is a chrome-rich aluminum-beryllium silicate. The name beryl (pronounced BARE-ill, not "burl") evolved from the Greek through the Latin "beryllus" the meaning of which is uncertain. Emerald is a derivative of an ancient Persian word, and has come to us through such corruptions...
It is the same old story as with the Bible. There have always been those whose egos and self-importance prompted them to change Bible texts for one reason or another and much of the truth that was originally conveyed became obscured and lost its true meaning. ...
In his later book, commonly regarded as the MRA ‘bible’, the Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex, Farrell (1996) makes some bizarrely nebulous claims about male issues. For example, he contemplates whether American males are the new ‘n*gger’ by comparing men giving up...
It didn’t help that the first paper, that for the fantasy round table, was very academic and discussion quickly moved into a realm of jargon in which I knew the original meanings of all of the words used but understood their meaning in lit crit jargon only about one time in five. The...
Science in Science Fiction This one didn’t turn out quite like I had hoped, but then Wiscon isn’t really the place to have in-depth discussions on the meaning of genre. Ben Rosenbaum had been caught a bit on the hop through not having discovered he was supposed to be moderating the ...
As seems always to be the case in the information field, the terminology relating to databases is loose and imprecise. Twenty years ago we used to talk about abstracting and indexing services, meaning lists of references to journal articles and other forms of publication, usually with abstracts ...
Design/methodology/approach ‐ The paper explores the meaning of the prohibition of images in the sacred texts. This serves as a starting point to discuss representation of the world and different forms of thought in the management field. Findings ‐ A major element in the banning of images ...
I know that there is no such thing as a "true" reading of a novel — meaning is always subjective — therefore Langford may have elected to avoid the appearance of being "wrong" that always results when someone else presents their interpretation of a book. However, it also leaves the ...
In these works, characters blind themselves, fanatics torture obnoxious families, a Bible salesman steals a woman�s wooden leg, and a mother is killed by her own hatred and anger, leaving her son to fend for himself in a world of pain. Such tales bubble with gothic grotesqueries and ...