Category: The World
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Halloween throughout the Universe
I love the Universe. Everything in it! (OK, some things niggle me slightly, but they’re part of the Universe too, so I can put up with them!) I hardly know anything about the workings of the Universe, not in this lifetime, anyway, but I love finding out snippets here, facts there and pictures everywhere! I’ve…
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Wish from a star!
On a clear night, look up to the sky. Look and see as far as you can. Notice the constellations, the star clusters, the galaxies and planets that appear in front of you. Notice the satellites in our planet’s orbit. Can you see a difference? Pick a star. Any star. Imagine that star looking back…
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From Iceland to Saturn in the Seventeenth Century and back again
I’ve been questing this evening. Looking for more information to fill in the blanks I have with 1642 and the surrounding years. Although I haven’t filled in any of those blanks with answers, I have filled them with a few more interesting facts and questions. Questions are good, I find, but the answers are obviously…
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First Tuesday
I woke early this morning. I’d like to say it was natural, and I suppose, in the grand scheme of things, it probably was, because the invention of the alarm clock had to have evolved from somewhere way back when; and anything man-made is really humankind’s attempts at making things easier for others. Although sometimes…