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2 giorni fa · With Byrd at the South Pole: Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer: All Quiet on the Western Front: Arthur Edeson: Anna Christie: William H. Daniels: Hell's Angels: Tony Gaudio and Harry Perry: The Love Parade: Victor Milner: 1930/31: Tabu: A Story of the South Seas: Floyd Crosby: Cimarron: Edward Cronjager: Morocco: Lee Garmes: The Right ...
3 giorni fa · The South Pole is a unique astronomical location (a station from which the Sun can be viewed continuously in summer) sitting at a high geomagnetic latitude with unequaled atmospheric clarity. It possesses a thick section of pure material ( ice ) that can be used as a cosmic particle detector.
5 giorni fa · Byrd, on November 29, 1929, was first to fly over the South Pole (having flown over the North Pole in 1926). American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, along with Canadian copilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon completed the first transcontinental flight from November 23 to December 5, 1935.
2 giorni fa · Byrd’s elegy, Ye Sacred Muses, a countertenor and viols “in mourning weeds with tears in eyes: Tallis is dead and music dies.”. Byrd’s setting of Haec Dies, all voices and viols in strict imitation “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Alleluia.”. In the BMInt interview The Gesualdo Six’s ...
3 giorni fa · Lying almost concentrically around the South Pole, Antarctica’s name means “opposite to the Arctic.” It would be essentially circular except for the outflaring Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches toward the southern tip of South America (some 600 miles [970 km] away), and for two principal embayments, the Ross Sea and the ...
3 giorni fa · Davis station skycam time-lapse video. Still images of the full sky are obtained with a small camera mounted under a dome in the Atmospheric Laboratory, and provide a view with similar sensitivity to the naked eye for the study of Antarctic clouds.
3 giorni fa · He led the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911, and eventually also reached the North Pole by air in 1926.
