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.

When asking children for a show of hands for who is done with seat work, start with the highest numbered page and go towards the lowest numbered page.

Make your web browser fly. If you have enough free memory on your system you can set up a ram drive and use it as a disk cache with your browser. Items retrieved from the cache will be at the speed of your systems' memory.

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