nova
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“The Brazil of bossa nova and samba, the Brazil that so many foreigners know and that Lula grew up with, has now been almost totally replaced,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Dean’s set was full of classic stuff — pastel-hued horns, bossa nova piano, winking choreo from her full-suited backing band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The project, released just before Coachella, blended a diverse range of rhythms such as pop, Brazilian funk, R&B and bossa nova -- a mix that, for Sonza, is the essence of Brazil.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Overall, the results challenge the long-standing idea that nova eruptions are single, impulsive events.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Galileo was still going over the measurements of parallax for the nova of 1572 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems of 1632.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
There is not yet enough observational data for chlorine to confirm this and it provides a testable hypothesis to check the validity of the ONe novae model.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
The model predicts that ONe novae will produce a chlorine enhancement similar to the phosphorus enhancement.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
What if these novae were actually the remnants of technological civilizations like ours, which had in fact discovered the dreaded "detonator" referenced by Rutherford?
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
"I was looking for a much more common type of outburst called novae."
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
Proper naked-eye observations of novae and comets could produce results incompatible with celestial-sphere astronomy, but these results were irrelevant to planetary predictions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The Zwicky Transient Facility scans the sky for stars that rapidly change in brightness, which could be events such as novas.
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
Strongly influenced by the subtle bossa novas sung by João Gilberto, Ms. Costa began performing in her teens.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
There’s so much music in Berlin’s stories, from the “Cielito Lindo” guitar players of her youth to her own music: Buddy Holly, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, the bossa novas of Astrud Gilberto.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2018
The Brazilian duo Minas will perform jazz sambas and bossa novas.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015
Arguments over the location of novas and comets in the heavens thus continued even after 1610, after which date the traditional Ptolemaic system was abandoned by all competent participants.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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