Spot Bright Star Arcturus, Which Lit Up Chicago 81 Years Ago

Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 12:31 in Astronomy & Space

Back in the early 1930s, Arcturus made the front page of every newspaper in the United States, when the star was used to symbolically link two great world fairs that were separated by a span of 40 years.

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