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Default Book Review: The Haunted Observatory

Curious and curiouser things began happening when telescopes opened up to the skies. Richard Baum's book entitled "The Haunted Observatory - Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet" has the reader thinking like Alice might have in her wonderland. Bright lights, aspiring dots, gleaming trails of a forgotten impression can all fool a mind into perceiving reality [...]

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