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Stories: One of the landmark features of the hotel is The Oval Room. The Oval Room ceiling showcases a trompe l'oeil sky and cloud mural. According to hotel legend, John Singer Sargeant would lunch at the Oval Room while painting the Boston Public Library murals. Inspired by the grandeur that the room emanated, he joined the painters of the dining room's ceiling mural and added an angel. Unfortunately, 30 years later the hotel painted over the angel while remodeling. It is also rumored that Olympic gold medalist Sonia Henning, when visiting Boston, would often have the Oval Room...
...Over the last 20 years, the sky has been pretty (thoroughly) searched by amateurs," Green says. "Not a lot of comets have gone unnoticed...
...percent of comet reports are false alarms, he adds. "Since the Edgar Wilson Award was announced, many more false alarms have come up, to the point that a quarter of reports are not worth checking out, simply because the observer will say that he saw `something streaking across the sky...
...Like most other amateur astronomers, I observe the sky for the pure love and fascination of the universe in which we live," Williams says...
Forcum scampered to pass the ball deep into the Cornell court, hitting it sky-high and barely missing the scoreboard in the process...