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FROM THE ARCHIVEDec 23, 1955·Milford, Delaware

ANCIENT STORIES IN THE STARS

Scanned from Milford Chronicle, Dec 23, 1955
ANCIENT STORIES IN THE STARS
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Star Gazing Can Be Key Jo Fine Ancient Stories By DION HENDERSON fl. The outdoors can be fun for goes down if you know how to read. There are all kinds of stories old and those in between for the lor the rest of us. And if humility then the stars can help you to it as you sit quietly at the bottom of the well of night and look upward into the awful reaches of space.

The stars were there for Jacob amd for Job and for Saladin and gubla Khan the engineers of star laught patterns the glory that was Greece made its gods immortal by Seeing them in the sky. I And we have a little left of all yiese if you know where to look. The stars that were called Al bebaran and Fomolhaut and Mizar and AlTair by the desert kings feil are known by those names they're parts of the constellations that later preached a sermon to fe emperors of Rome Start like this with your read ing face the north and find the most familiar pattern of all the one young Americans cal the Big Dipper and that old Americans Rke the Romans.

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