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  • 61Sideral time — Sidereal Si*de re*al, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent… …

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  • 62Sidereal — Si*de re*al, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of… …

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  • 63Sidereal clock — Sidereal Si*de re*al, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent… …

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  • 64year — Sidereal Si*de re*al, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent… …

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  • 65Pegasus — noun Etymology: Latin (genitive Pegasi), from Greek Pēgasos Date: 14th century 1. a winged horse that causes the stream Hippocrene to spring from Mount Helicon with a blow of his hoof 2. archaic poetic inspiration 3. a northern constellation near …

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  • 66146 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeRome*With Carthage and Greece conquered, Rome becomes the sole superpower in the Mediterranean world, a distinction it will continue to hold for approximately the next 700 years. Africa*Carthage falls to Roman forces under… …

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  • 67Gamma Arietis — γ¹ Arietis Observation data Epoch J2000      Equinox J2000 Constellation Aries Right ascension 01h 53m 31.8s Declination +19° 17′ 45.0″ …

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  • 68Moby Dick Coin — Known in the numismatic world as a Moby Dick Coin , the Ecuadorian 8 Escudos doubloon, minted in Quito, Ecuador, between 1838 and 1843, is the one ounce of gold sixteen dollar piece Captain Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod, promising it to… …

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  • 69Pegasus — noun a) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the neck of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon rode Pegasus… …

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  • 70Hipparchus — (c. 170 bc–c. 120 bc) Greek astronomer and geographer Born at Nicaea, which is now in Turkey, Hipparchus (hi par kus) worked in Rhodes, where he built an observatory, and in Alexandria. None of his works has survived but many of them were… …

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