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THE MYSTERY: Part III.--The Maroon

... last night in the cave. Air quite fresh. June 6. Saw the glow again last night. The surgeon paused in his reading. That would be the night of the 5th the night before we picked her up empty. Yes, agreed Captain Parkinson. That was the ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3065 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

NIG-NOG!

... the sufferer the impression of hope for hope, sir, is a distant prospect. Hope, sir, is the Uranus of the psychological sky. That night Mr. Thessiger was sitting at his desk in the big library of his house in Chepstowe Place. To be exact, he alternated ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3854 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT FRANCE HAS HAD TO BEAR: The Sad Fate of Noyon

... by shells of every calibre. Whole streets fell in ruin, sixteenth-century timber work blazed and helped to redden the sky for nights, the lovely cathedral was rent and riven. The roofs of nave, choir, and aisles were burnt, vaulting fell in the high-pitched ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1086 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

A London Newsletter

... happens just like a child's boat fanned by the billows in a bath. The Old Stager. THE SERRIED RANKS BENEATH THE MIDNIGHT SKY: The night scene of the Rrnd finale of Ihe Searchlight Tattoo, Rushmoor Arena. Aldershot. The impressive item of the finale opened ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2622 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

FORECASTING THE WEATHER

... Red Sky at Night if it be low down and rosy means fair weather Indian red all over the sky means rain Over^clear Definition is a sure sign of too much vapour in the atmosphere and presages wind and rain Squally Weather Ahead: 7 his type of sky does not ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1851 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... fine eleven. You must starve a cold and stuff a fever, and it is safe to make an ugly face when the moon changes and a red sky at night sends the shepherd home for his umbrella. Now, among Mr. Ackermann's readers, I am on the side of the Nannies and the Old ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2014 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

STUDYING THE HEAVENS FROM HERSTMONCEUX

... HAROLD SPENCER JONES, F.R.S. (The Astronomer Royal) THE smoky, polluted atmos phere of a large city and the glare in the sky at night from artificial lights are great handicaps to astronomical observation. The smog, to use the expressive American word ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1322 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HEART OF FRANCE: The Province of Auvergne, Rich in Spas, Romanesque Churches and Extinct Volcanoes

... that Pascal first succeeded in weighing air. In the long-distant past Auvergne was a huge volcanic bonfire that lit up the sky by night and has now provided the countryside with a rich fertile soil and a number of pleasant small lakes as well as the material ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1409 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs