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One reportedly coded Underground Railroad song is "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd". [1] The song's title is said to refer to the star formation (an asterism) known in America as the Big Dipper and in Europe as The Plough. The pointer stars of the Big Dipper align with the North Star. In this song the repeated line "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" is thus ...
Big Dipper (band), a 1980s-1990s Boston alternative-rock band; Big Dipper (rapper), professional name of American rapper Dan Stermer; The Great Dipper, a 2015 album by Roy Kim "Big Dipper", a 1978 song by Elton John from the album A Single Man "Big Dipper", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
The Big Dipper seen from Fujian. The constellation of Ursa Major (Latin: Greater Bear) has been seen as a bear, a wagon, or a ladle.The "bear" tradition is Indo-European (appearing in Greek, as well as in Vedic India), [7] but apparently the name "bear" has parallels in Siberian or North American traditions.
The asterism of the Big Dipper (shown in this star map in green) lies within the constellation of Ursa Major. Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a Latinate adjective sometimes used in English. It is a form of the Latin noun septentriones, which refers to the seven stars of the Plough (Big Dipper), occasionally called the Septentrion.
The Big Dipper or The Plough, the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major The Little Dipper Orion (constellation) , (seven stars with four being his shoulders and feet plus three in Orion's Belt
Big Dipper, or The Plough, an asterism consisting of the seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; The Plough and the Stars, a play by Sean O'Casey based on the Citizen Army's role in the Easter Rising The Plough and the Stars, 1937 American film based on the O'Casey play
Hokuto Shichisei or the Big Dipper, the Japanese name for the asterism; Hokuto (train) the name of train services operating in Hokkaido, Japan; Hokuto Corporation, a Tokyo-based Japanese adult video company; Hokuto (Street Fighter), a character in the Street Fighter EX video game series
Big Dipper is referenced in the Jethro Tull song "Big Dipper", a track from the 1976 album Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!. [ 14 ] In the 1964 episode "Dangerous Journey" of the second series of Doctor Who , where the crew of the Tardis had been shrunken to the size of ants, the character Barbara says that a tumultuous journey ...