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It is difficult to appreciate how important the sky overhead was to our ancestors. In an age of artificial light, the night sky has vanished for most city dwellers. Amateur astronomers travel hundreds of miles to find a location 
dark enough to reveal the wonders of the heavens. For our ancestors, the sky represented the chief means of telling time, of navigation, of knowing when to start planting crops. The sky was a practical tool of survival and they developed sophisticated tools for measuring the subtle changes from season to season, from month to month, and even from day to day. (Source: http://www.antiquetelescopes.org/before.html) Because the planets wander relatively quickly in the sky, humans were likely able to differentiate them from the more fixed stars. What made objects important in the sky was determined by their brightness and their movement. For the early sky watchers significant stars were the bright stars. When the human animal created a tool to bring distant objects closer (c.1608), a significant new stage in star watching began. A planetary scientist points out that the word "telescope" also means "to make or become shorter, compress or become compressed forcibly so as to occupy less space and time. In this other sense of the word, this new invention effectively telescoped our human egos, condensing our sense of ourselves into a much smaller space. " (see the book Venus Revealed by David Harry Grinspoon)
The names of the actors performing in the early movies were not known and usually did not appear on the film's credits.
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Deneb the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus (the swan); Deneb is also referred to as alpha Cygni, and is the tail of the swan. |
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Rigel the brightest star in the constellation Orion and one of the brightest stars in the sky. It is a blue (very hot) supergiant |
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Polaris Polaris (alpha UMi) is the current pole star for the Northern Hemisphere; it is 1 degree from the exact Northern celestial pole. It is the larger star at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor). Polaris is also called the Lodestar or the Cynosure. |
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Alnitak Alnitak (Zeta Orionis) is a star at the eastern end of the Orion's belt (in the constellation Orion). |
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Antares (Alpha Scorpii) Antares (meaning "Rival of Mars") is the brightest star in Scorpius, one of the constellations in the zodiac. |
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Betelgeuse Betelgeuse (alpha Orionis) is the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion and one of the brightest stars in the sky. |
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Canopus Canopus (Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and Argo Navis, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. |
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Ursa Major Ursa Major (Latin: "Larger Bear"), also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation of stars. |
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Sirius Sirius (meaning "scorching" in Greek), also known as the dog star, is the brightest star in the sky (except for the sun). It is in the constellation Canis Major (The Great Dog). |
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 James DeanJames Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean the 18th best male movie star. |
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Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. |
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 Sophia LorenSophia Loren, (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress. |
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 Gregory PeckEldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. |
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 Jack NicholsonJohn Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer, and writer. |
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 Cary GrantArchibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 November 29, 1986), was a British American actor. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. |
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Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, recording artist, and model. |
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 Clark GableWilliam Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 November 16, 1960) (nicknamed 'The King of Hollywood.') was an American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time. |
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 Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 July 1, 2004) was an American screen and stage actor. Ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars. |
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| Game Date | July 10, 2012 |
| Game Time | 3 hours 7 minutes |
| Weather |
810 Windy: 15mph from West |
| Umpires |
Doug Bower Joseph Mulholland Parameswari Thiyagarajah |
| Official Scorer | Hank Aaron |
| Game MCP | Betelgeuse
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In Major League Baseball, the concept of an All-Star Game (first played July 6, 1933 in Comiskey Park) has been controversial on several accounts. Meaningfulness was one concern. Until the 2003 All-Star Game, the winning league got nothing but bragging rights for winning the game. In 2003 World Series Home Field Advantage was the award for winning the All-Star Game victory. This decision to make the All-Star Game more meaningful is itself controversial.
The first two Midsummer Classic teams were chosen by baseball field managers and baseball fans. That created controversy so from 1935-1946 only field managers selected the teams. During the next ten years, All-Star team starters were selected by fans and the pitchers and the rest of the players were chosen by the managers. The fans were again taken out of the selection process from 1958 until 1970 when the fans were again allowed to pick the game starters. (see The Baseball Almanac for more information).
The original idea for a baseball All-Star Game did not come from the baseball players, or managers or the baseball commissioner; it was the idea of a Chicago newspaper sports editor.
SCORECARD
Inn. 1: ALLSTARS1
[Starter] Brando
Deneb 2B . X .
Rigel 4-3 X . .
Polaris 3-4 SQZ . . . 1
Alnitak 6-3 . . .
Inn. 1: ALLSTARS2
[Starter] Sirius
Dean 8 . . .
Bardot 6 . . .
Loren K . . .
Inn. 2: ALLSTARS1
Antares BB . . X
Betelgeuse 5-4 F . . X
*SB:Betelgeuse SB . X .
Canopus 3-1 X . .
UrsaMajor 1B . . X 1
Sirius 6-3 . X .
Inn. 2: ALLSTARS2
Peck 7 . . .
Nicholson 1B . . X
Grant 5-4 F . . X
X@2:Grant CS 2-6 . . .
Inn. 3: ALLSTARS1
Deneb 1B . . X
Rigel 6-4 F . . X
Polaris 6UN F . . X
Alnitak 5 . . X
Inn. 3: ALLSTARS2
Lohan 3UN . . .
Gable BB . . X
Brando 2 . . X
*SB:Gable SB . X .
Dean BB . X X
Bardot 5UN F . X X
Inn. 4: ALLSTARS1
Antares 7 . . .
Betelgeuse 6-3 . . .
Canopus 4-3 . . .
Inn. 4: ALLSTARS2
Loren 1B . . X
*SB:Loren SB . X .
Peck 5-3 . X .
Nicholson 8 . X .
Grant 8 . X .
Inn. 5: ALLSTARS1
UrsaMajor 8 . . .
Sirius BB . . X
Deneb 6-4 F . . X
Rigel K . . X
Inn. 5: ALLSTARS2
Lohan 4-3 . . .
Gable 1B . . X
Brando 3-1 SAC . X .
Dean 6-3 . X .
Inn. 6: ALLSTARS1
Polaris 4-3 . . .
Alnitak BB . . X
*SB:Alnitak SB . X .
Antares 5-3 . X .
Betelgeuse 8 . X .
Inn. 6: ALLSTARS2
Bardot 1B . . X
Loren BB . X X
Peck 6-4-3 DP X . .
Nicholson BB X . X
Grant 4-6 F . . X
Inn. 7: ALLSTARS1
Canopus 3UN . . .
UrsaMajor 3-1 . . .
Sirius 8 . . .
Inn. 7: ALLSTARS2
Lohan 3UN . . .
Gable 1B . . X
Brando 3-1 SAC . X .
Dean 4-3 X . .
Inn. 8: ALLSTARS1
Deneb 8 . . .
Rigel 4-3 . . .
Polaris 5-3 . . .
Inn. 8: ALLSTARS2
Bardot 6-3 . . .
Loren 8 . . .
Peck 7 . . .
Inn. 9: ALLSTARS1
Alnitak 6-3 . . .
Antares 5 . . .
Betelgeuse 5-3 . . .
Inn. 9: ALLSTARS2
Nicholson 1B . . X
WP . X .
Grant 1B X . X
Lohan K X . X
Gable 8 SACF . . X 1
Brando BB . X X
Dean 4UN F X . X
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The Motion Picture Patents Company [formed in 1908] frowned on star promotion...The main catalyst for change was the public's desire to know the actors' names. Film audiences repeatedly recognized certain performers in movies that they liked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system_%28filmmaking%29).