Imaginative Geographies of Mars: the Science and Significance of the Red Planet, 1877 - 1910
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Volume 7 Issue 8 www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis August 2012 Touchdown! Take it both ways – the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, touched Sharp at a height of about 3.4 miles, taller than Mount Whitney in California. down on the surface of Mars early on the morning of Aug. 6 CDT, and the The Curiosity team hopes to drive the rover to the mountain to investigate NASA team scored a very big touchdown for space exploration. This image its lower layers, which scientists think hold clues to past environmental taken by Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover – its main science change. This image was captured by a rover camera shortly after it landed. target, Mount Sharp. The rover’s shadow can be seen in the foreground, It has been linearized to remove the distorted appearance that results from and the dark bands beyond are dunes. Rising up in the distance is Mount its fisheye lens. For additional coverage and photos, see pages 4-7. Page 2 LAGNIAPPE August 2012 “NASA is in a unique position to excite and inspire students about STEM education, and to help grow our technical workforce.” From the desk of Katie Wallace Director, Office of Education, Stennis Space Center he Mars Science Laboratory’s successful land- and over 8,000 students and parents. Our workshops ing on Mars early Aug. 6 was a huge engi- have a satisfaction rating of 99 percent. Tneering accomplishment! Years of research, planning, collaboration and dedication came down to In addition, we focus on student activities that enrich seven minutes. -
The History Spiritualism
THE HISTORY of SPIRITUALISM by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, M.D., LL.D. former President d'Honneur de la Fédération Spirite Internationale, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance, and President of the British College of Psychic Science Volume One With Seven Plates PSYCHIC PRESS LTD First edition 1926 To SIR OLIVER LODGE, M.S. A great leader both in physical and in psychic science In token of respect This work is dedicated PREFACE This work has grown from small disconnected chapters into a narrative which covers in a way the whole history of the Spiritualistic movement. This genesis needs some little explanation. I had written certain studies with no particular ulterior object save to gain myself, and to pass on to others, a clear view of what seemed to me to be important episodes in the modern spiritual development of the human race. These included the chapters on Swedenborg, on Irving, on A. J. Davis, on the Hydesville incident, on the history of the Fox sisters, on the Eddys and on the life of D. D. Home. These were all done before it was suggested to my mind that I had already gone some distance in doing a fuller history of the Spiritualistic movement than had hitherto seen the light - a history which would have the advantage of being written from the inside and with intimate personal knowledge of those factors which are characteristic of this modern development. It is indeed curious that this movement, which many of us regard as the most important in the history of the world since the Christ episode, has never had a historian from those who were within it, and who had large personal experience of its development. -
Psychic Phenomena and the Mind–Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition
Chapter 3 Psychic Phenomena and the Mind–Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition Carlos S. Alvarado Abstract Although there is a long tradition of philosophical and historical discussions of the mind–body problem, most of them make no mention of psychic phenomena as having implications for such an issue. This chapter is an overview of selected writings published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries literatures of mesmerism, spiritualism, and psychical research whose authors have discussed apparitions, telepathy, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, and other parapsy- chological phenomena as evidence for the existence of a principle separate from the body and responsible for consciousness. Some writers discussed here include indi- viduals from different time periods. Among them are John Beloff, J.C. Colquhoun, Carl du Prel, Camille Flammarion, J.H. Jung-Stilling, Frederic W.H. Myers, and J.B. Rhine. Rather than defend the validity of their position, my purpose is to docu- ment the existence of an intellectual and conceptual tradition that has been neglected by philosophers and others in their discussions of the mind–body problem and aspects of its history. “The paramount importance of psychical research lies in its demonstration of the fact that the physical plane is not the whole of Nature” English physicist William F. Barrett ( 1918 , p. 179) 3.1 Introduction In his book Body and Mind , the British psychologist William McDougall (1871–1938) referred to the “psychophysical-problem” as “the problem of the rela- tion between body and mind” (McDougall 1911 , p. vii). Echoing many before him, C. S. Alvarado , PhD (*) Atlantic University , 215 67th Street , Virginia Beach , VA 23451 , USA e-mail: [email protected] A. -
