Word: marse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astronomers have suggested that the Star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men to the Child Jesus was a nova or "new star," exploding like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector...
One enthusiastic spectator who was in the Field of Mars on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille was an Irish gentleman named Harman Blennerhassett. A native of County Kerry, a graduate of Dublin's Trinity College and a member of the Irish bar, he wandered the...
The thought of artificial construction on the surface of Mars at once caught the fancy of many astronomers of the period and Porcival Lowell '76, in particular began an intensive study of the planet. Spectroscopic comparisons of the planet and the Moon by Dr. Silpher at the Lowell Observatory gave...
Lowell founded an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, a region admirably suited for the examination of the heavens, and equipped it with a 24-inch telescope, of which the main purpose was to carry on the investigation of Mars. Here a careful study of the "canals" began. As a result, by...
The mean temperature of Mars is 48 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature which has great fluctuations from summer to winter. Severe as these are, they do not exceed those of Northern Canada in the Yokon district. Thus weather conditions did not preclude life.