Three years ago Halifax shoe-gazers Kestrels were gear-jacked during a stop in Montreal.
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And sky gazers around the world were treated to a rare sight, a blood moon.
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Plot out your destinations on a paper map beforehand, as cellphone-gazers attract skilled pickpockets.
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"Dozens," said Dr. Avnish Deobhakta, who saw once-happy sky gazers citing headaches and blurry vision.
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Instead, city officials are framing the influx of sky-gazers as a college graduation weekend — times three.
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Sky gazers will notice that a portion of the moon's face has turned dark as it enters the umbra.
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Amateur star-gazers can examine it with a telescope, and humans have stood on it several times since the 1960s.
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Taken as a whole, the show creates a "rogue's gallery" of Chinese faces, a room full of gazers interrogating their audience.
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But it is about a wellness retreat and a whole bunch of navel-gazers seeking an escape and some personal grounding.
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NASA is asking all cloud gazers to snap photos of the sky and share them with the space agency via an app.
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Friday's almost-full moon won't help sky gazers either; a bright moon can make the northern lights harder to see as well.
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On March 20, 193, sky-gazers will be able to see a celestial event known as the "Super Worm Moon," according to National Geographic.
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Luckily for moon-gazers, there is a full moon in Scorpio this weekend, which could be your chance to try out moon water for yourself.
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Whatever happens, other interstellar visitors are sure to follow, and professional sky gazers hope to find them with powerful new telescopes in the years ahead.
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Unfortunately for sky gazers hoping to catch a glance of this year's "Christmas comet," it will be very difficult to see, though you can try.
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In recent years, she has mostly stayed away from the windows, though she cannot completely avoid the oohing-and-ahhing window-gazers who block the sidewalks.
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We joined a long queue of eclipse gazers—families, bikers, young couples, old friends—linked on the path of totality, even if only for a few hours.
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By the time the group has grown to 15 sky gazers, about 40% of the by-passers will have stopped and craned their necks along with you.
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LONDON — Sky gazers from across the UK are posting photos they snapped Wednesday night during a breathtaking display of the northern lights, otherwise known as the aurora borealis.
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Conservationists — both then and now — said ceding that control would open the way for gazers, miners and other business interests to exploit land owned by the American public.
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The central-bank gazers had put too much weight on his views and not enough on those of other, more cautious, members of the ECB's 25-strong governing council.
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Some are warning of a "zombie apocalypse," as hordes of befuddled sky-gazers strain the resources of towns more accustomed to hosting pancake breakfasts than managing Coachella-size gatherings.
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Economic crystal-ball gazers are slashing their forecasts: on October 15th the IMF warned global GDP growth would fall to its lowest level since the financial crisis (see article).
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She has built a pair of terrific 11-letter stacks at the top and the bottom of her grid, opening with TRACTOR BEAM for the STAR GAZERS out there.
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It will make the moon appear unusually large when it rises and sets, and -- like most lunar events -- is sure to draw amateur star gazers around the world outside.
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For this week's eclipse, Schneider will be in Madras, Oregon, and Pasachoff will lead a group of three hundred gazers, including students and researchers, a hundred miles away, in Salem.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A blood-red moon dazzled star gazers across much of the world on Friday when it moved into Earth's shadow for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century.
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Nonetheless, future-gazers are right to warn that global warming has made some wars more likely than they would otherwise have been, and will make others more so in the future.
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In true Nochlin form, the chapter is shot through with the constant that we as viewers, gazers, are never neutral passengers in the framing and consumption of the depiction of women.
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From June 14 to 19, sky gazers can see a "beautiful line-up" of the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn, which will change each night as the Moon orbits the Earth, NASA said.
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FOCA, Bosnia (Reuters) - A meteor shower lit up the skies above eastern Bosnia on Saturday night, giving star gazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye.
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They are deemed "spoiled" and "entitled" navel-gazers who would rather stare at their phones than work — even though research from Pew suggests that millennials aren't job hopping any more than Gen Xers did.
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" The goal of the female gaze, as she explains it, is to explore how it feels to be an object, and then to turn that scrutiny around, so that we "gaze on the gazers.
