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Sep. 14th, 2007 09:52 amThis is a great clip about Religious Freedom in America. Far too many people out there just don't get it.
Sep. 14th, 2007
Daily post
Sep. 14th, 2007 10:23 amSleep: 7pm to 10pm, 12am to 5am, 6am to 8am
Pain: 7-8
Weather: clear, 77F, 83% humidity, high 87F
Daily BPAL: JOLASVEINAR
Daily Tarot: Ace of Wands: Beginning of an enterprise, invention, or the beginning of a family. Perhaps the beginning of a journey, an adventure, an escapade.
Reading:
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Blood Trail by Tanya Huff
Pain: 7-8
Weather: clear, 77F, 83% humidity, high 87F
Daily BPAL: JOLASVEINAR
Daily Tarot: Ace of Wands: Beginning of an enterprise, invention, or the beginning of a family. Perhaps the beginning of a journey, an adventure, an escapade.
Reading:
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Blood Trail by Tanya Huff
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Sep. 14th, 2007 01:25 pmI want this.
A pocketwatch that tells time via a scale representation of Stonehenge (assuming it's a sunny day, of course). It doesn't get more fabulous than that.
A pocketwatch that tells time via a scale representation of Stonehenge (assuming it's a sunny day, of course). It doesn't get more fabulous than that.
Definitions
Sep. 14th, 2007 03:04 pmha-ha: (n) A boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, of such a kind as not to interrupt the view from within, and not to be seen till closely approached; consisting of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, the outer sloping and turfed; a sunk fence.
niblick: (n) An iron (formerly wooden) golf club, originally one with a relatively short face and subsequently applied to most lofted irons with a heavy head, used esp. for playing out of bunkers and rough ground. (Equivalent to a modern number 8 iron, 9 iron, or wedge.)
Euhemerism: (n) The method of mythological interpretation which regards myths as traditional accounts of real incidents in human history.
camion: (n) A truck or wagon formerly used for transporting cannon (obs.). Also, a large dray; a lorry; a bus.
belote: (n) The edible acorn of a species of oak (Quercus Ballota), in Barbary, Spain, and Portugal.
fulgurate: (v) To emit vivid flashes like lightning.
mystagogy: (n) Initiation into mysteries, or instruction preparatory to this; the practices or teachings of a mystagogue.
Cisalpine: (adj) 1. On this side of the Alps: gen. with respect to Rome, i.e. south of the Alps; spec. (freq. with capital initial), of, pertaining to, or designating the Gallican Church movement
(n. pl.) 2. ‘The party in the Church of Rome, who accept the principles of the Gallican Synod of 1682, as distinguished from the Ultramontanes’
trephine: (v) 1. To operate upon with a trephine.
(n) 2. An improved form of trepan, with a transverse handle, and a removable or adjustable sharp steel centre-pin which is fixed upon the bone to steady the movement in operating.
trepan: (n) 1. A surgical instrument in the form of a crown-saw, for cutting out small pieces of bone, esp. from the skull.
2. A military engine formerly used in sieges: for boring holes in walls.
3. A boring instrument for sinking shafts.
mastic: (n) 1. An aromatic gum or resin which exudes from the bark of the lentisk or mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus, used chiefly in making varnishes and, formerly, in medicine (also mastic gum). Also with distinguishing word: any of various similar resins derived from other trees.
2. A shade of pale yellow, resembling the colour of mastic
3. Any of several aromatic labiate plants; spec. a. Either of two plants of the western Mediterranean formerly much used in medicine, esp. to induce sneezing: (more fully herb mastic) a kind of thyme, Thymus mastichina; (more fully candy mastic, Syrian (herb) mastic) cat thyme, Teucrium marum.
storax: (n) 1. A fragrant gum-resin described by ancient writers. In early mod. use applied (perh. correctly) to the resin of the tree Styrax officinalis; in later commercial and pharmaceutical use to the balsam of the tree Liquidambar orientale.
2. The tree Styrax officinalis.
amygdaloid: (adj) 1. Almond-shaped; having almond-shaped nodules.
(n) 2. An igneous rock, usually trappean, containing almond-shaped nodules or geodes of some mineral, as agate, chalcedony, or calc spar.
trappean: (adj) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or consisting of trap-rock.
trap-rock: (n) A dark-coloured igneous rock more or less columnar in structure: now extended to include all igneous rocks which are neither granitic nor of recent volcanic formation.
execration: (n) 1. The action of execrating; the action of solemnly laying under a curse; an instance of this.
