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Jared Loughner, with UFO imagery created by Red Pill Junkie, a Fortean blogger. "What is government if words have no  meaning ?" Jared Lee  Loughner   asked Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in 2007. So what is the meaning of Loughner ? It appears to be a Americanized version of the German name  Lachner , which is an "occupational name for a physician, Middle High German  lachenære  'healer' (see  Leach),  which issues from the "topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or lake, from Middle High German  lache ."  The leeches found in aquatic locales, of course, are associated with the  medieval medical practice of "bleeding," often by applying leeches to the sick person,  ( Dictionary of American Family Names , Oxford University Press ). "Lough" is the Irish word for "loch" or "lake," so the origins of the name is decidedly watery in nature. The Jared Lee Loughner case has developed into a classic weird tri...

Since 2008, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been compiling a vast comprehensive online compilation of photographs, historic film, and video on the NASA Images Web site . However, NASA is now on Flickr better than ever. All the images on NASA’s Flickr page originate from the compiled archives now gearing up to reach a much wider audience than originally anticipated…and the collection is still growing. http://flickr.com/people/nasacommons http://nasa.gov http://nasaimages.org

July 20th, 2009. The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The very first time mankind walked on the Moon. From liftoff, to walking down the lunar landing module for the first time, On July 16th, 1969 Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that carried the first men to the moon. There were several success stories before the success of this mission in the history of trying to get spacecrafts to the moon. Prior to this mission, Apollo 8, 9 and 10 came close, but it was Apollo 11 that accomplished the once impossible dream of actually landing the first man on the moon. Beginning the Journey of Apollo 11 On July 16th, 1969 Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, Michael Collins, command module pilot, and Edwin " Buzz" Aldrin, the lunar module pilot, were picked up at Kennedy Space Center and loaded into a van and taken to the spacecraft for the beginning of their historic journey. At Apollo 11 they prepared for the ride of their lives with all the world watching. Liftoff occu...