Word: phenomena
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...unexpected, however, Reagan's electoral dominance in 1984 ranks as one of the more improbable phenomena in the history of American politics. Who, even two years ago, would have bet that an intense conservative often accused of partiality to the rich would win a majority among voters earning between $12,500 and $25,000 a year? That the candidate whose presidency gave birth to the term gender gap would carry the women's vote by a thumping 57%? That the oldest President ever would reap 59% of the ballots cast by voters ages...
...King Stag has a meaning too. It ends when the magician Duandarte, like Shakespeare's Prospero before him, lays down his magic wand and returns to life among men and natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...
Supernovae, often considered the most awe-inspiring of all astronomical phenomena, also happen to be some of the rarest, as only six have been recorded in the last 2000 years. Yet, it is one of the few astronomical occurances that can be observed "by a man in the street or a Harvard undergraduate that happens to be around at the right time," says Frederick D. Seward, one of the world's experts on such phenomena...
Scientists who study such phenomena, however, are at a considerable disadvantage primarily because they are forced to rely on ancient Chinese and Medieval records for the bulk of their data...
Although the pulsars often emit weak signals, scientists use radio signals to learn more about them. Scientists also get data from recently taken satellite photographs of the phenomena...