Prognosticate Synonym


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*The Greek term for "moon" or "white", is generally used to describe other small objects that may be considered in some cases to be naked but which include planets, stars, comets, asteroids and comets. It is rare for a comet to bear the name of "moon" only.

A. G. & C. T. E. Gardner (1924) The Wonders of Babylon 2. Popular Science Monthly. March 1924. p. 266-277.

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*Meteorites' tails, however, are thought to consist of 'prisms' of microscopic glass particles made up of hundreds of tiny planes on which gold and silver have been embedded. We can conjecture that these stones were formed under great pressures in impact-producing meteoroid streams... Their composition must be much more different from ordinary diamond than it is from the ordinary crystal found naturally in the Earth's surface, though we do not yet know why.
A. G. & C. T. E. Gardner (1924) Discoveries in astronomy. Popular Science Monthly. December 1924. pp. 402-413.

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Fossils, of both a human and an animal kind, have become so closely interwoven in the collective consciousness that their classification will soon be as necessary as that of man... It is evident that we are dealing here with an impressive epoch in human history, when a whole series of anthropological studies was being made at work. Anthropologists investigated the prevalence, and the development, of the various anthropological theories concerning the origin of our race, the various races of men, of the evolution of our civilization and mankind...

A. G. & C. T. E. Gardner (1924) The Races and Heredity of Man. Popular Science Monthly. October 1924. p. 28-33.


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