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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
  
* '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way
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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_%28goddess%29 Nut] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor Hathor]:''' an Egyptian goddesses of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0296&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0296&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog#page/n65 The Mythology of all races, Vol. XII (1918), p.37]
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** [http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog#page/n69 The Mythology of all races, Vol. XII (1918), p.41]
  
 
* '''my stars!''' an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
 
* '''my stars!''' an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.

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  • my stars! an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
  • oh my stars and garters a colloquial US expression of surprise.
  • Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), often regarded as the founder of modern satanism, in his "Liber al vel legis" (1909): "Every man and every woman is a star."