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into the wild blue yonder!

Hello to all,

I started my first Wiki changes in 2008, made my first page in 2009. I really enjoy taking part in this great project ! Please do feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my contributions!

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Funeral blues , W.H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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Remarkeble: A Róbert Berény painting titled Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, whose whereabouts had been unknown since 1928, was re-discovered by chance in 2009 by art historian Gergely Barki upon watching the 1999 movie, Stuart Little, with his daughter, where the painting was used as a prop. An assistant set designer had bought the painting cheaply from a California antique store for use in the film, and had kept it in her home after production ended. The painting was sold at auction in Budapest on December 13th, 2014 for €229,500.

serious stuff: Cathay Pacific Flight 780

Lady Godiva door John Collier, ca. 1898

Francesco Guardi - The Doge on the Bucentaur at San Niccolò del Lido

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III demonstrating the use of reverse thrust to push the aircraft backwards

Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right) within the darkness of deep space.

Orion in the 9th century Leiden Aratea

Stowe House The north or entrance front in 1750. Major alterations were made after that date.

European robin

The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. The goddess Venus is the classical personification of beauty. The painting is in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

TF-104G (front) with NASA NB-52B in flight 1979.

B-52H (AF Ser. No. 61-0023), configured at the time as a testbed to investigate structural failures, still flying after its vertical stabilizer sheared off in severe turbulence on 10 January 1964. The aircraft landed safely

Two USAF F-5Es flanking a MiG-17 and MiG-21 of the 4477th Tactical Evaluation Squadron

Carl Spitzweg, The Bookworm

Queen's House, the Tulip Stairs and lantern; the first centrally unsupported helical stairs constructed in England. The stairs are supported by a combination of support by cantilever from the walls and each tread resting on the one below.

Panorama of Noravank monastery and Amaghu valley

Auriga

Orion