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Boomer12k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:12 am

StuartS wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:38 am The description says that the Moon and Jupiter rose together in the southwest after sunset. I don't think that it is possible for the Moon or any of the planets to rise the southwest. Oops!

I was going to comment the same... they ROSE in the east, long before Sunset...they were..."nearer the southwestern horizon after sunset"... or so...and as evening progress... Set themselves. Or maybe "...appeared in the southwestern sky after sunset..." would be better still...

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Boomer12k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:12 am

StuartS wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:38 am
The description says that the Moon and Jupiter rose together in the southwest after sunset. I don't think that it is possible for the Moon or any of the planets to rise the southwest. Oops!

I was going to comment the same... they ROSE in the east, long before Sunset...they were..."nearer the southwestern horizon after sunset"... or so...and as evening progress... Set themselves. Or maybe "...appeared in the southwestern sky after sunset..." would be better still...

heehaw wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 11:24 am
Why are they called the Alps? It is because hundreds of years ago, a party of English explorers got lost in those mountains.
They say you can still sometimes hear them calling: 'alp! 'alp!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQPuB01XMDo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps#Etymology_and_toponymy wrote:
<<The English word Alps derives from the Latin Alpes (through French). Maurus Servius Honoratus, an ancient commentator of Virgil, says in his commentary that all high mountains are called Alpes by Celts. The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

This may be consistent with the theory that in Greek Alpes is a name of non-Indo-European origin (which is common for prominent mountains and mountain ranges in the Mediterranean region). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the Latin Alpes might possibly derive from a pre-Indo-European word *alb "hill"; "Albania" is a related derivation. Albania, a name not native to the region known as the country of Albania, has been used as a name for a number of mountainous areas across Europe. In Roman times, "Albania" was a name for the eastern Caucasus, while in the English languages "Albania" (or "Albany") was occasionally used as a name for Scotland, although it is more likely derived from the Latin albus, the color white.

The Latin word Alpes could possibly come from the adjective albus (“white”).

In modern languages the term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks. An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term "the Alps", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence wrote:

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<<The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in April 15th, 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

According to some sources, the title, the meaning of which is not explicitly revealed in the book, was taken from a review of Maugham's novel Of Human Bondage in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as "so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet." According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, "If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon." Maugham's title echoes the description of Gauguin by his contemporary biographer, Meier-Graefe (1908): "He [Gauguin] may be charged with having always wanted something else.">>

StuartS wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:38 am The description says that the Moon and Jupiter rose together in the southwest after sunset. I don't think that it is possible for the Moon or any of the planets to rise the southwest. Oops!