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oldest and catalogues
Unfortunately, both the catalogues and volumes of this hand-written oldest edition of the bka ’-’ gyur & bstan -’ gyur are no longer available.

oldest and stars
So, as Poe suggested, the Earth receives no starlight from beyond a certain distance, corresponding to the age of the oldest stars.
The prominent open cluster Pleiades has been recognized as a group of stars since antiquity, while the Hyades forms part of Taurus, one of the oldest constellations.
However, greatly improved distance measurements to globular clusters using the Hipparcos satellite and increasingly accurate measurements of the Hubble constant resolved the paradox, giving an age for the universe of about 13 billion years and an age for the oldest stars of a few hundred million years less.
In Shinto, the 7 largest stars of Ursa Major belong to Amenominakanushi, the oldest and most powerful of all kami.
The Star Chamber, which takes its name from the lead stars on its ceiling, leads off the Great Hall ; it and the solar above — a private upper room that would have contained a bed — are the oldest remaining parts of the hall.
Famous sporting personalities are parodied as well, with the most famous ( and oldest ) coach in Blood Bowl's background being Tomolandry the Undying ( Tom Landry ), and one of the most recently added stars being the Ogre thrower, Brick Far ' th ( Brett Favre ).
That they were even possible was not even known until the discovery of PSR B1620-26 in 1993, which was not only the first binary system ( and multistar system ) found with a planet but the first found with a planet ( PSR B1620-26 b ) orbiting around both stars ( i. e. in circumbinary orbit, a circumbinary planet ) and the oldest known extrasolar planet.
He kept every puppet he made, so stars in one film tended to turn up as supporting characters in later works ( the frogs from Grenouilles qui demandent un roi are the oldest of these ).
The oldest globular cluster known at 14 billion years, its stars are resolvable in a medium-aperture amateur telescope.
Koshien Stadium is the oldest ballpark in Japan ; built in 1924, the stadium was once visited by American baseball legend Babe Ruth on a tour of Major League stars in 1934.
Since the universe must be at least as old as the oldest thing in it, there are a number of observations which put a lower limit on the age of the universe ; these include the temperature of the coolest white dwarfs, which gradually cool as they age, and the dimmest turnoff point of main sequence stars in clusters ( lower-mass stars spend a greater amount of time on the main sequence, so the lowest-mass stars that have evolved off of the main sequence set a minimum age ).
This number represents the first accurate " direct " measurement of the age of the universe ( other methods typically involve Hubble's law and age of the oldest stars in globular clusters, etc .).
His value for the age of the Universe was too short to reconcile with the 25-billion-year age estimated at that time for the oldest known stars.
It is the nearest subgiant star to the Sun and one of the oldest stars in the solar neighborhood.
The oldest observed stars, known as Population II, have very low metallicities ; as subsequent generations of stars were born they became more metal-enriched, as the gaseous clouds from which they formed received the metal-rich dust manufactured by previous generations.
Scientists have targeted these oldest stars in several different surveys, including the HK objective-prism survey of Timothy C. Beers et al.
Thus far, they have uncovered and studied in detail about ten very metal-poor stars ( as CS22892-052, CS31082-001, BD + 17 ° 3248 ) and two of the oldest stars known to date and also the oldest star: HE0107-5240 and HE1327-2326 and HE 1523-0901.
The term normally refers to the Michelin Red Guide, the oldest and best-known European hotel and restaurant guide, which awards the Michelin stars.

oldest and constellations
Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac ( the sun's apparent path ).
The Farnese Atlas is the oldest surviving pictorial record of Western constellations.
* The Farnese Atlas is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus
Among the most famous pieces is a vessel bearing inscribed images corresponding to what has been alleged to be the oldest Indo-European calendar, based on an Orion cycle, shown by precise sequence of constellations on a vessel found in an eneolithic mound in the very center of the modern town of Vinkovci.

oldest and are
The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.
It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.
Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.
Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world.
Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.
* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.
Probably the oldest, and most famous, list of axioms are the 4 + 1 Euclid's postulates of plane geometry.
The Poetic and Prose Eddas, the oldest sources for information on the Norse concept of the afterlife, vary in their description of the several realms that are described as falling under this topic.
In August 2012, two mites preserved in amber were determined to be the oldest animals ever to have been found in the substance ; the mites are 230 million years old and were discovered in north-eastern Italy.
Arrays are among the oldest and most important data structures, and are used by almost every program.
They argue that the oldest copies of this text family are likely to have been lost or destroyed over time with use, and therefore extant manuscripts cannot accurately date a text family.
The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.
There is scattered evidence to suggest that the oldest known astrological references are copies of texts made during this period.
Tricyclic antidepressants are the second oldest class of antidepressant drugs.
The oldest and most commonly used atomizers in AAS are flames, principally the air-acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2300 ° C and the nitrous oxide ( N2O )- acetylene flame with a temperature of about 2700 ° C.
History tells us that Out-of-home advertising and billboards are the oldest forms of advertising.
The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.
Some of the oldest pre-system sewage types are pit toilets, latrines, and outhouses.
Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges.
Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.
The oldest boats to be found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7, 000 – 10, 000 years ago.
The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.
The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

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