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While the fleet gathered at Liujiagang, Zheng He and his officers set up a stele in the temple of the sea goddess Tianfei listing all seven voyages and their ports. The stone is lost; its text survives in a later collection.

The easy-going Archbishop Schrattenbach had died the day after the Mozarts got home. The chapter elected Hieronymus Colloredo, a reformer who cut back church ceremony, wanted short masses, and had little patience for a Konzertmeister who kept asking for leave.

Alam Ara: India’s first talkieAlam Ara

Ardeshir Irani’s film had seven songs, and song has been at the heart of popular Indian cinema ever since. Crowds were so big that police were called to the cinema. No print survives: Alam Ara is a lost film.

At a meeting in Cam Ranh, Thiệu ordered Pleiku and Kontum abandoned to save troops for the coast and the South. Planned in a few days and without telling most commanders, the withdrawal fell apart.

Five spacecraft from three space agencies met the comet within nine days, and shared what they found so that each could aim better. The Soviet Vegas went first; their positions of the nucleus steered Europe’s Giotto in close.

It passed about 600 km from the nucleus and took the first close picture of one: a dark, peanut-shaped body blacker than coal. A dust grain knocked the spacecraft off its aim seconds before closest approach, and its camera did not survive the pass.

It passed 596 km from the nucleus and took the first close pictures of one: a dark, peanut-shaped body about 15 km long, blacker than coal. A dust grain knocked the spacecraft off its aim seconds before closest approach, and its camera did not survive the pass.

Storage rented by the gigabyte over the internet, followed in August by EC2's rented servers. Startups stopped buying hardware, and “the cloud” became where software runs.

Bear told regulators on Thursday night that it could not open on Friday. Before dawn the Fed agreed to lend to it through JPMorgan, the only way the law then allowed. The shares still fell 47 per cent that day, to 30 dollars.