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| | Waterford Today - 7 June 2006 - Strange but - True! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Mare Moscoviense, Mare Ingenii, Jules Verne, Gagarin, Galois, Oppenheimer, Von Karman, Poincare, Mendeleev, Mach, Landau, Hertzsprung, Korolev, Van de Graaff, Apollo - the names are fascinating, taken from astronauts, astronomers, other scientists, alongside those from an occasional project (Apollo) or place (Moscoviense - Latin for Muscovy). |
 | | By contrast, there is little sign of the old romantic Latin descriptions (Mare Nubium) with which the familiar Earth side of the moon has long been identified. |
 | | There seems to be a universal and deep-rooted love for naming things, says Crystal, so much so that people have admitted naming their cars, word processors, house plants, kitchen implements, and on the "luna-tic" fringe, even their toothbrushes. |
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