Since June 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the Moon, compiling data for the first topographic map of the Moon's surface. More images here.
Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."