The Old Detective’s Pupil, John R. Coryell & Ormond G. Smith V1S A professional detective and master of disguise. Casper the Friendly Ghost The Friendly Ghost, Seymour Reit & Joe Oriolo V4I1 The deceased spirit of young Casper McFadden who only wants to be friends with humans, but i...
His pupil, Seyyad Hamza, wrote the narrative poem Yusufve Zeliha. The most outstanding representative of Sufi poetry in Asia Minor was a Persian-language poet from Middle Asia, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–73), who also wrote poetry in Turkish. The traditions established by Rumi were continued...
Hint: the old woman's nose is the young girl's nose and chin What do you see?Skull or Woman at Vanity? Hint: move farther from the screen to see the skull or move closer to see woman looking at the mirror A Face of A Native American Or An Eskimo? Hint: Neck of native Amer...
However, it can also bedone in other disciplines. You might study how the writer Langston Hughes communicates his message in a poem like “Mother to Son” and thenask students to do the same kind of thing in their own poem. You might read several stories and poems by a single author li...
The physician, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer Gemma Frisius proposed a method of determining longitude based on the use of accurate chronometers. Abraham Or-telius published his famous atlas, the Theater of the World. The best known of all Antwerp cartographers was Mercator, the ...
For the Constable of Wallingford Castle, see Richard of Wallingford.Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336) was an English mathematician, astronomer, horologist, and cleric who made major contributions to astronomy and horology while serving as abbot of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. ...
Andrew Grey doesn’t fit most people’s idea of an astronomer. He works in a car repair shop, not in a lab or university, yet the Australian repairman discovered a star system hiding in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Mr. Grey is one of millions of citizen scientists helping ...
John Dee was the Einstein of the era, a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and occultist, who collected the largest library in England and one of the best in Europe. Dee occupied that middle ground in the history of science where mathematics and magic had not yet split into ...
I’m 40 years old, and I’ve been in contact (more or less) with the Internet as it’s grown from inchoate network in the early 1990s to the Thing that it is today. This means that I’ve been aware, and to some extent Rubbernecked, the blogging movement as it has developed. This...
to all traditions. The tone of her salon was in the main dilettante, as is apt to be the case with any circle that plumes itself most upon something quite apart from intellectual distinction. It reflected the spirit of an old aristocracy, with its pride, its exclusiveness, its worship of ...