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IT WAS AN ELECTRIFYING MOMENT IN 1968

An Electrifying Kiss
( From HistoricTalk)

One can never know when those CPR skills will be needed! This incredible photo, entitled "Kiss of Life", features two coworkers,
Randall G. Champion and J.D. Thomspon, utility workers out
performing maintenance on electricity lines in 1967. Champion accidentally brushed against a low voltage line and went
unconscious. His harness kept him from falling off the pole,
while his quick-thinking coworker below him climbed up and
gave him mouth-to-mouth. It was the photographer, Rocco
Marabito who had been driving past, who called for an
ambulance! 

Thompson saved Champion’s life that day, and Rocco Morabito
won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Kiss
of Life” in 1968.  Champion lived another 35 years, surviving
another electrical shock along the way, before dying of heart
failure in 2002.


J.D. Thompson holds a copy of the photo that captured him saving a fellow electrical lineman’s life.         
        

       
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Retired photographer Rocco Morabito

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PLANET OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM SEEN

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(Fox News) – NASA on Thursday shared an image taken by the
James Webb Telescope showing the first-ever direct image of
a planet outside our
solar system. 

NASA says the exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant, meaning
it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable. The image
can be seen through different bands of infrared light.

Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy
at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who led the observations, called the images a "transformative moment, not
only for Webb but also for astronomy generally."
 

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The James Webb Space Telescope.


The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December
2021 on an
Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, and
arrived at the Sun–Earth
L2 Lagrange point in January 2022.

The telescope is the successor of the Hubble as NASA’s flagship
mission
in astrophysics.

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FIRST CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE MOON IN 1964

Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT), about

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Ranger 7, an unmanned U.S. lunar probe, took the first close-up
images of the moon—4,308 in total—before it impacts with the
lunar surface northwest of the Sea of Clouds. The images were
1,000 times as clear as anything ever seen through earth-bound telescopes.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had attempted a similar mission earlier in the year—Ranger 6—but
the probe’s cameras had failed as it descended to the lunar
surface. Ranger 7, launched from Earth on July 28, successfully activated its cameras 17 minutes, or 1,300 miles, before impact
and began beaming the images back to NASA’s receiving station
in
California.


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An artist’s concept of NASA’s Ranger 7 approaching the
Moon.

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BEAUTY QUEEN RESIGNED ON THIS DAY

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Singer, actress, and fashion designer Vanessa Williams
turned 59 in March.

On July 23, 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gave up her
Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history,
after Penthouse magazine announces plans to publish nude
photos of the beauty queen in its September issue. Williams
originally made history on September 17, 1983, when she
became the first Black woman to win
the Miss America crown.

Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles (below), the first runner-up
and also African American, assumed Williams’ tiara for the
two
months
that remained of her reign. 

     

   
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Suzette Charles



   
  
  
   


       
          


 
 
     

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REMEMBERING A ROCK & ROLL PIONEER

BUDDY HOLLY LIVES, Buddy Holly fanpages | Buddy holly, Singer, Music  memories
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

Celebrity American Singer BUDDY HOLLY Glossy 8x10 Photo Musical Print  Poster Music

1993 29c Legends of American Music: Buddy Holly, booklet single for sale at  Mystic Stamp Company

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