Annie Russell Maunder

Directory

References

Discover

Malayan Leaf Frog - Megophrys nasuta

9 Animals That Look Like Leaves

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stands beside the U.S. flag after is was unfurled on the lunar surface during the first extravehicular activity (EVA-1) Nov. 19, 1969. Footprints made by the crew can be seen in the photograph.

How Many People Have Been to the Moon?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

jeans, denim, pants, clothing

Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

Annie Russell Maunder

Irish astronomer and mathematician

Learn about this topic in these articles:

sunspots

In sunspot
Annie Russel Maunder in 1922 charted the latitude drift of spots during each solar cycle. Her chart is sometimes called the butterfly diagram because of the winglike shapes assumed by the graph. Each solar cycle begins with small spots appearing in middle latitudes of the…
Read More