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The COOL Award name is an acronym, standing for Canberra’s Own Outstanding List. The ACT Public Library currently convenes the awards and they are administered by a committee representing ACT Government, Catholic and Independent Schools, the ACT Public Library and the Children's Book Council of Australia, ACT Branch. [ 1 ]
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Gregory Kolovakos Award – PEN America : U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic whose work ... extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience; PEN Translation Prize – awarded annually for a translation from any language into English.
Most such names are derived from the Arabic language (see List of Arabic star names § History of Arabic star names). Stars may have multiple proper names, as many different cultures named them independently. Polaris, for example, has also been known by the names Alruccabah, Angel Stern, Cynosura, the Lodestar, Mismar, Navigatoria, Phoenice ...
Stars as sentient beings, in one form or another, is a recurring theme. [1] [2] [3] [27] Anthropomorphized, thinking stars appear in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker and Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson's Starchild trilogy consisting of the 1964 novel The Reefs of Space, the 1965 novel Starchild, and the 1969 novel Rogue Star.
The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .
Canberra Raiders: Canberra: Canberra ... North Canberra Bears; University of Canberra Stars; Group 9 Rugby League ... Team name Nickname Home ground Beenleigh: Pride
In 2012 the Archives became an incorporated body in the ACT and a Board was established. A Deed of Agreement [2] was signed transferring the responsibility for the Archives to the new Board. In October 2015, the Lu Rees Archives changed their name to the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature Inc. [3]