Word: draco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the staff predicted last week that the spray of falling meteors will resemble the illuminated ribs of a huge umbrella, with the top conveniently completed by the constellation Draco...
...lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...