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EPISODE · May 4, 2020 · 9 MIN

Halley's Comet

from Math! Science! History! · host Gabrielle Birchak

There was that time on May 6, 1910, when a red ball of light approached our Earth's sky as King Edward the seventh suffered a series of heart attacks and died. However, in that same month, as the ball grew brighter and approached closer to our planet, on May 19, 1910, Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny went to a Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue to observe this ball of light. They ended up partying until 2:00 A.M., and then…. The details are all in the podcast! Visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com ! And while you're there, please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee! To purchase Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life, visit https://a.co/d/eU41Uun  Thank you for listening! Until next week, carpe diem! Gabrielle Music is public domain. Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers. www.LloydRodgers.com   

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