This Halloween marks 100 years since the fire that burned down the Catholic University Observatory. Built at the request of Rev. George M. Searle, the initial structure was completed in 1890 and stood at the then highest point of campus with the equatorial telescope base sitting exactly on the 77th meridian from Greenwich. There were Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook – CatholicU’s Lost Observatory
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The Archivist’s Nook: The Night the Martians Came to Campus
On the night of October 30, 1938, a startling message went across the airwaves of America: “Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Read More
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