Hollow Earth - Hollow Earth The Hollow Earth is the esoteric idea that the planet Earth is hollow, almost invariably including the idea that the inner surface is habitable. Although at one time this idea was popular with some, it is now ridiculed and has long been contradicted by substantial evidence and dismissed as pseudoscience by the scientific community. There are two kinds of Hollow Earth theories: Concave Hollow Earth theories and Convex Hollow Earth theories. Convex Hollow Earth theories state that the surface of the planet we live on is the external surface of an hollow planet. Concave Hollow Earth theories state that we and all the universe are inside a hollow planet. According to Newton's Law of Gravity, the gravitational force is actually zero inside a spherical.
Jack o'lantern - been carved off and inner membranes and seeds scooped out to leave a hollow shell. Sections of a side are carved out to make a design, usually a face. It is possible, using thicker and thinner sections cut with differing tools, to create surprisingly detailed and realistic designs. A light source (traditionally a candle) is placed inside the pumpkin and the top is put back into place (often after a "chimney" is carved in the lid in order to allow heat to escape). The light illuminates the design from the inside. Jack o'lanterns are generally made for Halloween, and were originally made from turnips, beets and rutabagas. The practice of carving jack o'lanterns began in Ireland. The practice of carving Jack o'lanterns goes back to the Irish legend of Jack, a.
Jeff Goldblum - Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, The(1991) Sueño del mono loco, El(1990) Framed (Made for TV)(1990) Mister Frost(1990) Fly II, The(1989) The Tall Guy (1989) Earth Girls Are Easy(1989) Vibes(1988) Life Story (Made for TV)(1987) Beyond Therapy(1987) The Fly(1986) The Race for the Double Helix(1986)(BBC) Transylvania 6-5000(1985) Silverado(1985) Into the Night(1985) Terror in the Aisles(1984) Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (Made for TV)(1984) Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The(1984) Right Stuff, The(1983) Big Chill, The(1983) Rehearsal for Murder (Made for TV)(1982) Threshold(1981) Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The (Made for TV)(1980) Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (Made for TV)(1980) Thank God It's Friday(1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978) Remember My Name(1978) Annie Hall(1977) Between the Lines(1977) Sentinel, The(1977) Special Delivery(1976) St. Ives(1976) Next Stop, Greenwich Village(1976) Nashville(1975) Death.
John Varley - (the Eight Worlds) where years before a race of mysterious and omnipotent aliens kicked humans off the Earth, but humans have inhabited virtually every other corner of the solar system, often through the use of wild biological modifications partially learned from eavesdropping on alien communications. His detailed speculations on the ways humans might use advances in biological science were revelatory in the 1970's when his story collection The Persistence of Vision was released. The title story in that collection won the Hugo and Nebula awards, and it has been suggested that "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" may have inspired some portions of the movie Total Recall (although the primary inspiration was clearly the credited source, the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale"). Varley is often compared.
John Cleves Symmes, Jr. - in 1802 and rose to the rank of Captain during the War of 1812. In that war he served on the Canadian frontier, at both Fort Niagara and Fort Eire. His 1818 theory of a Hollow Earth, envisaging a shell about 800 miles thick, with openings at both poles about 1400 miles across, made his name famous/notorious. He proposed the name Symzonia for the inner territories. See a current reprint of his book: Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery, ISBN 0405063121. Compare a fictional echo of Symmes in Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole (1987)..
Hippogriff - rest. Such on Riphaean hills, though rarely found, Are bred, beyond the frozen ocean's bound. XIX Drawn by enchantment from his distant lair, The wizard thought but how to tame the foal; And, in a month, instructed him to bear Saddle and bit, and gallop to the goal; And execute on earth or in mid air, All shifts of manege, course and caracole; He with such labour wrought. This only real, Where all the rest was hollow and ideal. The reason for its great rarity is that griffins despise horses, which they regard with the same feelings a dog has about a cat. In medieval times there was an expression, "To mate griffins with horses," which meant about the same as the modern expression, "When pigs fly." The hippogriff was therefore.
Humber Bridge - single-span suspension bridge in the world, with a centre span of 1,410 metres. Its total length is 2,220 metres. The bridge's surface takes the form of a dual carriageway with a lower-level footpath on both sides. Each tower consists of a pair of hollow vertical concrete columns each 155.5 metres tall. The columns tapering from 6 metres square at the base to 4.5 x 4.75 metres at the top. The bridge is designed to tolerate constant motion and bends more than three metres in winds of 80mph. The towers are 36mm further apart at the top than the bottom as a result of the curvature of the earth. The north tower is on the bank, and has foundations down to 8 metres. The south tower is in the water, and descends.
