Word: raschid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story which Harvard's peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley described as that of "a celestial Harun al-Raschid parading through the heavens in the raiment of a beggar" was related by him last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down...
...Harun-al-Raschid, onetime ruler of Bagdad, made a practice of going about among his citizenry in disguise in order that he might govern them more sympathetically. Of his adventures he told many a tall tale...
Like Harun-al-Raschid and the Mayor of Philadelphia (see p. 15), H. M. Carol II, Rumania's buck-toothed ruler, sorely in need of personal popularity, last week disguised himself and went forth among his people to see how his country was running...