<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/36ee8fd6-f086-4994-8447-1aa324d0aaa1/7AED68B7-9CD3-4915-90A2-7EB511D82556/" 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://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm" href="http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.uapress.arizona.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.uapress.arizona.edu/img/2737465B-53F6-46E5-B956-4E04BC05BDA9" alt="" /></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://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm">Schiaparelli was born on March 14, 1835, in the town of Savigliano, in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, not far from the French border</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://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/chap05.htm">as an infant," Schiaparelli later wrote, "I came to know the Pleiades, the Little Wagon, the Great Wagon. . . . 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/04/channelling-martian-maps.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/C2DA49C0-042A-481F-9B40-BE1201307016" alt="Mars 1877-1878 Giovanni Schiaparelli" /></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://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/04/channelling-martian-maps.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/AEE605F0-4317-417E-ADCA-6A0685C649D2" alt="Mars Map 1890 Giovanni Schiaparelli" /></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; 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