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What Do You Know About the Moon?

Welcome to a lunar odyssey! The Moon, our closest celestial neighbor, has fascinated humans for millennia. It's the only celestial body beyond Earth that humans have set foot on. How well do you know…

William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act III

Act IIIScene IBritain. A hall in Cymbeline's palaceEnter in state, Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten, and Lords at one door, and at another, Caius Lucius and AttendantsCymbelineNow say, what would…

Ruwenzori

(Encyclopedia) RuwenzoriRuwenzorir&oomacr;ˌwənzōˈrē [key], mountain range, E central Africa, on the Uganda-Congo border, in the western arm of the Great Rift Valley between lakes Albert and…

Raabe, Wilhelm

(Encyclopedia) Raabe, WilhelmRaabe, Wilhelmvĭlˈhĕlm räˈbə [key], 1831–1910, German novelist, whose pseudonym was Jakob Corvinus. At 23 he began to write novels and tales of village life; the charming…

syzygy

(Encyclopedia) syzygysyzygysĭzˈəjē [key], in astronomy, alignment of three bodies of the solar system along a straight or nearly straight line. A planet is in syzygy with the earth and sun when it is…

Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich

(Encyclopedia) Leonov, Aleksei ArkhipovichLeonov, Aleksei Arkhipovichŭlˌyĭksyāˈ ärkhˌyĭpôˈvyĭch [key], 1934–2019, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut and military officer. While serving as copilot of Voskhod 2…

Flammarion, Camille

(Encyclopedia) Flammarion, CamilleFlammarion, Camillekämēˈyə flämäryôNˈ [key], 1842–1925, French astronomer and author. He served for some years at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau of Longitudes…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act III, Scene I

Scene IEnter Pericles, on shipboardPericlesThou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges, Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,…

Eratosthenes

(Encyclopedia) EratosthenesEratosthenesĕrətŏsˈthənēz [key], c.275–c.195 b.c., Greek scholar, b. Cyrene. A pupil of Callimachus in Athens, he became (c.240 b.c.) head of the library at Alexandria.…

Goldmark, Peter Carl

(Encyclopedia) Goldmark, Peter Carl, 1906–77, Hungarian-American engineer, b. Budapest. He studied at the Univ. of Vienna (B.S., 1929, Ph.D., 1931); worked for a radio company in England (1931–33).…