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... Illinois Regiment Band. 12. Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geologic... ...historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: Stone Age, Middle Ages, Crusades, Renaissanc... ..., U. S. A,; U. S. SS. "Oregon;" in footnotes and similar references: U. S. Geological Survey. 94. "Railroad (-way)," and "Fort" and "Mount" in geo... ...iod, in technical matter, after the recognized abbreviations for linguistic epochs, or 40 The University of Chicago Press for titles of well-know... ... ff. 3 "Structural Details in Green Mountain Region," Bzrlletin 195, U. S. Geological Survey. 219. The date of publication in a reference to a peri... ...f Egyphan dyne- ties 11. of feast-&p, 18; of geographj- cal 'des, a, 3; of geological e@sl 11. of governmental departments, 10, of historical epoc... ..., 3; of geological e@sl 11. of governmental departments, 10, of historical epochs 12; of important events, 13; of e&Ativc, judiciy, pd admi?isirat... ...e subdivisions i, 160. Epigrammatic turn, use of dash to indi- cate, 150. Epochs, historical andgeological, capitali- zation of names of, 12. E u... ...ral," combii with title, 185. Geographical names, capitalization of, a, 3. Geological terms, capitalization of, 12. Gwhgy, Jod of, metric symbols i...

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... 1. Perform a continuous Monte Carlo run of length λ* ≈ (1/2ε) 2/3 grouped in epochs of size n using a customized MS-Excel spreadsheet. 2. Test fo... ...When plant is dying, it yields seeds to another growth that adapts more to the geological situations like climate, soil and water. Animal is alive ...

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...ished world was as yet unfitted for his support. {I return to the biblical epochs of the creation, well in advance of the birth of man, when the incom... ..., which the translator, with the kind assis- tance of Mr. Cameron of H. M. Geological Survey, has ven- tured to point out and correct. It is scarcely ... ...keep himself from jumping up in the air, “that is where I mean to begin my geological studies, there on that Seffel—Fessel—what do you call it?” “Snae... ... lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland. This most curious island has evidently been ... ...use for reflection. 92 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth CHAPTER XIX GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU Next day, Tuesday, June 30, at 6 a.m., the desce... ... way of Hanover!” I had better have kept my observations to myself. But my geological instinct was stronger than my prudence, and uncle Liedenbrock he...

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...charged by all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years. During the geological epochs the ocean originally pre- vailed everywhere. Then by degr... ...all the rivers of the earth in forty thousand years. During the geological epochs the ocean originally pre- vailed everywhere. Then by degrees, in the... ...nued, “that a similar barrier exists between Gibraltar and Ceuta, which in geological times formed the entire Mediterranean.” “What if some volcanic b... ...my hand those ruins a thousand generations old and con- temporary with the geological epochs. I was walking on the very spot where the contemporaries ... ...se ruins a thousand generations old and con- temporary with the geological epochs. I was walking on the very spot where the contemporaries of the firs... ...at the mouth by the enormous depression of 9,000 yards. In this place, the geological basin of the ocean forms, as far as the Lesser Antilles, a cliff...

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... from above, which leads to other parts of the house, all built at various epochs—and to think that they chopped off the heads of the wealthy in 1793!... ...ates, to live in the country, it would be well to supply one’s self with a geological, mineralogical, entomological, or bo- tanical hobby; but a sensi... ...ze of the town, is surrounded by very original buildings, all of different epochs. Many, half- wood, half-brick, with their timbers faced with slate, ...

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...ississippi Mark T wain 109 Nor “development of species,” either! Glacial epochs are great things, but they are vague—vague. Please observe:— In th... ...yons; land scapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail boat, petrified clouds, pre geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice; name of crimi nal consp...

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...ttention to the orator; and let him explain himself.” “In all transitional epochs, Messieurs,” continued Simon, gravely, “and we are now in such an ep... ...mmortalized Roman industry. To this must be added that the modern study of geological science has confirmed and developed these irrefutable indication...

