Russia has withdrawn most of its helicopters from a strategic airport in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, according to satellite images analyzed by The Times, in what experts said could be a telltale sign of Russian military setbacks in the south of the country.
The iconic photograph of Earth from distant space – the “pale blue dot” – was taken 30 years ago on Feb. 14, 1990.
The late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan came up with the idea for the snapshot, and coined the phrase.The iconic “pale blue dot” photograph of Earth was taken 30 years ago – Feb. 14, 1990, at a distance of 3.7 billion miles – by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 as it zipped toward the far edge of the solar system.
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Iconic ‘pale blue dot’ photo – Carl Sagan’s idea – turns 30 | Cornell Chronicle
In February 1990, as the Nasa space probe Voyager 1 left the Solar System, it took a famous photo of Earth.
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The Pale Blue Dot
Five days later I was standing on Hymettus, looking down over the great complex of Athens-Piraeus, cities and suburbs, houses split like a million dice over the Attic plain. South stretched the pure blue late-summer sea, pale pumice-colored islands, and beyond them the serene mountains of the Peloponnesus stood away over the horizon in a magnificent arrested flow of land and water.
作者在pumice 前加 pale 是有道理的 因為它們的顏色仍有多種的
Turning green?
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Turning green?
The presidential candidates have contradictory views about oil prices and the environment
BAGHDAD, June 13 -- The Bush administration's Iraq policy suffered two major setbacks Friday when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki publicly rejected key U.S. terms for an ongoing military presence and anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a new militia offensive against U.S. forces.
(By Amit R. Paley and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post)
"The sun is a thief: she lures the seaand robs it. The moon is a thief:he steals his silvery light from the sun.The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon."-- PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
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(By Amit R. Paley and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post)
"The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon."
-- PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
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pale
ADJECTIVE
VERB
Phrases
pale into insignificance
- Diminish in importance, especially in comparison with something else:that catastrophe pales into insignificance when compared with an influenza pandemic
setback
noun [C]
something that happens which delays or prevents a process from advancing:
Sally had been recovering well from her operation, but yesterday she experienced/suffered a setback.
There has been a slight/temporary setback in our plans.
See also set back.
set・back
挫折, つまづき; 妨げ; （病気の）ぶり返し; 退歩, 逆流; 【建】（高層ビルの）壁段後退.
green (POLITICAL)adjective
relating to the protection of the environment:
green politics/issues
a green campaigner/activist
the Green Party
Green
noun [C]
a member of the Green Party:
He used to be a Liberal, but now he's a Green.
greening
noun [S]
The next ten years, he predicted, would see the greening of America (= Americans starting to take more care of the environment).
to look pale and ill as if you are going to vomit
pum・ice
━━ n., vt. 軽石 （pumice stone）; 軽石でみがく.
pales 古羅馬 牧人 牲畜之神
pales 古羅馬 牧人 牲畜之神
Another kind of extrusive rock is pumice. Pumice cools off very quickly and also is associated with gaseous eruptions. Therefore, pumice is very lightweight, and has no crystals. Some pumice will float in water.
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