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The Geyser Observation and Study Association, colloquially known as the geyser gazers, is a group that spends hours watching simmering geysers and recording their every sputter, pop and blast and posting the information online.
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Paul and Nadine Atkinson, a retired couple from Columbia Falls, Montana, were among the geyser gazers who had to view the eruption from a less ideal section of boardwalk to accommodate security for Pence.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - From Beijing to Berlin, star gazers around the world admired the supermoon - the largest, brightest full moon in nearly seven decades - as it made its way across the skies on Sunday and Monday.
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As the story goes, millennials are either lazy, entitled narcissists who are obsessed with their phones, or unemployable navel-gazers studying obscure branches of the humanities out of a misguided sense that they are uniquely intelligent.
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MITZPE RAMON, Israel (Reuters) - Thousands of star-gazers gathered overnight at one of the darkest spots in Israel hoping to be dazzled by the annual Perseid meteor shower, only to be left somewhat disappointed by the show.
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For years, sky gazers in Canada have been training their camera lenses on a wispy strand of purple light running across the country from east to west, sometimes flanked by neon green fingers that appear to wave.
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Grandview Campground, found at 8,600 foot elevation and more than 300 miles northeast of Huntington Beach, has no intrusive city lights making it a "popular site for star gazers and astronomy groups," according to the Inyo National Forest website.
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"I think that everybody should see this," said Miralem Mehic, a Bosnian from an international group of star gazers who watched the light show at the Sand Pyramids - an area of naturally occurring sand columns - near the town of Foca.
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We tried to find out what goes on in the mind of the modern museumgoer, unscientifically, by staking out the Met Breuer and interviewing nearly 224 art gazers over the course of two months, their pensive moments pierced by our questions as they peered at works.
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As much as anything, the gazers seemed stunned by the structure's grandiose scale at a time of diminishing public budgets — 7,000 tons of steel and 153,000 sheets of glass, at 238 million euros, or about $269 million, for the structure and $450,000 a year for maintenance.
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To top it all off, a few lucky sky-gazers in California even caught a glimpse of the Falcon Heavy's upper stage performing its final burn, hours after takeoff, putting the infamous Tesla Roadster on a course that will bring it as far out as the asteroid belt.
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Still, there's a chance the storm may not be entirely visible to any of these regions in the US. The ideal conditions for such an effect require clear and dark skies, which means that rural star-gazers will likely have an easier time spotting the lights than most city dwellers.
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Director Simon West (Con Air) found a glimmer of possibility in the material by casting Angelina Jolie in the lead — not just because she fed the lust of male gamers and gazers, but because she brought in some of the sly unpredictability that won her an Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for Girl, Interrupted two years earlier.
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The 2016 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas and James Albury started on January 4, 2016.
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The 2012 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas, James Albury, and Marlene Hidalgo, started on January 2, 2012. The show's episode numbering scheme changed several times during its run to coincide with major events in the show's history. The official Star Gazers website hosts the complete scripts for each of the shows. After February 2012, the old jackstargazer.
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Embreeville's other landmarks include the Embreeville Dam, Embreeville Mill, Pennsylvania State Police Barracks, Star Gazers' Stone, and Indian Hannah's grave. The Star Gazers' Stone marked an important astronomical observation point used by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in 1764 in surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which lies 15 miles south of the stone. It is also the location to a Pennsylvania state police station.
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In the first mile measuring south from their observatory they crossed Brandywine Creek three times. They moved the observatory to this point where they measured the latitude again and remeasured back to the Star Gazers' Stone. In May and June they again measured the latitude at Star Gazers' Stone. The southern point was named the "Post mark'd west" and the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was, after a delay, measured straight west from there.
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In addition to the weekly televised episodes of Star Gazers, anthologies of selected episodes from the series were released on four home videos. The titles of these episode collections were as follows.
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There have been 44 seasons of Star Gazers and the show has produced more than 2,200 episodes as of February 2020. Horkheimer's last season was 2010 and he had hosted 1,708 broadcast episodes before his death.
