Stephen james omeara biography of abraham lincoln
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center) Only 3 left in stock - order soon.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, written in , is Walt Whitman's greatest elegy on the death of President Abraham Lincoln....
Author: Stephen James O'Meara
He learned the constellations on his own from a star wheel that he cut out from the back of a Corn Flakes box, and he discovered how a telescope focuses by accident. At the age of 14, Steve knew the sky so well that he was given the keys to Harvard College Observatory, where he began to study the stars using the observatory’s 9-inch and inch refractors.
He used these scopes to discover the spokes in Saturn’s B ring and to become the first person in history to accurately determine visually the rotation period of Uranus.
Learning about Honesty from the Life of Abraham Lincoln.O’Meara earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in Boston. He spent much of his early career on the editorial staff of Sky & Telescope before joining Astronomy magazine as the “Secret Sky” columnist and as a contributing editor.
The Texas Star Party (TSP) gave Stev