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Overview effect
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Overview effect

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The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus". The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing …

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Zid
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Zid may refer to:Degtyarev Plant, abbreviated ЗиД (ZiD) Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center, abbreviated ZID Z…

Aadesh Shrivastava
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Aadesh Shrivastava
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Aadesh Shrivastava was a music composer and playback singer who worked in Indian films. Initially, he had worked as a dr…

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10 events
2020
2020_California_wildfires
California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire (pictured), burning for 71 days and killing one firefighter.
1977
NASA
NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
1975
Squeaky_Fromme
Squeaky Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.
1972
Palestinians
The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.
1970
1970_Italian_Grand_Prix
During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently became motor racing's only posthumous world champion.
1964
Hurricane_Cleo
Hurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages across the Caribbean and southeastern United States.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
1926
Dromcolliher
Forty-eight people died in a fire in a makeshift cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland.
1915
Zimmerwald_Conference
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
1915
Casablanca_Fair_of_1915
The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.

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