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  2. Nanjing 1937: A Love Story - Wikipedia

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    Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Chinese: 一九三七年的爱情; Yijiusanqi nian de aiqing) [2]: 115 is a 1996 romantic novel written by Ye Zhaoyan. [1] Originally published in Chinese by Jiangsu Art and Literature Press, it was translated into English by Matthew Berry and published by Columbia University Press in December 2002.

  3. Love number - Wikipedia

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    Neutron stars are thought to have high rigidity in the crust, and thus a low Love number: ; [6] [7] isolated, nonrotating black holes in vacuum have vanishing Love numbers for all multipoles =. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Measuring the Love numbers of compact objects in binary mergers is a key goal of gravitational-wave astronomy .

  4. Vega - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the Chinese name for Vega is 織女一 (Zhī Nǚ yī, English: the First Star of Weaving Girl). [117] In Chinese mythology , there is a love story of Qixi ( 七夕 ) in which Niulang ( 牛郎 , Altair ) and his two children ( β Aquilae and γ Aquilae ) are separated from their mother Zhinü ( 織女 , lit. "weaver girl", Vega ...

  5. Triangulum Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum.It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598.With the D 25 isophotal diameter of 18.74 kiloparsecs (61,100 light-years), the Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way.

  6. William Huggins - Wikipedia

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    Huggins was assisted in the analysis of spectra by his neighbor, the chemist William Allen Miller. Huggins was also the first to adopt dry plate photography in imaging astronomical objects. [2] With observations of Sirius showing a redshift in 1868, Huggins hypothesized that a radial velocity of the star could be computed. [5]

  7. Star Light, Star Bright (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story closes by stating that Stuart unknowingly has a genius "for wishing". The story describes a fraud known as the "Heirs of Buchanan", in which confidence tricksters approach people with the name "Buchanan" and offer them, for a fee, a chance to participate in the legacy of President James Buchanan , who is often believed to have died ...

  8. 33 (number) - Wikipedia

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    33 is the 21st composite number, and 8th distinct semiprime (third of the form where is a higher prime). [1] It is one of two numbers to have an aliquot sum of 15 = 3 × 5 — the other being the square of 4 — and part of the aliquot sequence of 9 = 3 2 in the aliquot tree (33, 15, 9, 4, 3, 2, 1).

  9. Dangerous Visions - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Visions is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by American writer Harlan Ellison and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.It was published in 1967 and contained 33 stories, none of which had been previously published.