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...outer space, from our few distant glimpses of the uniqueness of our tiny earthly habitat and the brilliance of the species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
...outer space, from our few distant glimpses of the uniqueness of our tiny earthly habitat and the brilliance of the species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
...Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very Rev. John Drury, chaplain of All Souls' College at Oxford University. "You get it in a lot of the legends in Ovid where the god impregnates some young girl who has a miraculous...
...been in CityStep, the Harvard Boxing Club, the Ballroom Dance Club, the South Asian Association, HRDC, the Black Men’s Forum and Black Student’s Association, of course, and I’m the ex-president of the California Club. I hosted Apollo night,” Franklin lists. “When people ask me, what am I mainly involved in? A lot of stuff...
Harvard Black Students’ Association’s “Apollo Night” is sure to be the best variety show on campus this fall. The show, promoting artistic creativity in the Harvard community, will feature song, dance, poetry, step teams and musical performances by a broad array of student ethnic and performance groups. First-years, bring your parents to prove that Harvard students are not just a bunch of geeks without rhythm. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. $7; BSA Members $5. 7:30 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...