Amid the flames and smoke, Clint stood in a doorway, calling in airstrikes that shook the earth all around them.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Almost all the gold ever found on the earth is still sitting around, in forms ranging from wedding rings to bullion in central bank vaults.

FORBES: Gold Investing: An Owner's Manual

Pessimists fear that the church will never change: after all, it only pardoned Gallileo for being right about the earth revolving around the sun ten years ago.

ECONOMIST: Show us the way, Lord | The

In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.

FORBES: Eerily Prescient