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... . So, it is thus no surprise that the earliest calendars were lunar. Very early, in 5000 BCE, the Egyptians developed a calendar with a year that was regulated by the moon and ... established civilizations along the banks of major rivers. Sometime between 3200 and 2800 BCE the calendar was developed in Mesopotamia, and then copied by the Greeks. Their year was divided into ... various schemes were invented to compensate for this discrepancy. Around 2000 BCE the Babylonian's calendar added an extra month every four years, while others attempted to correct the discrepancy by ...

4.5-inch rocket (M8-type) fired for first time in flight from a P-40.

... .S. steel-frame airplane in 1915; later he formed his own company and developed the M8 2-seat Pursuit monoplane using rigid strut bracing, which he patented. After World War 1 ...

... for scientists and engineers was not adversely affecting other areas: "At the beginning of this calendar year, approximately 74,000 scientists and engineers were employed in the NASA program-about 12 ... that the number employed on NASA work increased by about 30,000 during the last calendar year, rather than 20,000 as had been anticipated. As a consequence, our requirement for ...

... was more than 600. He continued: “We anticipate publication of approximately 700 Tech Briefs during calendar year 1966. . . . we estimate the average Tech Brief is seen by more than 10,000 ... the fact that approximately 1,500 persons visited our Field Center Technology Utilization Offices during calendar 1965. . . . Two additional Regional Dissemination Programs have been started in the last year, one at ...

... Trophy Race- died at age 72. More than 375 "Hubbells" were painted for TRW Aviation Calendar series and quarter of million lithographic reproductions had been published. Hubbell's pictures had hung in White House, museums, palaces, libraries, and homes of aviation buffs. ''(TRw Calendar, 1972)'' September 1971 September October 1971 October Oct 1 1971 1 Oct 2 1971 2 ...

... announced the updated schedule of Space Shuttle /Space Station missions through calendar year 1997 and expendable launch vehicle missions through calendar year 2001. Included were 10 Space Shuttle flights to Russian Space ...

... came in and your desk was there and your little calendar. Everything was all nice there. I remember I picked up the calendar of where I was supposed to go. I looked ...

... :''' Felt like a long time? '''Deiterich:''' I know that. Well, I looked at my calendars, and my calendars are blank for those three months, so that’s when I assume I was ...

... brought a net reduction in NASA Civil Service employees of 1646, including retirements, during the calendar year, with a total 25 598 on board Jan. 5, 1974. Headquarters employees dropped by ...

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