As seen from Earth, Venus shines about 600 times brighter than Alcyone, the most luminous star in the Pleiades. During the weekend try scanning the group with binoculars. You'll see dozens of faint Pleiades invisible to the unaided eye.Among them, bright Venus looks like a supernova.his weekend, the planet Venus will have a rare close encounter with the Pleiades star cluster. Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help. March 31, 2004: The Pleiades are elusive.
Robert E. Lee began the war as a military advisor to Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. Lee became commander of the Army of Northern Virginia when its original commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, was wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines in May 1862.
If the Union hadn't blockaded the Confederate coast and the South was able to export its cotton and import supplies, would they have won the w... If Robert E. Lee knew the Confederacy's true motives, i.e. the expansion and perpetuation of slavery, would he have fought for the Union inste...