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"Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on...
Dominating all the other motifs, industry, politics, crime, letters, society, are the themes of pure love, which are orchestrated in the story of Jallez' struggles; and those of lust, culminating in the lyrical description of Jerphanion's tortured search for physical love in the streets of Paris, "kingdom of the...
Alfred Gilbert, 78, could say that he had never changed his mind for anybody. In 1893 he was Britain's most fashionable sculptor when he began a long woe by doing the winged Eros for Piccadilly Circus honoring the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was paid for, refused, abused...
Cause for speculation and calculation arose from the celestially minute sizes of the Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million...
Significance of the discoveries and their determination was that they might help measure distances between Earth and other heavenly bodies which regularly return to a particular spot. The Earth-Sun distance is all important. It is the Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance...