A skeptic might say that his almanac is the all-purpose Christmas gift for the person without personality. |
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Further tests convinced him that the Nubian had not been put up to this by someone who could read the almanac. |
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His fascination with the event led him to discover for himself when eclipses might occur using only an almanac and a book on geography. |
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I looked to see if there were any books-an old almanac, begrimed and greasy, hanging against the wall, was all the literature offered. |
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Regardless of whether you choose to use the sight reduction tables or prefer the haversine formula you will require a nautical almanac. |
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He took two steps over to the almanac calendar hanging next to the apothecary's chest, and peered at it thoughtfully. |
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Each county page has an almanac style display with information related to the county, such as county seat, date formed, and origin of name. |
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It was another Johannes, also a German, who in 1472 became the first person to print an astronomical almanac. |
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As well as his annual almanac, he produced a series of astrological and prophetic pamphlets. |
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Traversing the site, reading the information on composers, artists, works and a historical almanac, one seems to hop between several free servers and several styles of page. |
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I found these dewpoint figures by going to our Online weather almanac and going to the guides to the month-to-month weather for cities in Florida and Texas. |
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No belief in astrology is needed to carry out such an investigation, only the birth-dates, an astronomical almanac, and a table of logarithms for working out the horoscope. |
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As foreshadowed above, many settlers and explorers would buy an annual almanac, containing notes of what was to be expected in the forthcoming year. |
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I think this is a new astronomical landmark that all Linux users should ask to include in the astronomical almanac of the foreseen history of the Universe. |
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Tycho also found time to provide an annual astrological almanac for King Frederick and to write detailed reports on the horoscopes of the king's children. |
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Kornacki, on the other hand, appears to be far more comfortable with the kind of arcana found in The almanac of American Politics. |
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The almanac also tells us it would be a good time to perform demolitions, if you had any of those planned. |
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Initial startup of the base station can take up to several minutes to acquire due to downloading the GPS almanac. |
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Cook carried an early nautical almanac and brass sextants, but no chronometer on the first voyage. |
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Page 28 of the Codex Borgia is, in effect, one page in an almanac produced by astronomer-calculators to suit a particular time and place of celestial observation. |
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In 1708 Swift predicted the death of a famous astrologer in an almanac using the fictitious name Isaac Bickerstaff. |
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Unlike the Web, however, the almanac aims for exhaustiveness within clearly defined limits. |
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His almanac tables, showing the moon and Earth with the planets revolving about the sun, met the test of expert observation as well as the old Earth-centered tables had. |
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Alkali, algorithm, alembic, and almanac entered the English lexicon about the same time. |
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Had the almanac been around since then, what other events might have demanded inclusion? |
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Its primary contributions were in practical astronomy navigation, timekeeping, determination of star positions, and almanac publication. |
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Since 907 the special names by which every year of the cycle is designated are simply given to present years of the almanac. |
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The calendar part and the practical part make up the two basic components of the almanac. |
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Indeed, the novel narrativizes the reception of the almanac in such a way as to keep it from being the property of only one nation or imagined community. |
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Though the present day almanac makers have discarded the Surya Sidhantic length of the year, they are still adhering to the sidereal year instead of the solar year. |
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It has been said that if you give an intelligent man an encyclopedia, an almanac and a time-table he need never be bored. |
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Some almanac information, such as names of current heads of state, has been relegated to supporting Web sites that will presumably provide updates. |
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It is the most comprehensive survey of global trends affecting children and provides the most thorough almanac of up-to-date statistical data on children. |
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In 1708, a cobbler named John Partridge published a popular almanac of astrological predictions. |
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If the almanac information is not in memory, the receiver enters a search mode until a lock is obtained on one of the satellites. |
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The receiver can then acquire the almanac and determine the satellites it should listen for. |
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Marco Polo documented the Yuan printing of paper money and almanac pamphlets called tacuini. |
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In traditional societies, printed material intended for the masses was essentially of two types: religious, in the form of catechisms, and the almanac. |
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Thus, to calibrate the beam energy and keep improving measurement precision, it now pays to have an almanac or tide table handy. |
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An almanac provides data on the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, the phases of the Moon, the positions of the planets, schedules of high and low tides, and a register of ecclesiastical festivals and saints' days. |
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The traditional people's almanac generally consists of several parts. |
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He mentions eclipses, but considers Hipparchus's almanac grandiose for seeming to know how Nature works. |
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There were even some fakes, such as almanac and Paracelsus' universal solvent the alkahest. |
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This publication later became the standard almanac for mariners worldwide. |
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This approximate latitude is then corrected using simple tables or almanac corrections to determine a latitude theoretically accurate to within a fraction of a mile. |
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The Almanac is published twice a year in two separate versions, Russian and English. |
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I know it must seem like I'm a ninny about Philip Levine, but this was on the Writer's Almanac on my birthday and I loved it so much. |
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He owed his eventual lionization to Seeger, who formed with him the Almanac Singers, which first brought his work to popular attention. |
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Full moons were recorded according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, eastern standard time. |
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The Law Almanac used to actually contain a list of non-practising barristers, as I recollect. |
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It doesn't have the boozy recklessness of the harder Stranger's Almanac, nor does it have the delicate emotional fragility of Heartbreaker. |
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Whiskeytown's Stranger's Almanac, an album I picked up in a New York bargain bin for 5 bucks, was my introduction. |
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For 25 years, sourdoughs, cheechakos, travelers, students and writers have trusted The Alaska Almanac to provide facts on many things Alaskan. |
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Instead of a January to December calendar year, the Almanac relied on a tropical year defined as running from one winter solstice to the next. |
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And about bluebottles, pink-tongues and all sorts of colourful things, we'll have more to report, someday, sometime, somewhen in Sandy Beach Almanac. |
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Whitaker's Almanac is the oldest continually published annual in Britain. |
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He and three of his colleagues, calling themselves the Almanac Singers, were on a cross-country jalopy tour singing and creating songs for the industrial unions aborning. |
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Almanacs were very popular, also, Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac being the most famous. |
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No more finding that my 1984 Associated Press Almanac accidentally got spray-painted during the making of a son's beach skimboard. |
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Babbage's own account of the origin of the difference engine begins with the Astronomical Society's wish to improve The Nautical Almanac. |
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In his Great Bear Almanac, Gary Brown lists 11 different sounds bears produce in 9 different contexts. |
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Between 1765 and 1811, Nevil Maskelyne published 49 issues of the Nautical Almanac based on the meridian of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. |
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Within the Almanac, neither the Union Flag or the Union Jack are included pictorially or mentioned by name. |
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In the Almanac, his estimates for numbers of language speakers were rounded to the nearest million, thus the number for Esperanto speakers is shown as two million. |
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The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads. |
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