The actual speed with which the Earth orbits the Sun varies slightly during the year, so the speed with which the Sun seems to move along the ecliptic also varies.

The plane of the ecliptic intersects the celestial sphere along a great circle ( black ), the same circle on which the Sun seems to move as the Earth orbits it.

The intersections of the ecliptic and the equator on the celestial sphere are the vernal and autumnal equinox es ( red ), where the Sun seems to cross the celestial equator.

This latter point seems in particular to follow from the astonishing relation which the known six planets observe in their distances from the Sun.

* The “ Andesite Sun ” from the site seems to have been used as a sundial.

It seems that by the advice of the goddess Shapsh ' Sun ', Ba ‘ al has intercourse with a heifer and dresses the resultant calf in his own clothes as a gift to Mot and then himself prepares to go down to the underworld in the guise of a helpless shade.

While one could argue that Campanella was simply thinking of the conquest of the New World, it seems that this prophecy should be interpreted in the light of a work written shortly before The City of the Sun, The Monarchy in Spain, in which Campanella exposes his vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy.

Roger Ebert wrote a similar approval of this in the Chicago Sun Times stating " One of the most intriguing things about " The Vanishing " is the film's unusual structure, which builds suspense even while it seems to be telling us almost everything we want to know.

This part of Carrollton is documented as the location of " Rising Sun Hall " near the riverfront in the late 19th century, which seems to have been a building owned and used for meetings of a Social Aid & Pleasure Club, commonly rented out for dances and functions.

Saha gave this matter a great deal of thought and concluded that " It seems to be the general opinion of the astrophysicists that there is some sort of a repulsive force on the Sun which neutralizes the greater part of gravity.

Esteban seems to have a magical ability to make the Sun appear, which proves to be an invaluable asset throughout the series.

Obviously Reenan held firm and finally received his money — although The Sun seems to have got the upper hand by using a classic tabloid " cloak-and-dagger " tactic to ensure that their unwitting subject was not initially available for further comment after the story broke: " For four days we were walking around in the dark because the Sun advised us to draw our curtains and not to touch our mail or newspapers.

Early in his life, he seems to have been a follower of Sun Worship, becoming a patron of Shaivism and Buddhism later on.

) Baltimore Sun next-day reporting seems to credit the center for introducing the sport to Baltimore the night before.

The star is approximately 200 light years away and has a maximum apparent magnitude 5. 73, which seems to imply an absolute magnitude of 1. 75 and hence a radius 18 times that of the Sun rather than 350 times.

The term seems to have been created independently by both the developers of OpenBSD and the marketing team of Sun ; these usages both first happened in 1999.

With the release of her debut album, Music of the Sun ( 2005 ), Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times complemented the combination of dancehall and reggae genres stating, " Dancehall reggae sometimes seems like a furiously insular form of music, but ... Rihanna is only the latest singer to discover how versatile the genre's spring-loaded electronic rhythms can be ".

Kepler supposed that the motive power ( or motive species ) radiated by the Sun weakens with distance, causing faster or slower motion as planets move closer or farther from it.

Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the Sun and can be as large as in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope.

The Sun and the planets do not move in these parallel paths but along another circle, the ecliptic, whose plane is at an angle, the obliquity of the ecliptic, to the axis, bringing the Sun and planets across the paths of and in among the stars.

The move, however, was a strategic blunder, as it drew the ire of many warlords across the land, including Yuan Shu's own subordinate Sun Ce, who had advised Yuan Shu not to make such a move.

Another way to see this difference is to notice that, relative to the stars, the Sun appears to move around the Earth once per year.

However, he also favored another son by Consort Wang, Sun Ba ( 孫霸 ) the Prince of Lu, and permitted Sun Ba to have the same staffing level as the crown prince — a move that was objected to by a number of officials as encouraging Sun Ba to compete with Sun He, but Sun Quan did not listen to them.

This move was opposed by his son-in-law Zhu Ju ( the husband of Sun Xiaohu ), but Zhu's pleas not only did not help Sun He, but also resulted in his own death, as Sun Quan forced him to commit suicide.

Many other officials who also opposed the move, as well as officials who had supported Sun Ba, were executed.

With the move, the Sun became the first WNBA team to be owned by a third party instead of an NBA franchise.

In 2006, GAZ made a move on the LDV company based in Birmingham, England, and acquired the van maker from the venture capital group Sun European Partners in July of that year.

Lunisolar precession is caused by the gravitational forces of the Moon and Sun on Earth's equatorial bulge, causing Earth's axis to move with respect to inertial space.

As part of the move, the football program will begin a transition from FCS to FBS in the 2012 season ; it will play a full Sun Belt schedule as a " transitional " FBS member in 2013, and become a full FBS member, with bowl eligibility, in 2014.

Because of the Earth's annual revolution around the Sun in an orbit that is elliptical and tilted relative to the plane of the equator, an observer at a fixed point on the Earth sees the Sun appear to move in an analemma around a mean position, taking a year to do so.

One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.

Chiang Ching-kuo orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, for plotting a coup d ' état with the American CIA against his father Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang.

His father moved his family to France and then Germany while Sun Yat-sen was struggling against contentious warlords in China.

The path of the Sun is not normally noticeable from the Earth's surface because the Earth rotates, carrying the observer through the cycle of sunrise and sunset, obscuring the small motion of the Sun against the background stars.

This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.

The stormy barbarians with their brutal but honest Storm God struggle against the Lunar Empire, led by the imperial Sun God and devious Moon Goddess.

The Solar System's four gas giants against the Sun, to scale

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China and of the Kuomintang party praised the Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion for fighting against Western Imperialism.

He said the Boxers were courageous and fearless, fighting to the death against the Western armies, Dr. Sun specifically cited the Battle of Yangcun.

The merchants were supported by the foreign, western Imperialists such as the British, who led an international flotilla to support them against Dr. Sun.

The British Communist party congragulated Dr. Sun for his war against foreign imperialists and capitalists.

Rapga borrowed Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People doctrine and translated his political theories into the Tibetan language, hailing it as the best hope for Asian peoples against imperialism.

Musashi's father, Munisai, also fought against a master of the Yoshioka school and won 2 out of 3 bouts in front of the shogun at the time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki who granted him the title of " Unrivaled Under The Sun ".

Later that year, the Chinese armed forces, inspired by the republican ideas of Sun, rose up in insurrection against the Emperor across southern China, sparking the Xinhai Revolution.

Sun Myung Moon directed minister and civil rights leader James Bevel to form a protest by religious officials against the Chicago Tribune because of the newspaper's use of the word.

The motion of the Sun against the background stars ( and the horizon ) was used to create calendars, which could be used to regulate agricultural practices.

However, after a narrow 21-20 win against the Giants, the Cowboys regained their dominating form, trouncing the Arizona Cardinals ( who were playing their home games at Sun Devil Stadium ) 37-13 on Christmas night at Arizona as part of Monday Night Football, and then cruising through the playoffs with convincing wins against the Eagles and the Packers.

In the early 1980s, Sun Myung Moon lost a libel suit against The Daily Mail about the church's recruitment practices.

The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.

The distance to Vega can be determined by measuring its parallax shift against the background stars as the Earth orbits the Sun.

The mounting pressure from repeated defeat on the southern frontline against Sun Jian's forces drove Emperor Xian and later Dong Zhuo himself west to Chang ' an in May 191.