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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"heavens"”.
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A Comparative Study of Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī's Texts and Models on the Configuration of the Heavens
This dissertation analyzes the astronomical writings of Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī, a well-known Persian scholar of the Ilkhanid era (i.e., the second half of the thirteenth century to the early decades of the fourteenth century C. E.). The sustained attempts, by scientists of the Islamic world to rid …
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"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh" : mockery and typology in Milton's poetry.
This dissertation examines the typological significance of the exchanges of mockery in Milton's major poetic works. Through engaging the affections, mockery has a crucial mediating role in Milton's poetry that connects reason and bodily appetites. In this way, mockery has a constructive purpose …
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'Storming the heavens': The Soviet League of the Militant Godless and Bolshevik political culture in the 1920s and 1930s
Among the many social campaigns launched by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, the effort to counter the pervasive influence of religion was among the most visible. From 1924 to 1941, the League of the Militant Godless, the quasi-governmental organization charged with disseminating atheism, maintained a …
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Archistrategos
… and capable of elevating ones attention to the heavens. Archistrategos is a musical reaction to various iconographic depictions of Michael the Archangel. In choosing materials, I reflected on the dual nature of the angel who is both a military leader charged with leading heavens armies against …
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The European Influence Upon a Typical American: Mark Twain
… the ’’inner sanctum" for the poet; the starry heavens and the massive universe, the reservoir for the scientist; the world of travel, the school from which the novelist has learned to study and to write.
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An Embassy for Somalia; Traversing the Boundary Between the Sacred and the Profane
… of light. Earth exists as a result of the heavens, whether cosmologically or theologically. The following project explores dichotomies and the architectural elements that can span two disparate entities. The proposal for an embassy for Somalia strives to discover the threshold between the …
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Marisol By Jose RIvera: Scenic Design
… and a fire escape becomes the portal to the heavens.
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The Mass-Pitch Angle Relation for Three High Redshift Active Galaxies Selected from the GOODS Field
<p>As we continue to investigate and ponder the heavens, we have come to realize the presence of highly energetic gravitational wells at the center of all galaxies. These supermassive black holes at a galaxies nucleus formed in the company of the other features making up the galaxy, particularly …
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Real-time Adaptive Cancellation of Satellite Interference in Radio Astronomy
Radio astronomy is the science of observing the heavens at radio frequencies, from a few kHz to approximately 300 GHz. In recent years, radio astronomy has faced a growing interference problem as radio frequency (RF) bandwidth has become an increasingly scarce commodity. A programmable real-time …
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The Intimate Domain of Dwelling Between Earth and Sky
… breeze, surrounded by canopy and inspired by the heavens. For this journey, the architect must purposefully and poetically place humanity within nature. This is the intimate domain of dwelling between earth and sky.
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An investigation into imagery rescripting for social anxiety in people with psychosis: A case series design
… rescripting for social anxiety in psychosis D. Heavens iii analyses revealed significant improvements and medium to large effect sizes. However, this should be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size. Conclusion The study offers some support for the use of imagery rescripting for …
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Francis Thompson’s Solution's to the Problem of Evil in the Hound of Heaven
… world with its pure air, with its canopy of the heavens, its blending colors of the rainbow, with the richness of snow-capped mountains, the fertility of the valleys, the grandeur of forest. Whoever observes the universe and considers the admirable order manifested by the never-failing …
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Money for the big eyes
… civilization, humanity has kept its eyes on the heavens, and the invention of telescopes has only increased its scrutiny. As astronomers strive to see the universe with increasing clarity, telescopes have been getting bigger, better, and more expensive. The astronomy community is currently …
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Theater: Architecture of the Horizon
… and the philosophical, the earth and the heavens… By examining the dichotomous relationship between the tectonic and the stereotomic, the project proposed within these pages provides for a spatial experience that will aid its audience in shedding the entrapments of their daily lives as …
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Stones with Souls: How Have Meteorites Been Viewed in the Past and How Are They Viewed in the Present?
… objects. Meteoritic iron was associated with the heavens in some of the earliest civilisations, and Sumerian and Egyptian linguistic traditions linked iron directly to the sky or to divine beings. Studies which included the black stone of Emesa, the Aegospotami and Abydos stones, the Cybele stone, …
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Alchemical Transformation and the Grief-Threshold in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
… the conversational wisdom of the earth and the heavens.</p>
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Bryn Myrrdin: a temple in time
… we are born, and to the stars we return. The heavens hold our heritage and our destiny. Throughout Man’s history, marking the positions of the moon and stars has been essential to knowing one’s place in the cosmos, to defining the cycle of seasons and Time itself. To connect Man between Heaven …
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Is there evidence of intentionality of sky involvement in the prehistoric megalithic sites of Mnajdra in Malta?
… living on an island where sea, earth and heavens were important elements, is also explored with recourse to the archaeological record of the Temple Period. It will be argued that the Mnajdra South Temple is the world’s oldest structure that seems to be intentionally aligned towards the …
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Revealing natural cycles through architecture : an AIDS hospice in Provincetown, Massachusetts
… natural environment such as the movements of the heavens, or the seasonal changes in the wind and rain are rarely experienced through our architecture. Understanding these cycles gives us the ability to gage where we are in both time and place. These rhythms give us an understanding of time not …
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The Effects of High Intensity, Short Rest Resistance Exercise on Testosterone and Muscle Damage Markers in Men and Women
<p>High intensity, short rest protocols have become increasingly popular within the fitness industry. Such protocols can elicit extensive muscle damage and oxidative stress; thus the purpose of this study was to<strong> </strong>examine markers of muscle tissue damage and inflammation along with …
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