Word: leonide
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After the first hour they spent atop Arizona's Kitt Peak scanning the post- midnight skies, the observers knew that their ascent to an altitude of more than 6,000 ft. had not been in vain. They had counted 33 shooting stars, the advance guard of the annual Leonid meteor shower. But none of the University of Arizona students could anticipate the spectacle that was still to come. In the small hours of that Nov. 17 morning in 1966, the fiery meteors began streaking overhead in ever increasing numbers until, as one viewer reported in Sky & Telescope magazine...
Russia and Ukraine have been arguing for more than a year over what to do about the powerful 350-ship Black Sea fleet of the former Soviet navy. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
Some divisions remain, however, according to Leonid M. Fridman '85, resident tutor and advisor to Harvard's Society of Nerds and Geeks...
...opulent apartment in the Dakota; in Paris, an even grander flat on the Quai Voltaire. Both places became salons whenever he was in town; he loved flamboyant people. The Italian island of Li Galli appealed to him because it not only had been owned by the Russian choreographer Leonid Massine but also had been previously visited by Ulysses: it is the legendary home of the Sirens...
DURING A VISIT LAST WEEK TO BEIJING, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...