[Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades

[Patrick Moore]

There is no astronomical significance to the stars on the Durham flag.
 
See here for an explanation:  http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-nc-du.html#des
 
Pat

--- On Thu, 6/16/11, Bert Furey <bertfurey at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Bert Furey <bertfurey at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades
To: chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 5:07 PM






I think it has to do with Durham being the Bull city and the Pleiades being in Taurus.




From: Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com>
To: CHAOS <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Fri, June 3, 2011 11:32:06 PM
Subject: [Chaos-l] Durham and the pleiades

Wikipedia claims that the pleiades are represented on the Durham city
logo (http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/). Those stars do look pleiades-like
but I always questions something I can only find on WIkipedia.  Any
truth to this claim?  If so, what is the connection there?  What does
Durham have to do with the astronomy?
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