Which animal lays eggs?
Duck billedPlatypus
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968)
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин[note 1]; IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡɐˈɡarʲɪn]; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot andcosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centreoutside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Yuri Gagarin Medal is awarded in his honor
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule?
What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule?
What colour is Spock's blood?
Unlike human blood, which is iron-based, Vulcan blood is copper-based, making it green. Red blood cells in humans store oxygen by means of hemoglobin, which makes them bright red; that is why human arterial blood, on its way from the cardiopulmonary system, is brighter red than venous blood, which has carried its oxygen throughout the body's tissues and is on its return trip for re-oxygenating. Copper molecules, when oxidized are green--that's why copper pipes turn green eventually. Hence, green Vulcan blood. Vulcan venous blood, on its way back to the heart, is more copper- or rust-colored, containing less oxygen. Vulcan blood cells are also shaped differently, more like lentils, whereas human blood cells are concave.
f Spock is half human half Vulcan, why is his blood makeup that of a full Vulcan?
Did they perform gene therapy prior to his conception or are Vulcans and humans compatible by default with the Vulcan traits being dominant?
King Zog ruled which country?
King Zog of Albania?
King Zog I returns to Albania 51 years after dying in France
The remains of Albania’s King Zog I were flown back to his country on Thursday after being exhumed in a cemetery near Paris. Zog, who reigned from 1928 to 1939, died in France in 1961.
Zog’s remains were to be put on show in Tirana on arrival Thursday before being transferred on Saturday to a mausoleum for the royal family that has just been built as part of festivities to mark the centenary of independence from the Ottoman empire.
About 100 people attended the exhumation, which had been organised by the Albanian embassy, and took place with full military honours.
Speaking at the cemetery in Thiais, just outside Paris, Albania’s European Integration Minister Majlinda Bregu described Zog as “one of the most illustrious figures” of the country.
Having served as prime minister and president of the country after the empire’s break-up, Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolli declared himself King Zog I in 1928.
He survived 55 assassination attempts before being deposed by his erstwhile ally, fascist Italy, in 1939 and going into exile in Greece, moving on to four other countries end ending his days in France.
Albania’s Socialist opposition is to boycott Saturday’s interment, accusing the right-wing government of “manipulating” Zog’s controversial heritage for its own political purposes.
Zog’s grandson, Leka, is a “political adviser” to President Bujar Nashani.
A referendum in 1997 rejected a return to the monarchy but Zog’s son, Leka Zogu, declared the result fraudulent and launched an armed uprising.
It failed and he was forced into exile, although he later returned to Tirana where he died in 2011.