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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.

Where Is “Old Zealand”?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

New Shepard

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Bezos

In Jeff Bezos: Other activities
…introduce a crewed suborbital spacecraft, New Shepard, in 2018 and an orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, in 2020. Bezos bought The Washington Post and affiliated publications for \$250 million in 2013. Bezos’s net worth was calculated in 2024 at \$204 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.
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Shatner

In William Shatner: Other work
…second flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft.
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space tourism

In space tourism: Suborbital space tourism
founder Jeff Bezos, developed its New Shepard spacecraft (named for American astronaut Alan Shepard). With its bullet-shaped fuselage, New Shepard takes off and lands vertically, in contrast to the mother-ship deployment of SpaceShipTwo. New Shepard made its first flight on July 20, 2021, with a crew of Bezos; his brother…
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