Byssus means both a silky filament by which certain molluscs attach themselves to hard surfaces, and a rare fabric, also called sea silk and its fibre source. The English term byssus or bissus (plural byssuses or byssi) originated in John Trevisa’s translation (1398) of Bartholomeus Anglicus’s Latin On the Properties of Things (1240), referring to …
While pursuing one of his goats into a cave near the Dead Sea in the Jordan Desert, in 1947, a fifteen year old boy by the name of Muhammad adh-Dhib, stumbled on to a great discovery. Inside the cave, he found broken jars that contained scrolls written in a strange language, wrapped in linen cloth …
North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Federal Republic of Germany/Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany/ Netherlands) I. C_J_ Reports 1969 Netherlands and Denmark had drawn partial boundary lines based on the equidistant principle (A-B and C-D)_ An agreement on further prolongation of the boundary proved difficult because Denmark and Netherlands wished this prolongation to take place based …
Percy, EnTABLEd and Tyson then meet Lake’s father Hermes (Nathan Pillion), who tells them that Luke is in an ocean liner in the Atlantic Ocean called the Andromeda; he asks Percy to apologize on his behalf for being a bad father to Luke. Equipped with gifts of tape that makes things disappear and a thermos …
Even today, in some places, we all know that no matter what happen, there will still be this gap between the Christians and Muslims; well this is still true in some few places. Come to think of it that both parties praised only the same God. Why can’t they just be at peace? Well maybe …
Riders to the Sea presents Cathleen and Nora as important choric charactersm Comment on choric characters in Riders to the Sea by Synge One of the fundamental aspects of the classical Greek tragedy is the chorus. The chorus is a part of the traditional origin of the Greek drama. It usually implies a single singer …
The sea- james reeves Mother Nature is just like everyone, beautiful and attractive, with a lot of features and resources that help us live. Probably the most important resource is water, and water comes from the sea or the rain. The sea can be very serene in summer days, and it also can be very …
