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Watch SpaceX Attempt To Launch Falcon Heavy, The World's Most Powerful Rocket The Falcon Heavy — which has the power of eighteen Boeing 747s at takeoff — successfully went to space today. February 6, 2018 at 09:27PM

Article of the day is Guadalcanal Campaign. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Watch SpaceX Attempt To Launch Falcon Heavy, The World's Most Powerful Rocket

This is how the world’s most covetable cameras get made

Picture of the day on February 7, 2018: Diesel locomotive Di 4 of Norwegian State Railways with the daytime train from Bodø to Trondheim (Nordlandsbanen), passing the Saltfjellet between Lønsdal and Bolna.

Diesel locomotive Di 4 of Norwegian State Railways with the daytime train from Bodø to Trondheim (Nordlandsbanen), passing the Saltfjellet between Lønsdal and Bolna..

The Article of the day for February 7, 2018 is Guadalcanal Campaign . In the Guadalcanal Campaign of the Second World War, the Allies reversed the gains of Imperial Japan in the southwest Pacific. U.S. forces had inflicted heavy losses on the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, but Japan had remained on the offensive, pushing into the Solomon Islands from Rabaul and threatening supply lines to Australia and New Zealand. In August 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands. The Japanese had occupied the islands since May, and were building an airfield (later named Henderson Field). The Allies overwhelmed the surprised Japanese defenders and captured the airfield. The Japanese attempted to retake it but were defeated in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in early November. They abandoned their campaign in December, and evacuated their remaining forces on 7 February 1943. The Allied victories on Guadalcanal, and in New Guinea, marked th

Word of the day is wordster : One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith. One who studies words. (pejorative) One who uses words instead of actions; a hypocrite, a verbalist. Scottish lexicographer and philologist Sir James Murray, who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, was born on this day in 1837.

wordster , n : One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith. One who studies words. (pejorative) One who uses words instead of actions; a hypocrite, a verbalist. Scottish lexicographer and philologist Sir James Murray, who was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, was born on this day in 1837.

This is how the world’s most covetable cameras get made Every one of Hasselblad's frightfully expensive X1D cameras comes stamped with a "Handmade in Sweden" inscription, and I was curious to find out just how well-earned that tagline is.