heavens

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According to Rodgers, early astronomers "built a huge amount of data about the heavens which would subsequently be used for things that they had never thought about," he said.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The work suggests Dante recognized meteors as real geological forces at a time when Aristotelian beliefs still portrayed the heavens as perfect and unchanging.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

“Thank heavens I never came near the guy,” Buffett said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Mamá said, folding her hands and looking up at the heavens.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez