PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN. CHAPTER II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their learning. Of the king and his...
(Music) One of the funny things about owning a brain is that you have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto, the facts and the stories. And as you get older, it only gets worse....
In this document we will describe the horizon coordinates why are and how to measure them. To begin we will give some definitions necessary for understand certain astronomical concepts. VERTICAL OF A...
CHAPTER 7 "They do not sleep, On yonder cliffs, a grizzly band, I see them sit."--Gray "'Twould be neglecting a warning that is given for our good to lie hid any...
CHAPTER 1. THE ARIZONA DESERT One afternoon, far out on the sun-baked waste of sage, we made camp near a clump of withered pinyon trees. The cold desert wind came down upon us with the sudden...
-CHAPTER 9 '"I was saying to myself, 'Sink--curse you! Sink!'" These were the words with which he began again. He wanted it over. He was severely left alone,...
-CHAPTER 10 'He locked his fingers together and tore them apart. Nothing could be more true: he had indeed jumped into an everlasting deep hole. He had tumbled from a height he could never...
-BOOK SECOND. CHAPTER IV. THE INCONVENIENCES OF FOLLOWING A PRETTY WOMAN THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE EVENING. Gringoire set out to follow the gypsy at all hazards. He had seen her, accompanied by her...
CHAPTER XII The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax...
Naked eye astronomy Have you asked any night, walking through an area without light pollution, how can you know the sky, just looking it? ... At first sight, the sky is able to give you much...