Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs of any mass-execution sites. Some prisoners were lounging in the bleachers. But, Rauch noted, "there was not more than one-tenth of the people we had been told were in the stadium. When asked where the others were, the stadium commandant replied, 'Some prefer the sun, while others prefer the shade. Those you do not see prefer the shade...
...launched two cosmonauts, Vasily Lazarev, 45, and Oleg Makarov, 40, on a two-day orbital mission.) Regularly putting in 12-to 16-hour days despite their initial nausea, the Skylab 2 astronauts accomplished nearly twice as much scientific work as planned. They took over 100,000 pictures of the sun, earth and stars, collected enough data on the earth to cover 18 miles of magnetic tape, and performed so many other technical and biomedical experiments that scientists will be kept busy for years interpreting the data...
...months or even years before the 200 solar scientists working on the Skylab program can digest the information. But some important discoveries have already been made, particularly about the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere. During the mission, at a time in the eleven-year solar cycle when the sun should be relatively quiet, two exceptionally large flares suddenly appeared; one of them expanded over an area 17 times the diameter of the earth. Under the direction of Garriott, a solar scientist by profession, the awesome event was photographed and measured from the first minutes of the eruption. Their...
...WATSON AND SON, LEON REDBONE. Sun. Oct. 7 at Sanders Theatre...
...took over and tore the whole place down. Thus there are few surviving works of monumental size, but the smaller objects, dug out of the rubble of Tell el Amarna and now on exhibition in Brooklyn, testify dramatically to the marked change in style and approach that the young Sun King instigated. It was a new particularity - a King with a paunch, a courtier with a sullen mouth, a sensuous Queen. Even the beasts of the field were liberated from the frozen rhythmic frieze of an earlier time. The result was an art vivid as yesterday, eternal as tomorrow...