A person who does not deliberately dimples of all his thoughts alike in cumbrous draperies and flimsy disguises may strike out twenty varieties of familiar everyday language, each coming somewhat nearer to the feeling he wants to convey, and at last not hit upon that particular and only one wh...
themihrab, a niche that indicates the direction of prayer, and theminbar, a pulpit for the preacher to give the sermon. Other elements also became common, such asdomes and minarets, which were historically used for the call to prayer. These had the additional purpose of signifying the ...
D In order to track temporal hours during the day, inventors created sundials, which indicate time by the length or direction of the sun"s shadow. The sundial"s counterpart, the water clock, was designed to measure temporal hours at night. One of the first water clocks was a basin with ...
Although shale can have porosity in the range of ten percent, the pores and flowpaths are so tiny that it is difficult for any fluids in the pores to move out of the rock (Schieber, 2010, Goral et al., 2015). This is what makes shale so “tight,” requiring the presence of ...
Wind can cause a windmill to pump water, or it can destroy the windmill. What will happen depends on the speed of the wind. Ultimately the energy from the sun unevenly heating the surface of our planet combined with the rotation of the earth produces the wind....
58. “So if I’m not black enough and if I’m not white enough, then tell me, Tony, what am I!?”– Don Shirley, Green Book 59. “Favor is a breeze that shifts direction all the time.”– Harley, The Favourite 60. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind...
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So probably all that really does justify the creative conceit that the notebook represents. The desolate moment in that Santa Fe kitchen passed. But I don’t forget it. The old really can give rise to the new, but the trick is knowing which is which. “(Waiting For A) Westbound Train...
In this view, the Big Bang arises from an almost nothing. That’s what’s left over when all the matter in a universe has been consumed into black holes, which have in turn boiled away into photons – lost in a void. The whole universe thus arises from something that – viewed from ...
Then there is the emotional toll of prostate cancer. It is always in the back of your mind if it has spread to other places, or what if the Lupron shots quit working, or how long will it be before it finally gets me? Many can’t deal with the emotional toll. Current evidence indica...