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Talking and acting tough on Russia and foreign policy crises have been terra firma for Republicans for generations. – Doug Heye	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Astronomers have found more than 10,000 exoplanet candidates so far, but exomoons are far more challenging, they are terra incognita. – David Kipping	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One reason is that Gandharan scrolls, like the one at the Library of Congress, were typically buried in terra cotta jars and interred in a stupa, a dome-shaped structure often containing Buddhist texts or relics, another reason is that the relatively high, arid climate of the Gandharan region helps preserve materials like manuscripts on birch bark. – Jonathan Loar	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Terra Peregrin wants to be a minority shareholder, without control, but with a relevant stake of a group in Brazil which has holdings in other (geographic) areas, we want to return to the corporate project of this leader in the Portuguese-speaking world, involving 260 million people and more than 110 million clients. – Mario Silva	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me. – Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Talking and acting tough on Russia and foreign policy crises have been terra firma for Republicans for generations.

– Doug Heye

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Astronomers have found more than 10,000 exoplanet candidates so far, but exomoons are far more challenging, they are terra incognita.

– David Kipping

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One reason is that Gandharan scrolls, like the one at the Library of Congress, were typically buried in terra cotta jars and interred in a stupa, a dome-shaped structure often containing Buddhist texts or relics, another reason is that the relatively high, arid climate of the Gandharan region helps preserve materials like manuscripts on birch bark.

– Jonathan Loar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Terra Peregrin wants to be a minority shareholder, without control, but with a relevant stake of a group in Brazil which has holdings in other (geographic) areas, we want to return to the corporate project of this leader in the Portuguese-speaking world, involving 260 million people and more than 110 million clients.

– Mario Silva

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

– Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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