Transit of Venus June 8
unavailable in the western hemisphere
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The six-hour event will be watched - on projected screens, or via television and internet - by hundreds of millions. No human alive has ever seen a transit of Venus; the last was in 1881.
—Tim Radford Guardian UK

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"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
—Shirley Hazzard
author of The Transit of Venus, a novel
(a novel highly recommended to fans of Elizabeth Bowen and/or Robertson Davies)