Browsing: March 18

A Brief History On March 18, 1934, a photograph taken by astronomer par excellence Edwin Hubble showed that there were more galaxies of stars in the observable Universe than there were stars (100 billion!) in the Milky Way Galaxy. Digging Deeper The Milky Way Galaxy is a group of stars and associated planets and other material that the Earth and our Solar System are part of.  As late as the early part of the 20th Century astronomers believed the Milky Way Galaxy was the Universe, until Hubble proved that other galaxies were considerably farther away than the limits of the…

A Brief History On March 18, 1974, the so called Arab Oil Embargo came to an end, but any celebrations were certainly premature! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find two major factors involved in making this crisis as important as it was and still is. The first factor was that it had appeared US production of oil had peaked and the world believed that from about 1970 onward it would continue to decline more or less on a constant basis. The other issue at hand was and still is the Arab-Israeli conflict.  The US is pledged to guaranty the continuation…