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An Empire on Trial $30.95 An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of ... |
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Arrest & Trial $40.94 Rated: NRSynopsis: Before Law & Order, there was Arrest and Trial, NBC's ground-breaking 1960's series starring Ben Gazzara and Chuck Connors. Truly ahead of its time, Arrest and Trial was a 90-minute show combining elements of police procedural and courtroom drama. In the first half of each episode, Sgt. Nick Anderson , Ben Gazzara, of the LAPD tracked down and arrested a criminal. In the second half, Defense Attorney John Egan, Chuck Connors, worked to set the criminal free. The 90-minute format was unique on television for a dramatic series, and perhaps contributed to the show's limited airing, but it also made for great television, foreshadowing shows to come, like the popular Law and Order series. This 10 DVD set containing all 30 episodes is faithfully reproduced from the original NBC masters. |
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Trial by Headline $14.38 Trial by Headline is Brainville 3's first well-recorded, largely available release, and the group's second opus, following Brainville Live in the UK, a self-recorded live affair released as part of the fan-targeted Bananamoon Obscura limited-edition series. Unlike that first recording, Trial by Headline is culled (by Chris Cutler) from a string of nicely recorded shows, and audio wizard Bob Drake had the final say on the mastering. Also, the BO CD featured the original Brainville lineup (Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Pip Pyle). Pyle having passed away since, RIO madman Chris Cutler is now behind the drums. As a result, Brainville 3 now sounds less like a jazz-rock jamming outfit, and more like a free-form rock band. Most of the tracks start from songs, some of them well known to Allen's fanbase ("Trial by Headline," "Ocean Mother," "Who's Afraid," "I Bin Stoned Before"). But these are very liberal interpretations, with Allen twisting his lyric around. You might hear a riff or a chord sequence, but that train will quickly derail and plow through a different field -- which is all the excitement this trio is about. Allen's glissando guitar work sounds very good here, framed by two stellar improvisors. Highlights include the title track, "Dedicated to PQ But She Couldn't Hear it" (entertainingly fooling around with a Hopper composition dating back to the early Soft Machine days), and the two "Basement" tracks credited to Cutler/Hopper. The album concludes with a variation on the Soft Machine classic "We Did It Again" (here rechristened "Didditagin"). Trial by Headline is a convincing release by three highly creative musicians. There is nothing straightforward about it, but you might find it more comfortable to your ear than some of the Acid Mothers Gong or University of Errors material. ~ François Couture, Rovi |
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Increase $29.95 Increase is Lia Purpura''''s chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first year of his life... |
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Trial and Error $6.86 This comedy features TV's Seinfeld regular Michael Richards in his first starring role, opposite Jeff Daniels. Daniels plays Charlie Tuttle, an up-and-coming attorney engaged to Tiffany Whitfield (Alexandra Wentworth), the daughter of the law firm's boss (Lawrence Pressman). His boss sends him to a small Nevada town to represent a down-and-out relative, Benny Gibbs (Rip Torn). Benny has been charged with fraud for bilking people in a mail-order scam. At a bachelor party that Charlie's future father-in-law arranges for him in the small town, Charlie gets plastered. A small-time actor, Richard Rietti (played by Richards), agrees to switch places with Charlie for a simple hearing that day. The judge and prosecutor think he's Tuttle. As the trial begins, Charlie tries to pose as his associate, but the judge won't allow that. Charlie is forced to send signals to Richard during the trial by honking on a car horn in the parking lot. In the meantime, Charlie finds a new kind of happiness with a free-spirited local waitress, Billie Tyler (Charlize Theron). ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi |
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Accessory Clouds $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A wall cloud, or pedestal cloud, is a cloud formation associated with thunderstorms. It is a marked lowering typically beneath the rain-free base (RFB) portion of a deep cumulus cloud (normally cumulonimbus but on rare occasion cumulus congestus), and indicates the area of primary and strongest updraft which condenses into cloud at altitudes lower than that of the ambient cloud base. Most strong tornadoes form from wall clouds. Wall clouds are caused by the ascending and converging inflow air of the updraft ingesting moist, rain cooled air from the normally downwind downdraft. In supercells, this is the forward flank downdraft (FFD). Since temperature tends to decrease and dew point to (moisture content) increase as the updraft entrains this air, saturation occurs sooner as the air rises. Wall clouds may form as a descending of the cloud base or may form as rising scud consolidates and organizes. Wall clouds can be