Philosophy
Astronomy Festival will be July 7th to the 10th...Bryce Canyon National Park
If you will be or are in the neighborhood..."Bryce Canyon National Park will celebrate its dark night skies in July during its 10th Annual Astronomy Festival."Bryce Canyon National Park [Astronomy Website]Bryce Canyon National Park [U.S. National Park Service]Bryce Canyon National Park [Wikipedia]
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Nassau Astronomical Observing Station Saved
36" Warner & Swasey telescope "Cleveland Foundation donates $200,000 to Observatory Park" August 28th, 2013 The News-Hearld The Geauga Park District has surpassed the halfway mark to its $1.175 million fundraising goal of restoring and renovating...
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Monolith At Gardom's Edge
Designated Britain's first National Park in 1951, the area has two distinct landscapes. In the south are the gently rolling hills of the limestone White Peak. To the north, west and east are the wild, heather-clad moorlands of the Dark Peak peat bogs,...
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Daniel Cowan Jackling--bingham Canyon Mine
Daniel Cowan Jackling
August 14th, 1869 to March 13th, 1956
Daniel Jackling was an American mining engineer and metallurgist who founded the Utah Copper Company and with an economical method to process low-grade porphyry copper ores, below 2% copper....
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Ansel Easton Adams...photographer...naturalist
Ansel Easton Adams February 20th, 1902 to April 22nd, 1984 Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist whose compelling images of the American landscape were matched by his dedication to the conservation of those lands. His love began...
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Things Disappear
Amazing how some are stored in the memory or photographs long after the actual item is gone and one often wonders what happened to that object. Near me is Park University and had high on top of a hill an observatory that had been designated as the oldest...
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