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Show THE BORN LOSER / PLAY en) " SNEEZED SO WARD HE sant! BROKE HIS BACK, Silo POLLY-NOLLY-DOODLE ered era iFALL CHE DAAAY ° . f 4 ‘ g ~ MARY WORTH e G (2H BECKA' {+ | MUTT NI By Saunders & Ernst SOMEBODY'S D5 MEDICAL THANK, YOU $0 MUCH, DR.HOLT!-THIS 15 THE MOST! EXCITING DAY THE CHILDREN HAVE HAD IN A DON'T THINK I DIDN'T GET A KICK OUTOF IT, 100, MRS. DAYTON! KIDS AND DOGS ARE MY FAVORITE. PEOPLE! HEY! THURSDAY IS MY AFTERNOON OFF! HOW ABOUT |. MY BORROWING THESE TWO FOR ; A TRIP TO THE AMUSEMENT PARK? NICE, DOCTOR! BUT». PERHAPS L SHOULD COME ALONG? To... LONG TIME! Sunday, May 2,1971 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 19 Tell Me Why By Art Sanso> MenofScience — Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus is known as the father of modern astronomy. It was Copernicus who worked out a system of astronomy showing that the planets orbit the sun. He was born in Torun, Poland, on February 19, 1473. He received a good education, and in 1496 wentto Italy, where he Spent the next 10 years studying at various univer.‘ties. Here he became _interested in astronomy. At that time people believed that the earth was the center of the universe. They believed that all things — the sun, the stars, the planets — moved around the earth. Because the Church had Jong been thecenter of learning, this system was also linked to religious beliefs, Copernicus had no desire to quarrel with the Church. In fact, he had becomea canon in the a ; a By Al Capp SEEhs Woot.peep neUw NIGBE AQ RINE "I N y > SCRAWNY LAMHE )77q to develop the basis of modern Many people think some modern paintings can be hung upside down without making any difference. In 1961, a painting called Le Bateau by Matisse, Airline Passenger: It's nice hung upside down in the how mancan do anything birds Museum of Modern Art in New can do, York for 47 days — and no one Hostess: Not quite. He can't noticed the difference! sit on a barbe4 wire fence, Answer to yesterday's Puzzle Box: Erase, Raven, Avert, Serge, Enter. Mary: Now, let’s think. Jane: Let's do something you A baby kangaroo is called can do too! a "joey." Palomar Observatory and astronomy. FUN TIME The Chuckle Box DID YOU KNOW? its telescope All of the former presi* dents, with the exception of George Washington, were still living when John Quincy Adams was inaugurated— The book was too technical for most people to understandit. But menlike Galileo and Kepler read it. They carried on his work John Adains, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe By Gordon Bess ae Hole 4 YOU STUPID “WHATNOUR PROBLEMte! By Dick Cavalli THE JACKSON TWINS ~ ANDI'LL TELL YOu SOMETHING ELSE A TOKEN PURCHASE ¢ SOME DAY I’M EVENING THE SCORE WITH, SO Si THE RICHESTKID IN TOWN ears seep1 ED TO5 THE S 3 ABOUTGERMS, MY FRIENDS... JUST WANTED TO SEEIF YOU WERE LISTENING. GERMS ARE THE NOBLEST OF NATURES CREATURES / iS REACHED INTO HER? 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WEE BUT--DURING THE PAST FEW WEEKS“I HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT I---1 WAS NOT BEING A WOMAN’ | By V.T. Hamlin ALLEY OOP WELL, OOP, WHAT'D TUNK SAV?” WHEN DOES HE PRISCILLA’S POP YOU FOLKS, READY, BOTTS#, (# DOESNT WANTUS TO GET TOGETHER? a roar Guz! Te, aN 'AT'S RIGHT! HE HE SAID HE LIKES (DOESN'T?) BEING KING OF MOO. As ——=1 AN'HE AIN'T) — ABOUT TSWITCH So THATS 1Hwav Sie WITH (HE WANTS TPLAY, EH?) MOO ARR At YreieS2. toc Tw Bap US Pot OU FRECKLES, WHILE I GeT THIS LADY ONTO. DRY LAND ,DONT LE]T GO OF THAT PIPE UNTIL By Frank O'Neal iBn\ ee | FEATURE. ) Tt. HAS HOW DO YOU LIKE MY NEW CHAIR 2, [WHEN COMPANY COMES... IT FOLDS OUT INTO A CACTUS / NDA WAY To STOPTHAT LEAK/ ~~ are stitute of Technology. CMON, MUTT | ® RIGHTMY BELOVEDKINI 200-inch owned by the California In- he died, May24, 1543. REDEYE _iL ABNER (He's Charch. But he continued to carry on his workin astronomy. He had only the most basic equipment and made observations with the unaided eye. By using mathematics and logic, Copernicus figured out that the old system could not account for the movements of the planets asseen in the sky, So he worked out a different system in which the planets orbited the sun. He didn't want to make trouble, but his friends finally convinced him to publish his findings in a book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies.” It appearedatthe very end of his life and he saw the first copyof his book on the day ANO IF I CANT. HEAR YOU HOLLER, FOR HELP, CONT PANIC/ |