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The prophets scoffed at "star-gazers" (hoverei ha-shamayim) in and . Astrologers from Babylon were called Kasdim/Kasdin (Chaldeans) in the Book of Daniel. In rabbinic literature, the term Chaldeans later was often used as a synonym with those who practiced astrology.
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The 2018 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas and James Albury started on January 1, 2018. The episodes from this season were listed as being a South Florida PBS WPBT original production and were copyrighted to South Florida PBS, Inc.
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The 2017 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas and James Albury started on January 2, 2017. The episodes from this season were listed as being an original production of WPBT2 South Florida PBS and were copyrighted to South Florida PBS, Inc.
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Star Gazers' Stone located on Star Gazers' Farm near Embreeville, Pennsylvania, USA, marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line. The stone was placed by Mason and Dixon about north of the Harlan House, which was used as a base of operations by Mason and Dixon through the four-and-a-half-year-long survey. Selected to be about west of the then southernmost point in Philadelphia, the observatory was used to determine the precise latitude of its location. The latitude of the Maryland- Pennsylvania border was then set to be south of the point in Philadelphia.
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Hayes Mill House is a historic home located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is located nearly opposite the Star Gazers' Stone. It was built about 1780, and is a two-story, three bay, single pile stone dwelling with a gable roof. It has a two-story frame wing.
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Canisters which increase skills or add new abilities are scattered throughout the game. Geneforge 2 offers a number of changes and additions over its predecessor. Three new creations are available to players: massive Drakons; telepathic Gazers; and acidic, decaying Rotghroths. Several new spells are available, such as Kill and Aura of Flames.
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The Star-Gazers (1894), for example, was a three-volume "astronomical romance" for adults.XIX Century Fiction, Part I, A–K (Jarndyce, Bloomsbury, 2019). Having become the editor of Cassell's Magazine in 1870, Fenn then purchased Once a Week and edited it until it closed in 1879. He also wrote for the theatre.
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The 2015 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas and James Albury started on January 5, 2015. The show's episode numbering scheme changed several times during its run to coincide with major events in the show's history. The official Star Gazer website hosts the complete scripts for each of the shows.
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In 1994, Mystery Machine headed back into the studio to record their second album. Entitled 10 Speed, it was a shift from progressive leanings of Glazed. The bands love for English shoe-gazers like My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and Ride was becoming more apparent. The album was as commercially successful as Mystery Machine ever got.
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This minor planet was named for Dean Regas (born 1973), an astronomer at Cincinnati Observatory, responsible for science outreach activities and a national popularizer of astronomy. He is also a co- host of the prolific PBS show Star Gazers and author of Facts From Space. The approved naming citation was suggested by Fred N. Bowman and published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 January 2015 ().
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Dean Regas returned as host for the months of March and May 2011. In June 2011, Albury and Regas were named as permanent co-hosts. The September 2011 episodes ended with the announcement that the program would be appearing in October 2011 with the new name, "Star Gazers" and the new website stargazersonline.org. Marlene Hidalgo joined the program as its first female co-host in October 2011.
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At 21, Albury started as a recruit in University of Florida's Astronomy Program. He earned a bachelor's degree plus one year of master's work before being hired at the University in the Office of Academic Technology. In October 2011, Albury became the co-host of PBS television series Star Gazers. In 2020, he launched and became host of the astronomy series, The Sky Above Us.
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The vinyl features the band's cover of the traditional title track, as well as a demo version of their song "Happy Unhappy." "Happy Unhappy" was named 2018 Rolling Stone magazine song of the summer. In early 2019, the band undertook a tour of the UK and Europe supporting Death Cab for Cutie. Their second studio album Jump Rope Gazers was released in July 2020.
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1758 addition was also constructed of stone and measures by . A small frame addition was built in the nineteenth century. The Harlan family lived on site until they sold the property in 1956. In 1908 the Chester County Historical Society dug up the Star Gazers' Stone, set it in concrete, built a low stone wall around it, and placed a plaque on the new wall.
