Purple Murex - Purple Murex The Purple Murex is a shellfish (Murex trunculus) which produces a distinctive purple dye, considered valuable in ancient times and often used to dye fabrics. The dye is sometimes called "royal" or "imperial purple" as its price put it beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest..
Tyrian purple - Tyrian purple Tyrian purple is a purple dye first made in the ancient city of Tyre. It was made from a secretion of various marine molluscs, such as Murex trunculus and Murex brandaris. The expensive dye was prized by Roman noblemen, who used it to colour ceremonial robes. The main chemical constituent of the dye was discovered by Paul Friedländer in 1909 to be 6,6′-dibromoindigo, a substance that had previously been synthesized in 1903. However, it has never been synthesized commercially. See also: Indigo dye.
Murex trunculus - Murex trunculus Murex trunculus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Prosobranchia Order: Neogastropoda Family: Muricidae Genus: Murex Species: trunculus Binomial name Murex trunculus Murex trunculus is a mollusc, source of the royal Tyrian purple. The shell of this gastropod is very rough, adorned with spines. It prefers the warm seas..
Jewish symbolism - one-third, and the Holy Place two-thirds, of the entire Temple. The tapestries were ten times three ells in length, and there were three vessels each for the altar of burnt offering, the altar of incense, and the Ark. The candlestick had twice three arms (besides the shaft, which also held a lamp), and each arm had three knobs. The blessing of the priest consisted of three sections (Num. vi. 24, 25), and in the invocation of God the word "holy" was repeated thrice. The symbolism of the number four was based on the contemplation of the quaternity as found in the universe, which included both heaven and earth (comp. Job xxxvii. 3; Isa. xi. 12; Ezek. vii. 2; I Chron. ix. 24; Dan. viii. 8.) The number four connoted heaven as.
Atlantis - cult was in existence already 125 years before Plato, which means that the story could not be invented by him. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that "the intelligentsia of Alexandria considered the destruction of Atlantis an historical fact, described a class of earthquakes that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and so swallowed up portions of the earth, as once in the Atlantic Ocean a large island was swallowed up. Diodorus Siculus recorded that the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of Ceres. In fact, cereals were unknown to American Indians. Pausanias called these island "Satyrides," referring to the Atlantes and those who profess to know the measurements of the earth . He states that far west of the Ocean there lies a group of islands whose inhabitants.
Deep Purple - Deep Purple Deep Purple was one of the first Hard Rock bands, and would later become one of the most famous heavy metal bands. They were formed in 1968 as Roundabout, consisting of Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, Jon Lord on hammond organ, Chris Curtis on vocals, Dave Curtis on bass and Bobby Woodman on drums. After only a month of rehearsals, Blackmore and Lord would be the only two remaining members, bringing in vocalist Rod Evans, bassist Nick Simper and drummer Ian Paice. In April, the band would change its name to Deep Purple. After three albums and extensive touring in the states, it was the inclusion of Ian Gillan and Roger Glover that created the essential Deep Purple line-up Mark II, that was reunited two times..
Kalpana Chawla - the explosion of the final Columbia mission). After being selected for a second flight, Chawla lived at the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, undergoing extensive training. Chawla's mission got delayed in July 2002 when NASA engineers identified three cracks on the shuttle's second engine's liquid hydrogen flow liner. Over six months later the shuttle was cleared and she returned to space in the ill-fated STS-107 mission. Chawla was dedicated to the scientific goals of SPACEHAB/FREESTAR microgravity research mission, for which the crew conducted nearly 80 experiments studying earth and space science, advance technology development, and astronaut health and safety. Personal Characteristics Chawla's NASA portrait Chawla was a strict vegetarian. On her mission, she carried a white silk banner as part of a worldwide campaign to honor teachers, as.
Karl King - appeared on the sheet music as Karl King, K. L. King, or sometimes Carl Lawrence. "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite" remains his best known circus march, but other pieces that retain their popularity among fans of band music include: "The Purple Pageant" "Garland Entrée" "The Melody Shop" "The New Madison Square Garden" "Woody Van's" External Links Karl L. King.
Kenyon College - founded in 1939. Kenyon's men's and women's swimming teams, lead by Jim Steen are generally considered the best in NCAA Division III, with the men's team winning 23 national championships and the women's 18. Kenyon's sports teams are referred to as the Lords and Ladies, sporting their colors of purple and white..
Keith & Donna Godchaux - is disputed; although it is agreed that heavy drug use on both sides of the rift triggered the departure. During their membership of the Grateful Dead, the couple issued the largely self-written Keith and Donna album in 1975; with Jerry Garcia as a Keith and Donna Band member. In turn, they performed as part of the Jerry Garcia Band. Keith also appeared with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Subsequently, Keith co-wrote songs with Lowell George (of Little Feat) and Robert Hunter. Their son Zion was born in 1974. After the Grateful Dead, the couple played in the group Ghosts, which became The Heart of Gold Band. Keith died in a car accident in Marin County, California in 1980. Donna did not perform again with any Grateful Dead band members.
Kilbourne hole - be 80,000 years old. The volcanic features around El Paso and vicinity are part of the Rio Grande Rift, which extends northward into Wyoming. Description of the crater Basalt cliffs of Kilbourne hole, looking north from south lip of crater The hole is over a mile wide, and over 300 feet deep. Two basalt cliffs inside the crater, with the characteristic reddish purple hexagonal columns occupy the northeast and southeast sides of the crater. The cliffs are about 40 feet high. Layers of ashfall and crumbling sediment also rise about 40 feet high, on the south rim of the crater. This ashfall section will not support your weight, on the south rim; it is safer to stay on the basalt cliffs and the sand dunes. Sand dunes have collected on the.
