Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midnight Taxes. The Nationalists did hold the major cities and rail lines of North China. But the Communists ruled the countryside. They had the best chance to gather North China's summer crops. The Government could not even protect at night some of the villages it controlled by day...
For color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed...
For the aspiring Astronomy-major who fancies his prospective field as a sort of idealistic joyride into the realm of fantasy, the best advice is "Pull out now, before it's too late!" Go out into the starry night, like Walt Whitman, and enjoy the beauty of the heavens while...
Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he...
To house these photographs, which now comprise a 500,000-plate history of the heavens for the last half-century, the fire-proof Astrophysical building was established in Cambridge in 1931. This pictorial library, largest of its kind in the world, has proved an invaluable aid in plotting the future...