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...latter capital that the veteran diplomatist tacked fame to his flagstaff. He asked Herr von Jagow, German Foreign Minister in 1914, whether Germany would refrain from violating Belgium's neutrality...
Schiaparelli, in 1890, and Percival Lowell, at the Flagstaff Observatory from 1896 to 1909, reached the conclusion from a study of the markings on the planet Venus that the period of rotation of Venus on her axis is the same as her revolution around the sun. Slipher confirmed this by spectroscopic analysis. Now if Venus turns on her axis once while she is revolving once around Old Sol, it is obvious that the same face of the planet is always turned toward him. In other words, one side has been baked by the sun's heat for countless aeons...
Another telegram received at the Observatory from the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, announces the discovery of a new star by Lampland on May 5 in the great spiral nebula Messier 83. The nova was roughly of 14th magnitude, which indicates that it would be visible only with a powerful telescope...
...Revolution, the Civil War, and the Spanish War, with the placing of wreaths on the Nathan Hale statue, the Civil War Memorial, and the three memorials erected to Yale men who died in the Spanish War, namely, the Cheney-Ives Gateway, the Miller Gateway, and the Ledyard Flagstaff. The procession will end up in the university Quadrangle between Woodbridge Hall and the Dining Hall, where patriotic songs will be sung and two addresses delivered from the balcony of Memorial Hall, from which President Taft spoke on his return to New Haven. These addresses will be delivered by George R. Vincent...
...cause of these markings, may be regarded as in abeyance. Lowell had not proved his case. Scientists tell us that the Schiaperelli and Lowell "canals" on Mars exist in these astronomer's own psychology, or rather in their own eyes. Yet the markings which Mr. Lowell had noted at Flagstaff, whether they are continuous, as he assumes, or in reality discontinuous, as other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell's researches had the merit of being a positive and constructive theory concerning them, which he was willing to maintain against the world's denial. At all events, the observatory...