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  • Arcturus appears by the word Bootes, at the edge of the map.

    Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871

  • THE ARCTURIANS: Fifth- and sixth-dimensional beings of light from Blue Crystal Planet in the Arcturian star system also called the Bootes system.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • THE ARCTURIANS: Fifth- and sixth-dimensional beings of light from Blue Crystal Planet in the Arcturian star system also called the Bootes system.

    Songs of the Arcturians Patricia L. Pereira 1996

  • God Sol at the winter solstice, the Virgo of the Zodiac was made his mother, and the constellation in conjunction with her, which is now known as Bootes, but anciently called Arcturus, his foster father.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • Lastly, he was put to the most severe and cruell paine in the world, called the Bootes, who, after he had received three strokes, being inquired if he would confesse his damnable actes and wicked life, his toong would not serve him to spaake. '

    Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

  • They took their name from a constellation of stars called Bootes, which if you look it up means "ox driver".

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Speedy J - 'Bootes' from the LP 'Red Shift' (Electric Deluxe)

    Crate Digging Revealed 2008

  • Located between the constellations of Bootes and Draco, NASA writes that the Quadrans symbolize an early astronomical instrument used to observe and plot stars.

    Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2012: January 4 Could Show 100 Shooting Stars Per Hour 2012

  • Its medium-speed meteors diverge from a point in N Bootes, below-left of the Plough's handle as the latter climbs through the NE and E sky between midnight and dawn.

    Starwatch: The January night sky 2011

  • Our May chart shows Bootes with the conspicuous star Arcturus star 10 high in the S as the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair climbs in the E and Leo descends in the W.

    Starwatch: The May night sky 2011

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