For the past four years British expats had been riding an emotional rollercoaster as the long Brexit saga played out.

The science fiction movie "Contact" was based on a book co-authored by Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan.

I found a very interesting website that presents the complete text of Icelandic sagas, some of which are also translated into English and Danish.

Icelanders can read old sagas, but the writing and context have changed so much that they don't understand what the texts are about.

Carl Sagan gathered information about our planet onto a disk and sent it into space, so that other intelligent beings would find it.

Dr. Carl Sagan helped design the plaques carried by both Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. These plaques, bearing the images of a man and a woman as well as a diagram showing Earth's location in the Galaxy, may one day be found by an extraterrestrial civilization.

It was the third year of Meiji when their family name was changed to Saga.

Saga is the generic name for old Scandinavian legends, the majority of which were written in Iceland between the 12th and 15th century.

I would love to have met Carl Sagan.

Dr. Sagan suffered from a rare bone marrow disease called myelodysplasia.