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“The novel’s cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its nine hundred pages. However, in another of his novels, Amulet, a road in Mexico City is identified as looking like ‘a cemetery in the year 2666.’” The stories behind classic book titles.
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likeafieldmouse:

Hollis Brown Thornton

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NGC6188 and IC2948 by mpastro2001

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Happy 88th birthday to Scott Carpenter, a member of the “Mercury 7,” America’s first group of astronauts.

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atomstargazer:

Various color channels combined into a single color image, not always terribly accurate, or even close to what humans would see by Stuart Rankin

Psychedelic Saturn | Saturn the Tomato | Gassy Algea Planet | Embarassed Saturn | Titan | Enceladus | Saturn’s hexagonal polar vortex | Blue Earth from Messenger | Colorized Mars | Endeavor Crater

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