Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment approaches, the squaw slowly draws the young brave into her. Now the first sunlight comes, a blade of white cutting the canyon wall across the way. The brave shivers and the squaw feels a mighty breath growing in his chest, and then a first cracked warwhoop escapes him and goes bouncing and echoing down the chasm...
...squaw leans back and rests in a bed of oak leaves. Standing at the edge of the clearing are her own brave and the keeds. Golden now in the newly created sunlight, they are obviously knocked out by the beauty of all their Merilee has accomplished. They must think she is a well without bottom...
...Nantucket, the "Diamond Ring Effect" should be visible. A thin circle of light, capped by one bright spot, surrounds the moon's black disc and creates the impression of a ring. About this time, ripples of light (the so-called shadow bands) may race across the landscape as sunlight is refracted by irregularities in the earth's upper atmosphere...
Several seconds before totality, a few pinpoints of sunlight will remain along the moon's edge, as lunar valleys allow the last modicum of sunlight to pass through. This phenomenon is generally called Baily's Beads, although astronomers here claim that a Harvard professor noticed the beads some 56 years before Baily...
...coro?-a halo that is 500,000 times fain??er than the rest of the sun. It is possible to study the corona without an ??clips by using a coronagraph-a met?? disc held in front of telescope to create an artificial eclipse. However, interplanetary dust and sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere obliterate the corona's fine details...