Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At first, ornithologists speculated that the birds had hitched a free passage on cattle boats to South America. Now the prevailing theory is that sometime around the turn of the century-when they were first sighted in the Guianas-a single flock of the birds, migrating from Senegal northward, was...
The fabled Martian canals have never been photographed or even reliably sighted, Liller pointed out. He even questioned their existence on the basis of his own and other recent observations.
In his final pot-shot at the romanticists, Liller discounted the popular 1910 reports of the size and brightness of Halley's comet. He remarked that at least two comets sighted within the last ten years and hardly noticed by the public were probably as bright as or brighter than...
Recorders & Cummerbunds. By the June n starting date, the field had dwindled to five: Favorites Hasler and ChiChester, a black-bearded Welsh farmer, and a London doctor, who had equipped his boat with a portable dictating machine so that he could record his own "hallucinations." A confident Frenchman, author of...
The picture, taken by Minkowski with Palomar's giant 200-in. Hale telescope, was a dramatic symbol of a surge in astronomical science made possible by a far-sighted alliance between optical and radio telescopy. When Palomar's 200-incher was completed in 1948, no one expected it...