By Shawn Lawrence Otto Reprinted with permission from MinnPost, a Minnesota USA online community newspaper. Second in a five-part science/travel series. Geneva, Switzerland — In Italy they like to eat late. Most people don’t even head out to the restaurants until about 9. And in Torino there are many of them, mostly spilling out onto […]
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This is the way it was: the Swiss were the first on the moon
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Forty years ago, as everyone surely knows by now, the first man, who was American, stepped on the moon: July 21 in the early hours, European time. “The first human stepped on a celestial body” was the more elegant phrase used to describe the moment, by Douglas Griffiths at a commemorative […]