anywhere from a fraction of a mile (0.25 km) wide to over five miles (8 km) across, and in the Northern Hemisphere typically form at the south or southwest end of a supercell. Wall clouds form in the inflow region, on the side of the storm coinciding with the direction of the steering winds (deep layer winds through the height of the storm). Rotating wall clouds are visual evidence of a mesocyclone. A wall cloud with tail cloud.Some wall clouds have a feature similar to an "eye". Attached to many wall clouds, especially in moist environments, is a tail cloud, a ragged band of cloud and cloud tags (fractus) extending from the wall cloud toward the precipitation. It can be thought of as an extension of the wall cloud in that not only is it connected to the wall cloud but also that condensation forms for a similar reason. Cloud elemen... More: |
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American Spirit in Literature $13.32 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER in THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION When the eighteenth century opened, many signs of change were in the air. The third generation of native-born Americans was becoming secularized. The theocracy of New England had failed. In the height of the tragic folly over the supposed "witchcraft" in Salem, Increase Mather and his son Cotton had held up the hands of the judges in their implacable work. But before five years had passed, Judge Sewall does public penance in church for his share of the awful blunder, desiring "to take the shame and blame of it." Robert Calef's cool pamphlet exposing the weakness of the prosecutors' case is indeed burned by Increase Mather in the Harvard Yard, but the liberal party are soon to force Mather from the Presidency and to refuse that office to his son. In the town of Boston, once hermetically sealed against heresy, there are Baptist and Episcopal churches — and a dancingmaster. Young Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, professes a high respect for the Mathers, but he does not go to church, "Sunday being my studying day," and neither the clerical nor the secular arm of Boston is long enough and strong enough to compel that industrious apprentice into piety. If such was the state of New England, the laxity of New York and Virginia needs little evidence. Contemporary travelers found the New Yorkers singularly attached to the things of this present world. Philadelphia was prosperous and therewith content. Virginia was a paradise with no forbidden fruit. HughJones, writing of it in 1724, considers North Carolina "the refuge of runaways," and South Carolina "the delight of buccaneers and pirates," but Virginia "the happy retreat of true Britons and true Churchmen." Unluckily these Virginians, well nourished "by the plenty of the country," |
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Buildings And Structures In Hobart $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hobart Cenotaph, List of Tallest Buildings in Hobart, 10 Murray Street, Government House, Hobart, Wrest Point Hotel Casino, Hobart Synagogue, Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Cascades Female Factory, St David's Cathedral, Amp Building. Excerpt: Hobart Cenotaph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Hobart Cenotaph is an Art Deco reinterpretation of a traditional Egyptian Obelisk. The Cenotaph was originally erected to commemorate the war dead of Tasmania from World War I, but has had subsequent additions made for all conflicts since then in which Tasmanian soldiers have served. The original inscription reads: "Lest We Forget", and "1914-1919". Although World War I ended on 11 November 1918, the inscription is dated '1919' in commemoration of the Treaty of Versailles which was signed on 28 June 1919. There are no names recorded upon the Cenotaph itself. An Anzac Day commemoration was held there in 1925 during construction. During the ceremony, a casket of solid zinc which bore the names of the 522 Tasmanians who were killed in World War I was set into the base of the shaft. It was unveiled on 13 December 1925 and replaced a previous wooden structure. It was designed by Hobart architectural firm Hutchinson and Walker, after their entry had won a public competition for the structure's design that was held in 1923. Their original design was for an Obelisk that was to stand 65 feet (19.8 m) high, but it was decided to increase the height to 75 feet (23.3 m). The obelisk itself is stood upon a stepped plinth 8 metres square made from bluestone, and the obelisk is made from grey granite. The shaft of the obelisk is tapered with chamfered edges and is capped with a pyramidal cap. Directly beneath the cap on each side are back-lit red opaque glass Lati... More: |
