eclipse
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When the helmsman said that it didn’t, Pericles asked, “so, where’s the difference between this and the eclipse, except that something bigger than my cape has blotted out the sun?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Witnessing a solar eclipse from space was a spectacle worthy of science fiction, as pilot Glover put it.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
For Glover, the "greatest gift" of the mission was seeing the lunar eclipse from beyond the far side of the moon.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
The astronauts have reported in vivid detail features of the lunar surface and later witnessed a solar eclipse, when the Moon passed in front of the Sun.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
In 1932, people predicted that Cleopatra’s Needle was going to crumble just before a solar eclipse.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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