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BRITISH policy, or that system which the British Government has
for ages systematically pursued, and by which it has acquired its vast colonial
empire, is hut very imperfectly understood by the mass of the American people.
Deriving our knowledge of English affairs, for the most part, from English
sources, we are too apt to he dazzled by the contemplation of an empire upon
which the sun never sets, and to ascribe to Divine destiny, that which, in
reality, is the result of a
system, more fiendish, and more
detestable, because more extending and more extended in its operation, than
that of Machiavelli. The conquests of old Rome were attended, at least, with
By Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga
The closest visible conjunction of Jupiter with Saturn for almost 800 yearsView(s):
On Monday, December 21 just after sunset, there will be a Christmas conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, like the Star of Bethlehem, that was speculated to be the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 3 BCE.
Although conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn happens about every 20 years, this is the closest visible conjunction for almost 800 years, which makes it special.
The closest separation between Jupiter and Saturn will be just 6.1 arc minutes (an arc minute is equal to one sixtieth of a degree), about 5 hours after we are able to see the pair at around 6.45 p.m. on Monday, December 21 just after sunset. For angular reference, the Full Moon is about 30 arc mins or half a degree in diameter.