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...Named after an apocryphal 17th century English court physician, Dr. Condom, who supposedly invented them after Charles II became alarmed by the number of his illegitimate children...
...thinking continued to dominate astronomy until 1572, when Tycho Brahe observed a bright new star (which scientists now know was a supernova, or exploding star) near the constellation Cassiopeia. Beyond any doubt, it had not previously been visible. Other blows to Aristotelian cosmology followed swiftly. By early in the 17th century, Galileo had used his telescope to discover spots on the sun−demonstrating that the solar complexion was somewhat less than perfect−and to prove that the sky was filled with stars that could not be seen with the naked...
...hoopsters then travel to South Carolina, as in the Atlantic Coast Conference, for the Carolina Classic. A first round win would mean a matchup with either Georgetown, 17th in Sports Illustrated's top 20, or Alabama, ranked 7th in the AP and UPI basketball polls. And you thought three-foot snow drifts were...
...many of the marchers wounded. As the marchers crossed Burntollet Bridge outside Derry, the Protestant mob attacked with everything from brass knuckles to spiked clubs, throwing injured marchers into the river below while police looked on. On August 12, the Apprentice Boys, a Unionist group which yearly commemorates the 17th century Protestant victory in Ulster, marched outside the walls of the Catholic Bogside ghetto, shouting taunts--obscenities and slurs against the Pope--and showering pennies down on the Catholics from above the wall. The Protestant taunts elicited a barrage of stones from the Catholics--and the fracas quickly evolved into...
...joining TIME in 1970, the U.S. He has written two books -one on Australian art and one on images of paradise and perdition in Western art. He also has written several art documentaries for Australian television and for the BBC, most recently a pair of 75-minute programs on 17th century Painters Caravaggio and Rubens. Hughes' current projects include a book about Australia's early days as an English penal colony, and also a nine-part television series on 20th century art intended to pick up where Kenneth Clark's Civilisation left off. "It's nice...