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...English astronomer named Jeremiah Horrocks, left, studied Kepler's planetary tables and realized a transit would happen within a month. In 1639, he and a friend are the first humans known to have seen...
...Following Halley's suggestion, explorers- including, in 1761 and '69, Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, who later surveyed the Mason-Dixon line, and, in 1769, James Cook-headed for remote regions, above, to see the transits that occurred in those years. Unfortunately, observers had to know their precise longitude and latitude, which were hard to measure at the time. As a result, astronomers couldn't calculate the distance from Earth to the sun with much accuracy...
...JEREMIAH P. MURPHY...
...events to the jury, when Bacanovic's lawyer, Richard Strassberg, stunned the courtroom by calling for a mistrial. Strassberg said that at 10:15 the previous night the prosecution had belatedly faxed him a copy of an interview the FBI had conducted with Faneuil's former lawyer, Jeremiah Gutman, 80, which hinted at a different version of events. Gutman said he couldn't remember whom Faneuil had identified--Bacanovic or Waksal--as the one who had instructed him to pass on the tip to Stewart. Gutman's confusion raised doubts, at least temporarily, about the basis of the prosecution...
...Harvard Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy ’73 also said that as Christmas gets closer and closer, retailers often see a shift in sales away from their mainstay products...