Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin

There’s a fascinating story surrounding Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin’s “secretive” activities in space shared on TheBlaze. The second man to walk on the moon, Aldrin is also the first — and only known — individual to take Holy Communion. The act, which has gained scattered coverage in the past, was both a coveted and a controversial one.

Just before Aldrin stepped foot on the moon, he took the Eucharist, using wafers and a bottle of wine he brought into space from the Webster Presbyterian Church in Webster, Texas. Over the past decades since the 1969 moon landing, he has openly discussed the fascinating experience in detail.

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The world’s first speed limit for automobiles was codified in 1903 (England).

Russia’s February Revolution was in March.

In 1810, Tabitha Babbitt of Massachusetts notched a flat metal disc and attached the device to a contraption that resembled a spinning wheel, foot pedals and all. Voila! The circular saw was invented. By 1813, her innovation led to the first water-powered saw mill. Tabitha was encouraged to obtain a patent on her idea, but she declined to do so because she felt it was prohibited by her religion (Shaker).
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An exclusive World Net Daily (WND) story demonstrates a confirmation that Iran is working on nuclear weapons at a secret facility known as “Quds,” a name synonymous with the Arabic word for “Jerusalem.”

A WND report on March 20 and a follow-up in the Washington Times the next day revealed that Iranian scientists are trying to perfect nuclear warheads at the underground site, which is unknown to the West.

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Breast cancer used to be a disease of older women. Screening with mammograms is not recommended under age 40. But now the Feb 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports a near doubling in the rate of metastatic breast cancer in women age 25–39 between 1976 and 2009. The rate has been increasing slowly but steadily, and shows no sign of leveling off.

These days, young mothers of small children are facing mutilating surgery, debilitating chemotherapy, and even death. Yet there has been no corresponding increase in older women.

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The widely used insect repellent Deet appears to be losing its effectiveness against mosquitoes, scientists say.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say mosquitoes are first deterred by the substance, but then later ignore
it.  They say more research is needed to find alternatives to Deet, which was first developed by the US military.

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