Sentences with phrase «on celestial events»

Another interesting question is whether timekeeping ought to be based on celestial events or on atomic clocks.

Not exact matches

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

Long, long after the celestial event, it has been revealed that the original idea for the soon to be dedicated Maurice Hinchey Catskill Interpretive Center at Mount Tremper came, literally, from on high.

Explore alien planets, enhance your knowledge with detailed information on astronomy and space travel - and never miss an important celestial event.

All of a sudden, there's an explosion of complex artifacts, symbolic representation, measurement of celestial events, complex social structures — a burst of creative activity that almost every expert on prehistory assumes must have been connected with the sudden emergence of language.

Celestial events: For earthbound observers, 2004 offers a total lunar eclipse, visible throughout North America on October 27, and some fine shooting stars.

«Technologically, probably the most important event in human history was to land on another celestial body,» says Beth O'Leary of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

He also composed for the television project And the Band Played On and has written music for the New York stage productions Mother, The Celestial Alphabet Event, and Mother Courage, and music for Widows at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Most people watched the celestial event through special glasses, but one woman on the shore of Evergreen Lake wore a welder's mask.

Some of the events I attended were the Deep Playa Art Tour, Sunrise Yoga, Giant Twister, Blues and Brews, TuTu Tuesday, David Bowie Happy Hour, the Wu - Tang and Sword Fighting Club, Celestial Communicator and a few classes on relationships, friends and love.

I am especially fond of Hurd's painting Enemy Action over American Bomber Station because it reminds me of medieval woodcut prints of weather and heavenly phenomena — in particular, Hans Glaser's depiction of a celestial event over my birth town, Nuremberg, on 14 April 1561.

In «Day's End,» Matta - Clark dangles on a DIY platform suspended from the roof while blowtorching a huge, crescent - shaped piece of wall; when it's finally freed and sunlight comes pouring in, the moment feels like a celestial event.

A female voice recites an excerpt from a written essay that collects together circumstantial histories and notes on celestial alignments that revolve around the annual event of the sun dissecting the building.

I learn that the photograph was taken by MPA in 29 Palms, California, where she relocated from New York City three years ago, to focus on the body of work that led to this show; it captures an» unexplained celestial event in the night sky above.»

Alchemical colour effects generated with sprayed paint on vast canvases hint at sublime natural, elemental or celestial events.