This increased until 56,200 tons of supplies, 20,000 vehicles, and 180,000 troops were discharged each day at those beaches.
Jumu'ah (More commonly known as the Day of Assembly or the Day of Gathering; Held every Friday of the lunar year as an alternative to the Zuhr prayer) Mawlid (Birth of Muhammad) Mid-Sha'ban (Bara'a Night; Decisions of the fortunes of men in the approaching year) Nuzul Al Quran (First revelation of the Quran)