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Brewer's: White Moon
(Knight of the). Sampson Carrasco assumed this character and device, in order to induce Don Quixote to abandon knight errantry, and return home. The…Moon Over Broadway
Directors/Editors:D.A. Pennebaker and Chris HegedusDirectors of Photography:D.A. Pennebaker, Nick Doob and James DesmondProducers:Frazer Pennebaker and Wendy EttingerArtistic License Films;…Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye played a spunky orphan in the popular TV series Punky Brewster from 1984-88. The show had an extended life in reruns, making Frye something of a pop culture icon for the '80s…Sun Myung Moon
Name at birth: Yung Myung Moon (Mun)Sun Myung Moon was the founder and leader of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, also called the Unification Church, a world-…Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon became Secretary-General of the United Nations in January of 2007, succeeding Kofi Annan of Ghana. A career diplomat, Ban Ki-moon has a professional reputation as a calm and efficient…New Neptunian Moons
In Jan. 2003, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the National Research Council of Canada announced that three new moons had been discovered orbiting Neptune…Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien
(Encyclopedia) Cyrano de Bergerac, SavinienCyrano de Bergerac, SaviniensävēnyăNˈ sēränōˈ də bĕrzhəräkˈ [key], 1619–55, French novelist. Satirizing the customs and beliefs of his time, he wrote two…node
(Encyclopedia) node, in astronomy, point at which the orbit of a body crosses a reference plane. One reference plane that is often used is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun (ecliptic).…synodic period
(Encyclopedia) synodic periodsynodic periodsĭnŏdˈĭk [key], in astronomy, length of time during which a body in the solar system makes one orbit of the sun relative to the earth, i.e., returns to the…halo, in meteorology
(Encyclopedia) halo, in meteorology, short-lived circles or arcs, and less commonly spikes and crosses, of colored or whitish light surrounding the moon or sun or in clouds as seen from above. A halo…Trending
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