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Echinacea: Echinacea Purpurea, Echinacea Pallida, Echinacea Simulata, Echinacea Tennesseensis, Echinacea Sanguinea, Echinacea Atrorubens $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: See text The spiny center of the head showing the paleae, from which the name derivesEchinacea (pronounced ), is a genus of nine species of herbaceous plants in the family Asteraceae which are commonly called purple coneflowers. All are endemic to eastern and central North America, where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer. The genus name is from the Greek echino, meaning "spiny," due to the spiny central disk. Some species are used in herbal medicines and some are cultivated in gardens for their showy flowers. A few species are of conservation concern. Echinacea species are herbaceous, drought-tolerant perennial plants growing up to 140 cm in height. They grow from taproots, except E. purpurea, which grows from a short caudice with fibrous roots. They have erect stems that in most species are unbranched. Both the basal and cauline leaves are arranged alternately. The leaves are normally hairy with a rough texture, having uniseriate trichomes (1-4 rings of cells) but sometimes they lack hairs. The basal leaves and the lower stem leaves have petioles, and as the leaves progress up the stem the petioles often decrease in length. The leaf blades in different species may have one, three or five nerves. Some species have linear to lanceolate shaped leaves, and others have elliptic to ovate shaded leaves, often the leaves decrease in size as they progress up the stems. Leaf bases gradually increase in width away from the petioles or the bases are rounded to heart shaped. Most species have leaf margins that are entire, but sometimes they are dentate or serrate. The flowers are collected together into single, rounded Heads that ter... More: |
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Economy Of Madhya Pradesh $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Narmada Dam, Ks Oils, Bunder Project, Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Corporation Limited, Indore Brts, Gwalior Trade Fair, Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange. Excerpt: Maximum water level: 146.5 m (481 ft) The Narmada Dam Project is a large hydraulic engineering project involving the construction of a series of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi purpose dams on the Narmada River in India. The project was first conceived of in the 1940s by the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The project only took form in 1979 as part of a development scheme to increase irrigation and produce hydroelectricity. Of the thirty large dams planned on river Narmada, Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) is the largest structure to be built. It has a proposed final height of 136.5 m (448 ft). The project will irrigate more than 18,000 km (6,900 sq mi), most of it in drought prone areas of Kutch and Saurashtra. Critics maintain that its negative environmental impacts outweigh its benefits. It has created discord between its government planners and the citizens group Narmada Bachao Andolan. The Experts' Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) made a clear finding of the egregious failure of the government machinery on virtually all aspects of the planning and implementation of environmental safeguards of the project and recommended that no further reservoir filling be done until failures of compliance on the various environmental parameters have been fully remedied The expected benefits of the dam as listed in the Judgement of Supreme Court of India in 2000 were: "The argument in favour of the Sardar Sarovar Project is that the benefits are so large that they substantially outweigh the costs of the immediate huma... More: |
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Elements Of Astronomy $26.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAP. IV. On Refraction and Twilight. 46. AS connected with the earth, we may here consider its atmosphere, and how it affects the apparent places of the heavenly bodies. We know, from the science of pneumatics, that the air surrounding the earth is an elastic fluid, the density of which is nearly proportional to the compressing force, or the weight of the incumbent air. Whence it follows that the density continually decreases, and at a few miles high becomes very small. Now a ray of light passing out of a rarer medium into a denser, is always bent out of its course toward the perpendicular to the surface, on which the ray is incident. It follows therefore that a ray of light must be continually bent in its course through the atmosphere, and describe a curve, the tangent to which curve, at the surface of the earth, is the direction in which the celestial object appears. Consequently the apparent altitude if always greater than the true. 47. The refraction or deviation is greater, the greater the angle of incidence, and therefore greatest when the object is in the horizon, The horizontal refraction is about 32'. At 45 altitude, in its mean quantity it is 57i". 48. The refraction is affected by the variation of the quantity or weight of the superincumbent atmosphere at a given place, and also by its temperature. In computing the quantity of refraction, the height of the barometer and thermometer must be noted. The quantity of refraction at the same zenith distance varies nearly as the height of the barometer, the temperature remaining constant. The effect of a variation of temperature is to diminish the quantity of refraction about T'5 part for every increase of one degree in the height of the thermometer. Therefore, in all accurate observations of altitude or zenith d |
