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...George H. Herbig of Lick Observatory took a photograph of a small area in the Orion nebula, which is 1,600 light years (9,600 trillion miles) away from the earth. It showed three faint stars embedded in a cloud of dust and gas. At last week's Dublin meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Dr. Herbig displayed a recent picture of the same region. The picture showed five stars, two of which may be newborn. The light from the new stars, of course, took 1,600 years to reach the earth, so the stars were actually born about...
...taking advantage of Britain's preoccupation with the coming World War II, the I.R.A. sought to revive the issue of partition by launching hundreds of terrorist bombings in Manchester and London. Britain protested vigorously to Eire, and a year later, following a pitched battle in the streets of Dublin, the Irish Republican government clamped down on the I.R.A., imprisoned several hundred of its leaders and executed two for murder...
...heavy cases into a vacant building. Detectives quietly swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...
...worst: the crash of a C124 Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953, killing 129 U.S. servicemen. In 1952, another C124 fell in the state of Washington, killing 87. In 1950, a British commercial Avro Tudor V, carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Dublin, crashed at Cardiff, killing...
Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...