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Beauty of the Night Sky

Lord Byron’s first meeting with Lady Wilmot Horton at a fashionable party inspired him to compose the poem: She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies Of all that’s best of dark and bright  Meet … Continue reading

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Star-struck

Few people are star-struck these days—unless you mean a movie- or rock-star. How could they be when the nightly spectacle is veiled by light pollution? That expression might strike you as perverse, even as a non sequitur, for isn’t “light” … Continue reading

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