• The Lick Object of 1921 is an unidentified astronomical object that was observed from the Lick Observatory in August 1921. Although follow-up observations...
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    (2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-Period Comets and Probable Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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    2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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  • (2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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  • C/2023 V5 (Leonard) (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2023)
    2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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  • C/1988 A1 (Liller) (category Astronomical objects discovered in 1988)
    2016). "Pairs and Groups of Genetically Related Long-Period Comets and Proposed Identity of the Mysterious Lick Object of 1921". The Astrophysical Journal...
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    Sherburne Wesley Burnham (category 1921 deaths)
    refractors of the Lick observatory, from August, 1888, to June, 1892, Publications of the Lick Observatory, Vol. 2, p. 175 (1894) Portrait of Sherburne Wesley...
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  • Robert Julius Trumpler (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
    to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences...
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  • Joel Stebbins (category University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni)
    Observatory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he remained until 1948. After 1948, Stebbins continued his research at Lick Observatory until his final...
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    Eddington experiment (category History of science)
    astronomer William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, and Charles D. Perrine, director of the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba...
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    overestimation of Neptune's mass. After 1992, the discovery of numerous small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate...
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    1086/101715. Lick Observatory (1894). A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. The University Press. p. 7–. Kanipe, Jeff...
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  • expeditions while at the Lick Observatory, in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1908. "...he had become, in the opinion of the director of the Lick Observatory, W. W. Campbell...
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    John Charles Duncan (category Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science)
    observations here discussed may be brought into harmony with the Lick observations of 1921 by a period of either 0.1904838 or 0.1904722 day. Duncan, J. C. (1928)...
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    Mastodon (category Extinct animals of Canada)
    command of Charles III Le Moyne (known also as "Longueil") explored the locality of "Big Bone Lick" (located in what is now the US state of Kentucky)...
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    Tsutomu Seki. First observed as a faint telescopic object on 18 September 1965, the first calculations of its orbit suggested that on October 21, it would...
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    Ansel Adams (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    the hobby of astronomy, visiting the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton together. His father later served as the paid secretary-treasurer of the Astronomical...
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  • 2020. Cowan, Rosie (13 June 2001). "Sinn Fein builds on success while SDLP licks wounds". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2022. Robertson, Nic (10 February...
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  • to 1997, the title of most distant object in the universe was held by a succession of quasars. That list is available at list of quasars. In 1958, clusters...
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    appropriate therapy by a process of interpretation. Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick petitioners. The original Hippocratic...
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    Circle" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. Photograph of Repsold meridian circle at the Lick Observatory from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive...
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    March 2015 on YouTube Solar eclipse photographs taken from the Lick Observatory from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library’s...
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    difference of binaries and their reduced proper motions. In 1921, Frederick C. Leonard, at the Lick Observatory, wrote "1. The spectrum of the secondary...
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    Halley's Comet Photographs of 1910 approach from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive HDR Astrophotography: Simulations Atlas of Past Comets (Antiquity...
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    Lana Turner (category 1921 births)
    Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (/ˈlɑːnə/ LAH-nə; February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved...
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    valuable slave property. Some employers objected not only to the cost of Irish labor but also to the rowdiness of their foreign-born employees. Nevertheless...
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    from Brantford, William Forster Lickers, who enlisted in the CEF in September 1914 was captured at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, where he was...
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  • level with me Be honest, trustworth, true lick To beat or thrash lick and, a promise A slovenly bit of work lick the dust To be defeated lickspittle Toady...
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    the Crawford expedition. The 1782 Battle of Blue Licks was one of the last major engagements of the war. News of the treaty between Great Britain and the...
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    Lionel Pries (category Lick-Wilmerding High School alumni)
    traditions of Asia. He graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco in 1916. He received his B.A. in Architecture from the University of California...
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