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Elements Of Astronomy $20.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAP. IV. On Refraction and Twilight. 46. AS connected with the earth, we may here consider its atmosphere, and how it affects the apparent places of the heavenly bodies. We know, from the science of pneumatics, that the air surrounding the earth is an elastic fluid, the density of which is nearly proportional to the compressing force, or the weight of the incumbent air. Whence it follows that the density continually decreases, and at a few miles high becomes very small. Now a ray of light passing out of a rarer medium into a denser, is always bent out of its course toward the perpendicular to the surface, on which the ray is incident. It follows therefore that a ray of light must be continually bent in its course through the atmosphere, and describe a curve, the tangent to which curve, at the surface of the earth, is the direction in which the celestial object appears. Consequently the apparent altitude if always greater than the true. 47. The refraction or deviation is greater, the greater the angle of incidence, and therefore greatest when the object is in the horizon, The horizontal refraction is about 32'. At 45 altitude, in its mean quantity it is 57i". 48. The refraction is affected by the variation of the quantity or weight of the superincumbent atmosphere at a given place, and also by its temperature. In computing the quantity of refraction, the height of the barometer and thermometer must be noted. The quantity of refraction at the same zenith distance varies nearly as the height of the barometer, the temperature remaining constant. The effect of a variation of temperature is to diminish the quantity of refraction about T'5 part for every increase of one degree in the height of the thermometer. Therefore, in all accurate observations of altitude or zenith d |
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Lessons In The New Geography $22.87 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. CLIMATE. Reading In Connection With The Lessons Of This Chapter. Works marked are especially useful, Humboldt's Cosmos. Ishnd Life (especially chapters on Climate). — Wallace Tropical Nature. — Wallace. Climate and Time. — Croll. Elementary Meteorology. — Davis. Eclectic Physical Geography. — Hinman. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. — Elisee Reclus. LESSON I. —THE ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE. Definition. — Climate is the character of the atmosphere dependent upon the condition of two primary factors, temperature and moisture. The condition of these two main elements is influenced by : i, latitude or distance from the equator; 2, altitude or height above the sea level; 3, distance from the sea; and 4, prevailing winds and ocean currents. From all of these causes arises that diversity of climate which is so marked a feature of the earth's surface. We speak accordingly of a hot or a cold, or of a dry or a moist climate. The word ' climate' is of ancient origin. It comes from a Greek verb meaning to incline, and was used by the ancients to signify the difference in the length of day and night, resulting from the slanting or inclination of the sun's rays in relation to the time and place. This fact was recognized by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (127-151 A.d.), who divided the earth's surface, from the equator to the arctic circle, " into climates or parallel zones, corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length ofmidsummer day." Latitude or Distance from the Equator. — On those parts of the earth where the sun's rays fall more or less directly downward, the temperature of the air is raised. This is the case, Fig. 1. — Diagram illustrating the result of vertical and slanting rays of |
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Lessons In The New Geography $15.51 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. CLIMATE. Reading In Connection With The Lessons Of This Chapter. Works marked are especially useful, Humboldt's Cosmos. Ishnd Life (especially chapters on Climate). — Wallace Tropical Nature. — Wallace. Climate and Time. — Croll. Elementary Meteorology. — Davis. Eclectic Physical Geography. — Hinman. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. — Elisee Reclus. LESSON I. —THE ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE. Definition. — Climate is the character of the atmosphere dependent upon the condition of two primary factors, temperature and moisture. The condition of these two main elements is influenced by : i, latitude or distance from the equator; 2, altitude or height above the sea level; 3, distance from the sea; and 4, prevailing winds and ocean currents. From all of these causes arises that diversity of climate which is so marked a feature of the earth's surface. We speak accordingly of a hot or a cold, or of a dry or a moist climate. The word ' climate' is of ancient origin. It comes from a Greek verb meaning to incline, and was used by the ancients to signify the difference in the length of day and night, resulting from the slanting or inclination of the sun's rays in relation to the time and place. This fact was recognized by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (127-151 A.d.), who divided the earth's surface, from the equator to the arctic circle, " into climates or parallel zones, corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length ofmidsummer day." Latitude or Distance from the Equator. — On those parts of the earth where the sun's rays fall more or less directly downward, the temperature of the air is raised. This is the case, Fig. 1. — Diagram illustrating the result of vertical and slanting rays of |
