Word: dot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dot is a planet, as astronomers strongly suspect, its gaseous state and high gravity would make it an extremely inhospitable place. It also seems to be hurtling away into space at thousands of miles an hour, flung outward by the twin stars' combined gravity. That's the only reason it's visible at all: conventional planets are too close to their stars to be seen in the glare...
...studying a cloud of gas in the constellation Taurus where a lot of stars are being born. When Terebey and her colleagues looked closely at one double-star system, they noticed a long wisp of gas trailing off into space, and at the end of the wisp, a tiny dot of light...
...inhabited history, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have come and left their various imprints on Minorcan life, enriching its language and architecture. More than a beach vacation, Minorca is a 270-sq.-mi. museum, filled with ancient treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas--are integral features of the landscape, unfenced and open to all. From the circular stone constructions called talayots, used from about 1500 B.C. as dwelling or burial places by some of the island's earliest settlers...
...these men, the sun is a much smaller white ball, and the planets number 15, not nine. They pass their time in Sully's, the Brighton Billiard Club, the Rack, Pockets and in the Boston Billiard Club--just a few of the urban oases which dot the metropolitan landscape of Boston. From unknown to acclaimed, from tiny capsules of kitsch to mammoth monsters of mahogany, these billiard halls are loaded with personality, and though they may be divided by money, by class and by style, they are united by the game, and the game never changes...
...That means the end of the monopoly of Network Solutions, the Virginia company with an exclusive contract on dot-coms (not to mention dot-orgs and dot-nets). The company's contract runs out at the end of March -- and though it?s expected to be extended for another six months, that is believed to be the last gasp of the domain-naming dinosaur...