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A letter to a person of scrupulous conscience about the time of keeping Christmas, according to the new-stile. To which is added, a dialogue between a ... the reason and expediency of the new-stile. by William Parker, 2010-05-29 The true time of keeping St. Matthias's-Day in leap-years: shewn in a familiar conference between a Church-man and a Dissenter. Wherein is inserted Dr. ... subject A.D. 1684. Never printed before. by Robert Watts, 2010-06-09 Bee-keeping: Webster's Timeline History, 2400BC - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2010-03-10 Book-keeping: Webster's Timeline History, 1668 - 2006 by Icon Group International, 2010-05-17 Keeping: Webster's Timeline History, 9000 BC - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2009-04-16 Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel, 2003-10 Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times by Studs Terkel, 2004-11-30 Book-keeping and Accounts: Webster's Timeline History, 1812 - 2004 by Icon Group International, 2009-05-01 Keeping The Peace: Webster's Timeline History, 387 BC - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2009-05-01 Keeping The Faith: Webster's Timeline History, 1815 - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2009-05-01 A confutation of a late pamphlet intituled A letter ballancing the necessity of keeping a land force in time of peace with the dangers that may follow on it by John Somers Somers, Samuel Johnson, 2010-06-07 The Official M&M's Book of the Millennium by Larry Dane Brimner, 1999-09-15 Keeping Time: the Story of the Marine Chronometer by Jonathan D. Betts, 2000-12-30 The development of time-keeping in Greece and Rome by F. A Seely, 1888

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41. Keeping Time...
    keeping time. radical history. Vancouver (Coast Salish Territory). The whole of humanity has erupted violently, tumultuously onto  
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    Extractions: "The whole of humanity has erupted violently, tumultuously onto the stage of history, taking its own destiny in its hands. Capitalism is under siege, surrounded by a global tide of revolution. And this revolution, still without a center, without a precise form, has its own laws, its own life and depth of unity - accorded it by the same masses who create it, who live it, who inspire each other from across boundaries, give each other spirit and encouragement, and learn from collective experiences." - Adolfo Gilly radical vancouver history vancouver squatter's movement history links keeping_time@ziplip.com

42. Keeping Time: Readings In Jazz History
    keeping time Readings in Jazz history. Title keeping time Readings in Jazz history Subject Biography general Category Biography General Format Paperback  
    http://www.west-midlands-woodturners.co.uk/Keeping-Time-Readings-in-Jazz-History

43. History Of Calendars
    Throughout history, different civilizations have devised numerous ways of keeping track of time, and documenting the days as they pass, culminating into  
    http://www.alinaam.org.za/library/calendar1.htm
    
    Extractions: Islamic Calendar - History and Motivation Allah Ta’ala says, 'It is He Who made the sun a shining object and the moon as a light and measured out its (their) stages, that you might know the number of years and the reckoning. Allah did not create this but in truth. He explains the verses in detail for people who have knowledge.’ Throughout history, different civilizations have devised numerous ways of keeping track of time, and documenting the days as they pass, culminating into various calendar systems. The following article recounts the development of many of these calendars and shows how they are tied to the religious beliefs of the people. Of the variety of calendars in use today, probably the most well known,are the Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic, and Gregorian time keeping systems. While each of these systems is unique in how it is used, they all share a set of common features, even borrowing from each other in ways that are not easily recognized. Like all great efforts that require the dedicated collective work of a group of people, the establishment of a time-keeping system is no trivial matter. It required knowing how to make observations, knowing which observations to make, and knowing how to keep records over a long period of time.

