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...
A full-day taxi service, including the return journey and different stops around the park, costs around 3000B (around US$90). A cheaper option is to hop in a sharedsongthaewheading in the direction of the park. A motorcyclist on the Samoeng Loop. Kris Wiktor/Shutterstock ...
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 ...
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 ...
If viewed from above, Venus rotates on its axis in a direction that's the opposite of most planets'. That means on Venus, the sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east. On Earth, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west. ...
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....
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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...
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 ...
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...