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...sent five trade unionists down into the pit to say: "Come up within 30 minutes." Thereupon the miners added the trade unionists to their collection of hostages. Finally, after five days of the strike, the owners agreed to raise the miners' wages. Back to daylight were hauled the workers -famished, half-mad, near death...
...statistics: the particles, visible for about 75 miles almost due north to south, was in the air approximately 2 seconds, and dropped from a height of 52 miles to one of 15 miles before disintegrating; the time of flight was between 2.26 o'clock and 2.27 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time...
Labor pains roved through her. She cried for help. No one came. She tried to hold the baby back at least until daylight. But there could be no waiting. Mrs. Toner got out of bed and like solitary females of primitive times, bore her baby, an 8-lb. girl, without any assistance...
Traveling in daylight and darkness he reached high, lonely Rongbuk Monastery in mid-April, beating by more than a week the time of the elaborate Ruttledge expedition. He rested one day, made a reconnaissance to Ruttledge's Camp No. 2, and returned to the monastery to gather strength for his supreme effort. The long-sleeved, yellow-hatted monks padding about in their cloth boots asked him no questions. Wilson drank their rancid butter-tea, watched the smoke of incense curling from bronze burners, rested. On May 17 he was at Camp No. 3 with his porters. He instructed them...
First recorded super-nova was observed in the Milky Way in 1572. It was visible in full daylight. Another appeared in Andromeda in 1885. Since 1900 about a dozen have been found by chance on photographic plates, mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum...