Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
Planets in science fiction - Planets in science fiction The exploration of other worlds is one of the most enduring themes of science fiction. During the first decades of science fiction, Mars was the most common planet and the most romanticized of our solar system whose surface conditions seemed closest to being amenable to life. Percival Lowell's idea about canals of Mars was taken at face value then. Currently Mars is depicted mainly as a target of terraforming. See Mars in fiction for more details on the red planet's numerous roles. During the early-to-mid 20th century, Venus was also a popular subject. Venus is very similar to Earth in its size and surface gravity, and its surface is hidden by a thick cloud layer. Venus was usually depicted as a warm,.
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.
Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy There are many minor characters in the 5-part fictional "trilogy" The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. They include: Eddie the Shipboard Computer, Hotblack Desiato, Lintilla, Prosser, various Vogons, Roosta, Trillian, Frankie and Benjy mouse, and Zarquon. Eddie Eddie is the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold, with an over-excitable, over-enthused, extremely irritating personality. He is only found in the first two books of the series. Frankie Frankie is one of the twin-mice that Arthur (et. al) encounter on Magrathea. Frankie, along with Benji, wish to extract the final readout data from Arthur's brain to get the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. (Frankie and Benji are, after all, part of the pan-dimensional.
Temple of Set - of being a Nazi sympathizer, citing a recurrent use of Nazi imagery and symbolism, and frequent references to Nazi theorists and ideology, which they claim are found throughout the Temple of Set's literature. On at least one occasion, Michael Aquino provided the address for the Institute for Historical Review -- a leading proponent of Holocaust revisionism -- to the entire Temple of Set membership, saying that he had found "much food for thought" in their journal. Michael Aquino has filed libel lawsuits against critics. This civil recourse is a fundamental right within the U.S.A., but some of his critics say he has abused this right, calling the 1997 suit he filed against ElectriCiti.com a SLAPP. Some critics claim to have been subjected to campaigns of harassment by Temple of Set members.
Planetary nomenclature - contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 How names are approved 2 IAU Rules and Conventions 3 Naming Conventions 4 Descriptor Terms (Feature Types) 5 Categories for naming features on planets and satellites 5.1 Mercury 5.2 Venus 5.3 The Moon 5.4 Mars and martian satellites 5.4.1 Mars 5.4.2 Deimos 5.4.3 Phobos 5.5 Satellites of Jupiter 5.5.4 Amalthea 5.5.5 Thebe 5.5.6 Io 5.5.7 Europa 5.5.8 Ganymede 5.5.9 Callisto 5.6 Satellites of Saturn 5.6.10 Janus 5.6.11 Epimetheus 5.6.12 Mimas 5.6.13 Enceladus 5.6.14 Tethys 5.6.15 Dione 5.6.16 Rhea 5.6.17 Titan 5.6.18 Hyperion 5.6.19 Iapetus 5.6.20 Phoebe 5.7 Satellites of Uranus 5.7.21 Puck 5.7.22 Miranda 5.7.23 Ariel 5.7.24 Umbriel 5.7.25 Titania 5.7.26 Oberon 5.7.27 Small satellites 5.8 Satellites of Neptune 5.8.28 Proteus 5.8.29 Triton 5.8.30 Nereid 5.8.31 Small satellites 5.9 Pluto 5.10 Asteroids 5.10.32 243 Ida 5.10.33 Dactyl 5.10.34.
Aerobot - to be expensive and have limited range, and due to the communications time lags over interplanetary distances, they have to be smart enough to navigate without destroying themselves. For planets with atmospheres of any substance, however, there is an alternative: the balloon. Flying above obstructions in the winds, a balloon could explore large regions of a planet in great detail for relatively low cost. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Basics of balloons 2 The Venus Vega balloons 2.1 The Mars aerobot effort 3 JPL aerobot experiments 4 JPL aerobot mission concepts Basics of balloons While the idea of sending a balloon to another planet sounds strange at first, balloons have a number of advantages for planetary exploration. They can be made light in weight and are potentially relatively inexpensive. They can.
