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- 11: The Case For The Existence of God
- ... Who has set thy glory upon the heavens?" (Psalm 8:1). In the same psalm, the inspired writer was constrained to say that the heavens are "the work of thy fingers" and the moon and stars "thou hast ordained" (Psalm 8:3). Later David was to utter the beautiful words of Psalm 19:1--"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Isaiah graphically portrayed the ... thing can create itself." . (3) It has always existed. This theory, though held by many atheistic scientists of our day, is scientifically untenable. Many evidences (e.g., the Second Law of Thermodynamics) reveal that the stars are burning up, the sun is cooling off, the earth is wearing out, etc. Such facts indicate that the universe had a beginning; otherwise it would long ago have already reached a state of deadness ... of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured ...." Little did we know how true those statements were. Johann Bayer (1603) devised a system to indicate the brightness, or magnitude, of the stars, using the Greek and Roman alphabets to denote their brightness. [Remember Paul's statement to the Corinthians (I Corinthians 15:41): "...for one star differeth from another star in glory."] Men before and after ...
- 12: Western Films
- ... films. Early westerns provided theater owners with second features and steady work for a countless stable of actors. During the earliest, pre-sound period of the westerns (the teens and the 20s), the major western stars of the primitive films were Hoot Gibson, accomplished rodeo horseman/cowboy Tom Mix (a prototype western action hero), Broncho Billy Anderson, Tim McCoy, Ken Maynard, and William S. Hart - the first cowboy superstar. Later as the genre developed into the 30s, some of the films and their stars included Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, William 'Hopalong Cassidy' Boyd (who appeared in almost seventy films between 1935 and 1952), Sunset Carson, Rex Allen, Tim Holt, Randolph Scott and others. During this time period, shorter, light-hearted, low-budget, non-violent Westerns, called singing cowboy films, highlighted the musical and singing talents of its stars in addition to gunslinging. Stars including Tex Ritter, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers often played themselves and became cultural icons, in such forgettable films as Song of the Gringo (1936). Gene Autry was the ...
- 13: Orion Nebula
- ... 500 light years away. In addition, the Orion Nebula is a relatively young star cluster, with an approximate age of less than one million years. It has even been speculated that some of the younger stars within the cluster are only 300,000 years old. The Orion Nebula is an emission nebula because of the O-type and B-type stars contained within it. These high-temperature stars emit ultraviolet (UV) light that ionizes the surrounding hydrogen atoms into protons (H+) and electrons (e-). When the protons and electrons recombine, the electrons enter a higher energy level (n=3). Then, when the ...
- 14: Black Holes
- ... the event horizon. Behind this horizon, the inward pull of gravity is overwhelming and no information about the black hole's interior can escape to the outer universe. Applying the Einstein Field Equations to collapsing stars, Kurt Schwarzschild discovered the critical radius for a given mass at which matter would collapse into an infinitely dense state known as a singularity. At the center of the black hole lies the singularity, where ... the star to explode. After exploding, a fraction of the star is usually left (if it has not turned into pure gas) and that fraction of the star is known as a neutron star. Neutron stars are so dense, a teaspoonful would weigh 100 million tons on Earth. As heavy as neutron stars are, they too can only contract so far. This is because, as crushed as they are, the neutrons also resist the inward pull of gravity, just as a white dwarf's electrons do. A ...
- 15: Nightjohn And Number The Stars
- ... were forced to eat from a trough like animals. The mammy would pray with her head inside a kettle so that the owners would not hear her pray. Praying, too, was strictly forbidden. Number the Stars contains even more facts, details and incidents that contribute to the historical accuracy of the book. They are outlined below: King Christian X was a King during the time of war in Denmark. He also ... slaves flesh. I respect the fact that a man endangered his own life for the benefit of the younger ones. Nightjohn taught Sarny the alphabet a numbers, which was rigorously forbidden. Even though, Number The Stars was just a children's book, this was actually the first book that ever made me feel for the characters, enough to cry. To think, that a small, peaceful country was overrun by the Germans ... can reflect on the life of African children who had been taken from their homeland and brought to work the fields of America and the abuse and torture they were made to suffer. Number the Stars on the other hand, was expertly written for the younger child. It seemed all too real. For example, in the beginning, Annemarie and Ellen were running down the street and were stopped and scolded ...
- 16: Orion
- ... the sea. The archer-goddess discharged a shaft with fatal aim. The waves rolled the dead body of Orion to the land, and bewailing her fatal error with many tears, Diana placed him among the stars, where he appears as a giant, with a girdle, sword, lion's skin, and club. Sirius, his dog, follows him, and the Pleiads fly before him. Orion, the brightest constellation in the sky, is easy to find if you look for the three bright stars that make up Orion's belt. Once you have found this distinctive pattern, two other very bright stars will help you define the rest of the constellation. The first star, Betelgeuse, is located at Orion's right shoulder. The second, Rigel, is at his lower left. Orion is the great hunter, aiming ...
- 17: A Brief History of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy
- ... down" ( Hesiod 71). Later Greek scientists, such as Archimedes, developed complicated models of the heavens—celestial spheres—that illustrated the "wandering" of the sun, the moon, and the planets against the fixed position of the stars. Shortly after Archimedes, Ctesibus created the Clepsydra in the 2nd century BC. A more elaborate version of the common water clock, the Clepsydra was quite popular in ancient Greece. However, the development of stereography by ... which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very early invention, the first one of that kind having been constructed by Thales of Mileus, and later marked by Eudoxus with the constellations and stars which are fixed in the sky. (Price 56) This description is helpful for understanding the basic form of Thales’ sphere, and for pinpointing its creation at a specific point in time. However, it is clearly a simplification of events that occurred several hundred years before Cicero’s lifetime. Why would Thales’ create a spherical representation of the heavens and neglect to indicate the stars? Of what use is a bowling ball for locating celestial bodies? Considering Eudoxus’ preoccupation with systems of concentric spheres, a more logical explanation is that Thales marked his sphere with stars, and Eudoxus later ...
- 18: Substance Abuse and Musicians
- Substance Abuse and Musicians There are many famed musicians that have experienced a harsh downfall because of substance abuse. I have decided to take a look into the lives of various rock stars to see what effect these drugs have on their lives -- the consequences and even fatalities. The question I ask is why do rock musicians experiment with drugs and what effect does it have on their ... in this topic is history. I explore the lives of musicians that have experimented with drugs and have faced the consequences. The possible focus topics include: consequences of substance abuse in the lives’ of rock stars. Fatal consequences due to drug abuse of rock stars, and Heroin: the most commonly abused controlled substance by rock stars. Or, I can focus on one particular rock star: the events in the life of Brad Nowell, lead singer of Sublime, up to ...
- 19: The Greek Myth of Orion
- ... the sea. The archer-goddess discharged a shaft with fatal aim. The waves rolled the dead body of Orion to the land, and bewailing her fatal error with many tears, Diana placed him among the stars, where he appears as a giant, with a girdle, sword, lion's skin, and club. Sirius, his dog, follows him, and the Pleiads fly before him. Orion, the brightest constellation in the sky, is easy to find if you look for the three bright stars that make up Orion's belt. Once you have found this distinctive pattern, two other very bright stars will help you define the rest of the constellation. The first star, Betelgeuse, is located at Orion's right shoulder. The second, Rigel, is at his lower left. Orion is the great hunter, aiming ...
- 20: A Brief History Of Clocks: Fro
- ... down" ( Hesiod 71). Later Greek scientists, such as Archimedes, developed complicated models of the heavens-celestial spheres-that illustrated the "wandering" of the sun, the moon, and the planets against the fixed position of the stars. Shortly after Archimedes, Ctesibus created the Clepsydra in the 2nd century BC. A more elaborate version of the common water clock, the Clepsydra was quite popular in ancient Greece. However, the development of stereography by ... which was solid and contained no hollow space, was a very early invention, the first one of that kind having been constructed by Thales of Mileus, and later marked by Eudoxus with the constellations and stars which are fixed in the sky. (Price 56) This description is helpful for understanding the basic form of Thales' sphere, and for pinpointing its creation at a specific point in time. However, it is clearly a simplification of events that occurred several hundred years before Cicero's lifetime. Why would Thales' create a spherical representation of the heavens and neglect to indicate the stars? Of what use is a bowling ball for locating celestial bodies? Considering Eudoxus' preoccupation with systems of concentric spheres, a more logical explanation is that Thales marked his sphere with stars, and Eudoxus later ...
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