44. Calendars-Key Text
    Calendars – keeping track of time. No matter which side you re on in the debate about when the new millennium begins, you ll find the history of the  
    http://www.science.org.au/nova/051/051key.htm
    
    Extractions: of Science Sponsored by No matter which side you're on in the debate about when the new millennium begins, you'll find the history of the Western calendar fascinating. Printer-friendly version of complete topic A calendar can be defined as a systematic way of organising days into weeks, months, years, and millennia. By such ordering we know when the young Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun died (1323 BCE Lunar calendar Humans have probably always recognised certain cycles in the passage of time. Perhaps the most obvious is that of the moon. At the start of its cycle (‘new moon’) the moon lies directly between the sun and the Earth and its illuminated face cannot be seen from the Earth. As the moon moves in its orbit around the Earth, a crescent of its illuminated face becomes visible. The crescent grows over a period of nights until the entire face can be seen: this is called ‘full moon’. The face then wanes until once more it can’t be seen from Earth. This cycle takes an average 29.530589 days. Most of the early calendars were based on this moon cycle, also known as a 'lunation'. There were all sorts of problems with such calendars, due partly to the fact that the average lunation is not a whole number. If ‘29’ were the number used to mark the lunar month, the calendar would very quickly get out of synchrony with the actual phases of the moon. The first month would be out of synchrony by about half a day and the next month by a full day.

45. Keeping Time : The History And Theory Of Preservation In America
    keeping time The history and Theory of Preservation in America. by William J. Murtagh.  
    http://www.aviewoncities.com/zzbooks/showproduct.php?asin=0471182400

46. Truzzi: On Keeping Things Up In The Air
    From Natural history Vol. on their feet and knee, again throwing it up and catching it, and thus keeping it in motion for a length of time without letting  
    http://www.juggling.org/papers/history-3/
    
    Extractions: Juggling, the continuous tossing and catching of objects in the air, is an excellent example of man's extraordinary capacity for play. Some other animals, such as the seal, have been trained to balance objects, but true juggling seems beyond the abilities of even the other higher primates (despite occasional circus posters that falsely picture chimpanzees juggling). That juggling is unique to man should not be surprising since it involves not only remarkable use of the hands but also complex spatial perception and cognitive skills. The art of juggling has been widely reported among the world's cultures, and some ethnographic descriptions suggest considerable proficiency. John B. Stair, in his 1897 work Old Samoa; or, Flotsam and Jetsam from the Pacific Ocean , related: " O Fuanga consisted in throwing up a number of oranges into the air, six, seven, or eight, and the object was to keep the whole number in motion at once, as the Chinese jugglers do their balls." And in a 1901 study, Burma , Max and Bertha Ferrars wrote: A good player [of chinon , a game] will sent the ball into the air again and again with decreasing force till he allows it to alight in the hollow of his shoulder. Thence he lets it roll down the back of the arm and jerks it off at the elbow to catch it on the knee, and changing his feet like a flash, strikes the ball high from the back, with the opposite sole, for another player to vary the performance in as original a way as he can.

47. Learn More About Methods Of Keeping Time.
    Learn more about methods of keeping time. Recording the Passage of time. Daylight Savings time. Frequently Asked Questions about time. A history of Atomic Clocks.  
    http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/data_centers/es0409.cf

48. MountainZebra
    components (1) the reference time (for history mode only Each time the display changes, the overlay times Thus, keeping the overlay times window open during  
    http://www.atmos.washington.edu/zebra/time_mode.html
    
    Extractions: This document defines the Zebra time modes, and trains the user to identify what time mode Zebra is using and what time the displayed data were taken. As discussed in General Setup , there are two time modes in Zebra The reference date and time is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the main windows. There are two ways to find out whether Zebra is in real-time mode or history mode. If the font color of the reference time is yellow, then Zebra is in history mode. The current time mode is displayed at the top of the "Data Available" menu (for information on the "Data Available" menu, see General Setup In order to change the time mode or the reference time, activate the time widget. This is done by selecting "Time Widget" from the "Zeb Conrol Options" menu (see General Setup ). Within a few seconds, an outline of the widget shows up on the screen. Simply move the outline to the desired position, then click with the left mouse button to draw the window.

