Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice of the star was more appropriate than the ancients knew. Like the infant whose birth they symbolize, stars, by living and dying, enable whole new worlds to be born. Conceived in the frigid darkness of space, stars during their lives produce the elements that make life possible and sustain it. When they die, they sow these substances like seeds across the heavens. The elements eventually become part of new stars and planets. Thus in death there is rebirth...
...human beings are litterally star children. People−and all other forms of life on earth−are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. "All of chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars," says Astrophysicist Patrick Thaddeus of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. "With the exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear reactions within stars...
...discovered, stars are going through a continuous cycle of birth, life and death. Indeed, there are places where the observer who knows what to look for can practically see stars forming before his eyes. These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules in a cloud sufficiently close to one another that they...
...trying to answer the question Keegan dwells extensively on three famous battles, unified in space by about 100 miles but separated in time by five centuries: Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. At Agincourt a tired, hungry English band of about 5,000 archers and 1,000 foot soldiers met a French force of some 25,000 on Oct. 25, 1415. In Shakespeare's Henry V the English king naturally dominates the stage. Keegan is more interested in the ragtag soldiers and what sustained them: prayer, a hope of booty from French casualties, ransom for prisoners and plenty of strong...
...Kibbutz for Marty Peretz, more museum space for Seymour Slive...