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Following the recent solar eclipse it seemed like the perfect chance to dive into the history of Dundee's Mills Observatory.

PatnaDaily A few months ago, we had received a letter from Mr. Donald L. Reid of Ayrshire, Scotland, informing us that there is yet another place on this planet that shares the name of the capital city of Bihar, Patna. Since then, we, at PatnaDaily.Com, had been toying with the idea of sharing this information with our visitors but for one reason or another, the idea remained just that, an idea! This past December, however, things changed as Mr. Reid, a social historian who has writt...

Scientific American Until Recently, People Accepted the ‘Fact’ of Aliens in the Solar System For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn’t considered especially remarkable Print Many people found Percival Lowells claim at the turn of the 20th century that he could see artificial canals on Mars to be unremarkable. Credit: Getty Images Advertisement One of the most intriguing aspects of the history of the human quest to discover whether or not the...