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Major stars included Florence Turner ( the " Vitagraph Girl ", one of the world's first movie stars ), Maurice Costello ( the first of the matinee idols ), Harry T. Morey, Jean ( the " Vitagraph Dog " and the first animal star of the Silent Era ) and such future stars as Viola Dana, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, and Moe Howard.
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Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.
For example, the asterism known as the Big Dipper corresponds to the seven brightest stars of the larger IAU constellation of Ursa Major.
However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.
These stars form the Ursa Major moving group.
Just as Arcas was about to kill his own mother with his javelin, Jupiter averted the tragedy by placing mother and son amongst the stars as Ursa Major and Minor, respectively.
The stars of Ursa Major were all circumpolar in Athens of 400 BCE, and all but the stars in the Great Bear's left foot were circumpolar in Ovid's Rome, in the first century CE.
Several of the brightest stars in the ' Plough ' of Ursa Major are former members of an open cluster which now form such an association, in this case, the Ursa Major moving group.
Most of the stars in the Big Dipper are members of a former open cluster, the Ursa Major Moving Group, and have similar proper motions.
The seven brightest stars of Ursa Major form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
A few other such stars have been identified, and together they are called the Ursa Major Moving Group.
In Hinduism, Ursa Major is known as Saptarshi, each of the stars representing one of the Saptarshis or Seven Sages viz.
In Burmese, Pucwan Tārā ( pronounced " bazun taja ") is the name of a constellation comprising stars from the head and forelegs of Ursa Major ; pucwan is a general term for a crustacean, such as prawn, shrimp, crab, lobster, etc.
In Shinto, the 7 largest stars of Ursa Major belong to Amenominakanushi, the oldest and most powerful of all kami.
Polaris can also be found by following a line through the two stars that form the end of the " bowl " of the Big Dipper, a nearby asterism found in the constellation Ursa Major.
During the early 1940s World War II had an enormous impact on Major League Baseball as many players including many of the most successful stars joined the war effort.
The arrangement of the brightest stars is somewhat similar to Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
In Book 18 of the Iliad the stars of the Hyades appear along with the Pleiades, Ursa Major, and Orion on the shield that the god Hephaistos made for Achilles.
Some stars within the far northern constellations, such as Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor, roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer (+ 23½ °), will be circumpolar stars that never rise or set.
It may be a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group of stars that share a similar motion through the Milky Way, implying these stars shared a common origin in an open cluster.
The velocity and heading of this star indicates that it may be a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group of stars that share a common motion through space.
The book brings pressure on Major League Baseball to recognize the African-American players from Negro league baseball by honoring its stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Major equipment included over 140 main battle tanks, 600 reconnaissance vehicles, over 320 armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, 298 howitzers carriers.
Major new features in AIX 6. 1 included full role-based access control, workload partitions ( which enable application mobility ), enhanced security ( Addition of AES encryption type for NFS v3 and v4 ) and Live Partition Mobility on the POWER6 hardware.
In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.
Major battles included the Battle of the Somme.
Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:
" Major categories included:
In classical times, they were included by Ptolemy within the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.
Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.
Major new features included the new Explorer shell from Windows 95, scalability and feature improvements to the core architecture, kernel, USER32, COM and MSRPC.
Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter-terrorism police ( Major General Raouf Khayrat ), a parliamentary speaker ( Rifaat al-Mahgoub ), dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police.
This included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and which was subsequently distributed to both countries, having been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.
Major serials included the following:
Major changes during the Oligocene included a global expansion of grasslands, and a regression of tropical broad leaf forests to the equatorial belt.
Major acts included Ride, Lush, Chapterhouse, and The Boo Radleys, who enjoyed considerable attention in the UK, but largely failed to break through in the US.
* Major sporting events cancelled in the North America included:
Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.
In 1872, four monastic officials from Tibet arrived in Tawang and supervised a boundary settlement with Major R. Graham, NEFA official, which included the Tawang Tract as part of Tibet.
Major cities with a Green presence were spread throughout the country and included Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, and Washington, DC.
Major League Baseball expansion in 1961 included the formation of the Los Angeles Angels, the move to Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins by the former Washington Senators and the formation of a new franchise called the Washington Senators.
Within a week, however, he was giving his first sermon to a congregation that included his old teacher, John Major.
Major battles fought on territory in Upper Canada included ;
During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition ( on Turn of the Tides ), Largo ( from Xerxes ) ( on Tyranny of Beauty ), Symphony in A Minor ( by J. S. Bach ), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) ( both on Ambient Monkeys ).
Major historic sites of mining in the Belt included Central City in the Front Range, west of Denver ( 4. 2 million troy ounces ( 131 t ) of gold 1859-1960 ).
Major cash crops included cotton, cashews, tea and rice.
Major corporations in the 19th and early 20th centuries included the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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