Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
Like the Earl of Gloucester, the Cambridge City Council might have blamed the discord which besets the country on the late eclipse in the moon. For as the moon darkened in the earth's shadow Monday night, it took on a slightly reddish...
Edmund laughed at Gloucester, saying! "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune-- often the surfeit of our own behavior--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars." Those who subscribe to "Reducators" may be as confused in their thinking as Gloucester, but it's not so easy to laugh at their excellent foppery...
People on the moon will be unable to see the sun at 8:30 p.m. (earth time) tonight. Similarly, people on the earth will not be able to see the moon at that time. Turnabout is fair play, of course...
...reason for this phenomenon is the fact that there will be an eclipse of the moon at 8:30 p.m. according to several newspaper science editors. Semi-documentary movies now being filmed on the moon are expected to halt operations during the blackout...