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A cloaking device is a hypothetical or fictional stealth technology that can cause objects, such as spaceships or individuals, to be partially or wholly invisible to parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. Fictional cloaking devices have been used as plot devices in various media for many years. Developments in scientific research [ 1] show ...
Divergent is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by American novelist Veronica Roth set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago. [ 1] The trilogy consists of Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012), and Allegiant (2013). [ 2][ 3] A related book, Four (2014), presents a series of short stories told from the perspective of one of ...
Unlike the 260-day tzolkʼin still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20: 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals (360 days) made a tun, 20 tuns made a kʼatun, and 20 kʼatuns (144,000 days or roughly 394 years) made up a bʼakʼtun. Thus, the Maya date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents ...
Because the sun does not adjust to daylight saving time, users must add an hour during that time. Corrections must also be made for the equation of time , and for the difference between the longitudes of the sundial and of the central meridian of the time zone that is being used (i.e. 15 degrees east of the prime meridian for each hour that the ...
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The novel follows the evolution of a civilization of genetically modified Portia labiata (arachnoid) on a terraformed exoplanet , guided by an artificial intelligence based on the personality of one of the human terraformers of the planet.
The splendid fairywren ( Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. It inhabits predominantly arid and semi-arid regions.
A PDF file is often a combination of vector graphics, text, and bitmap graphics. The basic types of content in a PDF are: Typeset text stored as content streams (i.e., not encoded in plain text ); Vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes and lines;
Vedas Rigveda manuscript page, Mandala 1, Hymn 1 (Sukta 1), lines 1.1.1 to 1.1.9 (Sanskrit, Devanagari script) Information Religion Historical Vedic religion Hinduism Language Vedic Sanskrit Period Vedic period c. 1500 –1200 BCE (Rigveda), c. 1200 –900 BCE (Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda) Verses 20,379 mantras Full text The Vedas at English Wikisource Part of a series on Hindu scriptures ...