Word: sky
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last time they may be expected for thirty-three years, and ample preparations have been made at the Observatory to cover the entire field of the shower. Four cameras have been mounted on a platform moved by clockwork so that they will cover the same sixty degrees of the sky, throughout the entire shower. Six other instruments will be in use for determining the spectrum, magnitude and distance of the Leonids, and the radiant from which they come...
...Paul Revere Frothingham followed Dr. Peabody. No history goes back far enough, he said, to a time when men were not worshipping some God or higher power outside themselves. There has been the religion ot outward mysticism, that worshipped the woods and sky and stars and sea, because they were vast and awful and unknown, and there has been the religion of introspection, of brooding over the mysteries of men's own souls; and lastly there has been the religion of work. This is the religion of which Jesus spoke when he said: "My Father worketh hitherto and I work...
Knock the baseball sky high...
...Egyptians believed that the soul remained with the body after death, and so invented a means of preserving the body. In the Odyssey we hear of the souls inhabiting a region of shadowy caves beneath the earth, and again of the souls of heroes, placed in the sky above with the Gods. Another conception is that the soul is a shadowy double of the man, which lingers with his remains after death, or, according to Plato, it is the true self, imprisoned in the body during life, and freed from it at death. All these conceptions are represented...
...instrument is moved on an axis parallel to the earth and regulated by clock work in such a way that the distance the earth moves to the East is neutralized by the motion of the telescope in the opposite direction. By the eight inch Draper telescope the entire sky is photographed several times a year; the Cook lens takes a photograph of the sky every two weeks; and the photometer takes a similar photograph, with a short exposure every night...