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When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as ‘Mr Five Per Cent’ for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a labyrinth of Asian and European cartels, and convincing governments and oil barons alike of his impartiality as an ‘honest broker’. Today his name is known principally through the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, to which his spectacular art collection and most of his vast wealth were bequeathed.

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Die NASA schickt eine atomgetriebene Drohne zu Titan, dem größten Saturnmond, um verschiedene Orte zu erkunden, in der Hoffnung, Anzeichen von mikrobiellem Leben zu entdecken. Die Libelle, die acht Rotoren hat und wie eine große Drohne fliegt. Es ist das erste Mal, dass die NASA ein Multi-Rotor-Fahrzeug für die Wissenschaft auf einem anderen Planeten fliegt.

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