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"This intricate commerce of souls": the origins and some early expressions of Lytton Strachey's ethics.
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ADESCENDANT OF BRITAIN'S nineteenth-century intellectual aristocracy, a dandy, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, and the inadvertent originator, in Richard Altick's words, of "a major new field of historiography," namely, Victorian studies, Lytton Strachey is best known as a sardonic and iconoclastic biographer and as a master of a "sophisticated" prose style the effectiveness of which relies on a delicate intermixture of melodrama, caricature, irony, and innuendo. He is best known, that is to say, as a stylist in life and literature; for many, including Altick, who ...
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Pluto is out! Scientists kicks Pluto out of the planet family.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: WR News, Edition 3 (including Science Spin)
; ...you know you can ignore that section on Pluto in your science books. A group of the world's astronomers recently decided that Pluto is no longer an official planet. An astronomer...Horizons is on its way to learn more about Pluto. New Horizons launched in January. It...
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Pluto booted from planetary list
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune
; Pluto is not a planet. It's like hearing that...but more complicated, because the planet Pluto has been a mainstay of textbooks, solar...and science fair projects for 76 years. Pluto fans greeted its demotion by an international...
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Pluto; What It Is
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; "What is Pluto anyway?" a perplexed person asked me...Astronomical Union (IAU), proposed designating Pluto as "minor planet" (or asteroid) No...designation would by implication remove Pluto from the traditional planetary Big Nine...
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Pluto Spurs Far-Out Debate; Kids have been taught for more than 70 years that nine planets revolve around our sun, and that the farthest and smallest planet is Pluto.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...some astronomers are questioning whether Pluto should be labeled a planet after all...discovery of another, larger sphere in Pluto's vicinity has some researchers scratching...around a star. How long have we known about Pluto? Pluto was discovered in 1930 almost by...
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Pluto's demotion gains star status on Internet
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...4A LOS ANGELES - Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T- shirts on the Internet...who said she "rolled her eyes" after Pluto got the boot, hopes her buyers will...
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Pluto Still a Mystery 75 Years Later
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...s been 75 years since the discovery of Pluto, but it remains a mystery. Perhaps in...probe gets close enough for a good look. Pluto was quickly heralded as the ninth planet...Natural History. Tyson provocatively removed Pluto from his exhibit of planets five years...
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Pluto discovered 75 years ago, but just what is it?
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...s been 75 years since the discovery of Pluto, but it remains a mystery. Perhaps in...probe gets close enough for a good look. Pluto was quickly heralded as the ninth planet...Natural History. Tyson provocatively removed Pluto from his exhibit of planets five years...
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Pluto fans say time's wasting on a study
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...dead and often sheathed in frozen gases, Pluto has stalked the edge of the solar system...centuries to complete. So tiny and strange is Pluto, smaller than Earth's moon and rotating...calls for the spacecraft to plunge beyond Pluto, into the recently discovered and even...
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Pluto has more classthan most other planets
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...in the wrong way. -- E.M. Forster Pluto is no longer a planet? What nonsense...voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto doesn't meet it. The International Astronomical...Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are in, and Pluto is out. They will be called Classical...
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Pluto: evidence for polar caps.
Magazine article from: Science News
; Pluto: Evidence for polar caps In 1985, for the...than a century, the tilt of the orbit of Pluto's moon Charon reached an angle, as seen...represent "a direct detection" of polar caps on Pluto. Plutonian caps have been suggested before...
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