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Spotlight: The Search for Life in the Solar System

So How's the Europan Seafood? Even if life does exist on Europa, it is still too early to take up extraterrestrial ice fishing. Most likely, only very primitive forms of life would exist (microbes…

Origins of Month Names

January: named after Janus, protector of the gateway to heaven February: named after Februalia, a time period when sacrifices were made to atone for sins March: named after Mars, the god of war…

Tan, Amy

(Encyclopedia) Tan, Amy, 1952–, American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural…

Aijalon

(Encyclopedia) AijalonAijalonăˈjəlŏn, īˈ–, āˈ– [key], in the Bible. 1 Town, on the border between Philistia and Israel, the modern Yalo (Israel), NW of Jerusalem. In the Tell el Amarna letters it is…

Hudson, Henry

(Encyclopedia) Hudson, Henry, fl. 1607–11, English navigator and explorer. He was hired (1607) by the English Muscovy Company to find the Northeast Passage to Asia. He failed, and another attempt (…

Roche limit

(Encyclopedia) Roche limit, the closest distance that a celestial body held together only by its own gravity can come to a planet without being pulled apart by the planet's tidal (gravitational)…

DK Science: Rockets

SOYUZ LAUNCH VEHICLEHOW ROCKETS WORKSATURN V THREE-STAGE MOON ROCKETBIOGRAPHY: ROBERT GODDARD American, 1882-1945FIND OUT MOREThere would be no space exploration without rockets, but they are…

DK Space: Astronomy

WHEN DID PEOPLE FIRST STUDY THE SKY? WHAT DO ASTRONOMERS STUDY TODAY? TELESCOPESFIND OUT MOREAstronomy is the science that studies the stars and all the other bodies (objects) in space. The…

Movies and Film: A Century of Cinematic Splendor

A Century of Cinematic SplendorMovies and FilmFrench Film HistoryIt's Art, Stupid!A Century of Cinematic SplendorBefore the WarSurfing the "New Wave"The Eighties and NinetiesTen Fabulous French Films…

Eclipse Lit

Eclipse Lit by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Eclipses have played an important part in literature from the early Chinese poets to Milton and Twain.The astrological phenomenon known as a solar…