Crop circle - and the corn falls flat like a fan being opened. Cerealogists go on to state that there are other features of crop circles that undercut the hoax theory. They say that bends in the corn in many circles are just below a joint, however they state that flattening produces a crack at any point in the stem. Also the flattened corn often lies in groomed layers, rather than random crushings. Not long after WWII, aerial archaeological surveys were made over large areas of Britain. They photographed ripening crops to reveal crop marks, the differential ripening of the crop revealing differences in the subsoil caused by the buried remnants of ancient buildings. Though many previously unsuspected archaeological sites were found, no crop circles were ever recorded, which would tend to cast doubt.
Topological space - of specifying the concept of "nearness"; an open set is "near" each of its points. Relations between topologies A variety of useful and not-so-useful topologies can be placed on nearly any set to form a topological space. When every set in a topology T1 is also found in a topology T2, we say that T2 is finer than T1, and T1 is coarser than T2. A proof which relies only on the existence of certain open sets will also hold for any finer topology, and similarly a proof that relies only on certain sets not being open applies to any coarser topology. Other terms, such as stronger, weaker, larger, and smaller are used in literature but with little agreement on their meanings. Continuous functions A function between topological spaces is said.
René Daumal - journal, "Le Grand Jeu". He is best known for two novels A Night of Serious Drinking and the truly bizarre Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing both based upon his friendship with Alexander de Salzmann a pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff. Daumal's premature death of tuberculosis on May 21, 1944 in Paris, France was in all probability hastened by youthful experiments with a heady cocktail of drugs and psycho-active chemicals, the principal culprit amongst these no doubt being carbon tetrachloride. See: Daumal: The Life and Work of a Mystic Guide by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt (NY: State University of New York Press, 1999).
Miami Beach, Florida - and 3.53% from two or more races. 53.45% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 46,194 households out of which 14.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 27.4% are married couples living together, 8.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 60.3% are non-families. 48.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.87 and the average family size is 2.76. In the city the population is spread out with 13.4% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 38.2% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who are 65 years of age or older..
Anomalous phenomenon - abilities, such as telepathy, near-death experiences and clairvoyance. Physical phenomena, unusual physical occurrences that may be controlled by a consciousness, such as psychokinesis, poltergeists or stigmata. Other phenomena, such as unidentified flying objects, reverse speech, cattle mutilation and alien abductions. Cryptozoology studies such "hidden", undiscovered and possibly non-existent creatures as the bigfoot (cf. Patterson-Gimlin film) and the Loch Ness Monster. Other subjects that could be considered under the heading of "anomalous phenomena" (though not parapsychology) are spontaneous combustion, doppelgangers, ouija boards, and numerology. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Definition 2 Quotations 3 External Links 4 Further reading Definition Properly speaking, anomalous phenomena are phenomena which are observed and for which there are no suitable explanations (in the context of a specific body of knowledge, e.g. astronomy or biology). As the body.
Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction - Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year. 1987: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne 1988: (no award) 1989: Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison (tie) 1989: Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (tie) American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon 1990: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs The Weird Tale by S.T. Joshi 1991: Clive Barker's Shadows.
Guide - Guide The term "guide" refers to an agency for directing or showing the way, specifically a person who leads or directs a stranger over unknown or unmapped country, or conducts travellers and tourists through a town, or over buildings of interest. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Etymology 2 Military Usages 3 Mountaineering 4 Other Usages Etymology The word guide (Middle English gyde, derives from the from the French guide; and ultimately from the earlier French form guie (English “guy”). The /d/ sound originates with the Italian form guida; the word probably ultimately derives from the Teutonic, having connections with the base seen in Old English witan (to know). Military Usages In European wars up to the time of the French Revolution, the absence of large-scale detailed.