General Vertical Files Anderson Reading Room Center for Southwest Research Zimmerman Library
“A” – biographical Abiquiu, NM GUIDE TO THE GENERAL VERTICAL FILES ANDERSON READING ROOM CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST RESEARCH ZIMMERMAN LIBRARY (See UNM Archives Vertical Files http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmuunmverticalfiles.xml) FOLDER HEADINGS “A” – biographical Alpha folders contain clippings about various misc. individuals, artists, writers, etc, whose names begin with “A.” Alpha folders exist for most letters of the alphabet. Abbey, Edward – author Abeita, Jim – artist – Navajo Abell, Bertha M. – first Anglo born near Albuquerque Abeyta / Abeita – biographical information of people with this surname Abeyta, Tony – painter - Navajo Abiquiu, NM – General – Catholic – Christ in the Desert Monastery – Dam and Reservoir Abo Pass - history. See also Salinas National Monument Abousleman – biographical information of people with this surname Afghanistan War – NM – See also Iraq War Abousleman – biographical information of people with this surname Abrams, Jonathan – art collector Abreu, Margaret Silva – author: Hispanic, folklore, foods Abruzzo, Ben – balloonist. See also Ballooning, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Acequias – ditches (canoas, ground wáter, surface wáter, puming, water rights (See also Land Grants; Rio Grande Valley; Water; and Santa Fe - Acequia Madre) Acequias – Albuquerque, map 2005-2006 – ditch system in city Acequias – Colorado (San Luis) Ackerman, Mae N. – Masonic leader Acoma Pueblo - Sky City. See also Indian gaming. See also Pueblos – General; and Onate, Juan de Acuff, Mark – newspaper editor – NM Independent and -
Virginia Woolf's Portraits of Russian Writers
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers: Creating the Literary Other By Darya Protopopova Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers: Creating the Literary Other By Darya Protopopova This book first published 2019 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2019 by Darya Protopopova All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-2753-0 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-2753-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Note on the Text ........................................................................................ vi Preface ...................................................................................................... vii Introduction ................................................................................................ 1 Russia and the British Search for the Cultural ‘Other’ Chapter One .............................................................................................. 32 Woolf’s Real and Fictional Russians Chapter Two ............................................................................................. 58 Woolf and Dostoevsky: Verbalising the Soul Chapter Three ........................................................................................ -
September 29, 2014 Land Management Plan Revision USDA
September 29, 2014 Land Management Plan Revision USDA Forest Service Ecosystem Planning Staff 1323 Club Drive Vallejo, CA 94592 Submitted via Region 5 website Re: Comments on Notice of Intent and Detailed Proposed Action for the Forest Plan Revisions on the Inyo, Sequoia and Sierra National Forests To the Forest Plan Revision Team: These comments are provided on behalf of Sierra Forest Legacy and the above conservation organizations. We have reviewed the Notice of Intent (NOI), detailed Proposed Action (PA), and supporting materials posted on the Region 5 planning website and offer the following comments on these documents. We have submitted numerous comment letters since the forest plan revision process was initiated for the Inyo, Sequoia, and Sierra national forests. Specifically, we submitted comment letters on the forest assessments for each national forest (Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2013a, Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2013b, Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2013c), comments on two need for change documents (Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2014a, Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2014b) and comments on detailed desired conditions (Sierra Forest Legacy et al. 2014c). We incorporate these comments by reference and attach the letters to these scoping comments. We have included these letters in our scoping comments because significant issues that we raised in these comments have not yet been addressed in the NOI, or the detailed PA creates significant conflict with resource areas on which we commented. Organization of Comments The following comments address first the content of the NOI, including the purpose and need for action, issues not addressed in the scoping notice, and regulatory compliance of the PA as written. -
