| Because of conservation of angular momentum, the globes will resist any change in their orientation. |
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| There's a couple of blue-glazed ceramic globes in the garden, good for an unfocussed gaze. |
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| The globes are coated with a layer of niobium, giving them a silvery finish. |
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| Plato imagined that the first beings were shaped like globes, symbols of full-bodied wholeness. |
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| Vermonters were likely proud to possess one of these impressive terrestrial globes. |
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| All of the mages had staffs appropriate to their height with globes resting atop them. |
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| Located in front of the white EPOCS Specter, are two solid black globes moving with precision in the space above the awed technicians. |
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| The radar can spot both horizontal and vertical reflections, which are presented as globes on a grid. |
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| For a moment, the immense globes of her eyes are convex mirrors in which we might, were this not a picture, witness our own gaze. |
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| Translucent yellow globes dangle from long chains over a rectangle of couches and uncomfortable bamboo chairs. |
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| The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes. |
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| This was common practice during the Renaissance, when the same craftsmen made both celestial spheres and Earth globes. |
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| Banks of white arum lilies and the blue globes of agapanthus lined the Levada do Norte, along with oleander bushes in full bloom. |
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| He also fashioned one of the earliest surviving solid wooden globes made in America. |
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| Add a few drops of ammonia to the rinse water for glass lamps, chimneys, and globes. |
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| It consists of a maple table covered with more than a dozen wire-framed globes of cream-colored resined paper, each different from the next. |
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| People left their curtains open and some even found coloured globes to light outside their homes. |
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| The tiny globes emitted light 35 times more intensely back toward the laser source than in any other direction. |
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| Incidentally, globes representing the Earth are often made this way using a regular dodecagon as the equatorial base. |
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| Others were a little eccentric and gave away yo-yos, 3D paper buses and stress globes. |
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| It's even less traditional up the stairwells where giant alien globes have landed, masquerading as light fittings. |
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| Fill large goldfish-type bowls with shiny glass globes and ornaments to create simple decorations. |
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| Mercator made many new maps and globes, but his greatest contribution to cartography must be the Mercator projection. |
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| They were decorated beautifully and lit up with different coloured globes and different ribbons. |
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| Once set in motion and free of outside disturbances, the axes of these spinning globes should keep pointing in the same direction. |
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| Little do they know, but those reprehensible little globes of gluttony are now living in the basement of Annie and Johnny's flophouse. |
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| If you're not interested in having one for your site, and if you like my globes and twinklers, I'd love to hear from you. |
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| Your most valued possession is your collection of snow globes. |
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| That the globes did this year, rewarding both Rodriguez and the series in Best Comedy, is a pleasant surprise. |
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| Come inside the star-studded globes after-parties, where inebriated A-listers mingle. |
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| The collection also features world maps, and includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. |
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| By 1650, two-thirds of the continent's coast were thus widely known not only in Europe, but also wherever Dutch charts, atlases, and globes were distributed. |
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| I could see the vase on her dresser, one of the thin glass globes, I imagined, that come free with flower arrangements. |
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| Glittering snow globes delight children and adults alike, while individual ornaments ranging from three to 12 inches high provide dazzling centrepieces. |
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| Others, such as the fitting of AAA-rated taps and shower roses, or the use of compact fluorescent globes for lighting, can be applied cheaply and easily to all houses. |
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| Before its acquisition, the library's collection of approximately seventy globes from before 1900 consisted entirely of European and American examples. |
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| You will undoubtedly discover that spiky misshapen globes, with occasional squidgy and sticky bits, are not the easiest things to hold for a long time. |
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| Just recently, I remembered and I went to renew the light globes. |
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| As built, the steel tubing that upholds the light globes along the bridges was painted gold and copper, as were the metal window frames of the auditorium. |
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| For example, on geographers' globes of the Earth we use a grid of latitude and longitude lines to label positions on the Earth's surface uniquely. |
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| In order to move beyond shoemaker Lane's effort and produce globes his neighbors would be proud to own, Wilson had to learn to engrave his maps on copper plates. |
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| Comb jellies, just globes of shimmering film in today's oceans, may have had rigid skeletons and hard plates millions of years ago. |
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| Come January for the globes, expect to be enjoying yourself, too. |
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| Mercator also presented the emperor with a pamphlet on the use of globes and instruments and his latest ideas on magnetism. |
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| The outcome was an Imperial order for globes, compasses, astrolabe and astronomical rings. |
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| A large part of Mercator's income came from the sales of his terrestrial and celestial globes. |
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| It is a compact perennial which grows in low clumps and sends up long stems that support globes of bright pink flowers. |
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| Ptolemy's Geographia was first printed with maps at Bologna in 1477, and many early globes in the 16th century followed his lead. |
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| Ex hypothesi, no qualitative difference distinguishes these globes, so none of your general thoughts will divide them. |
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| These types of fireworks can produce various shapes, ranging from simple rotating circles, stars and 3D globes. |
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| Texturally the two bouncy globes were more suited to a game of squash than a dinner table. |
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| Golden globes have recently been added to the top of the Gurdwara, due to open in February 2013, on Buckingham Street and Abinger Street, in the west end of the city. |
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| As a case in point, the Romans developed the highly formal garden, with its rows of geometrically perfect plants, shaped as boxes or globes, in symmetrical patterns. |
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| More engaging in her exhibit are a series of larger globes, each one aswirl with pumped-in glitter and each one containing a half dozen glass vials. |
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| Before they were rediscovered in the 1980s, it was believed by modern metallurgists to be technically impossible to produce metal globes without any seams. |
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| Bess's grapes are gorgeous. With only a 2B greylead, she's created these glistening globes with shading on each one that makes them seem three-dimensional. |
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| The Metropolitan Railway's original seven stations were inspired by Italianate designs, with the platforms lit by daylight from above and by gas lights in large glass globes. |
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| At the bottom of the stairs my hand met an electric switch. I turned it, and a great electrolier of twelve red globes flooded the cellar with a red light. |
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| City daredevils also had the opportunity to try stilt-walking, rolling globes and unicycling or pick up a new skill like plate spinning or juggling. |
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| The gores were to be engraved on copper, instead of wood, and the text was to be in an elegant italic script instead of the heavy Roman lettering of the early globes. |
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| Goban rose unsteadily to his feet with Cullan's help, and staggered unsteadily across the hall to a pedestal on which was mounted a nest of coencentric crystal globes. |
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