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Fall Equinox

The science and significance of the autumnal equinox The autumnal equinox is a sure sign of fall. Related Links Poetry for Fall The Seasons The Planets The Spring Equinox…

Ancient Greek Literature & Mythology

Poets, Playwrights, Gods, and Heroes   Read all about the fascinating world of ancient Greek mythology, drama, history, and religion with glossaries, lists, quizzes, crosswords, and more. You…

Brewer's: Bear

(A). (Stock Exchange), a fall, or a speculator for a fall. To operate for a bear. To realise a profitable bear. Bearing the market is using every effort to depress the price of stocks in…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 3

Part 3The sun and stars that float in the open air, The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand, I do not know what it is except that it is grand,…

New Planetary System

New planet has a mass 45 times that of Earth by Liz Olson Related Links 2007 Year in Review Roundup of Recent Science Milestones, 2007 New Planets and a…

Astronomical Terms

  The Milky Way, the galaxy containing our solar system, is about 100,000 light-years in diameter and about 10,000 light-years thick.   Aphelion: see Orbit. Apogee: see Orbit. Black hole…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Question

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of PanThe Two Spirits: An AllegoryThe Question Published by Leigh Hunt (with the signature Sigma) in "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1822. Reprinted by Mrs.…

nebula

(Encyclopedia) nebulanebulanĕbˈy&oobreve;lə [key] [Lat.,=mist], in astronomy, observed manifestation of a collection of highly rarefied gas and dust in interstellar space. Prior to the 1960s this…