Kohlrabi - stems -- in German 'kohl' is cabbage and 'rabi' is turnip and it is so called because it has cabbage-like leaves and a turnip-like bulb above ground. Varieties include White Vienna and Purple Vienna. Some varieties are food for cattle. Food List of fruits List of vegetables.
Kohen - to abstain from wine and all strong drink while performing sacerdotal duties (Lev. x. 9; Ezek. xliv. 21). Any priest having incurred Levitical defilement was excluded, under penalty of death, from priestly service and from partaking of holy food during the time of his uncleanness (Lev. xxii. 2-7, 9; Ezek. xliv. 26 et seq.). If afflicted with any bodily blemish the priest was held permanently unfit for service; such a one was, however, permitted to eat of the holy food (Lev. xxi. 17-23). A noteworthy feature of the post-exilic priestly system is the place which the high priest occupies in it, for which see High Priest. To Make Atonement. —In Rabbinical Literature: The status of the priesthood in later Judaism and the views that prevailed concerning it were in full accordance.
Zane Grey - became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller. It propelled a career churning out popular novels about manifest destiny and the "conquest of the Wild West." Two years later he produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). He formed his own motion picture company, but in a few years sold it to Jesse Lasky who was a partner of the founder of Paramount Pictures. Paramount would make a number of movies based on his writings. He became one of the first millionaire authors. Over the years his habit.
Kudzu - are alternate and compound, with three broad leaflets up to four inches (10 cm) across. Leaflets may be entire or deeply 2-3 lobed with hairy margins. Leaflets are entire or coarsely and palmately lobed, up to eight inches long, pubescent underneath. Flowering kudzu Individual flowers, about ½-inch (1 cm) long, are purple, highly fragrant, tufted at nodes at the rachis, and borne in long hanging clusters (see image). The flowers are copious nectar producers and are visited by many species of bees, butterflies and skippers. Flowering occurs in late summer and is soon followed by production of brown, hairy, flattened, seed pods, each of which contains three to ten hard seeds. Every part of the plant is edible. The young leaves can be used for salad or cooked as greens; the.
J.P. Martin - late 1960s and early 1970s they were hailed as modern classics of children's literature, and although their fame has faded considerably since then some of the stories have recently been re-published in the United Kingdom (ISBN 0099438690). The Uncle of the six books in the Uncle series is an millionaire elephant with a purple dressing-gown, a B.A. from Oxford, and a clean-living past marred by a single, never-to-be-forgotten discreditable incident. He has many friends and supporters, including the Old Monkey, the One-Armed Badger, the cat Goodman, Noddy Ninety, Cloutman, the King of the Badgers, and Butterskin Mute. He is also the owner of an enormous castle-cum-circus-cum-adventure-playground called Homeward: Homeward is hard to describe, but try to think of about a hundred skyscrapers all joined together and surroudned by a moat with.
James Garner - both movies and television. At 16, he joined the Merchant Marine. He received a Purple Heart in the Korean War. In 1954 Garner had a nonspeaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He moved on to television commercials, and then to television roles. His first film role was in The Girl He Left Behind, but in the late 1950s he starred in a popular Western series, Maverick, rotating the starring role with Jack Kelly and Roger Moore. But Garner's popularity eventually made him the sole star of the series. He became a favorite of American fans for this role. In the 1960s he starred in such films as The Thrill of It All, Move Over, Darling, Boys' Night Out, The Great Escape, The Americanization of Emily,.
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust - state authority, serve in the military and renounce the Bible as "false doctrine" they would be free to go. Nevertheless, approximately 2500 Jehovah's Witnessess (about 10% of the pre-War total in Germany) were sent to concentration camps where they were forced to wear a purple triangle that specifically identified them as Jehovah's Witnesses. All lost their employment, many were sent to regular prisons. So intense was the persecution that the German leader of the Bible students, Paul Balzereit, caved under the pressure and renounced his faith. As early as 1921, political and religious factions accused the Witnesses of being linked with the Jews in subversive political movements. Bible Students were branded as the dangerous, Bolshevik, "Jewish worm." In response, the April 15, 1930, German edition of The Golden Age (forerunner of.
Jessica Lynch - shows undated footage of Lynch on a stretcher during her rescue from Iraq (USCENTCOM photo) On April 1, 2003, U.S. Marines staged a diversionary attack, besieging nearby Iraqi irregulars to draw them away from Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah. Meanwhile, a team of Navy SEALs, Marine commandos, and Army Rangers launched the nighttime raid, where they found Lynch hiding under a blanket on a hospital bed. An American soldier called out, "Jessica Lynch, we are United States soldiers and we're here to protect you and take you home." As the soldier removed his helmet, Lynch looked up and said, "I'm an American soldier, too." U.S. officials said, "Jessica held up her hand and grabbed the Ranger doctor's hand, and held onto it for the entire time, and said, 'Please don't let anybody.
Jimi Hendrix - as the record producer helped Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. After a few concerts, the band started to gain a reputation amongst their contemporaries, impressing Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, as well as members of The Beatles and The Who, who signed him to their record label. This promise was borne out in their first single, a cover of "Hey Joe", a stylized blues song that was virtually a standard for rock bands at the time. Further success came with the follow-up, the incendiary original "Purple Haze", whose heavily distorted guitar sound would be highly influential for the next 20 years, and the ballad "The Wind Cries Mary". These three songs were all Top 10 hits. 1967 also saw the.
