![]() In the laboratory, an international team of scientists have pinpointed a very specific wavelength of infrared light absorbed when carbon monoxide and nitrogen molecules join together and vibrate in unison. In this case, it’s the uncommon pairing of two common molecules – carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen (N 2) – frozen as solid ices on Neptune’s frigid moon Triton. The discovery offers insights into how this volatile mixture can transport material across the moon’s surface via geysers, trigger seasonal atmospheric changes, and provide a context for conditions on other distant, icy worlds.Įxtreme conditions can produce extreme results. ![]() Gemini Observatory Press Release For release at 2:00 pm ET May 22, 2019Īstronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune’s largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union between carbon monoxide and nitrogen ices. Voyager 2 image of Triton showing the south polar region with dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface. Gemini In The Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy.Gemini Telescopes, Science and Technologies.Timing information in Gemini Instruments. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andersen even admitted of The Ugly Duckling, “This story is, of course, a reflection of my own life.” Much like the ugly duckling, Andersen only later in life became the “swan”-a cultured, world-renowned writer with friends in high places. As a boy, he was teased for his appearance and high-pitched voice, which often made him feel isolated, and he later wrote a story about a boy named Hans who gets made fun of as a child. Some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are autobiographical.Īccording to scholars, the tale of The Ugly Duckling reflects Andersen’s own feelings of alienation. Here are seven surprising facts about Andersen’s life and legacy that you won't find in the children's section of a bookstore. However, few people know much about the man behind these famous fairy tales-a man who endured many hardships and, by some accounts, transformed his pain into art. Famed Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is recognized around the world for his beloved books, including The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, and many others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deck the ceiling with Spirit of America pennant flags, patriotic star strings, and flag and star banners. Pretty up the place with glittered USA streamer, Statue of Liberty cutouts, patriotic value cutouts. Go all out to fancy up your place for an all American party time, browse through our range of party decorations all accessible at affordable prices. For all your party ideas and supplies, Party Savers is the number one retailer in Australia. Be it Super Bowl, Halloween, Thanksgiving or Fourth of July, the Americans have a knack for partying the whole year round. ![]() Get ready to have a rad time with the American themed party. Party up with the States theme this time you get ready for your birthday. The Americans truly know how to make parties wild. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the once proud Eceni are a downtrodden and defeated people who are forbidden to worship their old gods, and now scrape a living from the once fertile land.Īcross the sea in Hibernia, Breaca's half-brother Ban, struggles to make peace with his fractured past. ![]() She decides to leave Mona and to take the fight to the Eceni heartland where it is needed most. On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or Bringer of Victory as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that her lover, Caradoc - betrayed, captured and kept hostage in Rome - will never return to her. BRITAIN HAS PRODUCED MANY FIERCE, NOBLE WARRIORS DOWN THE AGES WHO HAVE FOUGHT TO KEEP BRITAIN FREE, BUT THERE WAS ONE FORMIDABLE LADY IN HISTORY WHOSE NAME WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.ĪD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years, where the tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thinking of my mother’s stuff being used by people who needed it somehow made both her death and their suffering very real to me. I remember crying after delivering my last load to that truck a few hours before it left on its journey. It went to churches down there to help people with clean up and re-establishing households. Her house was in the small town of Louisiana, Missouri and a lot of her cleaning and cooking gear that we cleared out of the house that fall ended up on a truck called Louisiana helping Louisiana. Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a powerful novel about family and survival in the face of tragedy and has created in her twelve-year-old narrator Lanesha. My grief for my mother and the people lost in New Orleans all kind of got tied up together. My mother died in July 2005 and I remember while watching the news of Katrina in August and early September that I was oddly glad that she didn’t live to see it. On page 121: “I look around me - the kitchen is clean, quiet, and the refrigerator is filled with food and water.” Lanesha feels pride about getting everything ready for Katrina and that full refrigerator felt to me a symbol for her resilience and independence.