Fictional country - fiction (or scientific romance). These countries are supposedly part of the normal Earth landscape although they are not located in a normal atlas. Later similar tales often took place on fictional planets. Jonathan Swift's protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, visited various strange places. Edgar Rice Burroughs placed adventures of Tarzan in areas in Africa that, at the time, were mostly unexplored. Isolated islands with strange creatures and/or customs were popular in these authors' times. When Western explorers had surveyed most of the Earth's surface, this option was lost. Thereafter utopian and dystopian societies have been usually placed on other planets, whether in human colonies in our Solar system or in societies on fictional planets orbiting other stars. Superhero and agent comicss and some thrillers also use fictional countries as backdrops. Most of these.
Formation evaluation - of holes in the bit under high pressure, washes the cuttings away and up the hole. During their trip to the surface they may circulate around the turning drillpipe, mix with cuttings falling back down the hole, mix with fragments caving from the hole walls and mix with cuttings travelling faster and slower in the same upward direction. They then are screened out of the mudstream by the shale shaker and fall on a pile at its base. Determining the type of rock being drilled at any one time is a matter of knowing the 'lag time' between a chip being cut by the bit and the time it reaches the surface. A sample of the cuttings taken at the proper time will containg the current cuttings in a mixture of.
Freedmenmen - over time, surviving the incredibly harsh conditions of Doon bred them into the ultimate example of a people bred to survive and thrive where a near-lack of entrees would kill everybody else or make them very fat. Their language is based on English, suggesting that they are descended from the White Europeans of the forgotten planet Earth. The Freedmenmen are considered a worthless race of losers by the Vladimir Hardchargin government and the Pahdedbrah Emperor, Shaddap IV. Freedmenmen Customs The Freedmenmen are organized into hootches. Each hootch has a nabe, whose word is law unless someone is willing to challenge him for leadership via rank-out. The Freedmenmen practice monogamy and are faithful to that one partner. Each hootch has a saladin, a wise woman who is a native equivalent of a.
Eon (novel) - are on the verge of a nuclear war (the book was written prior of the fall of USSR). In the middle of the hot political climate, an asteroid appears from nowhere near Earth orbit, and the two nations fight to claim it. The asteroid is hollow and filled with empty cities, but seems to come from Earth's future, and was terraformed by human beings. A team of scientists discovers that the asteroid is bigger inside than outside, and in particular that the last internal chamber seems to stretch into infinitum. An expedition is sent down the "tube", as it's called, where it will meet humanity descendants. The high technology of this civilization, including total control over genetic engineering, virtual worlds, human augmentation and magic-like control over matter is one of the.
Exploration of Mars - Mars since the 1960s aimed at gathering data on the red planet and answering questions about its past that may yield further insight into Earth's past, present, and future. The exploration of Mars has come at a high financial cost with roughly two-thirds of all spacecraft destined for Mars failing in one manner or another before completing or even beginning their missions. Part of this high failure rate can be ascribed to technical incompetence, but enough have either failed or lost communications for no apparent reason that some researchers half-jokingly speak of an Earth-Mars "Bermuda Triangle" or of a Great Galactic Ghoul which subsists on a diet of Mars probes. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Questions to explore 2 Early flyby probes and orbiters 2.1 Early Soviet missions 2.2 Mariner program.
Drainage - not draw well to the bottom of the drains, two feet will be a sufficient deepness for the pipe-drain, and two and a half feet for the wedge drain. In no case ought they to be shallower where the field has been previously levelled. In this instance, however, as the surface water is carried off chiefly by the water sinking immediately into the top of the drains, it will be necessary to have the drains much nearer each other--say from fifteen to twenty feet. If the ridges are more than fifteen feet wide, however broad and irregular they may be, follow invariably the line of the old furrows, as the best direction for the drains; and, where they are high-gathered ridges, from twenty to twenty-four inches will be a sufficient depth.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - to visit her uncle in California who operates Hugson's Ranch. She strikes up an acquaintance with Hugson's son—and her cousin—Zeb. Dorothy, Eureka, and Zeb are riding a buggy being pulled by a cab-horse named Jim when an earthquake starts and opens a crevice beneath them that sends them hurtling into the bowels of the earth. Dorothy, Eureka, Jim, Zeb, and the buggy alight in the land of the Mangaboos, a vegetable people who accuse them of causing the Rain of Stones (what the Mangaboos call the earthquake because they're beneath the surface of the earth, and earth instead falls on them). Zeb is surprised by this strange new land, but Dorothy surmises that they're in a fairy country because they're meeting vegetable people and the animals—Jim and Eureka—are now speaking. Just.