Economy of El Salvador - the government has focused on improving the collection of its current revenues. A 10% value-added tax, implemented in September 1992, was raised to 13% in July 1995. The VAT is estimated to have contributed 51% of total tax revenues in 1999, due mainly to improved collection techniques. A multiple exchange rate regime that had been used to conserve foreign exchange was phased out during 1990 and replaced by a free-floating rate. The colón depreciated from five to the dollar in 1989 to eight in 1991, and in 1993, was informally pegged at 8.73 colónes to the dollar, later adjusted to 8.79. Large inflows of dollars in the form of family remittances from Salvadorans working in the United States offset a substantial trade deficit and support the exchange rate. The monthly average.
Chicago, Illinois - in the era of so-called machine politics. In his time in office, the 1968 Democratic National Convention visited Chicago, four major expressways were built, the Sears Tower became the tallest building in the world and O'Hare Airport was constructed which later became the busiest airport in the world. In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago. Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, became mayor in 1989. Important Historical Events French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet pass through the area that will become Chicago. 1673 French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, passes through Chicago en route to the mouth of the Mississippi River. 1682 French Jesuits establish Fort de Chicago, the area's first true European settlement. 1683 Jesuit missionary Francois Pinet founds.
Polynomial - rational functions. Piecewise rationals are the only functions that can be evaluated directly on a computer, since typically only the operations of addition, multiplication, division and comparison are implemented in hardware. All the other functions that computers need to evaluate, such as trigonometric functions, logarithms and exponential functions, must then be approximated in software by suitable piecewise rational functions. Efficient evaluation In order to determine function values of polynomials for given values of the variable x, one does not apply the polynomial as a formula directly, but uses the much more efficient Horner scheme instead. If the evaluation of a polynomial at many equidistant points is required, Newton's difference method reduces the amount of work dramatically. The Difference Engine of Charles Babbage was designed to create large tables of values of.
Guide Rock, Nebraska - Guide Rock, Nebraska Guide Rock is a village located in Webster County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 245. Geography \nGuide Rock is located at 40°4'23" North, 98°19'51" West (40.073032, -98.330931)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 245 people, 133 households, and 69 families residing in the village. The population density is 189.2/km² (485.7/mi²). There are 162 housing units at an average density of 125.1/km² (321.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.78% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00%.
Euclidean geometry - Euclidean geometry Euclidean geometry, also called "flat" or "parabolic" geometry, is named after the Greek mathematician Euclid. Euclid's text Elements is an early systematic treatment of this kind of geometry, based on axioms (or postulates). This is the kind of geometry familiar to most people, since it is the kind usually taught in high school. This system is an axiomatic system, which hoped to prove all the "true statements" as theorems in geometry from a set of finite number of axioms. The five postulates/axioms of the Euclidean system are: Any two points can be joined by a straight line. Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line. Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius.
Agnosia - Agnosia Agnosia (a-gnosis, "non-knowledge") is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. It is usually due to temporal lobe injury in the brain. Visual agnosia is associated with lesions of the left occipital lobe and temporal lobes. Many patients have a severe visual field defects. Object Agnosia is inability to recognize objects. Subtypes: Form agnosia: Patients perceive only parts of details, not the whole object. Simultagnosia: Patients recognize objects or details but only one at the time. They cannot make out the scene they belong to or make out a whole image out of the details. They literally cannot see the forest for the trees. Associative Agnosia: Patients can describe.
Cunt (novel) - Kelso, who has already published a number of books (for example novels entitled Desiring Machines in the Australian Bush and Fuck Your Mother Up the Arse, but also non-fiction), is in his thirties, several times divorced, a heavy drinker and, according to his own description, a "sex beast". As a writer, he says he has no intention whatsoever of using his imagination. Rather, he wants to chronicle his present life, which in turn is fuelled by his most ambitious literary project so far, the completion of a trilogy entitled Countdown to Chaos. In order to be able to write the final part of his trilogy, Kelso wants to track down and have sex again with all the girls he "shagged" when he was in his teens -- in reverse order. He.
