Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

Both were scholastic stars in football, basketball, and baseball ( Mantle in Commerce, Okla., Maris in Fargo, N.D. ) ; ;

Demons, fairies, angels, and a host of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

During its 4-year run, the positions, parallaxes, and proper motions of 118, 218 stars were determined with an unprecedented degree of accuracy.

Additional catalogues were compiled for the 23, 882 double / multiple stars and 11, 597 variable stars also analyzed during the Hipparcos mission.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

He explained that though both sun and the stars were fiery stones, we do not feel the heat of the stars because of their enormous distance from earth.

Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations.

Chinese astronomers were able to view what is modern Antlia from their latitudes, and incorporated its stars into two different constellations.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

Furthermore, epsilon Antliae, eta Antliae, and theta Antliae were incorporated into the celestial temple, which also contained stars from modern Pyxis.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Observations of such a star were made difficult by the limited field of view of Bradley and Molyneux's telescope, and the lack of suitable stars of sufficient brightness.

" Of the many themes that were used on local coinage, celestial and astral symbols often appeared, mostly stars or crescent moons.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Traditionally, the stars were assigned to one of six magnitude classes, and Bayer's catalog lists all the first-magnitude stars, followed by all the second-magnitude stars, and so on.

Although the money he was paid is " small beer " compared with 21st-century sports stars, there is no doubt he had a comfortable living out of cricket and made far more money than any contemporary professional.

Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled " box office poison ".

He paid attention to his image ; after being promoted to brigadier general in the Civil War, Custer sported a uniform that included shiny cavalry boots, tight olive-colored corduroy trousers, a wide-brimmed slouch hat, tight hussar jacket of black velveteen with silver piping on the sleeves, a sailor shirt with silver stars on his collar, and a red cravat.

During the 1930s Beery was one of Hollywood's Top 10 box office stars, and at one point his contract with MGM stipulated that he be paid $ 1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

Although she was now one of the best paid film stars, her vehicles were costly to produce and neither of the latter two films was financially successful.

During this period, Loy was one of Hollywood's busiest and highest paid actresses, and in 1937 and 1938 she was listed in the annual " Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars ", which was compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the U. S. for the stars that had generated the most revenue in their theaters over the previous year.

When the Great Depression fully hit in the early 1930s, A's owner Connie Mack was unable to pay the salaries of his highly paid stars, and was obliged to sell off a number of them.

Average performers were paid $ 100 a week ; top stars were paid $ 10 a day because their wealth let them contribute more of their talents.

Commentary paid well and published such rising stars as Hannah Arendt, Daniel Bell, Sidney Hook, and Irving Howe.

As part of their religion, these priests paid particular attention to the stars, and gained an international reputation for astrology, which was at that time highly regarded as a science.

Director-General of RTÉ Cathal Goan, commenting on the salaries paid to the top stars, said: " There's no question that by today's standard, they were excessive.

Second-and third-rate performers often paid for rights to use a new song, while famous stars were given free copies of publisher's new numbers or were paid to perform them, the publishers knowing this was valuable advertising.

" The Two Coreys " ascended to become the highest paid teen stars of the 80s.

The move paid off instantly as they won the inaugural Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament and feuded with the top stars of the NWA such as The Four Horsemen and the Russian Team ( which included the Road Warriors ’ old training buddy Barry Darsow, then wrestling as Krusher Khrushchev ).

Forsythe became the highest paid actor on television on a per-hour basis: while the show's on-camera stars often worked 15-hour days five days a week, with a couple hours just for hair and makeup, Forsythe's lines for an entire episode would be recorded in a sound studio in a matter of minutes, after which he would have lunch in the network's commissary and then head for the track.

The Prince paid for him to attend The Priory, a famous British drink and drug treatment centre frequented by rock stars such as Robbie Williams and prominent people in the aristocracy, the media and the public eye.

To mark Queen Elizabeth II's coronation on 2 June 1953, the hotel hosted the Savoy Coronation Ball, attended by 1, 400 people, including Hollywood stars, royalty and other notables, who paid 12 guineas (£ as of ), each.

Sturges at that time was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood, so it's not surprising that Paramount agreed, but they also covered themselves by giving Sturges a modest budget of $ 350, 000, a three-week shooting schedule, and inexpensive stars to work with.

It's inappropriate for stars to get paid to party with him.

The London press paid scant attention to her return, and Lawrence was distressed to discover that in a country struggling to recover from the effects of World War II, the public no longer was as interested in the private lives of stage stars as it once had been.

The Independent Theatre Owners Association paid for an advertisement in the Hollywood Reporter in May 1938 that included Francis on a list of stars nicknamed " Box Office Poison ".