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The first definite reference to astrology in Rome comes from the orator Cato, who in 160 BCE warned farm overseers against consulting with Chaldeans,Barton, 1994. p. 32–33. who were described as Babylonian 'star-gazers'.Campion, 2008. pp. 227–228. Among both Greeks and Romans, Babylonia (also known as Chaldea) became so identified with astrology that 'Chaldean wisdom' became synonymous with divination using planets and stars.
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The Martian Star-Gazers is a humorous parody article first published in the American magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in February 1962. Written by Frederik Pohl, it appeared under the pseudonym "Ernst Mason". The article is written from the point of view of an anthropologist studying the extinct culture of Mars. Among the artifacts discovered by explorers from Earth were many items that resembled umbrellas.
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SkyWeek was a weekly astronomy television program created by Sky & Telescope magazine. The show was hosted by Tony Flanders, associate editor of Sky & Telescope magazine. Each episode of the program was released in one, three, and five-minute formats; and, the show's content and format were similar to that of another weekly astronomy program called Star Gazers. SkyWeek was carried by many PBS affiliates.
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On October 3, 2011, the program's name was changed to Star Gazers. The show's new opening sequence featured a new logo and new theme music done in an alternative/progressive/space rock style (like Muse). With the name change, the program's format was also changed to include two, and later three, co-hosts who appeared together in each episode. A new Web site for the show was launched as well.
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Tucked away in a valley below the majestic Witteberg mountains, Lady Grey is a hidden gem, a tranquil, rural village founded in 1858. Surrounded by soaring mountains, crisp clean air and gentle streams, a number of charming country cottages provide a cosy retreat for the weary traveller. Old buildings have been restored to attract tourists and relocators. Lady Grey attracts nature lovers, bird watchers, hikers, star gazers and fly fishing enthusiasts.
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The projector was the last (of 12) of its type that was built, and the last one still in operation in 2015. The Planetarium was the home of the national astronomy show Star Gazers with Jack Horkheimer. The museum and planetarium closed in 2015 in advance of the opening of the new museum. The dismantled Spitz projector is a permanent display piece in the new Frost Planetarium that opened in 2017 (see below).
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Today, Federal Hill Park captures one of the most iconic views of the Inner Harbor. The "great red bank of clay" is now a big green hillside, used by picnickers and star-gazers. Monuments commemorating history enhance the Park, cannons that once manned at Fort Federal Hill during the Civil War are featured, as well, embellishing the promenade that overlooks the downtown cityscape. Bikers, hikers and parents behind strollers are common in the park.
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The 2019 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Dean Regas and James Albury started on January 7, 2019. The last episode to feature Dean Regas and James Albury as hosts was aired during the week of November 25, 2019. The December 2019 episodes were produced only in the one-minute length format when production in the five-minute length format was discontinued. Trace Dominguez started hosting the program during the week of December 2, 2019.
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Under clear weather conditions, civil twilight approximates the limit at which solar illumination suffices for the human eye to clearly distinguish terrestrial objects. Enough illumination renders artificial sources unnecessary for most outdoor activities. At civil dawn and at civil dusk sunlight clearly defines the horizon while the brightest stars and planets can appear. As observed from the Earth (see apparent magnitude), sky-gazers know Venus, the brightest planet, as the "morning star" or "evening star" because they can see it during civil twilight.
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In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I feel) Pata Pata." In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul.
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At the dedication, Henry K. Harlan said that each generation of the family was taught that the Star Gazers' Stone had an important place in American history and that they should not move the stone.The Historical Society plaque near the stone is dated 1908, but Roby gives a 1931 date. Ecenbarger quotes the owner of the house giving the 1908 date. Natural Lands Trust, the region's foremost land conservation organization, now owns the stone as part of its ChesLen Preserve, which is open to the public.
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They then proceeded 31 miles west where they set up their headquarters for the project on the Harlan Farm in Embreeville and erected a stone as a reference point. The stone is known now as the Star Gazers' Stone. After doing additional observation and surveying work, they established the east-west boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. In August 1764, they ran a line from the New Castle Court House to determine the correct tangent point. From 4–25 September, they surveyed the north-south line down to the Middle Point Marker.
