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
Just 27 light-years away, AP Columbae is so young it shines via gravity rather than nuclear reactions.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
In the October issue of The Astronomical Journal, Riedel and his colleagues report that the high lithium level means AP Columbae is the closest pre-main-sequence star ever found.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2011
AP Columbae has a strong magnetic field that unleashes bright flares, he notes, suggesting that astronomers may be able to use it to study magnetic fields "up close and personal."
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
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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