- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (/ˈɡɑːndi, ˈɡændi/; GAHN-dee; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist. He is widely acknowledged as one of the 20th century’s most influential people, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: “great-souled”, “venerable”), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
- How to find and observe Almach (TOTS#6) (eyesonthesky.com)
Gamma Andromedae is a rather interesting double star within our own Milky Way galaxy. First, the primary is a very yellow star, and the secondary an intense blue. At over 350 light years distance, the light from these stars reaching us today left not long after Christian Huygens proposed that Saturn had rings… in the 1600’s! But the star gets even stranger. The dimmer blue secondary is itself a double star, averaging a Sun/Neptune distance. Stranger still, the primary of THAT system is ALSO double! So Gamma Andromedae is really a quadruple star system.