From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 24 1997 - 22:37:20 MDT
danny reaches for straws:
: here's something else...
: Sirius is often called the dogstar
: dogstar.... doggone
: anyone know how long its been called dogstar?
As long as that thing with four legs that barks
has been called a dog (a thousand years?):
Sirius has been a part of the Bigger Dog
since, I guess, Egyptian times.
(see Richard Hinckley Allen, STAR NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS (1899),
reprinted by Dover -- I must get my copy out of its box!)
Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
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