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  2. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] One of the most famous opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", starts a sentence of 118 words [4] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first sentence of the novel, Yes even contains 477 words. Moby-Dick's "Call me Ishmael." is an example of a short opening sentence.

  3. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    A distinction is drawn between a discovery and an invention, as discussed for example by Bolesław Prus. [7] However, discoveries and inventions are inextricably related, in that discoveries lead to inventions, and inventions facilitate discoveries; and since the same phenomenon of multiplicity occurs in relation to both discoveries and ...

  4. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Friday, December 13

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    3. Fizzy beverages with a sharp, zesty taste. 4. The words in this category sound like things from the animal kingdom. Related: 300 Trivia Questions and Answers to Jumpstart Your Fun Game Night.

  5. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Example of the early Greek symbol for zero (lower right corner) from a 2nd-century papyrus 499: Aryabhata gives a new symbol for zero and uses it for the decimal system. 499: Aryabhata discovers the formula for the square-pyramidal numbers (the sums of consecutive square numbers).

  6. Serendipity - Wikipedia

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    Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. [1] The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions.

  7. New Frontiers program - Wikipedia

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    New Horizons, which was launched in 2006 and reached Pluto in 2015, Juno, which was launched in 2011 and entered Jupiter orbit in 2016, and OSIRIS-REx, launched in September 2016 towards asteroid Bennu for detailed studies from 2018 to 2021 and a sample return to Earth in 2023.

  8. Exploration of Mars - Wikipedia

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    NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a three-launch architecture concept for a sample return mission, which uses a rover to cache small samples, a Mars ascent stage to send it into orbit, and an orbiter to rendezvous with it above Mars and take it to Earth. [138] Solar-electric propulsion could allow a one launch sample return instead of three. [139]

  9. Timeline of Solar System exploration - Wikipedia

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    Lunar sample return [405] [482] Lucy: 16 October 2021 Flyby of six Jupiter trojans and two main belt asteroids [483] [484] DART / LICIACube: 24 November 2021 Asteroid 65803 Didymos flyby, asteroid moon Dimorphos impactor [485] [486] James Webb Space Telescope: 25 December 2021 Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L 2 [487] [488] CAPSTONE: 28 ...