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...astronomy's ignorance is rapidly being dispelled, thanks in large part to two researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Since 1985, Margaret Geller and John Huchra have been meticulously crafting a three-dimensional map that charts the positions of thousands of galaxies. Last week, in the journal Science, they presented their latest map of one small chunk of the visible universe, and the findings are startling...
...charting the heavens, two astronomers have found giant cosmic voids with surfaces made of galaxies. They have also discovered a "Great Wall" of galaxies so big it runs off the map...
...That is a painful matter. I always have this map with me. ((He shows map with U.S. bases encircling the Soviet Union.)) This is the way the U.S. has surrounded the Soviet Union; more than half a million American troops and aircraft are deployed there. The system was shaped at the end of the 1940s and 1950s and has its own history, but nowadays there are no grounds to have bases that threaten us. It is time that the U.S. think it over. In a number of countries, troops are deployed because of the results of World...
...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...
Zaire is an artificial political entity. Its borders were decided arbitrarily on some Belgian map a century ago. Within those borders are over 250 potentially warlike tribes...