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Most galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter (approximately 3,000 to 300,000 light years) and are separated by distances in the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs). For comparison, the Milky Way has a diameter of at least 26,800 parsecs (87,400 ly) [ 9 ] [ a ] and is separated from the Andromeda Galaxy , its nearest large ...
Northrop Frye was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1972. [22] In 2000, he was honoured by the government of Canada with his image on a postage stamp. An international literary festival The Frye Festival, named in Frye's honour, takes place every April in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Selenian / s ə l iː n i ə n / [27] is an adjective used to describe the Moon as a world, rather than as a celestial object, [28] but its use is rare. It is derived from σελήνη selēnē , the Greek word for the Moon, and its cognate selenic was originally a rare synonym [ 29 ] but now nearly always refers to the chemical element ...
Louisiana [b] or French Louisiana [c] was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
A shampoo label from the U.S. that shows a round metric quantity taking secondary status in parentheses next to non-integer U.S. customary quantity. Metrication is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a jurisdiction's traditional measuring units.
The 2007 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Telefónica 2007) [2] was a Formula One motor race, the fourth race of the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship, won by Felipe Massa.