Auriga's wheel:caused by "a galactic collision in which a smaller galaxy plunges nearly straight through the center of a larger galaxy."
Hoag's Object Credit: HST
so where does that name come from?
alternative explanation: it was the slave who drove rich Romans around in their biga (chariot).
In Greek mythology, Auriga is identified as the mythological Greek hero Erichthonius of Athens, the chthonic son of Hephaestus who was raised by the goddess Athena. According to the anonymous writer of the composition Catasterisimi, Erichthonius was generally credited to be the inventor of the quadriga, the four-horse chariot, which he used in the battle against the usurper Amphictyon, the event that made Erichthonius the king of Athens. Erichthonius then dedicated himself to Athena and soon after, Zeus raised the Athenian hero into the night sky in honor of his ingenuity and heroic deeds[3]
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Measles epidemic in central Africa affected 100thousand plus, and killed almost two thousand.
This sounds a bit low to me, since often after they recover from measles, the kids die a few weeks later, either because their TB exacerbates or because the illness on top of malnutrition means they die of malnutrition (probably malnutrition related cardiomyopathy).
there is also cholera in the area. Sigh.
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The Iceman's "girlfriend" has been found.
Italian workers building an addition to a kindergarten have unearthed a well preserved female skeleton who might be relatively contemporaneous with Ötzi, the Iceman mummy discovered 20 years ago in a melting glacier in South Tyrol.
The "Lady of Introd" or "Ötzi’s girlfriend," as the skeleton was nicknamed in Italy, was found in the tiny Alpine village of Introd,
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PNoy's address yesterday said he will root out the culture of "Wangwang" (abuse of power by bigshots) and noted one example:
“In Pagcor, the previous management apparently spent P1 billion on coffee alone. At P100 per cup, that would be 10 million cups of coffee over the last several years,” the President said in one of the portions of the speech alluding to purported anomalies in the past administration.
“Where did all that coffee go? Who drank it? Perhaps we can find the people who consumed all that coffee and ask if they have been able to sleep in the last few years,” he added in Filipino, drawing laughter among legislators and VIP guests in the gallery
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