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...s journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly

...ows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment whic

...her prayed and "marvellously" a stone/rock took her in and released her on top of a mountain. That^s probably why she is patroness of miners, too. The [ht ...n bicycle clothes. A man had to wear bicycle pants which were baggy at the top and tight to the legs below. Then he had to have bicycle socks and shoes. T

...way, Thomas Hobbes' ''Leviathan'' (see "all against all" entry toward the top of this page) is also the source of Salitieri et al. ("solitary, poor, nast ...n bicycle clothes. A man had to wear bicycle pants which were baggy at the top and tight to the legs below. Then he had to have bicycle socks and shoes. T

...2 And he [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descend A type of hat made of felt or straw which has a cylindrical crown and flat top, originated in mid-19th century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork-pie_hat

...hed Merle getting involved in jobs about ''sound'' and ''electricity'', on top of his usual job about ''light'', closes with an image of the blowing ''win

A nunatak (plural: nunataks) is a mountain top that is not covered by land ice (see glaciation and ice age), and protrudes ...r of the earth -- to get to the zone of emergency, the lake of ice, at the top of the world to witness the liberation of Destruction.

...f Pynchon's sentences..., are merely evidence of a writer no longer at the top of his game." .... Shindler: "''Against the Day'' - funny, wise, poetic and always over-the-top - offers the reader both a way to lose him or herself in a tale of escape a

...nt because you can get easy access to two elevations: take in water at the top, install your turbine at the bottom. The mention of penstocks and other plu ...irst story, "Frank Merriwell: or, First Days at Fardale" appeared in ''Tip Top Weekly'' on April 18, 1896. Merriwell went on to appear in comic books, rad

...(at the bottom), to the highest spiritual planes of understanding (at the top). The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot Sephiroth] are the nodes of th ...ghting against bombers on behalf of the government. De Bottle goes to the top of the short list.

...pole at either end and a cord or horizontal pole between the two along the top. When viewed from the entrance end, they form a triangle, hence the name.

...ows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment whic

...le. The beds have pallets, but no springs, no Western-style mattresses, no top sheets; maid service consists of dumping a clean sheet and a blanket on the

...s. "Dome" in phrenology seems to refer to a desirable head shape, with the top of the skull large and rounded, like an egg with the larger end up. This se ...the cakewalk often included large, exaggerated bowties, suits, canes, and top hats....

Made-up: top female Math Scholars at Cambridge. Top students were called Wranglers, all male at this time. "Cambridge Universit a plug hat may be a top hat or a bowler hat.

...e passage, a paragraph-long sentence running from the bottom of 476 to the top of 477, is an intricate, lyrical riff on the idea of its ominous closing ph

In the early 1900's, Daimler's top straight six cylinder engines (see above), the only ones being manufactured

...chopped and placed in individual molds, a little grated Gruyère cheese on top, and baked in a water bath (just like some puddings). A deceptive feature like the rabbit-concealing false bottom in a magician's top hat.

'''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br>

:"At the top of the building steampipes were fixed, and each man was entitled to his own Like on page 566, this dream-passage seems to contain a top-down examination of Kit's progress; of his motives and awareness of complic

...body of groundwater in freezing weather, carrying a portion of soil on its top surface. [http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=336192 Here] are

...Era was in the second half of the 19th century, when many celebrities and top European rulers came to enjoy the curative carbon dioxide springs.

...ner. A common example to help explain this phenomenon is a ball sitting on top of a hill. This ball is in a completely symmetric state. However, it is not Musical direction. Italian: (repeat) from the top.

...ents of Romanticism, especially Late Romanticism, for example its over-the-top cult of love-and-death, heroics and Germanic mythology (Wagner) were influe

...light, an orange and a toothpick mooring line with a raisin balloon at the top. As the orange rotates toward the east and the flashlight appears to set in

...vo] river has its source at the foot of Mount Nevoso, the highest mountain top of the Slovenian Carso. It flows through most of the Karstic Plateau underg ...kshaft of an engine, angles and times are reckoned from one of two points: top dead center and bottom dead center. Bottom dead center occurs when the pist

...was not laid until 1710. The height of St Paul's from the pavement to the top of the cross is 365 feet. ...e lower edge, and to a gaff (inclined spar) extending from the mast at the top.

...culptures that surround the base represent Law, Justice, War and Peace. On top of the monument is a winged and gilded angel, known as ''Angel de la Indepe ...was destroyed in 1521 by Spanish conquistadors. Mexico City was erected on top of the ruin.

...ly related to the Gaelic 'cairn' -- a pile of stones erected on a mountain-top. Can Cyprian be related to the cypress grove and to Artemis, the barren go

...industry are all run like one big corporation with the same people at the top. This is the symbolism of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symboli

...he young assassin who fails and dies is an undeniable one (as noted at the top of the page: Hyacinth and Tancredi). Another is the evolution of characters ...o describe his premises as "reactionary," as another wiki contributor has (top of this page). The qualities that make Hyacinth a good Henry James hero hav