<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6c4dbb58-fa83-458d-bbf4-2b559f7adda4/714C3167-FEF3-460D-99E7-4FEE86D4B1F4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy" style="font-size: 11px;">mail.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><U>Astronomers See Historic House in a New Light (Australia)</U></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><EM>by Richard Macey</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><DIV>On the shortest day of the year, if the skies are clear, the dawn sun shines straight through the front door of Sydney's historic Elizabeth Bay House.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><DIV>The light, said Nick Lomb, curator at the Powerhouse Museum's Sydney Observatory, "goes down the hall, out the back door, into the garden beyond and hits the cliff wall at the back of the house".</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><DIV>"It's very spectacular," he said, adding he was not aware of any other Australian home with the required alignment. If the house had been angled just a few degrees to the left or right it would not happen.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><DIV>Just before dawn tomorrow, the day of the winter solstice... Dr Lomb and dozens of pre-booked guests will gather at the house, hoping to witness the spectacle.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><DIV>Whether it is an amazing fluke, or was planned by the home's original owner, the colonial secretary Alexander Macleay and his architect John Verge, is unknown. . . . .</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/714C3167-FEF3-460D-99E7-4FEE86D4B1F4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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