This certainly could help with recognition of exactly what words and phrases are uttered, but for most people the division of attention would come at a high price—the loss of many of the nuances of the performer's soundings and embodiment of the text. Attempts to project poems on the ...
Vile weather, an impatient fretting against unbearable slowness and delay, sea—sickness, general discomfort and humiliating self—revelation are the master values of these memories. I was sick all through the journey out. I don’t know why. It was the only time I was ever s...
Fascinating to see the altitude distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere above Long Island on a July day. Link to Quora https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-data-on-absolute-humidity-at-altitude Link to University of Wyoming’s Atmospheric Soundings site http://weather.uwyo.edu/...
The works of the cable manufacturers are always located on the banks of a river or close to docks where the cable can easily be trans-shipped into a cableship. When the cable is nearing completion the cableship is brought alongside of the wharf to receive the cable. The largest cableship ...
known as Shortwaves. The chart above also shows how, locally, the jet stream can split in two around a so-called cut-off upper high or low, reuniting again downstream. Longwaves, shortwaves and cut-off highs and lows all have a strong bearing on the weather to be expected at ground-...
The annual June pilgrimage of party leaders to the seashore resort of Beidaihe began as usual in 1988. The sea was warm, the weather pleasant, and talk was easy. But quickly it became apparent that Deng was determined to press his economic program regardless of inflation and discontent. Party...