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Star Gazers' Stone located on Star Gazers' Farm near Embreeville, Pennsylvania, USA, marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line. The stone was placed by Mason and Dixon about 700 feet (213 m) north of the Harlan House, which ...
Star Gazers' Stone, an astronomical observation point, used by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon Embreeville Historic District. Embreeville is a historical unincorporated community, little more than a rural stretch of road with a few businesses and homes, in Newlin Township, Pennsylvania, United States, on a bend of Brandywine Creek.
Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. Institutions. Miami Science Museum. Jack Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer; June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010) was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. He was best known for his astronomy show Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, which started airing on PBS on November 4, 1976.
June 25, 1973. Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Pentress, West Virginia, United States. Located on the boundary between Monongalia County, West Virginia and Greene County, Pennsylvania, [1] it identifies the terminal station established by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on Brown's Hill on October 19 ...
The Stargazers (vocal ensemble) The Stargazers were a British vocal group, jointly founded in 1949 by Cliff Adams and Ronnie Milne. [1] Other original members were Marie Benson, Fred Datchler and Dick James. [1] Very shortly after the group made their first broadcasts with BBC Radio on such programmes as Workers' Playtime and The Goon Show ...
Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. [1] [2] After his death in 2010, a series of guest astronomers hosted until 2011, when Dean ...
Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was based on sixty, as opposed to ten in the modern decimal system. This system simplified the calculating and recording of unusually great and small numbers. [1]
Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two title characters of Thomas Pynchon 's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon. The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler 's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book. An exhibition about the life and work of Jeremiah Dixon was mounted at the Bowes Museum in Barnard ...