Originally, we were valleying (coined by Oscar from a term borrowed from roller coaster lingo meaning “gets stuck midway through the circuit” that we’re trying to add to the pinball lexicon) on the skill shot, but that doesn’t happen anymore. Instead, the valleys happen at the top of...
“It is torpedoing this overture,” Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja’Afari said in an interview today at the UN about the shipment, which the U.S. and Britain say came from Iran. “Maybe some circles within the administration are not in full accord with this effort.” Ja’Afari was referring...
Window film comes in four categories: 1. Security or safety film 2. Decorative or safety film 3. Anti-graffiti film 4. Solar film One benefit of security or safety film is that when an outer pane of glass breaks, the inner pane will remain intact. It is used to protect retail, commerc...
Once I thought to scent a ‘possum, but the musky taint came from a rotting log; and a stale fox might have crossed to windward and I not noticed, so blunted had grown my nose in this unfamiliar Northern world. Musing, restless, dimly confused, and doubly watchful, I rode through the...
The form of the arms, once they are granted, will be governed not by the painting of the arms on the letters patent, but by the verbal description of them in the text, known as the blazon. The same arms may be rendered perfectly correctly in an infinite number of artistic styles. ...
Origin/meaningHeimsheim received city rights in the late 13th century, which were confirmed in 1456. Probably at the same time the arms were devised and placed on the local seal. These showed to crossed arrows, pointed downwards. When the arms were changed to wheat-ears I do not know. ...