Word: coelum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defining their sovereignty, nations originally adopted the principle of iusque ad coelum, or roughly "the sky's the limit." But what is the sky? The notion that a nation's control extends unlimited in a huge space cone above its territory is not only gigantic pride, it is also impractical...