Alcuin a view commonly held by the Church at the time. Such sins, argued Alcuin, were therefore more serious than lustful acts with women, for which the earth was cleansed and revivified by the water of the Flood, and merit to be "withered by flames unto eternal barrenness." In several churches of the Anglican Communion, Alcuin is celebrated on 20 May, the first available day after the day of his death (as Dunstan is celebrated on 19 May). Alcuin College, one of the colleges of the University of York, England, is named after him. For a complete census of Alcuin's works,
John Goodricke named after John Goodricke was established in Armenia by a group of amateur astronomers. In 1984 a planetarium show about John Goodricke was created specifically for deaf students by the HOSS Planetarium. - See also John Burnside's poem, 'Sense Data', a tribute to Goodricke in Burnside's collection, "The Asylum Dance", Cape (2000) John Goodricke John Goodricke FRS (17 September 1764 – 20 April 1786) was an English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782. John Goodricke, named after his great grandfather Sir John Goodricke 1617–1670 (see Goodricke baronets of