Dam - the valley sides can then act as natural walls. The primary function of the dam's structure is to fill the gap in the natural reservoir line left by the stream channel. The most desirable sites are usually those where the gap becomes a minimum for the required storage capacity. The best economical arrangement is often a composite structure such as a masonry dam flanked by earth embankments. The current use of the land to be flooded should be dispensable. The dam also serves to divert water to the intake works. Dams may be classified according to their height. A large dam is used to describe a dam higher than 15 metres, a major dam for constructions over 150 metres. Dams may be classified as follows: Timber dams Rock-fill dams Earth dams.
Acacia - are compound pinnate in general (see fig.). In some instances, however, more especially in the Australian species, the leaflets are suppressed and the leaf-stalks become vertically flattened, and serve the purpose of leaves. The vertical position protects the structure from the intense sunlight, as with their edges towards the sky and earth they do not intercept light so fully as ordinary horizontally placed leaves. Various species yield gum. True gum arabic is the product of Acacia senegal, abundant in both east and west tropical Africa. Acacia arabica is the gum-arabic tree of India, but yields a gum inferior to the true gum-arabic. An astringent medicine, called catechu or cutch, is procured from several species, but more especially from Acacia catechu, by boiling down the wood and evaporating the solution so as.
Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Gleason, Arthur Krams, Jack D. Moore - The Story of Three Loves Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore - Young Bess 1954 Black-and-White Richard Day - On the Waterfront Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Grace Gregory - The Country Girl Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Emile Kuri - Executive Suite Max Ophuls - Le Plaisir Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Sabrina 1954 Color John Meehan, Emile Kuri - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox - Desirée Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Red Garters Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen, Irene Sharaff, George James Hopkins -.
Academy Award for Costume Design - and Bathsheba Helen Rose, Gile Steele - The Great Caruso Herschel McCoy - Quo Vadis Hein Heckroth - Tales of Hoffmann 1952 Black-and-White Helen Rose - The Bad and the Beautiful Jean Louis - Affair in Trinidad Edith Head - Carrie Charles LeMaire, Dorothy Jeakins - My Cousin Rachel Sheila O'Brien - Sudden Fear 1952 Color - Marcel Vertes - Moulin Rouge Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Miles White - The Greatest Show on Earth Antoni Clavé, Mary Wills, Barbara Karinska - Hans Christian Andersen Helen Rose, Gile Steele - The Merry Widow Charles LeMaire - With a Song in My Heart 1953 Black-and-White Edith Head - Roman Holiday Walter Plunkett - The Actress Helen Rose, Herschel McCoy - Dream Wife Jean Louis - From Here to Eternity Charles LeMaire, Renie Conley.
Agate - interior of the vapour-vesicles. Variations in the character of the solution, or in the conditions of deposit, may have caused corresponding variation in the successive layers, so that bands of chalcedony often alternate with layers of crystalline quartz, Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size; thus a Brazilian geode, lined with amethyst, of the weight of 35 tons, was exhibited at the Dusseldorf Exhibition of 1902. The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the "skin" of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or "green earth," which are rich in iron, derived probably from the decomposition of the augite in the mother-rock. This green.
Altar - Altars in the Hebrew Bible Altars in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament) were typically made of earth (Ex. 20:24) or unwrought stone (20:25). Altars were generally erected in conspicuous places (Genesis 22:9; Ezekiel 6:3; 2 Kings 23:12; 16:4; 23:8; Acts 14:13). The word is used in Hebrews 13:10 for the sacrifice offered upon it - the sacrifice Christ offered. Paul found among the many altars erected in Athens one bearing the inscription, "To the unknown God" (Acts 17:23), or rather "to an [i.e., some] unknown God." The reason for this inscription cannot now be accurately determined. It afforded the apostle the occasion of proclaiming the gospel to the "men of Athens." The first altar recorded in the Hebrew Bible is that erected by Noah (Genesis 8:20). Altars were erected by.