49. Kwajalein Ops Center
    keeping Track of the time Mode. mode, the reference time is set to the time that the history mode Displays the most recent data from each enabled directory  
    http://www.atmos.washington.edu/kwajex/ops-web/tutorial/zebra/time_mode.html
    
    Extractions: KwajZebra Tutorial KwajZebra General Time Fields ... Movies Keeping Track of the Time Mode This document defines the Zebra time modes, and trains the user to identify what time mode Zebra is using and what time the displayed data were taken. As discussed in General Setup , there are two time modes in Zebra The reference date and time is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the main windows. There are two ways to find out whether Zebra is in real-time mode or history mode. If the font color of the reference time is yellow, then Zebra is in history mode. The current time mode is displayed at the top of the "Data Available" menu (for information on the "Data Available" menu, see

50. ResourceShelf
    Georeferenced Digital Libraries + Combining Place, time, and Topic United States Source GPO keeping America Informed important works in the history of science  
    http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/

51. Watches History: Keeping Watch: A History Of American Time
    keeping Watch A history of American time by Michael O Malley Buy This Book Now! Search Search the net for american history keeping time watch watches.  
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52. Watches History: Keeping Watch: A History Of American Time
    time, Search Search the net for american history keeping time watch watches. Thank you for visiting, please bookmark this site. All  
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    Extractions: window.location='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140124330/find11-20/ref=nosim'; If your browser does not automatically take you to the book 'Keeping Watch: A History of American Time' by Michael O'Malley, please click here: Keeping Watch: A History of American Time Search: Search the net for american history keeping time ... watches

53. History Of Time Keeping
    timepieces is the history of human progress. For thousands of years, people who hunted and gathered wild food to survive needed only crude ways to keep time.  
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    Extractions: Press Releases A HISTORY OF TIMEPIECES In a way, the history of timepieces is the history of human progress. For thousands of years, people who hunted and gathered wild food to survive needed only crude ways to keep time. Archeologists have found records of lunar cycles scratched on bones from Ice Age Europe. The pillars of rock at Stonehenge in England determined solstices and other seasonal events. As people began to farm and build cities, they needed somewhat more detailed records of time. Early calendars made by people ranging from the Egyptians to the Mayans of Central America measured months and years. Such calendars made it possible for merchants to establish trade routes, cultures to develop shared religious celebrations and governments to keep records. Five or six thousand years ago, Sumeria in what is now Iraq was the first culture to develop a written language and also the first to develop a clock. Other ancient civilizations came up with ways to mark the hours of the day as they became more complex. The Washington Monument is a monument to the first clocks as well as to the first U.S. president, for obelisks were the first “shadow clocks”—clocks that measured time with lengthening shadows. The more familiar sundial, invented around 1500 B.C. was both more exact and more portable.

54. Keeping Time (in MARION)
    of Contents. Title keeping time the history and theory of preservation in America / William J. Murtagh. Author Murtagh, William  
    http://library.tnstate.edu/MARION/ACN-1355

55. HISTORY / PHILOSOPHY LINKS
    Electromagnetism Sketching the history of Electromagnetic Theory, by Jeff . Fifth by L. Foschini, 98/08,. Fundamental Constants, Standards, and timekeeping  
    http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/hist.html

56. Sacramento Peak Time Keeping And Sundials
    30 September 1996 The history of timekeeping. The most ancient way of keeping time during the day is to see where the Sun is in the sky.  
    http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/sunspot/pr/answerbook/sundial.html
    
    Extractions: How can I make a vertical reclining sundial? Asked by Mariana of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 30 September 1996 The most ancient way of keeping time during the day is to see where the Sun is in the sky. If you live north of the equator, then the Sun rises toward the east, reaches its highest point in the sky (culminates) due south, and sets toward the west, so it moves along the sky from left to right. Of course, there are no hour markers in the sky, so time you tell from the Sun's position in the sky is only a guess. The second most ancient way of keeping time is to watch the shadow of something like a stick or tree move along the ground. Because the Sun moves from left to right in the sky (to the north of the equator), the shadow rotates in what we now call the clockwise direction. You can put marks on the ground to indicate different hours, and then you have something that looks like a clock. Because the height of the Sun above the horizon changes all the time, the speed of the shadow's rotation varies all the time, both with the time of day and also with the seasons. This means that the "hours" of this clock (as indicated by the marks on the ground) do not keep the same length all the time.

