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Old 15-July-2005, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Eroica
Who coined the term aurora borealis?
Galileo Galilei, in 1919, ghostwriting for his pupil, Mario Guiducci (he himself had already been gagged into silence by the Holy Catholic Church).

Later archeologists will (hopefully) be able to establish that this painting was not painted before or after a certain time. Why?
(Sorry that the link leads to a woo-woo site, but you do not find that painting on the Internet very frequently)
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