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Lessons In The New Geography $15.51 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. CLIMATE. Reading In Connection With The Lessons Of This Chapter. Works marked are especially useful, Humboldt's Cosmos. Ishnd Life (especially chapters on Climate). — Wallace Tropical Nature. — Wallace. Climate and Time. — Croll. Elementary Meteorology. — Davis. Eclectic Physical Geography. — Hinman. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. — Elisee Reclus. LESSON I. —THE ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE. Definition. — Climate is the character of the atmosphere dependent upon the condition of two primary factors, temperature and moisture. The condition of these two main elements is influenced by : i, latitude or distance from the equator; 2, altitude or height above the sea level; 3, distance from the sea; and 4, prevailing winds and ocean currents. From all of these causes arises that diversity of climate which is so marked a feature of the earth's surface. We speak accordingly of a hot or a cold, or of a dry or a moist climate. The word ' climate' is of ancient origin. It comes from a Greek verb meaning to incline, and was used by the ancients to signify the difference in the length of day and night, resulting from the slanting or inclination of the sun's rays in relation to the time and place. This fact was recognized by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (127-151 A.d.), who divided the earth's surface, from the equator to the arctic circle, " into climates or parallel zones, corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length ofmidsummer day." Latitude or Distance from the Equator. — On those parts of the earth where the sun's rays fall more or less directly downward, the temperature of the air is raised. This is the case, Fig. 1. — Diagram illustrating the result of vertical and slanting rays of |
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Lessons In The New Geography $15.51 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. CLIMATE. Reading In Connection With The Lessons Of This Chapter. Works marked are especially useful, Humboldt's Cosmos. Ishnd Life (especially chapters on Climate). — Wallace Tropical Nature. — Wallace. Climate and Time. — Croll. Elementary Meteorology. — Davis. Eclectic Physical Geography. — Hinman. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. — Elisee Reclus. LESSON I. —THE ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE. Definition. — Climate is the character of the atmosphere dependent upon the condition of two primary factors, temperature and moisture. The condition of these two main elements is influenced by : i, latitude or distance from the equator; 2, altitude or height above the sea level; 3, distance from the sea; and 4, prevailing winds and ocean currents. From all of these causes arises that diversity of climate which is so marked a feature of the earth's surface. We speak accordingly of a hot or a cold, or of a dry or a moist climate. The word ' climate' is of ancient origin. It comes from a Greek verb meaning to incline, and was used by the ancients to signify the difference in the length of day and night, resulting from the slanting or inclination of the sun's rays in relation to the time and place. This fact was recognized by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (127-151 A.d.), who divided the earth's surface, from the equator to the arctic circle, " into climates or parallel zones, corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length ofmidsummer day." Latitude or Distance from the Equator. — On those parts of the earth where the sun's rays fall more or less directly downward, the temperature of the air is raised. This is the case, Fig. 1. — Diagram illustrating the result of vertical and slanting rays of |
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Lessons In The New Geography $23.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. CLIMATE. Reading In Connection With The Lessons Of This Chapter. Works marked are especially useful, Humboldt's Cosmos. Ishnd Life (especially chapters on Climate). — Wallace Tropical Nature. — Wallace. Climate and Time. — Croll. Elementary Meteorology. — Davis. Eclectic Physical Geography. — Hinman. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life. — Elisee Reclus. LESSON I. —THE ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE. Definition. — Climate is the character of the atmosphere dependent upon the condition of two primary factors, temperature and moisture. The condition of these two main elements is influenced by : i, latitude or distance from the equator; 2, altitude or height above the sea level; 3, distance from the sea; and 4, prevailing winds and ocean currents. From all of these causes arises that diversity of climate which is so marked a feature of the earth's surface. We speak accordingly of a hot or a cold, or of a dry or a moist climate. The word ' climate' is of ancient origin. It comes from a Greek verb meaning to incline, and was used by the ancients to signify the difference in the length of day and night, resulting from the slanting or inclination of the sun's rays in relation to the time and place. This fact was recognized by the ancient geographer Ptolemy (127-151 A.d.), who divided the earth's surface, from the equator to the arctic circle, " into climates or parallel zones, corresponding to the successive increase of a quarter of an hour in the length ofmidsummer day." Latitude or Distance from the Equator. — On those parts of the earth where the sun's rays fall more or less directly downward, the temperature of the air is raised. This is the case, Fig. 1. — Diagram illustrating the result of vertical and slanting rays of |
