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Ed Jeter

@Eddissimo

#ComposerChat,former NASA moonflight engineer, photography, sound recording, baroque, classical music, piano, cembalo, screenplay writing, cats, F1racing.

 LittleRock, Arkansas, USA
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Joined July 2009
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Happy Birthday Brahms and Tchaikovsky classicalmusicwithbigmike.co… @Eddissimo #TchaikovskyChat #BrahmsChat #ClassicalMusic @OnlyClassical @AllClassicalPDX @KingFM @HoustonPubMedia @ClassicalToday @jaynordlinger @Lileks @arthurbrooks
Happy Birthday Brahms and Tchaikovsky

Happy Birthday Brahms and Tchaikovsky

May 7th wawas the birth date for two of the giants in the Romantic Era of music, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Brahms was born in the year of 1833 and seven years later in the year,…

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Starship orbital test flight's primary expected time is today. The launch window is expected to open at 8 am in Texas (13:00 UTC - 15.00 CEST). These are the Super Heavy and Starship expected trajectories [watch: spacex.com/launches] [📹 Cindy Pom]
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Today in 2014 NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star, about 580 light-years (180 parsecs) from Earth.
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Today in 1492 Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
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Today in 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
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I cheered from NASA Building 32 Houston, Texas where I was working on it.
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Today in 1970 the ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
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Today in 1969 Bernadette Devlin is elected MP for Mid Ulster, standing as the Independent Unity candidate; at 21 years old, she is Britain's youngest ever female MP and the third youngest MP ever
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The Olmec civilization was the first great Mesoamerican culture, flourishing along Mexico's Gulf coast around 1200-400 B.C. Known for their incredible artistry, they created monumental stonework and cave paintings.
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Barry Marshall was sure that Helicobacter pylori caused peptic ulcers, but since it was illegal to test that on humans, he drank a Petri dish with the bacteria, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel Prize bit.ly/2DLjgLj
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In October 1971, a physicist and an astronomer took 4 cesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world and when reunited, the sets of clocks were found to disagree according to the predictions of the relativity theory bit.ly/2rbNBQt
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Today in 1939 pop singer Dusty Springfield, whose real name is Mary O'Brien, is born to Irish parents in London
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Remembering Harry Anderson October 14, 1952 ~ April 16, 2018 #NightCourt #DavesWorld
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