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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The Profile Zanzibar Age. 40 Gender. Female Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him Location Altadena, CA School. Other » More info. The Weather The World The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into: Samarinda Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is. The Phases of the Moon Module CURRENT MOON Writings
Poetry The Tree and the Telephone Pole The Spider I Do Not Know Their Names The Mouse Blindness La Plante The Moon Today I am Young A Night Poem Celestial Wandering Siren of the Sea If I Were a Dragon To the Dreamers Leave the Sky The Honor of the Oyster Return From San Diego War My Study Defeat A Late Summer's Night Of Dragons and Men Erebus The Edge of the World The Race Dragon's Spirit The Snake's Terror Spirit Island Metaphysics Metaphysica Transponderae Metaphysics and the Middaymoon Of Adventures in Foreign Lands The Rogue Wave: The Unedited Version Adventures in the PRC Voyage of Discovery Drinking the Blood of Goats Ticket for a Phantom Bus Os peixes nadam o mar Three Villages Far Away The River Weser Children I Should Have Kidnapped, Part I Let's Get You Out of Those Clothes Radishes Three-Piece-Lawsuit If Underwear Could Speak Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s) Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee. The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration T: Cook a nice dinner W: PARKOUR! Th: Parties, movies, dinners F: Picnics, the Louvre S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR Su: Philosophy, Religion The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006 A Crocodile on the Sandbank Looking Backwards Wild Swans Exodus 1984 Tales of the Alhambra (in progress) Dark Lord of Derkholm Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Lost Years of Merlin Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress) Atlas Shrugged (in progress) Uglies Pretties Specials A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!) The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time From Magma to Tephra (in progress) Lady Chatterley's Lover Harry Potter 7 The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency Introduction to Planetary Volcanism A Child Called "It" Pompeii Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women? Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress) What's So Great About Christianity? Aeolian Geomorphology Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits The City of Ember The People of Sparks Cube Route When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard Bound The Golden Compass Clan of the Cave Bear The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip) The Incredible Shrinking Man Twilight Eclipse New Moon Breaking Dawn Armageddon's Children The Elves of Cintra The Gypsy Morph Animorphs #23: The Pretender Animorphs #25: The Extreme Animorphs #26: The Attack Crucial Conversations A Journey to the Center of the Earth A Great and Terrible Beauty The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Dandelion Wine To Sir, With Love London Calling Watership Down The Invisible Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Host The Hunger Games Catching Fire Shadows and Strongholds The Jungle Book Beatrice and Virgil Infidel Neuromancer The Help Flip Zion Andrews The Unit Princess Quantum Brain The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated Delirium Memento Nora Robopocalypse The Name of the Wind The Terror Sister Tao Te Ching What Paul Meant Lao Tzu and Taoism Libyan Sands Sand and Sandstones Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew The Science of God Calculating God Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill City of Bones Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne Divergent Stranger in a Strange Land The Old Man and the Sea Flowers for Algernon Au Bonheur des Ogres The Martian The Road to Serfdom De La Terre � la Lune (ip) In the Light of What We Know Devil in the White City 2312 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Red Mars How to Be a Good Wife A Mote in God's Eye A Gentleman in Russia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Seneca: Letters from a Stoic | The River: Part II Sunday. 4.29.07 6:08 pm In 1812, Tulla went to the governments of the riparian nations and sought approval for his plan: He was going to "rectify" the river, controlling its flood waters and making them predictable; lowering the local water table so that the bogs and wetlands would dry up and become arable farmland, eliminating islands and secondary channels that stood in the way of the "efficiency" of the river's flow, making the Rhine "more perfect": ie, straight. He secured agreement from most of the riparian nations, but he was unable to get a clear go-ahead from the French, who were caught up in Napolean's disasterous invasion of Russia at the time. (Points to people who can say what was happening in the US during this same time, or say the interesting strategy the Russians used to foil the French that winter!) The project stalled for several years until finally Napolean's government dissolved and control was returned to local chiefs on the French bank and permission was granted to begin work. To begin, Tulla blasted the meandering river, cutting through the meanders and oxbow lakes and steepening the grade of the channel. He shortened the river by 82km. He made the bed particular dimensions in different sections to control the downcutting rate. Unfortunately, the correct equation for calculating the effect of cross-sectional area and perimeter on the velocity of the river and thus downcutting rate had not been determined at this time (it was found at the end of the century by Robert Manning and named the Manning Equation). This equation also had a cube-root in it, which... without the help of a calculator... was a very difficult and time-consuming calculation to make! In 1827 Johann Gottfried Tulla died in Paris, though his work continued into the late 1800s. His gravestone read, "“Dem Bändiger des wilden Rheins”, or "the Tamer of the Wild Rhine". Unfortunately, a river is not so simple a beast. The men hadn't cut out the meanders completely, there was still a wiggle in the river's path. The river exploited these curves and began eroding them, forming new meanders and undermining the fortifications on its banks. It also cut down into its bed, just as Tulla had planned, but instead of cutting 1 or 2 meters it cut in some places up to 7. At Isteiner Klotz the river cut down until it hit bedrock, after which it formed a series of impassable rapids. Even today an expensive series of locks is required to traverse this part of the river. Because of the downcutting, the water table fell, taking with it the fertility that the surrounding farmland had enjoyed until then. Now all of this land had to be irrigated with long channels coming out from the river. Sediment eroded from upstream began to deposit downstream, clogging channels and forming new islands and sandbars in places they had never been before. 1 Comments. whoa. . . » raisedOnSunday on 2007-04-30 11:46:06
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