![]() ![]() The first artificial Earth satellite, the first craft to approach the Moon, and the first manned orbital craft spacecraft were all launched here, making Baikonur a leading symbol of the space age.Īnd as so often happens with all things legendary, the history of Baikonur has become so rich in various stories over the decades that it's hard to separate fact from fiction. The legends of the Baikonur Cosmodrome>Īll of the Soviet Union’s legendary space odysseys began from a single point on the map: the Baikonur Cosmodrome, lying in the middle of the endless Kazakh steppe.This was the beginning of the Cosmonaut Training Center. ![]() On Januthe Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force, Konstantin Vershinin, issued a secret decree on the creation of a military unit for space travel training. The Soviet Union opened its first cosmonaut training center 56 years ago this month, and it now prepares to meet the goals of a new generation of space explorers. Russia's Star City – where the conquest of space began>.Photo by Alexadnr Mokletsov / RIA Novosti ![]() Here are six things you might not know about the first man in space.> ![]() Yuri Gagarin’s selection as the first man in space changed history, but it also changed his life. 6 things you might not know about Yuri Gagarin>. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with family feuds, backbiting and jealousy - the focus of conflicting ambitions. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'. 'I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. ![]() Though her uncle William IV was anxious to bring her into Court circles, her German mother and the calculating John Conroy were equally determined. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please report the missing parcel to either Australia Post or Sendle depending on the courier that was used for your parcel. It’s important to us that every parcel completes its journey safe and sound, but we cannot be held responsible for a parcel returned to us, or lost when marked as delivered in a safe place by Australia Post. If a receiver is not home, Australia Post may decide to leave the parcel in a safe place, unless a signature is required.Īustralia Post may opt to bring the parcel to the nearest collection point (Post Offices). ![]() We cannot be held responsible for a parcel returned to us. If this is the case, Sendle may opt to have these parcels returned to the sender. It’s important to us that every parcel completes its Sendle journey safe and sound, but we appreciate that some locations may not have nearby collection points to make this possible. Collection points may include newsagents or service stations. If the parcel cannot be delivered again, it may be left at one of 1'400 local collection points. If a receiver is not home to sign for a parcel, Sendle will attempt to redeliver the item for free. ![]() ![]() ![]() And by age eleven he had made his first book, called "Attack from Mars." It featured Jupitans and lots and lots of drawings of space battles. He spent most of his childhood drawing, as well as most of his teenage and adult years as well. But words were not yet his earliest tools for storytelling. Tolkien, completely convinced him that other worlds existed, and that writers had a key to these worlds. It made him realize that worlds beyond his own were possible, and he failed to eat his popcorn. Cornish was born in time to see the first Star Wars movie. The third in the series is yet to be named.ĭ.M. The second book named Lamplighter was released in May 2008. His first book is Foundling, the first part of the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy. (David) Cornish (born 1972) is a fantasy author and illustrator from Adelaide, South Australia. ![]() ![]() At some point in the writing of this book, the social and political unrest of the ‘70s started feeling relevant again. I wore a POW bracelet for my friend’s father who never returned. Also, because I came of age in that era, the Vietnam War really shaped me. Books like The Outsiders and the books that Leni reads are the books that I was reading. ![]() My dad was an adventurer, I moved around a lot as a kid, and books were really my friends. Hannah: I’m basically the same age Leni would be, so I was able to use a lot of my own memories. Question: The main character in "The Great Alone" is a 13-year-old girl when we first meet her. Hannah spoke with USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg in New York during a #BookmarkThis author chat on Facebook. ![]() Hannah is the author of more than 20 novels, including The Nightingale, her 2015 blockbuster about two sisters and the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Martin’s Press), is the story of Leni Allbright, a teenager whose inner strength is tested when her father, a volatile former Vietnam War POW, moves his family to a remote frontier town in rugged 1970s Alaska. Kristin Hannah’s new novel, The Great Alone (St. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after decades of disputing rumors, he's learned to live with the fact that this one may never die. He was the lead inventor of the technology used to project 3D films in theaters, and his work has also been used in the development of 3D TVs.Īnd for all the "Puff the Magic Dragon" fans who believe the song isn't really about a dragon, Lipton still insists otherwise. He's also an accomplished writer, filmmaker, and inventor. ![]() The poem he wrote would eventually be used as the lyrics for Peter, Paul and Mary's hit song.