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Mir space station Summary
1,409 words, approx. 5 pages
Mir space station Launched February 1986 The International Space Station The United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, and fourteen member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA) are hard at work on the International Space Station (ISS), an...
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Mir Summary
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The word mir means "peace," but to millions of Russians it is associated with a symbol of national pride. The space station Mir claimed a number of distinctions that are unmatched, even in the early twenty-first century, by the spacecraft...
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Mir
467 words, approx. 2 pages
Soviet/Russian modular space station, the core module (base block) of which was launched into Earth orbit by the U.S.S.R. in 1986. Over the next decade additional modules were sent aloft on separate launch vehicles and attached to the core unit,...
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Mir Information
4,520 words, approx. 15 pages
MIR can refer to: MIR (submersible) Soviet and Russian bathyscaphes Habib Bourguiba International Airport in Tunisia Mail-in rebate Medical Inspection Room, the place for sick parade in most British and Commonwealth militaries and many Non-governmental...
 


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Queen's Quarterly
Mir.
03/22/1996: 2,160 words, approx. 7 pages
OUR perfect Moldavian cottage so far below with the desolate neighbours too close to us, too close with their sooty garbage fires and narrow-faced acquaintances slamming doors of stolen German cars. Their rainbow collection of mongrel cars and the sun over the route...
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The Boston Globe
Goodnight, Mir
08/30/1999: 331 words, approx. 1 pages
For a space station plagued with problems, Russia's Mir has run up a respectable record that ended Saturday with the return of its last regular crew to earth. Mir's fate, to be settled next year when it is incinerated while plunging into the atmosphere...
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AP News
Kashmir villagers protest teacher death
10/20/2007: 378 words, approx. 1 pages
Thousands of angry villagers torched government vehicles in street battles that injured 30 police after army soldiers allegedly shot dead a schoolteacher in Indian Kashmir, officials and villagers said Saturday.Rawathpora village residents claimed that Indian soldiers detained teacher Abdul Rashid Mir, 26, outside a school...
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AP Features
Jamaica police should face legal action in cricket coach Woolmer's death, team official says
6/8/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
Jamaican police should face legal action for declaring Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's death a homicide, the team's World Cup spokesman said Friday, alleging the high-profile case unfairly cast suspicion on the country's players."The name of Pakistan has been maligned and the names of Pakistani...
 


 

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