Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization 1633888568, 9781633888562

Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets wer

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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
1633888568, 9781633888562

Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets wer

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Halley's Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comet

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In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of

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For many, the Kray twins are legends but for Chris Lambrianou they were something else entirely . . . As a young East En

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Around 13,000 years ago, three things happened at once: (1) Global temperature suddenly stopped rising and plunged back

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"Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement." —Ruth Franklin, author of

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Illustrates the effect of the comet of 1577 on astronomical thought to show that the observations of the comet brought a

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