Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Data recently collected from the first exploded star close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in four centuries has helped astronomers confirm their theories about how stars cease to shine, Harvard scientists said yesterday...
...first bright supernova since Harvard was founded," said Professor Of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70, who studying ultraviolet (UV) light emitted form the bright supernova. The most recent supernova observable from Earth with the naked...
Which is not to say that this movie isn't somewhat enlightening. I mean, what man on earth could ever guess that going on a blind date with Kim Basinger could end up ruining your life? What begins as pleasant enough evening for fast-track L.A. careerist Walter Davis (Bruce Willis), leaves him fired, arrested, injured, hung over, and with only the frame of his sporty white car to drive home...
THOMAS CLAYTON WOLFE received the first copy of his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, on his 29th birthday. In it, he developed a theme: "that men are strangers, that they are lonely and forsaken, that they are in exile on this earth, that they are born, live and die alone...
...increase was a victory for Congressmen from the wide open spaces of the West, where freewheeling constituents feel cooped up by the old limit. As Democrat Pat Williams of Montana explained to his more constricted colleagues, "You can stand on the highway and see the earth curve out at the end, 60 miles of straight stretch, and sometimes you traverse that entire 60 miles and you only pass two cars. My friends, on the way to talk to 20 people in Montana, I run over 15 jackrabbits." Republican Dick Cheney of Wyoming echoed his neighbor: "Our Western rural interstates...