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Yuri Among the Orchids

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• 1961-12-11

Major Yuri Gagarin filming the orchids in the Orchid House at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya. He exclaimed: "Beautiful", as he entered the Orchid House and later exposed several feet of film, specially on the "Vanda Oscar Kirsch", now in ...

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