57. Science Resources By Subject: Horology: The Science Of Time Keeping
    Horology The Science of time keeping. through our pages to learn more about time, timekeeping, horology as a com/calendars/ A site covering the history of the  
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    Extractions: Hosted by the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute. AWI is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the advancement of horology. Horology is the study of the art and science of time... Browse through our pages to learn more about time, timekeeping, horology as a profession, and the organization that serves 6,000 members Clockworks is an animated historical exhibit of the many devices that have been created to measure time. Starting with the sundial and continuing to the modern-day quartz watch and cesium atomic clock, the exhibit chronicles man's endeavor to measure the passage of time. The exhibit features Quicktime movies and has a text-only version.

58. Keeping Up With The Cones - Natural History Feb. 2002
    keeping up with the cones. Full Text Copyright American Museum of Natural history Feb 2002. for 55 million years, a relatively short time in evolutionary terms.  
    http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/ConeReview2002.html
    
    Extractions: You are here Home About Cone Shells Natural History ; New York; Feb 2002; by Aparna Sreenivasan; Volume: 111 Issue: 1 Start Page: 40-47 ISSN: 00280712 Subject Terms: Mollusks Poisons Evolution Peptides Abstract: The genus Conus includes more than 500 species, whose shells are embellished with a seemingly endless variety of intricate patterns. Cone snails have existed for 55 millions years, and the number of species of the venomous snail has been doubling every 6.1 million years. Full Text: [Headnote] Chased by evolutionary biologists and pharmacological researchers, a tropical mollusk redefines "a snail's pace." In the early 1900s a U.S. marine stationed in the Philippines found a beautiful shell near a coral reef. Thinking it would make a nice gift for his girlfriend back home, he carried it off, placing it on his shoulder to show his friends. As the young man walked toward his buddies, the animal inside the shell extended a needle like organ and stung him on the neck. Within minutes, the marine was dead. The unfortunate American died from the sting of a cone snail, a member of the genus Conus. Collectors and beachcombers have long admired and coveted the snails' beautiful shells, risking a sometimes fatal sting to get them. The genus includes more than 500 species, whose shells are embellished with a seemingly endless variety of intricate patterns: repeating triangles or tiny cobblestone motifs, stripes, bands, spots. The length of the protoconch (the spiral on the wide posterior end of the shell) and the number of whorls differ by species, and the shells range from the size of a grape to that of a pear. To a collector, the allure of a mature, undamaged specimen-called a gem shell, and nearly impossible to find-cannot be underestimated. Despite the risk, people still pick them up.

59. Archived: History Education Begins At Home
    Enjoying Your Child and history. in abilities between us and them, or the demands of time, end up keeping the following in mind can help keep your time together  
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    Extractions: A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n As parents we are in the best position to encourage our children's natural interest in history. It is to us they address their first historical questions: " Where did I come from? " and " Was I always here? " These two questions contain the two main meanings of " history ": it is the story of people and events, and it is the record of times past Now is the time to bring out the historical evidence and to share family stories with your child. Birth and adoption certificates, immunization records, first pieces of your child's writing and art, as well as photographs all count as historical sources that tell the story of your child. The stories you tell and read to your children, or make up with them, are part of their cultural heritage and reinforce the two basic parts of history: " Once upon a time, and long ago Your child is born into history. She has no memory of it, yet she finds herself in the middle of a story that began before she became one of its characters. She also wants to have a place in it. As parents we can prepare our children to achieve the lifelong task of finding their place in history by helping them to learn what shaped the world into which they were born. Without information about their history, children don't "get" a lot of what they hear and see around them.

60. Staff Picks - Timely Titles - Keeping Time
    Search our Site more search options…. keeping time. Mapping time The Calendar and its history EG Richards 529.3 R514 1998.  
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