On this date in 1976 the Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

Walk to the back of the room to see how big your writing on the chalkboard looks to the student farthest away.

Can't boot from your Macintosh Hard Drive? Try booting up while holding down the command-option- shift-delete keys. With a system CD in the CD ROM drive this will cause the system to boot from the CD.

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