Martian Crater Morphology
ANALYSIS OF THE DEPTH-DIAMETER RELATIONSHIP OF MARTIAN CRATERS A Capstone Experience Thesis Presented by Jared Howenstine Completion Date: May 2006 Approved By: Professor M. Darby Dyar, Astronomy Professor Christopher Condit, Geology Professor Judith Young, Astronomy Abstract Title: Analysis of the Depth-Diameter Relationship of Martian Craters Author: Jared Howenstine, Astronomy Approved By: Judith Young, Astronomy Approved By: M. Darby Dyar, Astronomy Approved By: Christopher Condit, Geology CE Type: Departmental Honors Project Using a gridded version of maritan topography with the computer program Gridview, this project studied the depth-diameter relationship of martian impact craters. The work encompasses 361 profiles of impacts with diameters larger than 15 kilometers and is a continuation of work that was started at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas under the guidance of Dr. Walter S. Keifer. Using the most ‘pristine,’ or deepest craters in the data a depth-diameter relationship was determined: d = 0.610D 0.327 , where d is the depth of the crater and D is the diameter of the crater, both in kilometers. This relationship can then be used to estimate the theoretical depth of any impact radius, and therefore can be used to estimate the pristine shape of the crater. With a depth-diameter ratio for a particular crater, the measured depth can then be compared to this theoretical value and an estimate of the amount of material within the crater, or fill, can then be calculated. The data includes 140 named impact craters, 3 basins, and 218 other impacts. The named data encompasses all named impact structures of greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. -
Astronomy Magazine
DARK MATTER’S JOURNEY THROUGH VERA RUBIN’S EYES p. 26 JUNE 2016 The world’s best-selling astronomy magazine EXCLUSIVE! How we Planet discovered Nine The inside story of a stunning solar system find p. 20 Target deep-sky jewels in Scorpius p. 60 Asteroid Day to highlight space rock dangers p. 32 www.Astronomy.com AND MORE BONUS Vol. 44 Protecting America’s last dark skies p. 54 ONLINE • Issue 6 Camille Flammarion’s amazing universe p. 44 CONTENT CODE p. 4 Confessions of an eagle-eyed observer p. 50 Historical astronomy Through detailed astronomical texts and fanciful accounts, this French adventurer walked the line between science and science fiction. by Fred Nadis ith his dark beard, Inhabitants of the Other World. In 1864, he handsome looks, added Worlds Imaginary and Real, in which exploits as a balloonist, he reviewed the history of ideas about extra- and daring pronounce- terrestrial life. Clearly, he was certain it was ments, French astrono- out there — and in this, he was then (and Wmer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) would be now) in the scientific mainstream. could have sprung from the pages of a Jules Verne novel or a current steampunk Life on other worlds adventure. In his writings, Flammarion For centuries, leading thinkers reasoned provided up-to-date astronomical infor- that with planets orbiting innumerable mation, but he also speculated about stars, the “purpose” of these other planets, time travel, commented on the biology like our own, was to harbor life. Newton, of extraterrestrial species, and riffed on Leibniz, Kant, Voltaire, Franklin, Halley, curious themes, such as Earth’s end or the and the Herschels were among the sup- universe as viewed from a comet. -
Exponential Sums After Bombieri and Iwaniec Astérisque, Tome 198-199-200 (1991), P
Astérisque M. N. HUXLEY Exponential sums after Bombieri and Iwaniec Astérisque, tome 198-199-200 (1991), p. 165-175 <http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AST_1991__198-199-200__165_0> © Société mathématique de France, 1991, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la collection « Astérisque » (http://smf4.emath.fr/ Publications/Asterisque/) implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’uti- lisation (http://www.numdam.org/conditions). Toute utilisation commerciale ou impression systématique est constitutive d’une infraction pénale. Toute copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright. Article numérisé dans le cadre du programme Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques http://www.numdam.org/ EXPONENTIAL SUMS AFTER BOMBIERI AND IWANIEC by M.N. HUXLEY BOMBIERI and IWANIEC [BI1, BI2] obtained 9 = 9/56 for the Lindelof exponent (the least 9 for which the Riemann zeta function satisfies C(l/2 + i<) = 0(te+£) as <->oo.) They remarked that their method might not be special to the Lindelof problem; in fact, as the saying goes, "they wrought [worked] better than they knew". To show that one property is uniformly distributed with respect to another property, one forms exponential sums 2M-1 5 = e{f[m)) , (1) M where e(x) = exp 2nix, f(m) = TF(m/M) with F(x) in the function class Cn[l — <5,2 + 6] for some 6 > 0 and n > 4. The case F(x) = log x gives Dirichlet series. If F(x) is a polynomial of degree d with rational coefficients, denominator g, and if T = Md, then the sum 5 is approximately MSJq , where Sq is a complete exponential sum with denominator q. -
