Set the juice loose

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This month, the JUICE mission blasts off on its eight-year voyage to Jupiter. Onc

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The most famous living immigrant to the United States, Melania Trump, née Melanija Knavs, was born in Novo Mesto in Slovenia in 1970. She spent her childhood in Sevnica where in 2020 the US concept ar

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