- MARKAB (Alpha Pegasi). Markab epitomizes what seems almost to be a celestial joke, a comic opera of sorts in which stars scramble their names and appear as different characters on the sky’s stage.
Should any party attempt to abolish social security and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course, that believes you can do these things […] Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, private letter