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Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Watchman's Adventure
What Happened to the CouncillorA Moment of Head Importance - ...The Watchman's Adventure "Why, there is a pair of galoshes, as sure as I'm alive!" said the watchman, awaking from a gentle…ring, in astronomy
(Encyclopedia) ring, in astronomy, relatively thin band of rocks and dust and ice particles that orbit around a planet in the planet's equatorial plane. All four of the giant planets in the solar…Pluto, in astronomy
(Encyclopedia) Pluto, in astronomy, a dwarf planet and the first Kuiper belt, or transneptunian, object (see comet) to be discovered (1930) by astronomers. Pluto has an elliptical orbit usually lying…Cassini-Huygens (U.S., the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency)
Destination: Saturn. Launched: Oct. 15, 1997. Arrival: July 1, 2004. Mission: To orbit Saturn for four years. The Cassini-Huygens mission is named for the Italian-French astronomer Jean…The Smaller Satellites
ProteusLarissaDespinaGalateaThalassaNaiadNew Neptunian MoonsNeptune's Rings In addition to the previously known moons, Triton and Nereid, Voyager 2 found 6 satellites in 1989. In 2003,…The Uranian Rings
Voyager 2 also expanded the body of information pertaining to the rings and moons of Uranus. Voyager's cameras obtained the first images of 9 previously known narrow rings and discovered at…Aitareya-Aranyaka: Second Aranyaka, First Adhyâya, Seventh Khanda
Seventh Khanda1. Next follow the powers of that Person.2. By his speech earth and fire were created.Herbs are produced on the earth, and Agni (fire) makes them ripe and sweet. “Take this,…Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Cradle Endlessly RockingOut of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the…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…Amy Lowell: A Little Song
A Little SongWhen you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night Starts another year of candle light. O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon…Trending
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