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    Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly...
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    Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was a sub-prefecture of the Eure department. The city is evoked in a poem of Paul Verlaine called "The Apollo of Pont-Audemer."...
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    The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (French: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, French pronunciation: [ɡʁɔt ʃovɛ pɔ̃ daʁk]) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France...
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    invented by DuPont in the 1960s. Kapton remains manufactured by DuPont to this day. The name Kapton is a registered trademark of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
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  • Pont-Saint-Esprit The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, known in French as Le Pain Maudit, took place on 15 August 1951, in the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
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    USS Du Pont (DD-941), named for Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont USN (1803–1865), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works...
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    Apollo Sauroktonos (Apollo Lizard-killer) is the title of several 1st – 2nd century AD Roman marble copies of an original by the ancient Greek sculptor...
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    wings of the Palais de Chaillot and to the southeast by the Seine and the Pont d'Iéna at the Place de Varsovie, with the Eiffel Tower on the opposite bank...
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    Alan Shepard (category Apollo 14)
    restrictions. There he met Louise Brewer, whose parents were pensioners on the du Pont family estate and like Renza Shepard, were devout Christian Scientists. Owing...
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  • the Jinde Bridge; the Japanese Great Seto Bridge opened in April 1988; the Pont de Normandie was twice as large of any previous similar type of bridge, and...
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