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Ed Stone

... that Ed Stone (pictured) was the Voyager program's project scientist for 50 years?
... that an actress who appeared in the 1915 film A Welsh Singer did not act in a film again until 1948?
... that Irve Tunick said he wrote about 700 to 800 scripts in his first 15 years of writing radio scripts?
... that Vatican Cycling is the first Vatican sports governing body to be recognized by a world governing body?
... that a newspaper columnist described an Illinois TV station as one that would "illustrate a flood by showing its audience a hand-drawn picture of a lake in the corner of the screen"?
... that Empress Kōken, having resigned the Japanese throne in favor of a relative, shaved her head, became a Buddhist nun, and forced her way back into power?
... that modernist architect Paul Rudolph was said to have run out of money three times while designing the Modulightor Building?
... that Sayuti Abubakar was nominated to become the vice governor of Aceh by an imprisoned former governor?
... that Google Street View in Antarctica started as a "challenge"?