Even the wealthiest cannot land a sea plane on the waters of Sun Moon Lake.
To make this work, the sun, moon and the stars would need to align almost perfectly.
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The Rev Sun Myung Moon founded the Unification Church, regarded by its critics as a dangerous cult.
The internet is chock-full of treatments promising the sun, moon and stars for all sorts of medical problems.
The band is Sun Kil Moon and it has remade the songs of alternative rock band Modest Mouse.
The ceremony was presided over by Hak Ja-han, the widow of Sun Myung Moon, who died in September.
In Thai legend, Rahu reappears as the younger brother of two men who are reincarnated as the sun and moon.
Just a few years ago, the story might have flared and subsided according to news cycles as predictable as the sun and moon.
The Mauni Amavasya is a day when sun, moon, Venus and Mercury are in the zodiac of Capricorn, a rare but perfect alignment of planets, devotees believe.
And the fact that the sun and moon were particularly close to the Earth at precisely the same time -- well, that made the tidal bulges even bigger.
Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church is best known through events like its mass weddings, where thousands of couples are married at the same time, having only just met their lifetime partner.
But with "Tiny Cities, " Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon makes an argument not just for his own abilities as a song interpreter but for the underappreciated songwriting skill of Isaac Brock.
The Sun Kil Moon version of "Convenient Parking, " from what might be Modest Mouse's best record, 1997's "The Lonesome Crowded West, " definitely gets the song's slow-burn intensity, teasing it out on his acoustic guitar as if over the course of making this record Isaac Brock's high-strung delivery has gotten under Kozelek's skin.
Maria Reiche concluded they were a giant calendar linked to the movements of the Sun, the Moon and the constellations.
Their model takes into account both general relativity and all known gravitational effects of the sun, the moon, the planets and large asteroids.
Donald Olson and Thomas Lytle of Southwest Texas State University have calculated the tidal forces exerted on the earth by the sun, the moon and the planets.
Without it, we might still fancy the Earth situated in the center of the cosmos, with the sun, the moon and all the stars orbiting around us.
"At night the clouds change to stars and the sun to the moon, " Mr. Thorne, chief technology officer of 4moms, explained when I got him on the phone.
Dr Dacke had previously shown that dung beetles were able to keep a straight line by taking cues from the Sun, the Moon, and even the pattern of polarised light formed around these light sources.
The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.
What everyone has been waiting for is something as rare as a simultaneous eclipse of the sun and the moon: a time when the four Beatles (and their widows), both Apple companies and EMI are all on the same side.
One of the lightest things you can carry is an app, and his favourite is the Photographer's Ephemeris, because it helps you plan the perfect outdoor shoot, with time-specific details about the position of the sun and the moon, such as when and where the moon is likely to rise over a particular hill.
Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.
You will find that, even as you reach for your diary for the next new moon, the sun is surely shining.
The Maya used their mathematical knowledge along with celestial observations to finesse a calendar created by the Olmec which is a culture from the Mexican Gulf Coast and to create monuments to observe and commemorate movements of the moon, the sun, and Venus.
The solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes before the sun, casting a huge shadow on Earth.
Surya (the sun) and Soma (the moon) reported the incident to the great deity Vishnu, who promptly sought out the impudent Rahu and lopped off his head.
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