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Microscale Meteorology: Wind Gradient $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient or wind velocity gradient, or alternatively shear wind, is the vertical gradient of the mean horizontal wind speed in the lower atmosphere. It is the rate of increase of wind strength with unit increase in height above ground level. In metric units, it is often measured in units of meters per second of speed, per kilometer of height (m/s/km), which reduces to the standard unit of shear rate, inverse seconds (s). The atmospheric effect of surface friction with the winds aloft force the surface wind to slow and turn near the surface of the Earth, blowing inward across isobars, when compared to the winds in the nearly frictionless flow well above the Earth's surface. This layer, where surface friction slows the wind and changes the wind direction, is known as the planetary boundary layer. Daytime solar heating due to insolation thickens the boundary layer as winds at the surface become increasingly mixed with winds aloft. Radiative cooling overnight decouples the winds at the surface from the winds above the boundary layer, increasing vertical wind shear near the surface, also known as wind gradient. Typically, due to aerodynamic drag, there is a wind gradient in the wind flow just a few hundred meters above the Earth's surfacethe surface layer of the planetary boundary layer. Wind speed increases with increasing height above the ground, starting from zero due to the no-slip condition. Flow near the surface encounters obstacles that reduce the wind speed, and introduce random vertical and horizontal velocity components at right angles to the main direction of flow. This turbulence causes vertical mixing between the air moving horizontally at one level, and the air at those lev... More: |
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Mv Agusta Motorcycles: Mv Agusta F4 Series, Mv Agusta 500 Three, Mv Agusta Brutale Series, Mv Agusta 125 Sohc, Mv Agusta 350b Sport $8.31 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The MV Agusta F4 was the motorcycle that launched the resurrection of MV Agusta in 1998. The F4 was created by famous motorcycle designer Massimo Tamburini at CRC (Cagiva Research Center), following his work on the Ducati 916. The F4 is unique with its four pipe undertail exhaust, single-sided swingarm, large front forks (49 or 50 mm diameter) and traditional MV Agusta red and silver livery. The F4 is also one of the few production superbikes to have a radial valved engine. The F4 engine is a liquid cooled inline four cylinder (4-stroke) with two overhead camshafts (DOHC), 16 radial valves, electronic multipoint injection, induction discharge electronic ignition and following capacity variants: 749.5 cc, 998 cc and 1078 cc. The engine was derived from the 19901992 Ferrari Formula One engine. Early in the design process Ferrari engineers assisted in the development of the engine. MV (Cagiva at the time) quickly deviated from the Ferrari design, but they kept one important feature, the radial valves. The F4 engine is unique in the sense that it is the only radial valved motorcycle engine currently in production. The F4 Tamburini, F4 Veltro, and F4 CC models are equipped with variable length intake ducts known as the "TSS" system. The "TSS" system is designed to increase torque in the low to midrange, while still allowing for max. horsepower at the top of the rev range (usually two mutually exclusive properties of an engine). The "TSS" system has two positions, it is not able to vary the height of the intake ducts continuously. "TSS" is able to lower peak torque from the 10000 rpm to 9000 rpm while maintaining maximum power. This system debuted on the F4 Tamburini and was lauded by independent motorcycling publications such as ... More: |
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North Dakota Radio Stations: Kfnw-FM, Knox-FM, Kqlx-FM, Kvox-FM, Kmav-FM, Kpfx, Kwgo, Kmsr, Kabu, Kdix, Kwtl, Kltc, Khrt, Kvmi, Kgcd, Kpok $26.81 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kfnw-Fm, Knox-Fm, Kqlx-Fm, Kvox-Fm, Kmav-Fm, Kpfx, Kwgo, Kmsr, Kabu, Kdix, Kwtl, Kltc, Khrt, Kvmi, Kgcd, Kpok, Kklq, Kqlx, Kluu, Krvx, Kxgt, Kauj, Kkct, Kdvl, Kynu, Ktzu, Kjit-Lp, Klxx, Kddr, Kdsr, Kdkt, Kzzy, Kqzz, Kyyx, Kbto, Kmha, Kdlr, Ksaf-Lp, Kxmr, Kzzj, Kcvd, Khnd, Kndc, Kyyz, Kndh, Kfnw, Kizz, Kdak, Kfbn, Klbe-Lp, Krrz, Kxpo, Ktgo, Kmxa-Fm, Kqdy, Kacl, Kbep-Lp, Kusb, Kovc, Kthc, Kaoc, Kcjb, Kbmr, Kkxl, Kzpr, Keyz, Kbfr, Kcnd, Ksjz, Kndr, Kytz, Kcad, Koww-Lp, Kkbo, Kndk, Kndk-Fm, Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc., Kxbq-Lp, Kxrv. Excerpt: KABU KABU (90.7 FM ) is a radio station licensed to serve Fort Totten, North Dakota . The station is owned by Dakota Circle Tipi, Inc. It airs a Variety format. KABU serves the Spirit Lake Nation of the Dakota tribe in northern North Dakota. The station was assigned the KABU call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on June 21, 1996. Construction permit On January 16, 2008, the FCC granted the station a construction permit to upgrade to a class C2 station with an increase in effective radiated power to 28,000 watts and a rise in antenna height above average terrain to 121 meters (397 feet). The transmitter would also be minimally relocated to 47°59'31"N, 98°56'53"W. This construction permit expires on January 16, 2011. The station received $97,000 in funding from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community to pay for the new 85-foot broadcast tower. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at KACL KACL (98.7 FM , "Cool 98.7") is a radio station in Bismarck, North Dakota , owned by Cumulus Media airing an Classic Hits format. The station signed on in 1997 and has never changed its format, although it shifted from 60s and 70s based oldies to 70s and 80s based classic hits in |
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Old Ballads (V. 2) $17.39 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:VII. THE BRAVE MEN OF KENT. This Ballad is of a later date, but being upon the same sub- ject, we have introduced it here. It is the production of Tom Durfey, and was written the beginning of this century Vyh E N Harold was invaded, And falling lost his crown ; And Norman William waded Thro" gore to pull him down ; When countries round with fear profound, To mend their sad condition, And lands to save, base homage gave; Bold Kent made no submission. Cho. Sing, sing in praise of men of Kent, So loyal, brave and free; 'Mongst Britons' race, if one surpass, A man of Kent is he, The hardy stout free-holders, That knew the tyrant near, In girdles, and on shoulders, A grove of oaks did bear : Whom when he saw in battle draw, And thought how he might need 'em ; He turn'd his arms, allow'd their terms, Compleat with noble freedom : And when by barons wrangling, Hot faction did increase, And vile intestine jangling Had banish'd England's peace, The men of Kent to battle went, They fear'd no wild confusion ; But join'd with York, soon did the work, And made a blest conclusion : At hunting, or the race too, They sprightly vigour shew; And at a female chase too, None like a Kentish beau ; All blest with health; and as for wealth, By fortune's kind embraces, A yeoman gray shall oft out-weigh A knight in other places : The generous, brave and hearty, All o'er the shire we find; And for the low-church party, They're of the brightest kind : For king and laws, they prop the cause, Which high-church has confounded ; They love with height the moderate right, But hate the crop-ear'd round-head: The promis'd land of blessing, For our forefathers meant, Is now in right possessing, For Canaan sure wa... |
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Oldsmobile Engines: Oldsmobile V8 Engine, Gm Quad-4 Engine, Oldsmobile Diesel V6 Engine, Oldsmobile Straight-6 Engine $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Oldsmobile Rocket V8 was the first post-war OHV V8 at General Motors. Production started in 1949, with a new generation introduced in 1964. Like Pontiac, Olds continued building its own V8 engine family for decades, finally adopting the corporate Chevrolet 350 small-block and Cadillac Northstar engine only in the 1990s. All Oldsmobile V-8's were manufactured at plants in Lansing, Michigan. All Oldsmobile V8s use a 90° bank angle, and most share a common stroke dimension: 3.4375 in (87.31 mm) for early Rockets, 3.6875 in (93.66 mm) for later Generation 1 motors, and 3.385 in (86.0 mm) for Generation 2. The 260 cu in (4.3 l), 307 cu in (5.0 l), 330 cu in (5.4 l), 350 cu in (5.7 l) and 403 cu in (6.6 l) engines are commonly called small-blocks. 400 cu in (6.6 l), 425 cu in (7.0 l), and 455 cu in (7.5 l) V8s have a higher deck height (10.625 in (27.0 cm) versus 9.33 in (23.7 cm)) to accommodate a 4.25 in (108 mm) stroke crank to increase displacement. These taller-deck models are commonly called "big-blocks", and are 1 in (2.5 cm) longer and 1.5 in (3.8 cm) wider than their "small-block" counterparts. The Rocket V8 was the subject of many first and lasts in the automotive industry. It was the first mass-produced OHV V8 in 1949; and was the last carbureted V8 passenger car engine in 1990. The factory painted "small-blocks" gold or blue (flat black on the late model 307 cu in (5.0 l)), while "big-blocks" could be red, green, blue, or bronze. The first generation of Oldsmobile V8s ranges from 1949 until 1964. Each engine in this generation is quite similar with the same size block and heads. Rocket V8 303 engineThe 303-cubic-inch (5.0 L) engine had hydraulic lifters, an oversquare bore:stroke ratio, a counterweighted forged crankshaft, aluminum... More: |
