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 . . . SPACE see: "UNIVERSE" - Houston, Tranquillity base here. The Eagle has landed. --Neil Armstrong (1930— ) American astronaut. Landing on the moon [20 July 1969]. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. --Neil Armstrong (1930— ) American astronaut. When stepping onto the Moon [21 July 1969]; interference in the transmission obliterated _a_ between "for" and "man." - So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. --Russell Baker (1925— ) American journalist and columnist. "Why on Earth Are We There? Because It's Impossible" _New York Times_ [21 July 1969] - Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008) English science-fiction writer. The Solar System is rather a large place, though whether it will be large enough for so quarrelsome an animal as Homo sapiens remains to be seen. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008) English science-fiction writer. "The Challenge of the Spaceship" [1959] How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. --Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917—2008) English science-fiction writer. In "Nature" [8 July 1990]. - - The following two quotes regard the space shuttle "Columbia" which crashed in 2003: If this thing doesn't come out right, don't worry about me. I'm just going on higher. --Lt. Col. Michael Anderson to pastor emeritus of his former church in Spokane, Wash, prior to space shuttle Columbia launch [Feb. 2003]. Tell them about Jesus. He's real to me. --Col. Rick Husband, killed in Space Shuttle Columbia [Feb 1 2003] on his NASA form specifying their final requests in the event of an accident. - Space travel is bunk. --Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1890—1960) English astronomer. In 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving a goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963]. In a special message to Congress [25 May 1961]. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.' (After the loss of the space shuttle "Challenger" and its crew.) --Ronald Reagan (1911—2004) American President [1981—1989] and former Hollywood actor. Address from Oval Office [28 January 1986]. Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist. --Francisco Sizzi, professor of astronomy [1610] There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther. --Wernher von Braun (1912—1977) German-born American rocket engineer. Attributed in "Reader's Digest" [May 1961]. - The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. --Roman Congregation of Bishops and Cardinals. Decision against Galileo [22 June 1633]. ----- syzygy (noun) ['si-zê-jee] The alignment of two (or more) celestial bodies, as the moon and sun are in alignment vis-a-vis the earth during an eclipse; by extension, any two distinct objects or ideas in alignment or conjunction with each other.  ;void(0)) SPAGHETTI . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture- painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. --Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951) American novelist and playwright. _Babbitt_ [1922] Everything that you see, I owe to spaghetti. --Sophia Loren (1934— ) Italian actress. No man is lonely while eating spaghetti — it requires too much attention. --Christopher Morley (1890—1957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. Quoted in "Life" (mag.) [24 October 1969]. . . see "PLACES" for related links Seville is a pleasant city famous for oranges and women. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. ^ Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. The American writer Barnaby Conrad was badly gored in a bullfight in Spain in 1958. The columnist Leonard Lyons recorded a subsequent conversation between Eva Gabor and Noël Coward at a New York restaurant. 'Noël dahling,' said Eva, 'have you heard the news about poor Bahnaby? He vass terribly gored in Spain.' 'He was *what*?' asked Coward in alarm. 'He vass gored!' 'Thank heavens. I thought you said he was bored.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ - I have long believed that any man interested in either the mystic or the romantic aspects of life must sooner or later define his attitude concerning Spain. For just as this forbidding peninsula physically juts into the Atlantic and stands isolated, so philosophically the concept of Spain intrudes into the imagination, creating effects and raising questions unlike those evoked by other nations. [...] In other words, to travel in Spain is not like traveling elsewhere. The people are exciting, but so are they in Greece; the land is compelling, but so is it in Norway; art forms like flamenco, the bullfight and the decoration of the central plaza are unique, but so are the art forms of Italy; and if reflections on Spanish history drive the stranger to speculation, so do reflections on German history. What makes Spain different is that here these speculations are positively unavoidable. The people are so dramatic in their simplest existence that one must identify with them, and when one does he begins to think like a Spaniard; the art forms are so persuasive that the stranger is sucked into their vortices, even against his will; and the problems of history are so gigantic and of such continuing significance that one cannot escape an intellectual involvement in them. Some travelers, of whom I am one, find also an emotional involvement in Spanish history, and when this happens we are lost, for then Spain haunts us as it has haunted our predecessors, Georges Bizet, Henry de Montherlant, George Borrow and Ernest Hemingway. What I am saying is that Spain is a very special country and one must approach it with respect and with his eyes open. He must be fully aware that once he has penetrated the borders he runs the risk of being made prisoner. I believe I sensed this danger on that silvery dawn many years ago when I stood off the shore of Burriana and watched the heaving men and the straining oxen, dimly aware that in nearby Castellón there was a fiesta which awaited me and in the hills cold Teruel, which would be forever one of the principal cities of my mind. I knew then that Spain was a special land, and I have spent many subsequent trips endeavoring to unravel its peculiarities. I have not succeeded, and in this failure I am not unhappy, for Spain is a mystery and I am not at all convinced that those who live within the peninsula and were born there understand it much better than I, but that we all love the wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful land there can be no doubt. --James Michener (1907—1997) American author and winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. _Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections_ [1968] . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham. It was launched by the George A. Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, in 1937 and became a great favorite of military cooks during WWII because it contained protein, was easy to digest and convenient. At the end of the war, President Eisenhower wrote to Hormel: "I ate my share of Spam along with millions of other soldiers. I'll even confess to a few unkind words about it — uttered during the strain of battle, you understand. But as the former commander-in-chief of the allied forces, I believe I can still officially forgive you your only sin: sending us so much of it." --from the _Ultimate Lists Book_, compiled by Geoff Tibballs - A hungry young fellow named Marvin Sat dreaming of turkeys and carvin'. So a lady brought Spam, But he said, "Thank you, ma'am; I prefer the alternative: starvin'." end page | SACRED - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SEMANTICS | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPEAKING | SPEECH - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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