- Star Tales - Apus (ianridpath.com)
One of the dozen new constellations introduced at the end of the 16th century from observations of the southern sky by the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Apus represents a fabulous bird of paradise, as found in New Guinea, but it is a disappointing tribute to such an exotic creature, its brightest stars being of only 4th magnitude.
- Alki Point, Seattle (Wikipedia)
Alki Point (/ˈælkaɪ/, Lushootseed: sbaqʷabqs, lit. ‘prairie point’) is a neighborhood in western Seattle, Washington. It is a point jutting into Puget Sound, the westernmost landform in the city’s West Seattle district. Alki is the peninsular neighborhood on Alki Point. Alki was the original settlement in what was to become the city of Seattle. It was part of the city of West Seattle from 1902 until that city’s annexation by Seattle in 1907.
