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Galaxy Science Fiction was an American The United States Federal

digest-size science fiction magazine, published Communications Commission
(Chairman Ajit Pai pictured)
from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by World
votes to repeal Title II net
Editions and sold two years later to Robert neutrality rules.
Guinn, the magazine's printer. Its first editor, H. The Walt Disney Company
announces its intention to buy
L. Gold, rapidly made Galaxy the leading
most of 21st Century Fox 's
science fiction magazine of its time, focusing on entertainment divisions, valued Ajit Pai
stories about social issues rather than at roughly $52.4 billion.
technology, including Ray Bradbury's "The Fireman" (later Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declares
victory against the Islamic State of Iraq and the
expanded as Fahrenheit 451), Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Levant, after capturing the group's remaining
Masters, and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man. Frederik Pohl, territory in the country.
who had been doing most of the production work for some time, The Parliament of Australia passes legislation to
allow same-sex marriage.
took over as editor officially in 1961. Until his departure in 1969,
Halszkaraptor, a duck-like dinosaur genus
Galaxy had continued success, regularly publishing fiction by thought to have been semiaquatic, is described
writers such as Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and from a Mongolian fossil.
Robert Silverberg. At its peak, Galaxy greatly influenced the science Ongoing: Southern California wildfires
fiction field. Gold brought a "sophisticated intellectual subtlety" to Recent deaths: Heinz Wolff Dan Johnson
magazine science fiction, according to Pohl. Historian David Kyle Alessandro Kokocinski Ed Lee
suggests that Gold's new direction led to the experimental New
Wave, the defining science fiction literary movement of the 1960s. On this day...
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Alfano and his generation in her 1939 Second World War: The Luftwaffe victory
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Satellite Launch Center, where he supervised the launch of the medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the Government of the United Kingdom,
and chairs Cabinet meetings. There is no specific date when the office of Prime Minister first appeared, as
the role was not created but rather evolved over a period of time. The term was used in the House of
Commons in 1805 and it was certainly in parliamentary use by the 1880s, and in 1905 the post of Prime
Minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence. Modern historians generally consider
Sir Robert Walpole (pictured), who led the government of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742, as the first
Prime Minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving Prime Minister by this definition. However, Sir Henry Sir Robert Walpole
Campbell-Bannerman was the first Prime Minister and Margaret Thatcher the longest-serving Prime
Minister to have been officially referred to as such. Due to the gradual evolution of the post of Prime Minister, the title is
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5,000 years. Combs vary in shape according to function,
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combs are plastic, metal, or wood; ivory combs were also
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