Angel - way (Ex. xxiii. 20, Num. xx. 16). In Judges (ii. 1) an angel of the Lord—unless here and in the preceding instances (compare Isa. xlii. 19, Ḥag. i. 13, Mal. iii. 1) a human messenger of God is meant—addresses the whole people, swearing to bring them to the promised land. An angel brings Elijah meat and drink (I Kings, xix. 5); and as God watched over Jacob, so is every pious person protected by an angel that cares for him in all his ways (Ps. xxxiv. 7, xci. 11). There are angels militant, one of whom smites in one night the whole Assyrian army of 185,000 men (II Kings, xix. 35); messengers go forth from God "in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid" (Ezek. xxx. 9); the enemy is scattered.
Aztec calendar - numbered from zero to nineteen. The days of the last month, Uayeb, were numbered from zero to four. In this calendar the Maya counted the days starting from zero rather than from one (Ivanoff, 1971: 87). This solar calendar was inseparable from the Sacred Round, or Sacred Almanac. The priests used this ritual calendar of 260 days, called [Tonalpohualli]]by the Aztecs and tzolkin by the Maya, primarily for divinatory purposes. The concurrent permutation of the solar and ritual calendars produced the Calendar Round. An exclusively lowland Classic Maya calendar achievement was the Long Count, which permitted an infinite computation of time, backward or forward, from an established starting point (Muser, 1978: 17). By the passing centuries, this simplified system may have became dominant, but we want to know its original form..
Social sciences - a scientific description of a political commonwealth. What would happen within decades of his work was a revolution in what constituted "science", particularly the work of Newton in physics. Newton, by revolutionizing what was then called "natural philosophy", changed the basic framework by which individuals understood what was "scientific". While he was merely the archetype of an accelerating trend, the important distinction is that for Newton the mathematical flowed from a presumed reality independent of the observer, and working by its own rules. For philosophers of the same period, mathematical expression of philsophical ideals was taken to be symbolic of natural human relationships as well: the same laws moved physical and spiritual reality. For examples see Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz and Johannes Kepler, each of whom took mathematical examples as models.
Orders of magnitude (numbers) - constant 10-2 HIV: About 1.2% of all 15-49 year-old humans were infected with HIV at the end of 2001 Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the current rules, are 54 to 1 against, for a probability of about 1.8% Poker: The odds of being dealt a three of a kind in poker are 46 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.1% Lottery: The odds of winning any prize in the US Powerball Multistate Lottery, with a single ticket, under the current rules, are 36.06 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.8% Poker: The odds of being dealt two pair in poker are 20 to 1 against, for a probability of 4.8%. 10-1 Poker: The odds of being dealt.
List of Japan-related topics - Battle of Anegawa, Battle Angel Alita, Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Halhin Gol, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Midway, Battle of Mikagehama, Battle of Mikatagahara, Battle of Mimasetoge, Battle of Nagakute, Battle of Nagashino, Battle of Okehazama, Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Sekigahara, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of the Planets, Battle of Shizugatake, Battle of Tedorigawa, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Battle of Tsushima, Battle of Uchidehama, Battle of Yalu River (1894), Battle of Yalu River (1904), Battle Royale (movie), Battles of Bunroku and Keicho, Battles of Kawanakajima Batto-jutsu, Beatmania, Beautiful Dreamer (movie), Belt, Bento, Benzaiten, Beppu, Berserk (anime), Berserk (manga), Betamax, Bibidi, Big O (anime), Bingo province, Bio Android, Bibai, Bisai, Bishounen, Bishoujo, Bitchu province, Bizen, Bizen province, Black Rain,.
James Gall - on religious matters, often from a rather unorthodox standpoint, he had an interest in astronomy. It was his Easy Guide to the Constellations and his People's Atlas of the Stars that brought him to people's attention. As part of his work in trying to get the celestial sphere on to flat paper he developed a special map projection in which Gall tries not to distort the shapes of the constellations too much. Another advantage of this was that it did not distort the sizes of continents as much as the commonly used Mercator projection. It was re-invented by Arno Peters in 1967 and UNESCO adopted it. Most of Gall's work was on religion but there is a fascinating book called The Stars and the Angels in which he not only argues.
