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Named for Edwin Hubble, the great astronomer who discovered in the 1920s that the universe is expanding, the space telescope has a mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate it into electronic impulses and beam it down to earth at a prodigious rate -- fast enough to fill a 30-volume encyclopedia in 42 minutes. Moreover, the Hubble will literally view the stars in a new light: the space observatory can see ultraviolet radiation that fails to reach ground telescopes...
...1920s de facto apartheid was a feature of South African life. The poorest whites possessed something that the most prosperous blacks could never have: the vote. Subsequent governments flirted with Nazi Germany, then embraced liberal policies, but the racism endured. With all the warm pronunciations of President F.W. de Klerk, it prevails even amid the current talk of reforms...
Amateur Night was a tradition at the Harlem nightclub, the Apollo, and was at its height during and shortly after the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. It was a weekly talent show that featured Black artists, jazz and dance...
HOLLYWOOD: A NOVEL OF AMERICA IN THE 1920S by Gore Vidal...
Israel Sack, father of three sons in the business today, started his dealership in 1905. He found authentic pieces for the Fords and Du Ponts, who became major collectors in the 1920s. In time, their priceless collections were turned over to museums, where exquisite examples of Early American | furniture -- including the nine other Goddard-Townsend desks known to be in existence -- now reside...