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As head of the Biophysical research laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Wolken received a project from NASA to develop a rocket-borne detector that could be used to search for signs of extraterrestrial life using microspectrophotometry with a series of focusing lenses that Wolken had developed. As part of his research, he proposed sending cockroaches into space, to take advantage of their eye nerves and their ability to see in the dark light waves that are invisible to human eyes.Cannel, Ward. "Star Gazers Call It Microspectrophotometry", The Owosso Argus-Press, May 16, 1962.
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Plaque on the Star Gazers' Stone near Embreeville, PA.Mason and Dixon's survey was the final step in the resolution of a border dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland that lasted over 80 years. From 1730-1738 a violent border conflict, known as Cresap's War, was fought between Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 1760 the Crown intervened, defining the border as the line of latitude south of the southernmost house in Philadelphia. The proprietors of the colonies, the Penns and Calverts, then commissioned Mason and Dixon to survey the newly established boundary.
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Danson, p.93 The surveyors fulfilled the second instruction by January 13, as recorded in their journal: The Harlan House, built 1724 The new site of the observatory was near marks that had been made by surveyors from New Jersey in 1730 and 1736. By February 28 Mason and Dixon had determined the latitude at Star Gazers' Stone by observing the eight stars. After making adjustments for the distance their observatory was south of Philadelphia, Mason and Dixon measured south to a point in Delaware by April 21.
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The 2020 season of the astronomy TV show Star Gazers starring Trace Dominguez started on January 6, 2020. Episodes of the television series are released on the show's website at the start of the month, up to a month prior to any episode's broadcast date. During this season, extra episodes (described as clips on part of the show's official website) were produced in addition to the regular weekly televised episodes. These episodes tended to be longer than the weekly televised episodes; although, the durations of these episodes tended to vary from clip to clip.
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Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, HH Dalai Lama, Rakesh Sharma, Julio Reberio, Shashi Tharoor, Raghuram Rajan, Suresh Prabhu, Piyush Goyal, Sreenevasan Jain, Karuna Nandy were some of the speakers/panelists who addressed the audience on Malhar Conclaves. Other festivals include Ithaka, Zephyrus, JanFest, Antas also showcase the talent of Xavierites A platform known as Mosaic, which is an inter-disciplinary, interdepartmental activity of exhibitions and poster presentations, has also been set up. Students also organize hobby clubs like the "Philately Club" and the "Star Gazers Club" to pursue their individual interests.
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They then proceeded 31 miles west where they set up their headquarters for the project on the Harlan Farm in Embreeville and erected a stone as a reference point. The stone is known now as the Star Gazers' Stone. After doing additional observation and surveying work, they established the east-west boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. In August 1764, they ran a line from the New Castle Court House to determine the correct tangent point. From September 4–25, they surveyed the north-south line down to the Middle Point Marker.
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Ilford is one of several rural New South Wales towns to initiate a farmhouse rental program, offering farmhouses for rent for $1 per week to attract new residents to the area. The Astronomical Society of New South Wales runs a property "Wiruna" just outside Ilford, which is one of the country's premier dark-sky observing sites, used by the society's members and guests. Each year since 1993, the Society has hosted the "South Pacific Star Party" there. This event attracts between 200 and 400 amateur star-gazers from Australia and abroad, effectively doubling the population of the region for the weekend.
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According to information given by the Wudjubalug clan, the dreamtime creator, Bunjil the eaglehawk man, was assisted in fashioning the world by the BramBram Ngul brothers, dwellers in the Naracoorte caves, who moulded men from a tree. One clan of the Wergaia, the Boorong near Lake Tyrrell, had accomplished star-gazers with a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. When William Edward Stanbridge took up grazing lands in their territory in the mid 19th century, he learned of it from them. Stanbridge described part of their system in a lecture delivered before the Philosophical Institute of Victoria in September 1857.
