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Featured article: June 4, 2006

Elias Ashmole by an unknown hand
Elias Ashmole was an antiquarian, collector, politician, and student of astrology and alchemy. He supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artifacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, and collector John Tradescant the elder and his son, and most he donated to Oxford University to create the Ashmolean Museum. He also donated his library and priceless manuscript collection to Oxford. Apart from his collecting activities, Ashmole illustrates the passing of the pre-scientific world view in the seventeenth century: while he immersed himself in alchemical, magical and astrological studies and was consulted on astrological questions by Charles II and his court, these studies were essentially backward-looking. Although he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, a key institution in the development of experimental science, he never participated actively. (more...)

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Boulevard du Temple

Boulevard du Temple, the first photograph of a person, taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839 in Paris, France. The scene is of a busy street, but the city traffic does not appear due to the ten-minute long exposure time. The exception is a man in the lower left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show.

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Order Day Year Mission Shuttle Duration Landing Site Notes
(1) August 12 1977 ALT-121 Enterprise 0d 0h 5 m Edwards First free flight of Space Shuttle
(2) September 13 1977 ALT-13 Enterprise 0d 0h 5 m Edwards Second free flight
(3) September 23 1977 ALT-14 Enterprise 0d 0h 5 m Edwards Third free flight
(4) October 12 1977 ALT-15 Enterprise 0d 0h 2 m Edwards Fourth free flight; first flight without tailcone (operational configuration)
(5) October 26 1977 ALT-16 Enterprise 0d 0h 2 m Edwards Final free flight

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