2. The utterance of curses (as an expression of hatred).
3. Utter detestation; intense abhorrence.
4. An uttered curse; an anathema, an imprecation.
5. That which is execrated; an object of cursing.
sedulous: (adj) 1. Of persons or agents: Diligent, active, constant in application to the matter in hand; assiduous, persistent.
2. Of actions: Constant, persistent.
pyx: (n) 1. A box; a coffer; a vase.
2. The vessel in which the host or consecrated bread of the sacrament is reserved.
3. At the Royal Mint, London, the box or chest in which specimen gold and silver coins are deposited to be tested at the trial of the pyx, i.e. the final official trial of the purity and weight of the coins, now conducted annually by a jury of the Goldsmiths' Company, under the direction of the King's Remembrancer.
4. The mariner's compass.
5. In Anatomy: The acetabulum or socket of the hip-bone, into which the head of the thigh-bone is inserted.
haruspex: (n) One of a class of ancient Roman soothsayers, of Etruscan origin, who performed divination by inspection of the entrails of victims, and in other ways.
intercalary: (adj) 1. Of a day, days, or month: Inserted at intervals in the calendar in order to bring an inexact reckoning of the year into harmony with the solar year.
2. Of a year: Having intercalated days or an additional month.
3. Of a line or stanza: Inserted at intervals in a composition; of the nature of a refrain.
4. Of the nature of an insertion between the original or ordinary members of a series or parts of a whole; interpolated, intervening.
5. In Geology: of geological strata: Lying between the normal strata of the series
6. In Biology: of biological types: Intermediate in structure, but not transitional
7. In Botany: of vegetable growth: Of the nature of new parts inserted among the old.
monopteros: (n) A temple consisting of a single circle of columns supporting a roof.
purslane: (n) A low succulent herb, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed throughout tropical and warmer temperate regions, used in salads, and sometimes as a pot-herb, or for pickling. Also called common or garden purslane. Formerly cultivated in English kitchen gardens, but now rarely met with.
2. With qualification, denoting other species of Portulaca; also other plants similar in appearance or qualities to the Garden Purslane.
myrtite: (n) Wine made from or flavoured with myrtle berries.
hypotrachelium: (n) The lower part or neck of the capital of a column; in the Doric order, the groove or sinking between the neck of the capital and the shaft.
synochitis: (n) A continued or unintermitting fever
magniloquent: (adj) Of a person: lofty, ambitious, or pompous in expression; grandiloquent. Hence of utterances, compositions, etc. Also (occasionally): boastful.
tripoli: (n) 1. A fine earth used as a polishing-powder, consisting mainly of decomposed siliceous matter, esp. that formed of the shells of diatoms; called also infusorial earth or rotten-stone.
2. A large, mild onion; also, the plant producing a bulb of this kind.
truncal: (adj) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a trunk; situated in or affecting the trunk.
dipsomaniac: (n) A person affected with dipsomania; one who suffers from an ungovernable craving for drink.
niblick: (n) An iron (formerly wooden) golf club, originally one with a relatively short face and subsequently applied to most lofted irons with a heavy head, used esp. for playing out of bunkers and rough ground. (Equivalent to a modern number 8 iron, 9 iron, or wedge.)
Euhemerism: (n) The method of mythological interpretation which regards myths as traditional accounts of real incidents in human history.
camion: (n) A truck or wagon formerly used for transporting cannon (obs.). Also, a large dray; a lorry; a bus.
belote: (n) The edible acorn of a species of oak (Quercus Ballota), in Barbary, Spain, and Portugal.
fulgurate: (v) To emit vivid flashes like lightning.
mystagogy: (n) Initiation into mysteries, or instruction preparatory to this; the practices or teachings of a mystagogue.
Cisalpine: (adj) 1. On this side of the Alps: gen. with respect to Rome, i.e. south of the Alps; spec. (freq. with capital initial), of, pertaining to, or designating the Gallican Church movement
(n. pl.) 2. ‘The party in the Church of Rome, who accept the principles of the Gallican Synod of 1682, as distinguished from the Ultramontanes’
trephine: (v) 1. To operate upon with a trephine.
(n) 2. An improved form of trepan, with a transverse handle, and a removable or adjustable sharp steel centre-pin which is fixed upon the bone to steady the movement in operating.
trepan: (n) 1. A surgical instrument in the form of a crown-saw, for cutting out small pieces of bone, esp. from the skull.