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How, then may eclipses be explained? Reeve says "whatever men have long declared concerning the eclipse of the sun, through the near appearance of the moon, you may understand that the true occasion of the sun eclipsed, whether in part or whole, is according to their appearing at a further or nearer distance unto each other." (7.49). "harken no more unto vain astronomers or star-gazers, concerning the bulk of the sun, moon and stars, for I positively affirm from the God that made them that the compass of their bodies are not much bigger than they appear to our natural sight" (7.33).
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The sculpture of William and Caroline in the garden. The garden has been restored in the style of a formal Georgian town garden, with cypress trees and a quince arbour, as well as native medicinal and culinary plants that would have been grown in 1794. A diameter powder-coated steel seed head by Ruth Moilliet represents Uranus's position in the 2005 Spaced Out model of the solar system, which spanned the UK with the Sun at Jodrell Bank Observatory. A sculpture of William and Caroline, named Star Gazers by Vivien Moudell, sits against the garden wall close to the entrance to the workshop.
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The campaign was criticised in Green Anarchy for its credulous if qualified endorsement of voting, accusing CrimethInc. of offering "a soothing middle ground" instead of outright rejecting statist mechanisms of control. In a reworking of the campaign's slogan, the magazine exhorted readers "don't JUST be active, WAKE THE FUCK UP!" Mark Andersen, in All the Power: Revolution without Illusion praised the initially empowering message of the campaign but criticised it for "a slide toward insular subcultural politics", drawing note to the recurrent phrases "tyranny of the majority", "living without permission" and "autonomy" which he claimed evinced an "esoteric, self-referential approach" which would turn acolytes into "radical navel-gazers".
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Burhenn went into the studio with Richard Swift in the summer of 2009 and recorded what would become the debut album from The Mynabirds. The band signed with Saddle Creek in January 2010 and released What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood to critical acclaim in April 2010. Anthony Lombardi described the record in PopMatters as "...a soul-purging, powerful statement of survival and self-assertion that stands head and shoulders above the current crop of navel-gazers populating today’s underground music scene." The Mynabirds supported their debut LP with more than a year of touring with Bright Eyes, David Bazan and Crooked Fingers.
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In an independently collected cognate tale, Gavida, Mac Samhthiann or Mac Samthainn, and Mac Kineely () are three brothers living on the coast of County Donegal, and across the strait on Tory Island lived Balor, who had one eye in front of his head, and another in the back, with the ability to petrify on-gazers. Among the three brethren Gavida was the smith, and his forge was at the Druim na Teine ("ridge of the fire"). Mac Kineely (who corresponds to Cian) was a lord of some districts and owned the coveted cow, the Glas Gaivlen, which produced milk aplenty. Balor receives prophesy from his druids that he was destined to fall by the hands of his grandson.
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Another form of the tale, involving the same actions of gazing into a mirror in a darkened room, is used as a supernatural dare in the tale of "Bloody Mary". Here, the motive is usually to test the adolescent gazers' mettle against a malevolent witch or ghost, in a ritual designed to allow the scryers' easy escape if the visions summoned prove too frightening.Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture (University of Kentucky, 2004). While, as with any sort of folklore, the details may vary, this particular tale (Bloody Mary) encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards, holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house.
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Star Gazers' Stone, an astronomical observation point, used by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon Embreeville Historic District Embreeville is an historical unincorporated community, little more than a rural stretch of road with a few businesses and homes, in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, inside a bend of Brandywine Creek. It is about west of Philadelphia, and north of Unionville. The Embreeville Historic District, which covers most of the town, is on the National Register of Historic Places. During the 19th and 20th centuries Embreeville was best known as the site of the county poor house and the Chester County Asylum for the Insane, renamed Embreeville State Hospital in 1938 and closed in 1980.
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According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to "descend to the Merkabah" one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the prophet Elijah in I Kings 18:42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees. This is the same prayer posture used by the Christian hesychasts and is the reason that they were mocked by their opponents as "navel gazers" (omphalopsychites). This bodily position and the practice of rhythmically breathing while invoking a divine name seems to be common to both Jewish Merkabah mysticism and Christian hesychasm. Thus the practice may have origins in the ascetical practices of the biblical prophets.
