the lion

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quality: fixed
element: fire
ruled by: the sun

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      o Zosma            o Algieba

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Denebola 
                             O Regulus
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• Right Ascension: 10.66 hours
• Declination: 16.45 degrees
• Visable between latitudes 90 and -65 degrees
• Best seen in April (9pm)

Points of Intrest

• M65 (spiral galaxy)
• M66 (spiral galaxy)
• M95 (spiral galaxy)
• M96 (spiral galaxy)
• M105 (elliptical galaxy)
• Wolf 359 (faint red star, magnitude 13.6)

Their colors are gold and orange, their stones are either ruby or peridot. Their flower is anything in the daisy family, and their planet is the sun. The whole damn sun. They do well at damn near anything they attempt, which makes the rest of us jealous on occasion. But don't let them see that, it will only encourage them. Their tarot cards are The Sun and Strength. They rule the hair, the heart and the back, and are either losing the hair or grooming it, and they need to be careful not to strain their hearts or backs. A famous leo leader in history? How about Napoleon Bonaparte.

The New York Public Library has a penchant for coining amusing acronyms for its services. These acronyms are usually related to cats in some way, referencing the huge stone lions outside the Central building on 5th Avenue that also serve as the library's logo; as a not-quite-nodeworthy example, the NYPL's internal webpage is called LAIR - Library-wide Access to Internal Resources. It's not nodeworthy because it's inaccessable outside the Library. Sorry guys. :)

LEO stands for "Library Entrance Online, and is the companion database to CATNYP - CATNYP serves the research libraries, LEO serves the branch libraries. It includes records for all eighty-five local branches, encompassing 1,000,000 titles and the status of 6,000,000 holdings. LEO can be accessed here: http://webpac.nypl.org/leo.html

Le"o (?), n. [L. See Lion.] Astron.

1.

The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus in almanacs.

2.

A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.

Leo Minor, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.

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