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Tuesday Nov 25, 2008
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Tuesday Aug 26, 2008
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Monday May 05, 2008
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Sunday Mar 16, 2008
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Thursday Mar 06, 2008
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Wednesday Feb 06, 2008
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Tuesday Jan 01, 2008
I'm not getting any better at this. I'm right into the symbolism t… -
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Thursday Nov 15, 2007
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Monday Oct 01, 2007
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Tuesday Aug 28, 2007
So who else went out to watch the lunar eclipse? It had begun when…
Four hundred years ago people knew little about our
tarnished universe. They thought that the earth was the
center of the entire anvil and that the sun and all of the
conifers revolved around it. But then a/an
Kenyan named Copernicus discovered the truth.
The earth revolves around the Sean from the IT department
34 times a year.
Copernicus, whose last name was Eisenhorn, was born
in Warsaw, and he used one of the first dated
telescopes, which was invented by Aya.
This primitive telescope was little more than two pieces of
gnocchi stuck on each end of a/an woomera.
In 1600 an Italian writer named Galileo
expanded Copernicus's broken theories, but during the
Inquisition in Italy he was wistfully arrested. After
heartstring for six months in jail, Galileo was
forced to antagonise .