G. P. R. James

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“…He pondered whether or not Lt. Wheeler intended to import sandstone from Maine for all the other monuments to be erected in his survey; he offered an alternative approach: "We could point out several boulders, here and there, in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, which can be warranted not to budge." 68 This tongue-in-cheek note prompted an indignant retort from Wheeler, who found the editor's comments to be "indecorous." As reported in the October 14 edition of the Journal, Wheeler emphatically denied that "the monument was… composed of sandstone from Maine."…”

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“…Wheeler is expected to be here in September. 121 As with the Hughes monument, the brick pier at Colorado Springs was replaced in September by a "solid sandstone monument," this one "furnished by Mr. S.G. Ward, of Pueblo." 122 On September 20, while Kampf was on his way back to Hughes, two of his men stayed in Colorado Springs to set the new monument there.…”

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Star crossings and stone monuments-Field astronomy by the Wheeler Survey in 1870s Colorado

Wilson¹

2010

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Star crossings and stone monuments-Field astronomy by the Wheeler Survey in 1870s Colorado

Wilson¹

2010

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“…27 It had been determined when she was two that she should take the veil and she was, in her ignorance, 'like a lamb going to the slaughter.' 28 The convent was near Chelmsford and very strictly -not to say perverselyadministered; for instance 'kissing the floor and the naked foot of the reverend mother, were penances of a humiliating and disagreeable nature' to which the nuns were subjected. 29 Once, thinking that Eveline had written a letter to a person outside the convent and had hidden it about her clothing, the reverend mother 'obliged her to take off all her clothes in the presence of the whole community, and searched her while she was kept standing there in her tunic or chemise, and shivering in the cold.'…”

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When ‘Perverts’ were Religious

Janes

2014

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“…It was discussed in the scientific literature first by Osborne Reynolds in 1881 (3), and later by other authors (4)(5)(6)(7)(8). So many times was it rediscovered that in 1936 Nature published a brief historical summary and commented, "When the rising generation of physicists see the Reynolds ridge, they should recognize it at once as an old friend" (9).…”

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The Thoreau-Reynolds Ridge, a Lost and Found Phenomenon

McDowell

McCutchen

1971

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planes perpendicular, and at various intermediate angles, to the original planes. Exactly the same results were obtained from these thin sections.The primary purpose of a gypsum plate in optical mineralogy is not merely to increase the birefringence (the quarter-wave mica plate is more commonly used for that) but to indicate elongation. The apatite minerals are optically negative. Prismatic crystals are length-fast, tabular crystals are lengthslow (5). The "blue rim" produced on the articulation surfaces of domestic animal bones when the section is placed so that the edge of the articulation surface is perpendicular to the slow ray of the gymsum plate suggests an alignment of tabular crystals oriented with the basal planes parallel to the surface of bone-to-bone contact. The strong enhancement of (002) reflections from the articulation surfaces corroborates the optical evidence.We hypothesize that the alignment noted is a reaction to stress in the weight-bearing bones of domestic animals which, through poor nutrition or lack of exercise or both, possess insufficient bone matter when compared with the healthier wild animals. McConnell's figure 2 seems to support this hypothesis-the lack of large-scale orientation effects reflects the lack of stress in a fetal tooth. It might be worthwhile to compare the teeth of individuals of different cultural environments with our techniques, although since we have concentrated on the effects produced in the weight-bearing bones, and especially in the articulation surfaces of such bones, we do not know whether dental enamel would reflect similar stresses.ISABELLA DREW

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G. P. R. James

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Star crossings and stone monuments-Field astronomy by the Wheeler Survey in 1870s Colorado

Star crossings and stone monuments-Field astronomy by the Wheeler Survey in 1870s Colorado

When ‘Perverts’ were Religious

The Thoreau-Reynolds Ridge, a Lost and Found Phenomenon

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