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...Cambridge-based "New Voice Jazz Sextet," the rhythm and blues ensemble "Little Frankie and the Premiers," the sixties folk group "Battery Park," and the Caribbean band "Salsa Nova" played for the busy shoppers. For younger fairgoers, the fair featured Beep the Clown, pottery demonstrations, cotton candy, scooter rides and a merry-go-round...
...make Free-Agent Henderson, the Yankees' peerless lead-off hitter and champion base stealer, their first selection. (The new book by Veecks Owner Golenbock is looked at somewhat askance by his fellow owners. Newcomer Golenbock finished in twelfth place last season, 68 points behind Mark Starr's victorious Nova, and his lodge brothers wonder where he gets his expertise.) This does not necessarily mean the Veecks will sign Henderson; merely that as last season's last-place team, they have the right to kick off the action. The rumor is the bidding will open at a record-high level...
...until November 1572 that Europe joined the fraternity of distinguished supernova recorders. Although Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe was not the first to spot the new star that appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, he ensured that posterity would associate his name with it by writing a book titled De Nova Stella (Concerning the New Star...
...white dwarf's powerful gravity can draw gaseous matter away from its companion. In some cases, as the dwarf becomes bloated with its companion's substance, gravitational pressure triggers a fusion reaction in the captured gases, which are blown off in the explosion, resulting in a garden-variety (nonsuper) nova. According to Astrophysicist Branch, about 50 novas are observed flaring up each year in the Milky...
Bailyn uses the Register as a pair of binoculars to focus on the origins and destinations of specific people--like James Metcalf Jr., a 27-year-old Methodist farmer who left his native Hawnby, Scotland in 1772 to settle in a remote outpost of Nova Scotia...