The storied crystal is claimed to have been able to accurately map the location of the sun -- even in cloudy sky -- within 5 degrees.

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Now I was standing before a man who resembled my old reflection almost exactly but who had been changed in some manner, the way a lawn under a cloudy sky changes when the sun comes out.

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The cloudy sky thundered.

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Its thunderous rise into a bright but cloudy morning sky over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators.

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He saw that the Milky Way, that cloudy streak across the sky, is made of stars.

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Most wore black or other dark colors under a sky of cloudy gray.

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There were few cars on the road, and the sky was cloudy, an ominous sight in a city that gets only seven inches of rain per year.

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Cloudy to begin with, the sky had cleared.

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