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...dently of their fertility — Summary. Chapter IX On the Imperfection of the Geological Record On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present d... ...the poorness of our palaeontological collections — On the intermittence of geological formations — On the absence of inter- mediate varieties in any o... ...en appearance in the lowest known fossilifer- ous strata. Chapter X On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings On the slow and successive appearan... ...acts in the distribution of the inhabit- ants of South America, and in the geological rela- tions of the present to the past inhabitants of that conti... ...ty of varieties when intercrossed; and fourthly, the im- perfection of the Geological Record. In the next chap- ter I shall consider the geological su... ...the innumerable inhabitants of the world during the many past geo- logical epochs in its history. Although much remains obscure, and will long remain ... ... can understand this fact, for the ex- tinct species lived at very ancient epochs when the branching lines of descent had diverged less. 118 On the O... ...ta must somewhere have been deposited at these ancient and utterly unknown epochs in the world’s history. I can answer these questions and grave objec...

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...e Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Transactions’ con- tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Bould... ...I have sent (June, 1845) a full account of the falling of this dust to the Geological Society. 11 Charles Darwin above the water. Upon examination th... ...ustomed to visi- tors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer. The booby lays her eggs on the bare rock; but the tern m... ...ree hundred miles distant from it, having a nearly similar climate, with a geological formation almost identical, with favourable situations and the s... ...emble in every particular those from Drigg in Cumberland, described in the Geological 69 Charles Darwin Transactions.* The sand-hillocks of Maldonado... .... In the European division of the world, we must look back to the tertiary epochs, to find a con- dition of things among the mammalia, resembling that... ...lia, resembling that now existing at the Cape of Good Hope. Those tertiary epochs, which we are apt to consider as abounding to an astonishing degree ... ...t present. If we speculate on the condition of the vegetation during these epochs we are at least bound so far to consider existing analogies, as not ... ...f vegetation is concerned, that the great quadrupeds of the later tertiary epochs might, in most parts of Northern Eu- rope and Asia, have lived on th...

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...hing, should turn up a large sur- face of life, rather than dig mines into geological strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, ... ... by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is understood excels that which is s...

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...on in its absolute fulness and perfection—this faculty of referring at all epochs, all effects to all causes—is of course the prerogative of the Deity... ...the contact were points of elaborate question. The learned spoke of slight geological dis- turbances, of probable alterations in climate, and conseque...

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... of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. And though, as the geological record shows, not merely individuals but also species die out, t... ...e shall consider the educational theories which have been evolved in three epochs when the social import of education was espe- cially conspicuous. Th... ...education. The situation has, of course, its historic explanation. Various epochs of the past have had their own character- istic struggles and intere... ...ad their own character- istic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic s...

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...e inhabitants of its different parts exchange with each other. These great epochs, which came round regularly in spring and autumn, were announced by ... ... worthless many things of the kind that have remained to me from different epochs, because they trans- 210 Autobiography port me immediately to those... ...difference, as if I wished never to set foot in it again. Thus, at certain epochs, children part from parents, servants from masters, protégés from th... ...then derived great advantage from this train- ing, in mountain travels and geological studies, and on great buildings, where I have vied with the carp...

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... They have not left so distinct a trace as the delicate flower of a remote geological period on the coal in my grate. The wisest man preaches no doctr... ...st built these barns and cleared the land thus, had some valor. The abrupt epochs and chasms are smoothed down in history as the in equalities of the... ...shed some light on this story. We will not be confined by historical, even geological peri ods which would allow us to doubt of a progress in human a... ...nt less ages, but others exist which must have been completed in a former geological period. In deepening the Pawtucket Canal, in 1822, the workmen c...

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...caring the owl and fox. The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. They go and come with such regularity and preci ... ...r, which is lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, and by a little digging, which God fo...

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... scaring the owl and fox. The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. They go and come with such regularity and prec... ...ver, which is lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, and by a little digging, which God f...

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...t large at last re- leased him, when he had pondered over many lands, many epochs, and various empires, the young man came back to the life of the ind... ...ve you never launched into the immensity of time and space as you read the geological writings of Cuvier? Carried by his fancy, have you hung as if su...

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...ossoms in everlasting youth. Not otherwise by secular periods, known to us geologically as facts, though obscure as durations, T ellus herself, the pl... ...handling your materials, though with no more materials than before. In his geological and cosmological inquiries, in his casual speculations, the same... ...ion of the Pure Reason. On February 12, 1804, he died. These are the great epochs of Kant’s life. But his was a life remarkable not so much for its in...

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...n a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological struc- ture was first explained to him. In a certain state of th... ...nded on a thought which we have. But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling,...