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…in this one. On the north side of the pyramid is a small stone cubicle, with a pair of tiny holes in its facade. When you look through these holes, you see two eyes retuning your stare, the blank gaze of a life size statue of Djoser sitting…
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…our greed despite the environmental devastation it has caused. When one examines the works of Wendell Berry in his "The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture" and William Kittredge in his "Hole In The Sky: A Memoir", and evidence throughout human…
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Category: /Literature/English
…throughout the novel. The adventure changes his life dramatically, from being a scared little creature in a Hobbit hole, not having any knowledge of the world he becomes a hero. The Hobbit fails his first mission when he is sent to spy on the trolls. Even…
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…that if invaders got past the outer wall they still had to get past one or two more, this made defending the castle much easier. The walls were constructed with narrow, wedge-shaped slits in them for archers to shoot arrows at invaders. The outer walls also had holes
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…Coils The operation of a transformer depends upon electromagnetic induction. Transformers consist of two sets of wire that are wrapped around a piece of metal with a hole in the middle of it. When the wire is wrapped around the metal then it forms coils…
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Category: /History
…with the spherical bullets and cannonballs at the time(Encarta 1 of 9). This is a pretty hard concept, but think of it more aerodynamic, a baseball or a rocket? There were three reasons for the rare use of rifles during the ante-bellum. 1) The process of making holes
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…. The outer walls also had holes in the floors for defenders to drop rocks down on invading people who had gotten through the first wall. These holes were called murder holes. Inside the castle were many knights, archers…
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…. In this view, each false door, each dummy temple worked in the afterlife precisely because it could not function in this one. On the north side of the pyramid is a small stone cubicle, with a pair of tiny holes in its facade. When you look through these holes
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…to the crowd's disappointment. During certain moments in a match, sellout crowds chant in unison "Ass hole! Ass hole! Ass hole!" Likewise, one can probably tune in on the Warner Brothers (WB) network and watch similar events on "Jerry Springer's" daytime talk show…
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…little flaring at the lower end. The bore is very large at 15mm., and the tone holes are small, being on average only 5mm in diameter. It is possible that this was an early experimental instrument by the Denner family, as it does not play at all well…
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