Word: comet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HALLEY'S comet appears once in seventy-six years, and the President attended the exercises in English 6 last week. These two facts have no connection with each other...
TERROR and dismayreigned in the halls of the Vatican. Never since the appearance of the comet as an uninvited guest at the siege of Constantinople, had the Papal Council been in such a quandary. Through the long halls, the lofty salons, rushed a perturbed crowd of pallid dignitaries. Canons, bishops, cardinals, filled the passage-ways. Even the monks and friars who were on prayer-duty dropped their beads and hastened to the scene of excitement. A stream of Ecclesiastical big guns who were off duty came pouring up the cellar stairs. In a great chair, at the foot...
...been shining, it was really night. I am disgusted with Norway, and do not understand why the sun did not set. Am afraid that something is out of order in the universe, and that we are going to have an earthquake. Perhaps it is a result of the comet. I hastily work my way back to Christiania, and leave the country by the first steamer...
...parabolic comet's nucleus blaze
...little country town in Pennsylvania, where, at a single evening gathering, we obtained more information about college jokes and scrapes than had come to us during a two years' previous residence at Cambridge. The reason of this was, that, shortly before our arrival, a respected classmate had shot, comet-like, into the society of this town, brightened it for a week with a thousand college tales, in which he generally appeared as hero, and finally departed, leaving the minds of the natives thoroughly illuminated by his train of fabrications. On hearing the name of this gallant scion of Harvard...