Cathedrals around the world are known for their exquisite stained glass windows and ceilings, but they are not the only buildings featuring these impressive works of art. From museums to a cemetery and state capitol, here are our 10 picks for the world's best stained glass.
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This inspirational quote about travel is attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo. If for some reason you’re delaying on acting on your wanderlust or have been reluctant to travel, remember that travel can be one of the most life-changing experiences of your life. More »
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‘The World Is A Book And Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only One Page’
Here is something you should know about me - I'm a little bit of a flake when it comes to technology. Despite the fact that my computer is worth more than my car, I like to leave it on trains, in the back of cabs, and in airports. At least once a year I call my husband in tears because I have lost it it all and "it" is not backed up. So far, all of my devices have been returned to me by ...
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Your Computer Friends, a computer repair company based in Wilmington, has earned the 2012 Angie's List Super Service Award, according to a press release.
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Local business earns national award for outstanding customer service
Researchers have already safely injected stem cells into patients with neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries -- and they've seen the potential to vastly improve lives.
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BLUFFTON -- "Spirituality & Shalom: Living at the Intersection of Faith & Justice," the 2013 Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship conference, will be held Feb. 8-10 at Bluffton University.
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Space Station crew pre-flight preparations.mp4
Story The next International Space Station crew concluded their pre-flight preparations on Tuesday. Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canada's Chris Hadfield, and NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn will be travelling in a Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft. Blast-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is set for Wednesday, and the spacecraft will be docking with the ISS on December 21. TAGS- 2012, trend, trends, trending, trending, space, Russia, Kazakhstan, spacecraft, ISS, International Space Station, Canada, astronaut, NASA, US, America, United States, cosmonaut, space flight,
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield strums a guitar while playing Christmas carols and gazing at Earth from the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a multinational crew of three arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for a Canadian for the first time to take command of the orbital research base.
The spacecraft carrying Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency, NASA's Tom Marshburn, and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday and parked at the station's Rassvet docking module at 9:09 a.m. EST as the ships sailed 255 miles above northern Kazakhstan.
"The Soyuz sleigh has pulled into port at the International Space Station with a holiday gift of three new crewmembers," said NASA mission commentator Rob Navias.
The trio joined station commander Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeni Tarelkin, who are two months into a planned six-month mission.
Ford is due to turn over command of the $100-billion research complex, a project of 15 nations, in mid-March to Hadfield, who will become the first Canadian to lead a space expedition.
"This is a big event for me personally," Hadfield said in a preflight interview. "It takes a lot of work, a lot of focus. It's something that I can look back on as an accomplishment and a threshold of my life."
Command of the station, which has been continuously occupied since November, 2000, typically rotates between an American and a Russian crewmember.
In 2009, Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne broke that cycle to become the first European Space Agency commander. Japan's Koichi Wakata is training to lead the Expedition 39 crew in March, 2014.
All three of the station's new residents have made previous spaceflights. Hadfield, 53, is a veteran of two space shuttle missions. Marshburn, 52, has one previous shuttle mission, and Roman Romanenko, 41, a second-generation cosmonaut, served as a flight engineer aboard the space station in 2009.
The station crew will have some time off to celebrate several winter holidays in orbit - Christmas, the New Year, and then Orthodox Christmas - before tackling a list of about 150 science experiments and station maintenance, including two spacewalks.
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EXCLUSIVE: KATE Winslet’s new hubby Ned RocknRoll buys his new wife a trip to SPACE — costing £124,000 a ticket — to celebrate marriage
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Kate Winslet's new husband has given her a trip to space as a wedding gift.
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two pileated woodpeckers on same pole,friend or foe??
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Every year, fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on - and consumers respond to - is buzz.
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Every year fashion offers up the good, the bad and the ugly. But what the industry is really built on — and consumers respond to — is buzz.
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FARGO - A local Red Cross volunteer will soon leave for his second deployment to the embattled East Coast in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
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NASA'S UNEXPLAINED MEGA LUNAR ANOMALY
During an APOLLO mission, the NASA astronauts were instructed to swing past the Far Side of the Moon and take photographs of an oncoming solar eclipse. As they pulled away from LUNA and looked back, this is what occurred....You can go to the NASA site and pore through all the old photos, but I do not think that these are available any more....
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The Revolution in Spacecraft Communications | TDRS | NASA Space Science Video
Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com - NASA's fleet of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) have revolutionized communications between spacecraft and ground stations. Please rate and comment, thanks! Video Credits NASA GSFC
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STS-135: Solid Rocket Booster Left Forward Camera Video - NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch
STS-135 Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) - Left forward camera view looking towards the base of the booster. The final jouney of the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis shown using a camera mounted on one of the two solid rocket boosters. This provided a unique angle of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and the subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. This video made available courtesy NASA / Johnson Space Center.
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