Ĭo-writing one of the most beloved folk songs of the '60s isn't Lipton's only claim to fame. Perhaps this video from Great Big Story will finally put those rumors to bed.Īccording to the song's lyricist Lenny Lipton, the idea was inspired by Ogden Nash's children's poem " The Tale of Custard the Dragon." The same day he read the poem, Lipton went over to a friend's house and felt compelled to sit down in front of their typewriter and start writing. ![]() A song about the adventures of a magical dragon sounds innocent enough, but like many songs written in the '60s, "Puff the Magic Dragon" is regarded by many as a metaphor for drug use. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We had very similar feedback from our interns in 2020 as well. This year we had a 99% satisfaction score with the program and 98% of participants shared that they felt a strong sense of belonging and purpose. ![]() In 2021, we successfully executed our second consecutive virtual internship program for 467 interns, leveraging our own cloud-based Now Platform, which allowed us to digitize the various workflows within our internship program. To do this successfully, we had to quickly scale our talent acquisition practices and adapt how we attract talent and engage that talent through the selection process, and how we effectively onboard talent digitally into ServiceNow.Ĭan you tell us more about how you onboarded 3,000 new employees during the pandemic? In 2020, we digitally onboarded 3,000 people and expect to add another 4,500+ by the end of 2021. We don’t focus on just the skills and the experience of potential new talent we also carefully consider how they are going to enhance our culture. ![]() We focus on growth by being very intentional in our talent acquisition strategy and bringing in the right talent at the right time. I’m very proud of all that we have accomplished so far in talent recruitment during such a challenging time. In terms of ServiceNow’s approach to talent and ways of working during the past 18 months, what are you most proud of? Talent and hybrid working in a virtual environment ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “There is nothing neutral about this historical chronicle,” Galeano warned in the preface to “Memory of Fire.” “Unable to distance myself, I take sides.” Galeano followed “Open Veins” with the equally popular “Memory of Fire” trilogy, a series of vignettes of North and South America history that one Times reviewer described as a “poetic scrapbook.” Others used another metaphor to say the books were tapestries of outrage directed at perpetrators of murder and plunder. He knew firsthand the boot of oppression, having been arrested in 1973 by Uruguay’s right-wing military regime and forced into exile, first in Argentina, then in Spain until 1985. ![]() Galeano didn’t spare Latin American governments, using vignettes showing a panoply of injustices including murders of reformers and modern-day subjugation of indigenous peoples. ![]() ![]() Before arriving in Singapore, I had discovered that Francis P. ![]() Ng, a forgotten Singapore poet who disappeared at the outset of the Japanese invasion in 1942. ![]() ![]() I had come back to Singapore to trace the footsteps of Francis P. But much as I was disturbed about losing my own memory of Singapore, I was equally concerned about the loss of one of Singapore’s literary treasures. I tried to recall and imprint in my memory scenes I was familiar with. And there was a definite buzz to the city, with a lot more people than I remembered. Unfamiliar apartments and buildings had sprung up everywhere, and new shopping malls and changes inside once familiar buildings generated some anxiety. On terra firma, the songs and sounds of the National Day festivities quickly re-absorbed me into this country, exactly the same way they did when I first arrived as a 12-year-old girl in the summer of 1988. The night sky was still the same over the East Coast, twinkling here and there with the strobe lights of airplanes heading towards Changi Airport. Initially, it felt as if nothing had changed since I left the city. Twenty years had passed since I left Singapore to enter college in Japan and then higher degree studies in the United States and Germany. ![]() In August 2014, I found myself in Singapore, the country where I came of age as a teenager. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s so nice to have characters who are not the “good guys”, and I can still root for them. Predictable at times, for sure, but interesting and entertaining enough to stay up way too late at night. I find romance-focused books boring at times, but with a good mixture of murder mystery and romantic tension, it was full of turns and twists that kept me reading. Plot-wise, The Shadows Between Us exceeded my expectations. After that, everything becomes a lot more complicated. The plan works splendidly, as far as the eye-catching goes. She goes to court to catch the eye of the king, marry him, kill him and become queen. ![]() Soon enough she reveals that all those dreadful actions were nothing more than practice for the main event. ![]() Okay, murdered only one, but that’s besides the point. The first chapter of The Shadows Between Us introduces Alessandra, the protagonist who does two things without shame: abuses her lovers and murders people. ![]() |