By devious ways over the past week I came to find a paper entitled The 1920 Shapley-Curtis Discussion:Background, Issues, and Aftermath, Virginia Trimble. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Vol. 107, pages 1133-1144, December 1995 1995PASP..107.1133T This paper discusses something called The Great Debate of 1920 wherein two astronomers, Harlow Shapley and Heber [...]
Where is that muscle?
I have discovered exactly where my hamstring muscle is, because I fell down last week. It’s kind of exciting because I thought that muscle was somewhere else, but the internet pictures all agree that it is the large muscle(s) on the back of the thigh. That’s definitely what I pulled, a large muscle back there. [...]
Teilhard de Chardin **
Well, I didn’t really want to write about him — and told someone I wasn’t going to — but he’s on my mind a bit, and I don’t have time to find another topic, because my novel writing is still overwhelming my imagination. The Pope commented on Teilhard de Chardin while he was visiting Mongolia, [...]
9/11, Morocco, and comets
I got a phone call at about 2 p.m. on September 11, 2001, from Georgetown Hospital. The hospital said that my son needed a blood transfusion, STAT. STAT I learned means right now and it would have been better earlier. I asked the hospital how I was supposed to get there, seeing that I lived [...]
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady
This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I'm open to correction. This was [...]
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