Sentences with phrase «about old maps»

There's something truly beautiful about old maps.

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What's more, the maps hint that shallow pools existed between about 3.5 billion and 3 billion years ago; in an older yet similar blink of a geologic eye, life on Earth may have appeared.

Enter Basis, a year - old, 10 - person, Hoboken, N.J. - based cryptocurrency startup at work on a «stable coin» whose elastic supply will ostensibly expand and contract to keep its value at about a dollar instead of all over the map.

A Canadian 15 - year - old named William Gadoury only furthered our concerns about the next generation, by using historical clues to possibly discover the long - lost Mayan City he calls «The Fire Mouth» by analyzing satellite imagery on Google maps.

Mar. 21, 2013 — The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.

In this Out of the Kitchen project, we're trying to map the intangible social network that makes up Andrew Tarlow's restaurant group, from the 15 - year - old Diner to this year's brand - new Achilles Heel and She Wolf Bakery, and as we strike out into the world of personal relationships and anecdotes about all these people and places, it occurred to us that these relationships occupy physical space, too.

The circumstances that put Puntillo and about two dozen other families on Burdette Court in a property tax bind can be traced to a 26 - year - old map - making quirk.

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He saw one that sparked an idea: Now that telescopes are so sensitive, could we learn anything new about missing matter by comparing the latest maps of galaxies with traditional records of the universe's oldest light?

In this month's Scientific American article «Gravitational - Wave Detectors Get Ready to Hunt for the Big Bang,» Ross Andersen writes about an audacious plan to use exquisitely precise measuring tools called atom interferometers to map out what the universe looked like when it was just a trillionth of a second old.

The Planty: Take a look at a map of Kraków, and you might notice something peculiar about the shape of the Old Town.

And whether due to radiation (The Hills Have Eyes) or just good old determined inbreeding (Wrong Turn and so, so many films you're better off not knowing about), the yokel - prone in film have really enjoyed slaughtering innocent families on vacation, travelers deficient in basic map usage skills and, best of all, sexually active college students just looking for a good time.

This mind map, created by a ten - year - old, illustrates her curiosity about water at the beginning of the unit.

The maps in an atlas no longer accord with reality: inland seas and lakes are disappearing; the old geography lessons about how rivers emerged from mountains, gathered water from tributaries and finally disgorged their bloated flows into the oceans are now fiction.

HOTEL BUSSOLA - BEST ACCOMODATION IN CAPRI ISLAND OUR RATE INCLUDE: - FREE WI - FI INTERNET ACCESS IN ALL ROOMS - FREE LUGGAGE STORE - LATE CHECK... Read more OUT - FREE MAP OF THE ISLAND WITH ALL THE SUGGESTION ABOUT THINGS TO DO AND SEE ON REQUEST IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE LUNCH OR DINNER IN A TYPICAL ITALIAN RESTAURANT AT THE SPECIAL DEAL OF 25EURO PER PERSON located in the old center of the town, few minutes from all major attraction of the island and very close to the GROTTA AZZURRA.

OUT - FREE MAP OF THE ISLAND WITH ALL THE SUGGESTION ABOUT THINGS TO DO AND SEE ON REQUEST IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE LUNCH OR DINNER IN A TYPICAL ITALIAN RESTAURANT AT THE SPECIAL DEAL OF 25EURO PER PERSON located in the old center of the town, few minutes from all major attraction of the island and very close to the GROTTA AZZURRA.

Future plans for Fort Baker call for a new waterfront center in the old boat shop, where visitors will be able to rent bikes, get trail maps and snacks, and learn about park activities.

Instead of fiddling about with custom load outs and little tweaks players simply choose a weapon upon spawning on the map, just like an old - school first person shooter.

To their credit my laggy old Guardian runs around the map quite happily with no rubber - banding, my opponents don't stutter or warp about, my guns and abilities appear to fire off instantaneously.

We joke about how we can remember the jingle to an old commercial or quote a movie from 20 years ago but we can't recite the first three sentences of the Constitution or know where Iran is on a map.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

I AM SETSUNA is an adventure which evokes feeling of nostalgia; traverse a world map, enter towns and speak to inhabitants to discover more about the world and your quest, battle enemies in turn - based combat all set to a powerful piano - based score and relive the authentic old - school JRPG experience.

A quick glance at the hollowed stump near the lumberjack brothers» house, without fail, brings back a whole host of memories about those characters, that part of the map, and even where and how old I was when I saw it for the first time.

Thinking about the ways memories can appear led Charneco's to combine old - fashioned doll house furniture with high - tech conceptual mapping.

Zircon, a 4,400 - million - year - old mineral is excavated, dematerialized and reanimated in Nicholas Mangan's A World Undone, whilst material is mapped to stock market fluctuations in Talk About the Weather.

The thread got batted around for a week or so, and dropped off the Forums map, until this past weekend, when the old thread got new life with some opinions about which CFLs are the best bet for light quality, light quantity, non-flickering and non-buzzing.

Most of these lists were prepared before we became so dependent on our smart phones; I would think about a good road map and a compass, would throw my old mechanical watch into the pack, and probably a solar phone charger would be a good idea.

For instance using standard USGS 7.5 - minute paper topographic maps in the continental US generally means using the NAD27 (North American 1927 Datum) datum for any map older than about 1980.

Maps depicting Russia's old and new bids to the Arctic seabed are being misinterpreted to fuel fears about the nation's expansion.

But, before you start mapping out your game plan for landing that new job or promotion, it might be time to think about whether the same old ways of getting ahead are actually holding you back, says Vicki Salemi, career expert at employment website Monster.

A subreddit for beautiful, interesting and / or illuminating maps, from the oldest examples known to about 1950 and historical maps as well as maps of historical territories.

... i have always had maps in beautful frames hanging in my living room... they are of where my husband and i were born (mobile and atlanta)... where our children were born... where our sons now live... and the most important map of all... destin florida... where our grandson was born... they all looke beautiful and old... all i did was simple... went out to the car and tore out pages from the state road maps in the glove box... wadded the pages up... ironed them... dunked them in mixed instatnt coffee (anyone who has ever been a scout leader knows how to make those pirate maps look old)... blew them dry with the hair dryed and placed them in the frames... in my kithcen i have a framed google map from our grandson's house to our house... that was so at christmas santa would know where to find him... did the same thing with a map showing atlanta in 1873 (100 years before our first son was born)... it is large... on an easel... everyone thinks it is an antique... all too long i know... but i love to tell about things i love... and i love families and maps... in that order!

Layla, I noticed in your post about your fascination with old maps.