Word: novas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since supernovae result from stars already shining for millions of years, the Latin term nova (new) is rather a misnomer that stems from Tycho Brahe's 1572 naked-eye study of an exploding star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Ever since the irascible Danish astronomer- detailed his observation in De Nova Stella ("Concerning the New Star"), scientists have been stuck with the term nova...
...year. The result was devastating: in all, ten commercial banking institutions run about 900 main banks and branches; all these were forced to shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still open in all the Irish Republic. Beyond that, while Ulstermen may not ordinarily feel friendly toward the Irish Republic, apparently Northern Ireland's bank clerks are sympathetic to their compeers there. Result: more than half of Northern Ireland's 401 banks and branches also shut down...
...Senatorial fight, are classic. Who could ever forget that breakfast in Scarsdale when "a couple of hundred women, all wearing suits, all with fresh hairdos, sang 'We've got a wonderful feeling / Keating is is going to stay'" and then dived into toasted bagels covered with cream cheese and Nova Scotia salmon...
...responsible for the orgy of War Horses--classical music other stations might play, but which WHRB would never touch on a regular show--Beethoven's Fifth, perhaps the Ninth, Dvorak's New World Symphony, and "almost all of Tchaikovsky." Other members offer orgies of "Mothers Day request music," Bossa Nova, Muddy Waters, Mozart, or "Music in E flat...
...Kelleher added. Dunn's life work is a literary history of the 12th century. He has divided his research between medieval literature and modern Celtic folk cultures. Besides a number of articles and translations. Dunn has written two full books: Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia and The Foundling and the Werwolf: A Literary-Historical Study of Guiliamume de Palerne...