Cerberus, or Kerberos, in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound (usually three-headed) which guards the gates of The Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping. Read more
Amandla - Festival of Unity - was a world music festival held at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1979. The goals of the concert were to support and celebrate the liberation of Southern Africa as well as the on-going efforts of people in Boston to end racism in their families, scho...
Milan Rastislav tefánik (July 21, 1880 in Koariská (Kosaras), Kingdom of Hungary - May 4, 1919 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer. Read more
Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 - July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669-70, for which he i...
On July 20, 1999, the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing and one day shy of the 38th anniversary of Mercury 4's suborbital flight, a team led by Curt Newport and financed by the Discovery Channel, Oceaneering International, Inc. lifted the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft off the floor of the At...
A cave once believed to be the den of two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may instead have been a burial site for natives who lived in the area, scientists said. The cave was discovered by Lt Col John H Patterson months after the lions began attacking workers who were buildin...
Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Xi_b0). This particle contains three quarks: a strange qua...
Bristol physicists break 150-year-old law A violation of one of the oldest empirical laws of physics has been observed by scientists at the University of Bristol. Their experiments on purple bronze, a metal with unique one-dimensional electronic properties, indicate that it breaks the Wiedema...
Specialists in high precision optics Optical Surfaces Ltd produces extremely durable coated mirrors up to 600 mm in diameter for use with high-power femtosecond lasers in applications that include plasma physics, laser manufacturing, and telecommunications.
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Free binoculars offer new view of Great Falls Get a load of the view from Warden Park in Great Falls through a new public telescope and pair of binoculars. The equipment may not rival the many telescopes found at Mount Rushmore or the Empire State Building, but the telescope and binoculars in Warden Pa...
A PicoSat, has been deployed from a canister in the shuttle cargo bay of the Space shuttle Atlantis (STS-135). The a small, eight-pound, 5" X 5" X 10" technology demonstration satellite will relay data back to investigators on the performance of its own solar cells for analysis and...
Title: Two New Cataclysmic Variables in Lyra Authors: D. V. Denisenko I report on the discovery of two cataclysmic variables in the same field in Lyra originally identified from their magnitudes in USNO-B1.0 catalogue and Palomar images. The historical light curves were analysed on 300+ photogr...
On July 21, 1969, after landing in the Moon's Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag and spent almost three hours exploring the lunar terrain. The Moon's airless, inert surface should preserve their footprints and equipment for millions o...
Jean-Henri Focas (20 July 1909 - 3 January 1969) was a Greco-French astronomer. In Greek he was known as Ioannis Focas. He worked at the Pic du Midi Observatory, investigating the surface features of Mars using visual and photographic techniques. The lunar crater Focas and a crater on Mars were name...
