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When Virgin Galactic’s spaceplane VSS Unity made its third commercial flight on 8 September 2023, its three crew members were accompanied by three paying customers, ‘private astronauts’ who had bought their tickets as long ago as 2004 (when they were a bit less than half the current asking price of $450,000).
Iāll be honest: I came across at least 20 new books this month, but these are just the eight that I think are most broadly interesting. But I also recently realized that my physical TBR has gotten quite large ā 35 books, which is about six months of reading. Prior to last year, I was pretty good at keeping my TBR at less than 10 books, but somewhere along the way I started expanding to a slightly stressful amount.
King Tut was a mess. The 19-year-old had a clubbed foot that necessitated the lifetime use of a cane, a nasty fracture of his right knee, scoliosis, and a cleft palate. He had his parents, who were brother and sister, to thank for most of his genetic problems. Nevertheless, he himself married his half-sister Ankhesenamun and, as often occurs in cases of incest, fathered two stillborn children.
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