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The plaque is made of bronze, and is a star set in a circle with a blue background, and the words " SHEFFIELD LEGEND " GORDON BANKS OBE.
* Marie Kendall the famous music hall star has a plaque at her former and last home at Okeover Manor Clapham Common.
The pace-car replicas had special Medium Gulf Blue Metallic paint, unique " Sparkle Silver " 16-inch torque star aluminum wheels, custom decaling, a plaque notating the specific model number and custom door panels.
The first star to have a plaque was Madonna, on 1 August 2006.
Canadian music star Bryan Adams unveiled his plaque on 10 May 2007, just before his 25th appearance at the venue.
The star or plaque of the order consists of an eight-pointed silver star with straight rays, with a gold Maltese cross, enamelled in red with white enamel outline and with golden palmette-like rays between the arms, superimposed upon it.
The plaque of the Order is an eight-pointed faceted silver star for the Grand Cordon class, and a silver faceted Maltese Cross with straight rays between the arms for the Grand Officer class.
In orders following the example set by the French Legion of Honour, the two highest classes also wear a star ( or ' plaque ') on the chest.
The exhibition, in the ground-floor Local History Room, includes his trademark gold bentwood chair, a plaque from the star dressing room at the London Palladium, trophies, gifts and souvenir programmes.
A wall plaque on a modern building and a star surrounded by four horseshoes installed in the sidewalk mark the location of Custer's headquarters and the " Custer Maple ," a prominent tree used by the boy general to tether his horse.
In May 2008, Cedric the Entertainer received the first star and plaque located in the City of St. Louis portion of the loop.
* The plaque of the civil division of the Order is ( for Grand Cross ) an eight-pointed faceted silver star, or ( for Grand Officer ) a faceted silver Maltese Cross with silver rays between the arms.
Tony Curtis, then unknown, was assigned to escort Gibson and Blythe to the premier at the Academy Award Theater at the Academy's then-headquarters on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, where The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce gave each silent star a plaque “ for your outstanding contribution to the art and science of motion pictures, for the pleasure you have brought to millions over the world, and for your help in making Hollywood the film capital of the world .”

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Asteroids ( from Greek ἀστεροειδής-asteroeidēs, " star-like ", from " star " and " like, in form ") are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun.
Hevelius chose the name Asterion ( from the Greek ' αστέριον, meaning the " little star ", the diminutive of ' αστηρ the " star ", or adjective meaning " starry ") for the northern dog and Chara ( from the Greek χαρά, meaning " joy ") for the southern dog, as Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, in his star atlas.
These romantic dramas had the female star ( the " diva ") suffering from unhappy love, and striking endless anguished Art Nouveau poses, while surrounded by male admirers and luxury.
Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for " morning star ", lucifer, as a proper name (" Lucifer ") for Satan as he was before his fall.
But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.
" blazing star ") may correspond to the morning star ( He.
Reportedly, the medium's first major African-American star George Washington Johnson was obliged to perform his " The Laughing Song " ( or the separate " Laughing Coon ") literally thousands of times in a studio during his recording career.
There, the bones of St. James the Great were proclaimed to have been found in Compostela ( from Latin campus stellae, literally " the star field ") inside Galicia.
He was given the surname Bar Kokhba ( Aramaic for " Son of a Star ", referring to the Star Prophecy of, " there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab ") by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.
Honor Blackman became a star in Britain with her black leather outfits and boots ( nicknamed " kinky boots ") and her judo-based fighting style.
In January 1966, Eastwood met producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agreed to star in a non-western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe (" The Witches ") opposite De Laurentiis ' wife, actress Silvana Mangano.
) The vernal equinox itself precesses slowly westward relative to the fixed stars, completing one revolution in about 26, 000 years, so the misnamed sidereal day (" sidereal " is derived from the Latin sidus meaning " star ") is some 0. 008 seconds shorter than the Earth's period of rotation relative to the fixed stars.
The word astronomy ( from the Greek words astron ( ἄστρον ), " star " and-nomy from nomos ( νόμος ), " law " or " culture ") literally means " law of the stars " ( or " culture of the stars " depending on the translation ).
A few months later, on 20 May 1807, King Louis ( now called " Lodewijk ") altered these arms, adding a helmet, leaving out his brother ’ s star and replacing the Grand Aigle with his own Dutch Order of the Union and the old Dutch devise Eendracht maakt macht (" Unity makes strength ") around the shield.
The " board " for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity ( or " star ") seated at a desk and facing the contestants.
An asterisk (*; Late, from, asteriskos, " little star ") is a typographical symbol or glyph.
When the astrolabe is held vertically, the alidade can be rotated and the sun or a star sighted along its length, so that its altitude in degrees can be read (" taken ") from the graduated edge of the astrolabe ; hence the word's Greek roots: " astron " ( ἄστρον )

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Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.
Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.
Because of its simplicity, star hopping is a very common method for finding objects that are close to naked-eye stars.
It is common for local societies to hold regular meetings, which may include activities such as star parties or presentations.
Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.
The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogues, which gave astronomers reference points for objects in the sky so they could track their movements.
The observations show that the cloud is asymmetrical and matches the pattern of X-ray binaries ( binary star systems containing black holes or neutron stars ), mostly on one side of the galactic center.
* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )
* α Antliae is the constellation's brightest star at magnitude 4. 25.
* δ Antliae is a blue double star 481 light years away.
* ζ Antliae is a wide double star 373 light years away.
The primary ( ζ < sup > 1 </ sup > Ant ) is of magnitude 5. 8, though it is a double star with a primary of magnitude 6. 2 and a secondary of magnitude 7. 0.
* δ Apodis is a double star with a separation of 103 arcseconds.
δ < sup > 1 </ sup > is a red giant star located 765 light years away, with a magnitude of 4. 7. δ < sup > 2 </ sup > is an orange giant star located 663 light years away, with a magnitude of 5. 3.

2.337 seconds.