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Super Super Bowl (in the US) the National Football League championship game played annually between the champions of the National and the American Football Conferences; the title is after
Rose Bowl.
Super Tuesday in the US, a day on which several states hold primary elections for the presidential nominations.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA APPOINTS MICHAEL BOLTE DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OBSERVATORIES/LICK OBSERVATORY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...the director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick...George Blumenthal. UC Observatories is a multicampus...Observatory in Hawaii. Lick Observatory, established...the Lick and Keck Observatories are designed and...Optics. The Keck ...
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LICK OBSERVATORY HONORS KENNETH, GLORIA LEVY WITH INAUGURAL JAMES LICK AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...following press release: Lick Observatory will honor Kenneth...generous support for the observatory's newest telescope, the...September 26, when Lick Observatory will be celebrating the...advanced the mission of Lick Observatory. "We greatly appreciate...Michael Bolte, ...
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Lick Observatory Shows Visitors the Moons and the Stars / Big telescopes, universe photos in San Jose.
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...trail up Mount Hamilton, the Lick Observatory beckons from the mountaintop...original telescope under which Lick is buried, but computerized stargazing...re glad it's different." LICK OBSERVATORY DIRECTIONS Take Highway 101 or...
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Lick Observatory Shows Visitors the Moons and the Stars / History of the heavens on display at San Jose astronomy facility.
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Mount Hamilton, the Lick Observatory beckons tauntingly from...astronomers have used Lick's enormous telescopes...and other telescopes at Lick. Photos of colorful...line the walls of the observatory's main building. Because...
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ORIGINAL SEISMOGRAPHIC RECORD OF 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE FOUND, PUT ON DISPLAY AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA'S LICK OBSERVATORY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/17/2006; 696 words
; ...Misch, support astronomer at Lick Observatory, who found the...retired operations manager at Lick Observatory, who initiated...1887 by the first director of Lick Observatory, Edward S. Holden...the most productive research observatories in the world. It is located...Hamilton ...
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Domed Roof Leaking On Historic Telescope At Lick Observatory / UC says it has no money for repairs.
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 3/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...36-inch refractor telescope at Lick Observatory, threatening to damage one of science...research until the early 1960s. Lick Observatory now bristles with eight...public attraction. The tomb of James Lick, who built the observatory and donated...
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Lick Observatory program blends stargazing with music.(PENINSULA FRIDAY)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 6/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...University of California's Lick Observatory presents its 25th season...the night sky through the observatory's telescopes atop Mount...proceeds support the UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick), a multi...
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LICK OBSERVATORY CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SHANE TELESCOPE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...Telescope has helped keep Lick Observatory at the forefront...Geoffrey Marcy; tours of the observatory; and (weather permitting...reservations, visit the Lick Observatory web site or call (831...who was director of the observatory during the telescope's...UCSC and director of UC ...
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DONALD OSTERBROCK, EMINENT ASTRONOMER AND FORMER DIRECTOR OF LICK OBSERVATORY, DIES AT AGE 82
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...University of California's Lick Observatory, died suddenly...director of UC's Lick Observatory from 1973 to 1981. Founded in 1888, Lick Observatory is situated on Mt. Hamilton...gifted leader of UC's Lick Observatory, leading during the crucial...served as director of ...
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Into the night. (stargazing in November)(includes related article on the observatories of Hawaii, Arizona and California)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...welcome public visits. Smaller observatories and amateur astronomical...California businessman James Lick wanted to erect (1) a monument...Flagstaff, Arizona. But Lowell Observatory's most famous triumph was...Palomar, Lowell, and Lick observatories still perform important research...
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Lick Observatory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Lick Observatory The observatory of the University of California...telescope is the 36-inch (0.91-m) Lick refractor, opened in 1888 and named, like the observatory, after the landowner James Lick (1796–1876), who donated...
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Observatories, Astronomical
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...After the Civil War, observatories became a common addition...led to a growing number of observatories in rural areas and in the...inches (1863), Dearborn Observatory in Chicago (later relocated...1872), U.S. Naval Observatory; 30 inches (1883), Pulkovo...Russia; 36 inches (1887), Lick ...
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Moore, Joseph Haines
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory; he passed through all the...in Publi-cations of the Lick Observatory , 16 (1928), written with...Crocker Eclipse Expedition of the Lick Observatory to Camptonville, California...
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Holden, Edward Singleton
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Holden designed the Lick Observatory in California and...prepare plans for the observatory. Holden wrote...arose between Lick and his trustees...half years. Lick ’ s death...during which the observatory was constructed...
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Hussey, William Joseph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...at the newly established Lick Observatory. In 1896 he...the most part at the Lick Observatory but also at the observatory of the University of La...subsequently became the Mt. Wilson Observatory; he likewise reported favorably...as early as 1903, of observatories in the ...
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