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Points In Minor Tactics $24.86 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. GROUND IN RELATION TO TACTICS. Ground influences tactical operations by the manner in which it affects view and movement, and gives full effect and protection to each arm. View.—Cover from view is obtainable from very gentle undulations to a far greater extent than those unpracticed in testing it would suspect, for men are apt to considerably underrate the height of physical features in comparison with their own height. Such cover is always of great importance in getting troops into position before serious fighting begins, in secretly transferring them from one point to another during action, and in facilitating surprises. But cover from view that does not also protect from fire, such as hedges, etc., must be utilized with some caution, for men are apt to crowd behind it when no other cover is available, and if the enemy's fire be then attracted, loss ensues in proportion to the denseness of the occupants. Yet the feeling of Sec Clery's Minor Tactics, p. 117 et seq. concealment tends to increase men's confidence, and the prospect of cover even from view encourages them to advance, so that it is on this account of value. Movement.—Ground affects movement by extending or limiting the breadth of front on which troops can advance, and by the retarding influence that the character of the surface can exercise. Time is an all-important element in tactical combinations, and what is productive of delay may at any moment exert a dangerously disturbing influence. Eeliable calculations may be based on the extent of roadway available, but the state of the surface may be so subject to alterations from weather, extensive traffic, etc., as to invalidate any calculations that ignored them. In heavy clay soil even the best-laid roads become almost impassable in b |
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Points In Minor Tactics $34.36 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. GROUND IN RELATION TO TACTICS. Ground influences tactical operations by the manner in which it affects view and movement, and gives full effect and protection to each arm. View.—Cover from view is obtainable from very gentle undulations to a far greater extent than those unpracticed in testing it would suspect, for men are apt to considerably underrate the height of physical features in comparison with their own height. Such cover is always of great importance in getting troops into position before serious fighting begins, in secretly transferring them from one point to another during action, and in facilitating surprises. But cover from view that does not also protect from fire, such as hedges, etc., must be utilized with some caution, for men are apt to crowd behind it when no other cover is available, and if the enemy's fire be then attracted, loss ensues in proportion to the denseness of the occupants. Yet the feeling of Sec Clery's Minor Tactics, p. 117 et seq. concealment tends to increase men's confidence, and the prospect of cover even from view encourages them to advance, so that it is on this account of value. Movement.—Ground affects movement by extending or limiting the breadth of front on which troops can advance, and by the retarding influence that the character of the surface can exercise. Time is an all-important element in tactical combinations, and what is productive of delay may at any moment exert a dangerously disturbing influence. Eeliable calculations may be based on the extent of roadway available, but the state of the surface may be so subject to alterations from weather, extensive traffic, etc., as to invalidate any calculations that ignored them. In heavy clay soil even the best-laid roads become almost impassable in b |
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Points In Minor Tactics $17.43 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. GROUND IN RELATION TO TACTICS. Ground influences tactical operations by the manner in which it affects view and movement, and gives full effect and protection to each arm. View.—Cover from view is obtainable from very gentle undulations to a far greater extent than those unpracticed in testing it would suspect, for men are apt to considerably underrate the height of physical features in comparison with their own height. Such cover is always of great importance in getting troops into position before serious fighting begins, in secretly transferring them from one point to another during action, and in facilitating surprises. But cover from view that does not also protect from fire, such as hedges, etc., must be utilized with some caution, for men are apt to crowd behind it when no other cover is available, and if the enemy's fire be then attracted, loss ensues in proportion to the denseness of the occupants. Yet the feeling of Sec Clery's Minor Tactics, p. 117 et seq. concealment tends to increase men's confidence, and the prospect of cover even from view encourages them to advance, so that it is on this account of value. Movement.—Ground affects movement by extending or limiting the breadth of front on which troops can advance, and by the retarding influence that the character of the surface can exercise. Time is an all-important element in tactical combinations, and what is productive of delay may at any moment exert a dangerously disturbing influence. Eeliable calculations may be based on the extent of roadway available, but the state of the surface may be so subject to alterations from weather, extensive traffic, etc., as to invalidate any calculations that ignored them. In heavy clay soil even the best-laid roads become almost impassable in b |
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