2. A military engine formerly used in sieges: for boring holes in walls.
3. A boring instrument for sinking shafts.
mastic: (n) 1. An aromatic gum or resin which exudes from the bark of the lentisk or mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus, used chiefly in making varnishes and, formerly, in medicine (also mastic gum). Also with distinguishing word: any of various similar resins derived from other trees.
2. A shade of pale yellow, resembling the colour of mastic
3. Any of several aromatic labiate plants; spec. a. Either of two plants of the western Mediterranean formerly much used in medicine, esp. to induce sneezing: (more fully herb mastic) a kind of thyme, Thymus mastichina; (more fully candy mastic, Syrian (herb) mastic) cat thyme, Teucrium marum.
storax: (n) 1. A fragrant gum-resin described by ancient writers. In early mod. use applied (perh. correctly) to the resin of the tree Styrax officinalis; in later commercial and pharmaceutical use to the balsam of the tree Liquidambar orientale.
2. The tree Styrax officinalis.
amygdaloid: (adj) 1. Almond-shaped; having almond-shaped nodules.
(n) 2. An igneous rock, usually trappean, containing almond-shaped nodules or geodes of some mineral, as agate, chalcedony, or calc spar.
trappean: (adj) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or consisting of trap-rock.
trap-rock: (n) A dark-coloured igneous rock more or less columnar in structure: now extended to include all igneous rocks which are neither granitic nor of recent volcanic formation.
execration: (n) 1. The action of execrating; the action of solemnly laying under a curse; an instance of this.
2. The utterance of curses (as an expression of hatred).
3. Utter detestation; intense abhorrence.
4. An uttered curse; an anathema, an imprecation.
5. That which is execrated; an object of cursing.
sedulous: (adj) 1. Of persons or agents: Diligent, active, constant in application to the matter in hand; assiduous, persistent.
2. Of actions: Constant, persistent.
pyx: (n) 1. A box; a coffer; a vase.
2. The vessel in which the host or consecrated bread of the sacrament is reserved.
3. At the Royal Mint, London, the box or chest in which specimen gold and silver coins are deposited to be tested at the trial of the pyx, i.e. the final official trial of the purity and weight of the coins, now conducted annually by a jury of the Goldsmiths' Company, under the direction of the King's Remembrancer.
4. The mariner's compass.
5. In Anatomy: The acetabulum or socket of the hip-bone, into which the head of the thigh-bone is inserted.
haruspex: (n) One of a class of ancient Roman soothsayers, of Etruscan origin, who performed divination by inspection of the entrails of victims, and in other ways.
intercalary: (adj) 1. Of a day, days, or month: Inserted at intervals in the calendar in order to bring an inexact reckoning of the year into harmony with the solar year.
2. Of a year: Having intercalated days or an additional month.
3. Of a line or stanza: Inserted at intervals in a composition; of the nature of a refrain.
4. Of the nature of an insertion between the original or ordinary members of a series or parts of a whole; interpolated, intervening.
5. In Geology: of geological strata: Lying between the normal strata of the series
6. In Biology: of biological types: Intermediate in structure, but not transitional
7. In Botany: of vegetable growth: Of the nature of new parts inserted among the old.
monopteros: (n) A temple consisting of a single circle of columns supporting a roof.
purslane: (n) A low succulent herb, Portulaca oleracea, widely distributed throughout tropical and warmer temperate regions, used in salads, and sometimes as a pot-herb, or for pickling. Also called common or garden purslane. Formerly cultivated in English kitchen gardens, but now rarely met with.
2. With qualification, denoting other species of Portulaca; also other plants similar in appearance or qualities to the Garden Purslane.
myrtite: (n) Wine made from or flavoured with myrtle berries.
hypotrachelium: (n) The lower part or neck of the capital of a column; in the Doric order, the groove or sinking between the neck of the capital and the shaft.
synochitis: (n) A continued or unintermitting fever
magniloquent: (adj) Of a person: lofty, ambitious, or pompous in expression; grandiloquent. Hence of utterances, compositions, etc. Also (occasionally): boastful.
tripoli: (n) 1. A fine earth used as a polishing-powder, consisting mainly of decomposed siliceous matter, esp. that formed of the shells of diatoms; called also infusorial earth or rotten-stone.
2. A large, mild onion; also, the plant producing a bulb of this kind.
truncal: (adj) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a trunk; situated in or affecting the trunk.
dipsomaniac: (n) A person affected with dipsomania; one who suffers from an ungovernable craving for drink.
