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This idea is quite logical in the light of what we have heard from Einstein in former years. He has proved that light may come to us in a curved line. In a photograph of the sun taken during a recent eclipse, six stars were shown to be out of their ordinary places, and the explanation is (according to the theory) that the sun exerts an attraction to the light ray as it comes from the distant star, thus bending the ray, and distorting our visual conception of the universe. Thus it may be proved that no stars are where...
...after four thousand years. But nevertheless he was really only an interloper. Are not the "three stories" of Noah's Ark duplicated in three chambers of different levels in the pyramid? The entrance to the highest chamber, that of Japhet, according to Dr. Getsinger, points conveniently at the North Star just as it was indubitably intended to do when first built thirty thousand years ago when the earth was at the same point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic or spiritual animals of the Zodiac--for of course...
...Boston. But movements in the earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never hurries. But if we add yet another 30,000 years (a second cycle of the pole star) we should find that Pithecanthropus Erectus was posing in Java as the "father of us all" at about the time that "obviously and indubitably the ancients must have been infinitely more spiritual than ourselves and their power lay in their greater understanding of the universe and its laws"--to quote...
...regular Yard tickets will admit to events marked with a star below...
...most brilliant constellations of the northern skies: notably, Orion, Taurus, Gemini, and Ganis Major; but, if the skies of summer are less brilliant they are not less interesting. High up in the north is the "dipper", the catch figure of Ursa Major chased by the huntsman Bootes. The brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, found by following the bend of the handle of the "dipper" to the eastward. Arcturus is one of the few stars whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars", it is so far distant that with no telescope of any size however great...