Last Flight to the Moon

The last time people were on the moon over 40 years ago. It was the mission of "Apollo 17", which went from the Earth in December 1972.

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"Apollo 17," set out from Earth Dec. 7, 1972.

Pilot Ronald Evans. For him, it was the first and only flight.

Commander Eugene Cernan

First photographed Antarctica

This lunar module

Landed on the south-eastern shore of the Sea of Serenity in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow.

The expedition was conducted a number of experiments

The land above the horizon

The astronauts left on the moon plate with the historical record, and their own autographs.

The last man to set foot on the Moon became commander Eugene Cernan.

Launch

December 19, 1972, the astronauts were safely picked up by the U.S. Air Force helicopter in the Pacific.

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Calling Heaven: the building of the first kilometer skyscraper

Just recently I did an overview of the latest news stories and high-rise construction in the world , but life goes on, in March began the construction of the first in the history of mankind skyscraper height of over 1000 meters!  superneboskreb Actually this is supposed to be built in Dubai in the last year (Al Burj), but because of the outbreak of the global financial crisis, the project was canceled in 2009, 
the same time overcome the temptation of the first symbolic milestone of 1,000 meters has been so great that there were doing to do this with any financial weather. Ultra-high tower will be built in Saudi Arabia 50 km. from the city of Jeddah. Currently, the project is known as Kingdom_Tower and estimated height should reach 1007 meters, which is about 200 meters surpass the record of the tower Burj Khalifa in Dubai (828 meters)around the Kingdom Tower is to grow a city of 80 million inhabitants. Funny that the palm is a high-rise building is returned to those regions where it once started (Tower of Babel). During the development of the new project has to follow a certain forum . Already published images (visualization) of the future skyscraper:






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architectural highlight is balcony-saucer: There is a video .

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Gunners news: Vietnam 1-7 Arsenal

Giroud grabs first-half hat-trick in friendly rout

The Frenchman, apparently unruffled by reports linking the Gunners to Gonzalo Higuain and Luis Suarez, took his pre-season tally to five as Jack Wilshere made his bow

Olivier Giroud bagged a first-half hat-trick as Arsenal continued their pre-season tour of Asia with a 7-1 annihilation of Vietnam in Hanoi.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chuba Akpom and Ignasi Miquel also found the net against the international minnows, while Jack Wilshere made his first appearance of the season from the bench.Arsene Wenger made five changes to the side which demolished the Indonesia XI on Sunday, with Bacary Sagna filling in at centre-back and Lukas Podolski and Giroud up front.

And inside five minutes they took the lead, with Tomas Rosicky dinking the ball cleverly in behind for Giroud, who smashed the ball low into the bottom corner.

Despite their obvious superiority, the Gunners looked lethargic and even a little jaded at times, and only Vietnam’s lack of attacking quality prevented them encountering more problems.

But in attack Arsene Wenger’s men were creating chances at will, and on 19 minutes Podolski headed over when found by Serge Gnabry’s inviting cross.

Nine minutes later the lively Gnabry’s incisive pass put Podolski clean through, but after dodging past two challenges, Giroud failed to read the German’s pass and the chance went begging.

Five minutes before the break Podolski went even closer, lashing against the post from the edge of the area, with Gnabry seeing his low first-time rebound beaten away.

Arsenal were playing well within themselves against the side languishing in 145th in the Fifa rankings, but two goals in three minutes before half-time put them firmly in control.

On 44 minutes Giroud capitalised on a poor defensive clearance to curl the ball superbly into the corner, and two minutes later he raced onto Oxlade-Chamberlain’s slide-rule pass to dink in.

Having completed his hat-trick the Frenchman was withdrawn at the break, but Arsenal showed no mercy in the second half.

It took barely a minute for substitute Theo Walcott to surge forward down the right and square the ball for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who curled the ball first time into the top corner.

Only 10 minutes later the Gunners were at it again – this time Aaron Ramsey dinked the ball through for Akpom, and Giroud’s replacement slotted calmly into the bottom corner.

Just before the hour mark the youngster had his second, tapping into an empty net after Oxlade-Chamberlain had strolled through a non-existent Vietnamese defence and squared the ball.

On 66 minutes Wilshere replaced Oxlade-Chamberlain, and eight minutes later the Gunners grabbed their seventh, as Miquel swept home after a neat exchange of passes with Ramsey in the penalty area.

Some 12 minutes from time Vietnam got themselves an unlikely consolation, as substitute Tran Manh Dung finished off a flowing counterattack with a slightly scuffed finish which looped into the net.

At the other end, substitute goalkeeper Tran Buu Ngoc saw red for handling outside his area late on, and Arsenal comfortably saw out the win.

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5 strangest facts about Ancient Rome

Roman physicians recommended blood of gladiators as a means to treat epilepsy and infertility


The wife of the Emperor Claudius, Valeria Messalina was a nymphomaniac. One day she made a competition with a prostitute to find out who will be able to serve more than men. The historian Pliny the Elder wrote that Messalina won with a score of 25 men in 24 hours.Lefty in ancient Rome was considered a failure and generally unhappy man%. Caligula's favorite horse, Intsitat lived in the stable of marble, and was eating from bird feeders made of ivory. Caligula was also trying to make him consul - it was the highest elected office in the Roman Republic. rolled wealthy Roman banquets that lasted for hours. In order to continue the feast, they are artificially induced vomiting.

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Unusual Bungle-Bungle Range in Australia

At the Australian Purnululu National Park is considered to be the main attraction, Bungle Bungle Range, to form the fanciful nature of which took about 20 million years old. 


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