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The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be among the most spectacular. Because of the storm of 1833 and the developments in scientific thought of the time (see for example the identification of Halley's Comet), the Leonids have had a major effect on the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.
According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was not only his father's wife, but also his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas II to set her aside and take another wife.
The Leonids occur in November, peaking on November 14–15, and have a radiant close to Gamma Leonis. Its parent body is Comet Tempel-Tuttle, which causes significant outbursts every 35 years. The normal peak rate is approximately 10 meteors per hour. [1] The January Leonids are a minor shower that peaks between January 1 and 7. [9]
Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the Gulag; Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer; Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993), Soviet comedy film director; Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint ...
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Leonide or Léonide is a masculine given name which may refer to: . Leonide or Leonid of Georgia (1861–1921), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia; Leonid Berman (1896–1976), Russian Neo-romantic painter and theater and opera designer
The Orionids meteor shower, often shortened to the Orionids, is one of two meteor showers associated with Halley's Comet.The Orionids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion, but they can be seen over a large area of the sky.
The Leonid dynasty or Thracian dynasty produced six Roman emperors during Late Antiquity, reigning over the Roman Empire from 457 to 518. The dynasty's patriarch was Leo I, who was made Roman emperor in 457. Leo's daughter Ariadne became empress and mother to an emperor, and her two husbands were themselves each made emperor in turn.