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Brontitall Brontitall is a planet populated by a highly evolved bird people who live in the right ear of a 15-mile high marble statue of Arthur Dent. Originally the bird people were ground dwellers, but gradually the planet was taken over by the shoe shops of the Dolman-Saxlil Shoe Corporation, thanks to the shoe-shop intensifier ray they deployed. In order to keep the populace buying more and more shoes, they were badly made and ill-fitting. Eventually the shoe event horizon is reached, whereby all of the shops on the planet are shoe shops, but none of the shoes actually fit. The result is economic collapse, ruin.
Key West, Florida - The name "Key West" is derived from a "false friend" anglicization of the Spanish language name of the island, Cayo Hueso, meaning "Bone Island". In 1763 when Great Britain took control of Florida, the community of Spaniards and Native Americans were moved to Havana. Florida returned to Spanish control 20 years later, but there was no official resettlement of the island. Informally the island was used by fishermen from Cuba and from the British Bahamas, who were later joined by others from the United States after that last nation's independence. While claimed by Spain, no nation exersized de facto control over the community there for some time. In 1815 the Spanish governor in Havana deeded the island of Key West to Juan Pablo Salas of Saint Augustine, Florida. After Florida was.
Kohen - Bible The Torah appoints Aaron, brother of Moses, and Aaron's descendants as Kohanim (Numbers 3:1-4). They were given duties associated with the Tabernacle (Numbers 1:47-54; 3:5-13,44-51; 8:5-26). Since Aaron was a Levite, this means that all Kohanim are Levites. Most of the service in the Temple could be conducted only by Kohanim. Non-Kohen Levites assisted in the services of the Temple. After the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem the formal role of priests in sacrifical services came to an end. This change affected the role of the Kohen and Levites. In the absence of a temple in Jerusalem, sacrifices are not brought. Instead there are other Jewish methods of atoning for sin. The role of the priesthood after the Temple After the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
Jewish principles of faith - Names of God 1.6 The Nature of God 1.7 To God alone may one offer prayer 1.8 Scripture 1.9 The words of the prophets are true 1.10 The status of Moses 1.11 The Torah and Jewish Denominations 1.12 Holy Books 1.13 Reward and punishment 1.14 Israel chosen for a purpose 1.15 The messianic age 1.16 The soul is pure at birth 2 History and development 2.17 No formal text canonized 2.18 Gaining converts 2.19 Is faith necessary? 2.20 Belief in the Mishnah and the Talmud 2.21 Belief in the Medieval era 2.22 Maimonides's 13 Principles of Faith 2.23 Principles of faith after Maimonides 2.24 The Enlightenment 2.24.1 Dogma in Orthodox Judaism 2.24.2 Dogma in Conservative Judaism 2.24.3 Dogma in Reform Judaism 2.24.4 Dogma in Reconstructionist Judaism 2.25 Jewish belief and identity.
Jules Simon - at the École Normale. At this period he edited the works of Nicolas Malebranche (2 vols, 1842), of Rene Descartes (1842), Bossuet (1842) and of Antoine Arnauld (1843), and in 1844-1845 appeared the two volumes of his Histoire de l'école d'Alexandrie. He became a regular contributor to the Revue des deux mondes, and in 1847, with Amédée Jacques and Émile Saisset, founded the Liberti de penser, with the intention of throwing off the yoke of Cousin, but he retired when Jacques allowed the insertion of an article advocating the principles of collectivism, with which he was at no time in sympathy. In 1848 he represented the Côtes-du-Nord in the National Assembly, and next year entered the Council of State, but was retired on account of his republican opinions. His refusal to.
Victor Cousin - 1821-1822 Cousin was deprived of his offices in the faculty of letters and in the Normal School. The Normal School was swept away, and Cousin shared the fate of Guizot, who was ejected from the chair of history. This enforced abandonment of public teaching was a mixed blessing: he set out for Germany with a view to further philosophical study. While at Berlin in 1824-1825 he was thrown into prison, either on some ill-defined political charge at the instance of the French police, or as a result of an indiscreet conversation. Freed after six months, he remained under the suspicion of the French government for three years. It was during this period that he developed what is distinctive in his philosophical doctrine. His eclecticism, his ontology and his philosophy of history.
