Columba
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Columbae
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Saint, a.d. 521–597, Irish missionary in Scotland.
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Also called Columba Noae. Astronomy. the Dove, or Noah's Dove, a southern constellation between Caelum and Canis Major.
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Etymology
Origin of Columba
Latin, literally: dove
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Bush was referring to the three children of his son Jeb and his Mexican-born wife, Columba, and he said the comment had been misinterpreted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
No. 25 Princeton has won 15 straight games and sits a game in front of Columba in the Ivy League standings.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
The discovery of the object was made while observing a large cluster of stars known as NGC 1851 located in the southern constellation of Columba, using the MeerKAT telescope.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
The legend dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a creature in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness.
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
I have heard it argued that for the Duke of Argyll not to forfeit his ownership was a true charity to his tenants, as if Iona was still the desert St. Columba found it.
From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
AP Columbae shares the motion of the Argus stars, so it likely formed when they did, about 40 million years ago, making it just 1% as old as our sun.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
AP Columbae lies in the constellation Columba the Dove, south of the brilliant constellation Orion.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
Just 27 light-years away, AP Columbae is so young it shines via gravity rather than nuclear reactions.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
But how did a star as young as AP Columbae end up so close to Earth?
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
More or less cosmopolitan groups like herons, Falconidae, Anseres, Columbae, &c., and circumtropical families like Parridae, Trogonidae, Capitonidae, are to be excluded from these lists as indifferent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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