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...lecture hall of Building D at the Harvard Observatory, the entrances to which are on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and at 60 Garden Street opposite Linnean. If the weather permits, those attending the program will be given the opportunity to make telescopic observations of celestial bodies. The planet Saturn will be one of the particular objects of study...
...weather permits, anyone so desiring may learn of the secrets of the heavens through the telescope at the Observatory. Saturn, the ringed planet, will be an object of special interest to amateur investigators...
Asteroids are members of the solar system, revolving about the sun in orbits between Mars and Saturn and hence visible the greater part of the time. Comets on the other hand, follow ellipse-shaped orbits of great size, entering the solar system only at intervals of years. The fact that Hidalgo has not been seen since 1921 tends to show that it is a comet, but further observations will be necessary before this conclusion can be definitely established...
...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...
...when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from the capital to a village near a church he had decorated with court characters and street walkers. Nearly blind as well as deaf, Goya produced another series of fantastic etchings, painted a Saturn devouring his children. Ferdinand, who was trying to restore the Inquisition's power, was glad when Goya asked leave...