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The staunch supporters of Will Rogers who desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not...
Though they were indoors, they beheld the strange gyrations of the sky. Though it was but 3 p. m. they saw the sun go down, Venus, the evening star, appear. It was the opening performance of the country's first planetarium. A planetarium is a complex instrument for reproducing...
Between Mars and Jupiter is a great swarm of their little brothers, the planetoids. About 1,000 planetoids have been seen 'with telescopes, although some, are less than 25 miles in diameter. All these planets and planetoids are children of the Sun.
The daily turning of most of the planets on their own axes is slightly wobbly, made so by the gravity of their satellites, or moons. Earth and Neptune each have one moon. Mars has two, Uranus four, Saturn and Jupiter each nine. All the moons, like their planets, are visible...
*Visible to the naked eyes of ancients were Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Although Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century B.C. had theorized that the planets revolved about the Sun, not until Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) did the World cease believing that they together with the Sun and...