Idolatry - and Polytheism 10 Other meanings of idolatry 11 References Etymology The word idolatry comes from the Greek word eidololatria, which is a compound of eidolon, "image" or "figure", and latreia, "worship". Although the Greek appears to be a loan translation of the Hebrew phrase avodat elilim, which is attested in rabbinic literature (e.g., bChul., 13b, Bar.), the Greek term itself is not found in the Septuagint, Philo, Josephus, or in other Hellenistic Jewish writings. The term is also lacking in Greek pagan literature. In the New Testament, the Greek word is found only in the letters of Paul, 1 Peter, and Revelation, where it has a derogatory meaning. There are many Hebrew terms for idolatry such as avodah zarah, "foreign worship", and avodat kochavim umazalot, "worship of planets and constellations". Idolatry.
Infinite Improbability Drive - is the spaceship drive for the starship Heart of Gold in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The guide itself explains that generating finite levels of improbability using an electronic brain and a cup of hot tea was very well understood, but that scientists lacked the means to create a drive that could produce the infinite improbability field required to allow a ship to travel anywhere instantaneously. At the end most of them announced that the machine was virtually impossible, at which point a student reasoned that this drive therefore had to be a finite improbability. After working out exactly how improbable, he fed that value into the finite improbability generator, gave it a really hot cup of tea, and managed to generate the infinite improbability generator out of thin air..
H. A. Rey - every stage of development. At first, however, Margret's name was left off the cover, ostensibly because there was a glut of women already writing children's fiction. In later editions, this was corrected, and Margret now receives full credit for her role in developing the stories. Whether they are aware of it or not, millions of amateur astronomers see the constellations through Rey's eyes. Before the 1952 publication of Rey's The Stars: A New Way to See Them, star charts used a conventional set of diagrams that seemed arbitrary, were hard to remember, and relied on dim stars that, regrettably, are hard to see today in populated areas. Rey invented a new set of constellation diagrams that corresponded to what could be seen from a suburban backyard on an ordinary night. He.
Voltron - Allura) from the evil King Zarkon, his son Lotor, and the witch Hagar, who would create huge Robeasts to terrorise the people of Arus. (This storyline is similar to those of the Toei Super Sentai shows, which formed the basis for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.) Vehicle Voltron Later episodes were based on Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV, and changed the storyline considerably. In this iteration of Voltron, the Galaxy Alliance's home planets have been overcrowded, and a fleet of Explorers have been sent to look for new planets to colonise. Along the way, they attract the attention of the evil Drule, who proceed to interfere with the explorers and the colonists. Since the Voltron of Planet Arus was too far away to help the explorers, a new Voltron is constructed using three.
Government of the United States - Reclamation manages scarce water resources in the semiarid western United States. The department regulates mining in the United States, assesses mineral resources, and has major responsibility for protecting and conserving the trust resources of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Internationally, the department coordinates federal policy in the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversees funding for development in the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice represents the U.S. government in legal matters and courts of law, and renders legal advice and opinions upon request to the president and to the heads of the executive departments. The Justice Department is headed by the attorney general of the United States, the.
Fantasy world - can be a large part of what attracts people to RPGs. Many established fantasy writers have also derided Dungeons and Dragons because new writers tend to read the D&D Monster Manual instead of studying original mythologies from which the fantasy literature has sprung. Due to the fuzzy boundary between fantasy and science fiction, it is similarly difficult to make a hard-and-fast distinction between "fantasy worlds" and planets in science fiction. For example, the worlds of Barsoom, Darkover, Gor, and the Witch World combine elements of both genres. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Pseudo-medieval fantasy worlds 2 Planetary Romance 3 Multidimensional fantasy worlds 4 Sword and Sorcery and heroic fantasy worlds 5 Books Pseudo-medieval fantasy worlds This is the most common type. Social conditions are modeled on medieval Europe although many stories.
Dorset - of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
