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To: nickcarraway

How about the person who named Uranus?


3 posted on 05/13/2009 4:17:33 PM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

That’s gay. ;)


5 posted on 05/13/2009 4:19:43 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ("Just give it to me straight; I'll make up my own mind." - Dana Perino's Dad)
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To: max americana
I feel sorry for that deity. Used to be Οὐρανός, powerful God of the Sky. Now he's just a toilet joke.
8 posted on 05/13/2009 4:35:30 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: max americana
How about the person who named Uranus?

That person probably died in a trailer park somewhere.

10 posted on 05/13/2009 4:46:27 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: max americana

http://www.nineplanets.org/uranus.html

Careful pronunciation may be necessary to avoid embarrassment; say “YOOR a nus” , not “your anus” or “urine us”.

Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god. Uranus was the son and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus (Saturn) and of the Cyclopes and Titans (predecessors of the Olympian gods).

Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it “the Georgium Sidus” (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King George III of England; others called it “Herschel”. The name “Uranus” was first proposed by Bode in conformity with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn’t come into common use until 1850.


13 posted on 05/13/2009 5:10:49 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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