Messier 13

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Pharmacist, Physician, Postmaster, Mayor – The Influential Gibson Brothers (issaquahhistorymuseums.com) You may be familiar with the nationally-known Gibson Girl of the 1890s, but what do you know about the Gibson Brothers of that same era? In 1889 when two mild-mannered, educated brothers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and settled in the town of Gilman (now Issaquah, Washington), little did they know how influential they would become in their newfound community, and for how long.

Messier 13 (Wikipedia) Messier 13 or M13 (also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, the Hercules Globular Cluster, or the Great Hercules Cluster), is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.