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In the ninth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus associates the appearance of the supernova with the youthful William Shakespeare, and in the November 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope, three researchers from Southwest Texas State University, Don Olson and Russell Doescher of the Physics Department and Marilynn Olson of the English Department, argued that this supernova is described in Shakespeare's Hamlet, specifically by Bernardo in Act I, Scene i. The supernova inspired the poem "Al Aaraaf" by Edgar Allan Poe. The protagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's 1955 short story "The Star" casually mentions the supernova. It is a major element in Frederik Pohl's spoof science article, "The Martian Star-Gazers", first published in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in 1962.
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Some gazers use a "palm ball" of a few inches in diameter that is held in the hand; others prefer a larger ball mounted on a stand. The stereotypical image of a gypsy woman wearing a headscarf and telling fortunes for her clients by means of a very large crystal ball is widely depicted in the media and can be found in hundreds of popular books, advertising pages, and films of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The pervasiveness of this image may have led to the increased use of fairly large crystal balls by those who can afford them. Books of instruction in the art of crystal gazing often suggest that the ball used should be perfectly spherical (that is, without a flat bottom) and should be supported in a wooden or metal stand.
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Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Foley Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. After his death in 2010 from a respiratory illness from which he had suffered since childhood, a series of guest astronomers hosted until 2011, when Dean Regas, James Albury, and Marlene Hidalgo became permanent co-hosts. In 2019, Dean Regas and James Albury stepped down from the program and were replaced by Trace Dominguez. On the weekly program, the host informs the viewer of significant astronomical events for the upcoming week, including key constellations, stars and planets, lunar eclipses and conjunctions, as well as historical and scientific information about these events.
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In what Dave jokingly referred to as the "Super Bowl of Love," Oprah Winfrey made her first appearance on Late Show—and her first on any Letterman show in over 16 years.Dave, Oprah bowl over game gazers from a February 2007 column in The Columbus Dispatch At the end of her appearance, Letterman escorted her on-air across 53rd Street to the opening of The Color Purple, the new Broadway show she was there to promote. The episode, the fourth-most-watched in Late Show history, was followed 14 months later by a Super Bowl XLI Late Show promotion that featured her with Letterman, each wearing the jersey of the Super Bowl team from the city with which they are associated.Dave & Oprah's Super Bowl of Love from the CBS Channel on YouTube In 2010, a Super Bowl commercial aired featuring Letterman, Oprah, and Jay Leno aired.
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This kind prince into whose hands I had fallen soon pointed me out an airy and comfortable apartment, from which I could, for the most part, exclude the noisy crowd and vacant gazers, when rest and retirement were demanded and yet enjoyed a sufficiency of air. What a privilege in an African town. About three, o'clock, after enjoying a little rest, I was conducted by the Daodu to the residence of his elder brother, the chief...W.H. Clarke, Travels and Explorations in Yorubaland 1854-1858. (ed) J.A. Atanda, (Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press, 1975), p. 114 One other noteworthy aspect of the career of Timi Lagunju was his attempt to implement Islamic code of law, the Shari’ah, as he understood it in the running of state affairs. One of his intentions in using the Shari’ah was to purge Islam of accretions, syncretism, and adulteration. His Shari’ah court was however presided over by Qadi Sidiq at Agbeni in Ibadan up till 1913.
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On 20 April 2006, Teitur's management issued a statement that he had dropped Universal as his record label following months of legal problems and creative differences, and from then on his records would be released on Arlo and Betty Recordings, a new label, run by his manager, and named after his two vintage Gibson guitars. His second studio record Stay Under the Stars, produced by Martin Terefe (Jason Mraz, Ron Sexsmith, KT Tunstall, Train), was released in May 2006 in Scandinavia on Arlo and Betty, licensed to the indie label Playground Music. After spending several months in the Danish Top-40, the album was released in the U.S. and Canada on 5 September 2006 on the newly formed Equator Records, and on iTunes on 8 September 2006 and Edel Records in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The songs circle around the question asked in The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" lyric, "All the lonely people, where do they all come from?" and are written in first person about characters such as hitchhikers, burglars, night shift workers, star gazers and a carousel attendant.
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