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Remember, the Kennedy Center isn’t just a venue, it’s a memorial to a beloved president who was slain very publicly and it shocked the world. In memory of John F Kennedy, leaders from around the world donated during the construction to pay tribute. * Italy — donated essentially all of the marble used for the Kennedy Center, about 3,500–3,700 tons of Carrara marble, for both exterior and interior surfaces. This was the largest foreign gift, valued at more than $1 million at the time. About 9 million today. * Austria — donated the enormous crystal chandelier for the Opera House. * Belgium — donated the large mirrors in the Grand Foyer. * Canada — donated the Eisenhower Theater curtain. * Denmark — donated artwork and furnishings, including furnishings for the Grand Foyer/North Lounge areas. * Finland — donated Chinaware for the Gallery and Promenade restaurants. * France — donated two Matisse tapestries and two sculptures by Henri Laurens. * West Germany — donated two enormous bronze relief sculptures by German artist Jürgen Weber. * Great Britain — donated “Figure,” an abstract sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth. * Ireland — donated a Waterford crystal chandelier for an Opera House lounge. * Israel — donated furnishings and artwork for the Concert Hall’s Israeli Lounge. * Japan — donated the spectacular red-and-gold silk stage curtain for the Opera House. * Norway — donated the large crystal chandeliers for the Concert Hall. * Sweden — donated the Orrefors crystal chandeliers in the Grand Foyer.

India’s next major lunar mission is designed to do something Chandrayaan-3 did not: bring pieces of the Moon back to Earth for laboratory study. 🌕🇮🇳 Chandrayaan-4 is planned as India’s first lunar sample-return mission, building on the landing, surface operations, and lunar-orbit technologies demonstrated by Chandrayaan-3. ISRO currently describes the mission as targeting the Moon’s polar region, with the launch planned for the 2027–2028 timeframe rather than a fixed 2027 date. The mission architecture includes a landing module, an ascent vehicle, transfer and re-entry systems, and rendezvous-and-docking operations in lunar orbit. After landing, a robotic sampling system is designed to collect roughly 2–3 kilograms of material, including subsurface samples obtained with a drilling mechanism. The samples will be sealed to minimize contamination before their journey home. Returning lunar material is scientifically valuable because laboratories on Earth can analyze samples in far greater detail than instruments operating on the Moon. Researchers can examine their chemistry, minerals, structure, and isotopic properties to better understand lunar geology and the early evolution of the Earth–Moon system. Chandrayaan-4 is therefore more than another lunar landing. It is an effort to turn a distant landscape into material that scientists can study for generations. #Chandrayaan4 #ISRO #LunarScience

🇺🇸 A Story of Courage, Equality & Change This powerful historical scene captures women standing together for the right to vote. Their determination, unity, and persistence became part of America’s long journey toward women’s suffrage. The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, prohibiting denial of the vote on the basis of sex. History reminds us: change can begin when ordinary people refuse to stay silent. 🇺🇸 💬 What does this moment in American history mean to you?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-07-19/reflect-orbital-wants-to-sell-sunlight-to-earth/106918866

An entire ancient Egyptian city has been sitting on the Mediterranean seafloor for over 1,000 years. Colossal statues. Temples. Gold artifacts. Perfectly preserved beneath the sea. And in 2023 they found something nobody expected inside it. An intact Greek military camp. Bronze weapons. Cooking vessels. Personal objects of soldiers preserved exactly as they left them 2,500 years ago. ⚓🌊 Thonis Heracleion was the mandatory entry port for all ships arriving in ancient Egypt from the Mediterranean. The city that controlled access to one of the greatest civilizations on earth sank into the sea and was forgotten for a thousand years. Less than 5 percent of the site has been excavated. The city is still talking. It is strange to think that the most significant ancient Egyptian port city is on a seafloor and we have barely looked inside it. 🌍 Had you heard about the 2023 discoveries at Heracleion before today? #Heracleion #SunkenCity #AncientEgypt #ForbiddenHistory #LostHistory #AncientWorld #AncientMysteries #Archaeology #SunkenAndErased

For billions of years, life evolved on Earth under conditions of roughly equal periods of dark and light in most places. The sun rose and set. Night followed day. Now, one of Earth's species — humans — plans to tweak this arrangement. This week, the US federal communications regulator approved a Californian start-up's plan to launch a low-Earth orbit satellite, Reflect Orbital, with movable mirrors to reflect sunlight back to Earth

Reflect Orbital is a company that is planning on selling sunlight to customers. The company aims to redirect sunlight onto Earth’s solar panels at night, allowing them to generate more power even after the sunset. Reflect Orbital's innovative approach involves deploying a constellation of satellites with mirrors to reflect sunlight onto specific areas, providing an extra hour of daylight after sunset and before sunrise. This could potentially reduce dependence on conventional energy sources and offer a new way to power solar farms during peak demand times.

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Reflect Orbital is a company that is planning on selling sunlight to customers. The company aims to redirect sunlight onto Earth’s solar panels at night, allowing them to generate more power even after the sunset. Reflect Orbital's innovative approach involves deploying a constellation of satellites with mirrors to reflect sunlight onto specific areas, providing an extra hour of daylight after sunset and before sunrise. This could potentially reduce dependence on conventional energy sources

Gustavus Theodore von Holst was born on this date, September 21, 152 years ago in 1874. A shy English man best known for his large orchestral suite, The Planets, was inspired by his interest in astrology where each planet is represented with a distinct character. Much of his life centered on aspects of Indian spirituality and English folk songs. Holst’s music combines English folk music, Sanskrit literature, Hindu philosophy, mysticism, and highly original harmonic and rhythmic ideas. He was particularly interested in unusual scales and rhythmic patterns. His two suites for military band have become staples for wind ensembles and he pioneered music education for females at St. Paul’s Girls’ School where he taught from 1905 to the year of his demise in 1934. “Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”