Word: novas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ontario. For their part, the Conservatives have only one of 75 seats in the French-speaking province of Quebec. In parallel attempts to remedy that imbalance, Ontario-raised Turner is expected to run for Parliament from British Columbia, while Mulroney is expected to trade his safe seat in Nova Scotia for a constituency in his native Quebec...
Built in Spain in 1917 and refurbished in England 13 years ago, thew 117-ft. Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua...
...censors would not like a brief and effective message such as "Nova explosion Puppis shoot nightly using whole battery" followed by positional numbers and the word "urgent." That sounds subversive...
...made more than 300 vows, including celibacy, abstinence from alcohol and never to handle money, travel alone or ride in a vehicle. Even so, next month she will fly to New York City to lead a seminar on Buddhist meditation and raise money for a Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia. Abiding by Buddha's rules is not always possible in the modern world, admits Chodron. "It is often necessary to live by the spirit of the vows...
...Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most precisely matched by astronomical observations...