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united-nations: Flashback Friday to 1963 when Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova visited United Nations Headquarters in NYC, two years after Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to make a space flight. Friday’s Human Space Flight Day celebrates the beginning of the space era for mankind. Today, space science and technology contribute to achieving the Global Goals and help maintain outer space for peaceful purposes. 📷: UN Photo I have two recommendations related to this topic. The first is a great book. I recently read If the Sun Dies by Oriana Fallaci, a report novel about the hopeful…

Considering everything, no-one will miss you…  Especially these last days of the year really made people long for those days when you could just turn off the tv and hide away from all the bad news at least for a few days. While we all wish the next year to be the best ever, the undeniable truth is that we are facing it amid seemingly unstoppable wars, the rise of unacceptable political views and at the treshold of four years of who knows what. Still, I want this one to be a happy post. Aside from a sad personal loss…