Sun Spot

furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. There…

Steiner's Circle Problem......................... 381 Steiner's Sphere Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 384 Index of Names................................ 391 Arithmetical Problems • ArchiJnedes' Problema Bovinum The sun god had a herd of cattle consisting of bulls and cows, one part of which was white, a second black, a third spotted, and afourth brown. Among the bulls, the number of white ones was one half plus one third the number of the black…

of an Arc The advantage of using radians instead of degrees, as will quickly become apparent, is that the radian is based on the nature of angles and circles themselves, rather than on the arbitrary fact of how long it takes our Earth to circle the sun. For example, calculating the length of any arc in a circle is much easier with radians than with degrees. We know that the circumference of a circle is given by P = 2πr, and we know that there are 2π radians in a circle. If we wanted to…

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at one o'clock in the afternoon, came the signal to leave. There was joy--yes, joy. Perhaps they thought that God could have devised no torment in hell worse than that of sitting there among the bundles, in the middle of the road, beneath a blazing sun; that anything would be preferable to that. They began their journey without a backward glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones. ... On everyone's back was a pack. In everyone's eyes was…

permitem que as equipes das empresas separadas fisicamente compartilhem informações e trabalhem juntas. Grande parte dos recursos técnicos nesta área atualmente ainda não estão totalmente disponíveis, mas tendem a melhorar. A linguagem Java da Sun Microsystems tornará possível que os teletrabalhadores tenham acesso a uma variedade de aplicativos, não importando qual o modelo de computador pessoal estejam utilizando. O Java está crescendo rapidamente, logo assim que puder procure…

cartas eram para sua namorada.) *Mary bought a funny dress. The dress is full of small animals and big flowers. (Mary comprou um vestido engraçado. O vestido é cheio de animaizinhos e flores enormes.) 2. Substantivos únicos em sua espécie: *The Sun (o sol), the Moon (a lua), the sky (o céu), the planet Earth (o planeta Terra), the universe (o universo), etc. 3. Nomes Geográficos de rios, mares, canais, oceanos, pólos, desertos, golfos, grupos de ilhas e cadeias de montanhas:…

that he's a Muslim," the mayor's aide said. "Not that that's the worst"-she was flustered now-"l don't mean to say that at all, j ust that in this case it is." Her name was Violet, and she was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. But even she hadn't seen this coming. "It could be a healing gesture," observed Leo. He was a retired uni­ versity president, of sonorous voice and Pavarottian girth. "That's not the…

man in black peering in through his cabin's window. Investigators confirmed they had ruled Chambers out as a possible suspect, but considered him a key witness. A source within the RCMP, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to the Calgary Sun that officers had confiscated a digital camera and a camcorder at the time of the interview, which were never returned. RCMP have been unable to question Chambers further, as he himself has been missing since January 21st. His home was…

From each pair of conjunctions in parentheses, choose the conjunction that combines the sentences into a single sentence that makes sense. Write the new sentence, using a comma if necessary. 1. The Hubble Telescope must be powerful. It can spot a firefly ten thousand miles away. (because/although) 2. I was feeling brave. I saw how fast the multi-axis trainer was spinning. (so that/before) 4. The moon does not have an atmosphere. There is no wind to blow the prints away.…