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Primeval galaxies resembling the objects Elston found have been postulated by astronomers since the late 1960s. Most scientists regard the fact that he stumbled over the reddish sources of light within a randomly chosen tiny section of sky as evidence that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness...
Suddenly, at 9:50 p.m. gulf time, the crews in all three helicopters were startled by an unexpected sight: the reddish flash of tracer bullets erupted from the boats below. There was no doubt that the choppers were being fired upon. And there was no hesitation in their response. The standing orders on gulf duty are clear: When attacked, defend yourself. They did. Radioed one pilot: "We engaged...
...Zurbaran, living in Seville, never went to Italy and never saw an original Caravaggio in Spain, though he probably knew the copy of Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter, which had been praised by his teacher in Seville, Francisco Pacheco. The crucified Peter who materializes upside down in a reddish visionary fog to the entranced St. Peter Nolasco in one of Zurbaran's weirder paintings -- an astonishing prophecy of late Dali as well as an echo of Caravaggio -- must have been inspired by that copy...
...When we got there the windows were black and the frames were tan; they should be a murky reddish brown and a gooey brown," Riley said...
...scientists have puzzled over the calamitous plague of Athens, which decimated the ancient city-state between 430 and 427 B.C. As vividly described by the historian Thucydides, himself a survivor of the illness, the plague attacked suddenly, causing "violent heats" in the head, inflammation of the eyes and throat, "reddish, livid" skin, extreme diarrhea and high fever. Historians agree that the epidemic, which killed the great statesman Pericles, contributed to the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. But there is no agreement on its cause. Was it smallpox? Scarlet fever? Typhus? Measles...