Ģ. On page 110, Lanesha doesn’t smell the normal Sunday breakfast smells and we know she never will again in quite the same way - it’s a symbol of the change that is about to happen. ![]() ![]() ![]() **IMPORTANT SHIPPING INFORMATION: Rates are calculated by Etsy and default to Media Mail unless another mail class is chosen. If left blank, the title page will be signed with the author name only. It's important to be as specific as you can if there is something particular you want included or excluded from the personalization. If you would like your book personalized, (your name/gift recipient name or a message), please complete the "add personalization" section. Product: SIGNED hardback of The Wolf and the Witch, book three in the Witch Walker Series + Art Printīook will be signed on the title page by Charissa Weaks. The first to middle of May is the best guestimate we can give for now as Charissa will be in Australia at RARE and also attending Apollycon, both at the end of April. Please check the expected arrival date to know where we are in the current pre-order period, but know that signed pre-orders will not ship until books can be ordered from the publisher, received by the author, and personalized. This book does not release until 3/28/23. ![]() NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-ORDER, so it is not immediate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knightley's rise in the thespian firmament has been meteoric and this is her best performance to date in a role for which she is perfectly cast. At the heart of this triumph is the delightful 20 year old Keira Knightley as the assured and sharp Elizabeth Bennett, the second of five daughters looking to be married off by an anxious mother. ![]() The versatile camera-work, luscious countryside, grand settings, period costumes, and atmospheric music are evidence of a work on which much love has been lavished. First time director Joe Wright has worked with television playwright Deborah Moggach's script and a wonderful collection of mainly British actors to delight us. ![]() This quintessentially English film is utterly charming - a very traditional interpretation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel that manages to entertain, amuse and even move. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time she may get more than she bargained for. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so- human on more than one occasion. ![]() By night, she explores her preternatural side. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. In a world where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. Briggs, it was a no-brainer!Īlso, we’re giving away a copy of Bone Crossed! Details follow after the review. I absolutely loved Iron Kissed, and Bone Crossed was easily one of my most highly anticipated books of 2009…so when I received my ARC and a chance to interview Ms. Why did I read this book: The Mercy Thompson books are some of my very favorites in the Urban Fantasy genre, and Patricia Briggs is one of those amazing authors who I have read since middle school. Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the ongoing Mercy Thompson series. ![]() ![]() If you’ve been reading/listening to Melissa Brayden’s “Seven Shores” series (and who hasn’t?), and you’re anxiously awaiting sweetly optimistic, Disney loving Hadley’s story in the yet unpublished book #4, “Love Like This” (and who isn’t?)…you will really love this book.įirst year college students MCs Chase and Cordelia are computer-assigned as roommates. Chord will immerse you in a wonderful world of likable, kind, loving people at the brink of adulthood, filled with optimism for the future, whatever that may be, and learning about themselves and accepting that they are very different from who they thought they were. If you’re looking for drama, angst, misunderstandings, homophobia, cheaters, dark pasts, or sinister people….look/listen elsewhere. Well, I’m going to call it the “Officially Too Perfect” series, because the characters, their friends, their families, the story and the narration are….wait for it….too perfect….officially! ) I wonder what “OTP” stands for…it’s not explained on Audible or Amazon, nor did I find anything explanatory after a brief Google search. ![]() “Chord” is book #2 in “The OTP” series, and is the sequel to “Style”. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also wrote technical manuals for photographers and established the first college department of photography at the California School of Fine Art. In addition to photographing nature he worked hard for the preservation of nature and was on the board of the Sierra Club. A visit to Yosemite Valley when he was a boy inspired his greatest work - landscape photographs of the American West. ![]() ![]() The f/64 photographers believed that maximum depth of field, glossy paper and sharp focus emphasized the "actualities and limitations of the photographic medium."Īnsel Adams was born in San Francisco. ![]() The name is based on the fact that f/64 is the smallest lens aperture of a large-format camera and gives the greatest depth-of-field. In 1930 he founded the group f/64 with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and other photographers. Imagine removing that cloud - how does it change the picture?Īnsel Adams was interested in making photographs that "looked like photographs," rather than other art forms. Yet a dark cloud over the mountains adds drama. While Stieglitz uses natural elements such as mist and shadows to create a mysterious mood, Adams' picture shows nature in full sunlight. It is interesting to compare this picture to Icy Night by Alfred Stieglitz. The image seems to go on to infinity, absolutely sharp and clear. Tetons and the Snake River is one of Ansel Adams' great western landscape photographs. ![]() |