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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

Hildeville in Hanover, Pennsylvania

Sometime in the 1950s, these little houses were built by Kurt Hildebrand, the original owner of the property who lived in the house across the street with the white fence. Depending on who you ask, locals will say Kurt built the little houses for his grandchildren, his wife Elsie, or as a hobby and that he would decorate them as a little Christmas Elf village during the holiday season. The homes are mainly composed of stone, mortar, wood, and……

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Museu Nacional da Imprensa (National Press Museum)...

The Museu Nacional da Imprensa (National Press Museum) is located at the eastern end of the city of Porto, near the Freixo marina, at the mouth of the Tinto River, on the banks of the Douro river. Open since 1997, the museum has one of the world’s largest collections related to the printing press and graphic arts. The museum’s mission of inventorying and preserving the typographic and print heritage of Portugal, as well as promoting cultural activities, from an anthropological,……

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Airwallex raises $200M at a $4B valuation...

Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provides business banking services both directly to businesses themselves, as well as via a set of APIs that power other companies’ fintech products — has raised $200 million, a Series E round of funding that values the Australian startup at……

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Brandymore Castle in Arlington, Virginia

With a regal name like Brandymore, one would expect a moat, drawbridge, and parapets. However, this castle isn’t really a castle at all. In fact, if not for the historical marker standing just across the Washington and Old Dominion trail, it is very likely that this natural rock formation would languish in total obscurity. Brandymore Castle once overlooked a four-mile run, which served as a moat for the elevated rock formation. The origin of the name is a mystery,……

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Podcast: The World’s Largest Collection of Small...

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit with artist Erika Nelson, who didn’t set out in life to become one of the foremost connoisseurs of large things. But her museum in Lucas, Kansas, has become the ultimate tribute to the roadside attraction. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to……

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What Hotel Revenue Management Innovations & Trends...

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the top innovations and trends in hotel revenue management that we can expect to see in 2022? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Nikhil Roy – Revenue & Pricing Manager, Key Hospitality B.V. Paulo Aragao – Revenue Management Professional Sandra The post What Hotel Revenue Management Innovations & Trends Can We Expect in 2022? appeared first on Revfine.com….

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Researchers find a new way to control...

Most of the magnets we encounter daily are made of “ferromagnetic” materials. The north-south magnetic axes of most atoms in these materials are lined up in the same direction, so their collective force is strong enough to produce significant attraction. These materials form the basis for most of the data storage devices in today’s high-tech world. Less common are magnets based on ferrimagnetic materials, with an “i.” In these, some of the atoms are aligned in one direction, but……

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‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit’ top...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix’s “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” combined with Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” to win top series honors at the Sunday’s Emmy Awards, a first for streaming services that cemented their rise to prominence in the television industry. “I’m at a loss for words,” said Peter Morgan, the creator and writer of the British royal saga “The Crown,” which collected acting, writing and directing awards in addition to four acting honors. His comment may also…

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Emmys: Jean Smart pays tribute to late...

Jean Smart held back tears while accepting the best actress in a comedy series Emmy for her role in “Hacks,” which she dedicated to her late husband. “Before I say anything else, I have to acknowledge my late husband who passed away six months ago yesterday,” Smart said Sunday night. “I would not be here without him, and without his kind of putting his career on the back burner so I could take advantage of all the wonderful opportunities…

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Emmys Latest: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ becomes award...

The Latest on The Emmy Awards in Los Angeles (all times local): 8:15 p.m. “The Queen’s Gambit” has captured the king. The Netflix show starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a young girl in an orphanage who becomes a chess prodigy won the final Emmy Award handed out on Sunday night, for best limited series or TV movie. It was the second Emmy of the night for “The Queen’s Gambit,” which also won for its directing. It beat out fellow nominees…

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Emmys: O-T Fagbenle rocks Nigerian look, Porter...

NEW YORK (AP) — Michaela Jaé “Mj” Rodriguez wore vintage Versace Atelier in teal in an homage to Old Hollywood, her hair flowing down her back, and Billy Porter worked large wings on his black trouser look Sunday at the slimmed-down Emmy Awards. Coming less than a week after the wild and sometimes wacky fashion of the Met Gala, glamour was back at the Emmys. There were looks of soft pink and yellow, statement minis in bright sequins —…

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American Hoppe debuts with Mallorca in draw...

MADRID (AP) — American forward Matthew Hoppe came off the bench in the second half to make his debut with Mallorca in a 0-0 draw against Villarreal in the Spanish league on Sunday, missing out on the potential winner after his late goal was called off for offside. Hoppe entered the game in the 60th minute and had his goal disallowed after a breakaway in the 82nd. He converted a cross by Joan Sastre into the net but the…

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Favela centennial shows Brazil communities’ endurance

SAO PAULO (AP) — Dozens of children lined up at a community center in Sao Paulo for a slice of creamy, blue cake. None was celebrating a birthday; their poor neighborhood, the favela of Paraisopolis, was commemorating 100 years of existence. “People started coming (to the city) for construction jobs and settled in,” community leader Gilson Rodrigues said. “There was no planning, not even streets. People started growing crops. It was all disorganized. Authorities didn’t do much, so we…

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Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier. The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut. The billionaire who paid undisclosed millions for the trip and his three guests wanted to show that ordinary…

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This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone event,...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV……

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