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  • Author(s): By:United Press International
  • Source:
    UPI NewsTrack, December 21, 2010, 15pp
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    • Abstract:
      Today is Monday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2010 with four to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus and Mercury. The evening stars are Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Mars and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1571; English engineer George Cayley, father of the science of aerodynamics, in 1773; French bacteriologist Louis Pasteur in 1822; actors Sydney Greenstreet in 1879 and Marlene Dietrich in 1901; musician/actor Oscar Levant in 1906; news correspondent Cokie Roberts in 1943 (age 67); French actor Gerard Depardieu in...