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The Latin “sidus” (“siderum”) means more than just a “star”, encompassing also the sun, moon, and planets, as well as all the heavenly constellations and comets and meteors. [ 1 ] Conditor alme siderum is a seventh-century Latin hymn used during the Christian liturgical season of Advent . [ 2 ]
"The Circus of the Sun" is a poem by American poet Robert Lax (1915–2000). First published in 1959 by Journeyman Press [1] [2] it consists of a cycle of 31 short poems that tell the story of a traveling circus. The poem is included in the collections: 33 Poems (1987), Love Had a Compass (1997), and Circus Days and Nights (2000).
The other group contained the naked eye planets, which they called wandering stars. (The Sun and Moon were sometimes called stars and planets as well.) The planets seem to move forward and back, changing their position over short periods of time (weeks or months). They always seem to move within the band of stars called the zodiac by Westerners ...
In the Cornish dialect of English, a halo around the sun or the moon is called a cock's eye and is an omen of bad weather. The term is related to the Breton word kog-heol (sun cock) which has the same meaning. [5]
The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3] It was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry; the judges called it "a breathtaking record of biological, chemical, and spiritual entanglement." [4] It was a finalist for the PEN/Open Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. [5] [6]
A halo around the Sun or Moon is caused by the refraction of that body's light by ice crystals at high altitude. Such high-level moisture is a precursor to moisture moving in at increasingly lower levels, and is a good indicator that an active weather system is on its way.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History. The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor , "The Star". [ 1 ] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery , a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann .