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...Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which connotes intelligent engineering...
...canali do not show up clearly in photographs, because the photographic image of the planet is so small that a time exposure is necessary, and the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere then blurs the detail. The streaks show up better to visual observation, but observers disagree on what they...
...idea of life on Mars got a big push in 1877 when the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than...
...well-beloved Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, papal Master of Ceremonies, who long ago was reported named a Cardinal in pectore-secretly "in the Pope's heart" (TIME, March 20, 1933). Others: Most Rev. Carlo Salotti, secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions); Monsignor Nicola Canali, assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the Church's watchdog in matters of faith and morals); Monsignor Domenico Jorio, secretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments; Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean of the Sacred Roman Rota (the Church's trial court); Monsignor Carlo Cremonesi, papal Grand Almoner; Monsignor...