North Carolina Obituaries Courier Tribune Name Date of Paper Page # Date of Death Abbott, Blannie Allen 7-Aug-84 7A 6-Aug-84
North Carolina Obituaries Courier Tribune Name Date of Paper Page # Date of Death Abbott, Blannie Allen 7-Aug-84 7A 6-Aug-84 Abbott, Douglas L. 1-Sep-82 12A 30-Aug-82 Abbott, Helen Hartsook 3-Dec-82 9A 2-Dec-82 Abbott, Molly Jeane 3-Nov-81 8A 31-Oct-81 Abbott, Nora Johnson Mitchell 14-Oct-83 12A 13-Oct-83 Abbott, Roger 1-Aug-84 6A 31-Jul-84 Abercrombie, Dodd 5-Oct-80 6A 3-Oct-80 Abernathy, Ray Paul 29-Jun-80 8A 28-Jun-80 Abernathy, Shaun Travis 24-May-83 8A 24-May-83 Abrams, Reagan Vincent 28-Sep-80 6A 26-Sep-80 Abston, Thomas Earl 30-Dec-82 10A 29-Dec-82 Ackerman, Elsie K. 20-Apr-82 8A 19-Apr-82 Acree, Una Mae Phillips 6-Jul-81 6A 5-Jul-81 Adams, Anna Threadgill 9-Dec-85 9A 8-Dec-85 Adams, Annie Vaughn 12-Mar-85 6A 11-Mar-85 Adams, Bernice Hooper 6-Jul-82 8A 5-Jul-82 Adams, Dora Carrick 13-Jun-80 10A 12-Jun-80 Adams, Edward Vance 23-May-83 6A 23-May-83 Adams, Herman Hugh Sr. 29-Oct-81 8A 27-Oct-81 Adams, James Clifton 18-Sep-84 9A 17-Sep-84 Adams, John Edwin 1-Mar-84 10A 29-Feb-84 Adams, T.B. 15-Oct-82 10A 14-Oct-82 Adams, Velma D. 11-Aug-81 8A 10-Aug-81 Adcock, Plackard C. 6-Jul-82 8A 5-Jul-82 Aderholt, Daniel H. 17-May-85 10A 13-May-85 Adkins, Clarence Odell 1-Jan-85 7A 1-Jan-85 Adkins, E.G. -
Characterization of Ecoregions of Idaho
1 0 . C o l u m b i a P l a t e a u 1 3 . C e n t r a l B a s i n a n d R a n g e Ecoregion 10 is an arid grassland and sagebrush steppe that is surrounded by moister, predominantly forested, mountainous ecoregions. It is Ecoregion 13 is internally-drained and composed of north-trending, fault-block ranges and intervening, drier basins. It is vast and includes parts underlain by thick basalt. In the east, where precipitation is greater, deep loess soils have been extensively cultivated for wheat. of Nevada, Utah, California, and Idaho. In Idaho, sagebrush grassland, saltbush–greasewood, mountain brush, and woodland occur; forests are absent unlike in the cooler, wetter, more rugged Ecoregion 19. Grazing is widespread. Cropland is less common than in Ecoregions 12 and 80. Ecoregions of Idaho The unforested hills and plateaus of the Dissected Loess Uplands ecoregion are cut by the canyons of Ecoregion 10l and are disjunct. 10f Pure grasslands dominate lower elevations. Mountain brush grows on higher, moister sites. Grazing and farming have eliminated The arid Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins ecoregion is nearly flat, internally-drained, and has light-colored alkaline soils that are Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and America into 15 ecological regions. Level II divides the continent into 52 regions Literature Cited: much of the original plant cover. Nevertheless, Ecoregion 10f is not as suited to farming as Ecoregions 10h and 10j because it has thinner soils. -
The History of Ukraine Advisory Board
THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE ADVISORY BOARD John T. Alexander Professor of History and Russian and European Studies, University of Kansas Robert A. Divine George W. Littlefield Professor in American History Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin John V. Lombardi Professor of History, University of Florida THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE Paul Kubicek The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling, Series Editors Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kubicek, Paul. The history of Ukraine / Paul Kubicek. p. cm. — (The Greenwood histories of the modern nations, ISSN 1096 –2095) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978 – 0 –313 – 34920 –1 (alk. paper) 1. Ukraine —History. I. Title. DK508.51.K825 2008 947.7— dc22 2008026717 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2008 by Paul Kubicek All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008026717 ISBN: 978– 0– 313 – 34920 –1 ISSN: 1096 –2905 First published in 2008 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48 –1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Every reasonable effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright materials in this book, but in some instances this has proven impossible.