Search results for "Space rock" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber. The term ... interree than a simple grave. Built from rock or sometimes wood, the chambers ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt ... beloved by Amun," it was one of six rock temples erected in Nubia ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- on rocks, in which case they are known as rock art, although the terms "petrogram ... * Marking a parking space reserved for vehicles used by the disabled ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos. The ... *Solutional caves may form in places where the rock is soluble. They ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- in 1983. Copied down to the texture of the rock, this nearly identical replica ... painting is situated in an area where the rock wall curves out on either ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- the largest and most concentrated group of rock paintings in Sub-Saharan Africa ... after the Didima gorge nearby and its many rock art sites, the new Rock Art ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- form of housing that is constructed in the rock of high cliffs. In many cases ... of large enough extent to produce a large rock formation. The stone may be ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing ... the public in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- The Rock Garden is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India. Spread ... The Rock Garden project was secretly initiated by Nek Chand around ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- and islets off the coast, including Castle Rock, Speery Island, The Needle ... areas are barren, covered in volcanic rock, and warmer and drier than ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- as masonry (brick, concrete and stone) or rock. Drilling rigs are used to ... allow a worker to drive screws in a tight space. These are currently less ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- often used for solo melodies. Unlike in rock, a lead guitar is rarely used. ... Stone magazine titled "Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!" ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 15:28, 29 January 2024
- Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965, in the San ... As a highly successful, self-sustaining touring rock band, the Grateful ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- a plateau, but a real summit, limited in space, and only permitting to walk ... high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 20:32, 8 September 2023
- by proving that there were objects in space that cannot be seen by the ... by showing that there were objects in space to be discovered that until ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- been considered for use in ion engines for space vehicles (but caesium and ... aligned toward a particular direction in space, rather than randomly). Rubidium ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- and including time, causation, and space, and thus can never be known ... To draw another example, God cannot create an infinite rock, since ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- for viharas were established such as the rock-cut chaitya-grihas of the ... This basic layout was similar to that of the communal space of an ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- was an iconic English twentieth-century rock and roll songwriter and singer ... was five years old. Due to a lack of home space and concerns expressed about ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- cools quickly by radiating its heat into space. Urban areas in deserts lack ... ice sheet and two percent barren rock. The largest hot desert is ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 09:55, 29 January 2024
- Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- collection included in the 1977 Voyager space probe, ensuring that the ... like "Goodnight Irene," "The Rock Island Line," and "The ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- first established in 1958, as the Ayers Rock–Mount Olga National Park ... and, 40 km (25 mi) to its west, Kata Tjuta rock formations (in English, "Ayers ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 01:31, 3 May 2023
- * For recreation: rock climbing tower * As a symbol: Tower of Babel ... |File:Space Needle 2011-07-04.jpg|Space Needle, Seattle ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- was common in Greece and Rome. Wall or rock painting for commercial advertising ... these agencies were just brokers for ad space in newspapers, but by the ...19 KB (2,738 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- One example of this is "Hit and Rock," which is a variant ... to the chair, sit fully in the chair and rock back and forth at least one ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- are a number of figures etched into the rock. Further inside, in several ... It has two galleries, one of which contains rock paintings. There ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
- (0.2 percent content). Interestingly, lunar rock samples retrieved by Apollo space missions were found to have a relatively high content of yttrium. ...12 KB (1,634 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rock; younger sedimentary rock ... along the crest of the Continental Divide, rock walls that Native Americans ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- is no longer a library. Today, it is a space for performances, readings ... tall, lead-paned windows, which flood the space with light. M. Carey Thomas ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 16:50, 22 November 2023
- The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 512 feet above ... steep, narrow flights of steps cut in the rock. Homer is assumed to refer ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- feet (310,000 square meters) of built-up space, serving as home to over ... to function. As well as built-up office space, it also provides all utilities ...28 KB (3,882 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- comet, called its nucleus, is composed of rock, dust, and ice. The coma and ... were icy objects containing some dust and rock. Whipple, F.L. (1950) A Comet ...28 KB (4,322 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- and the lead guitarist and vocalist for the rock and roll band Grateful Dead ... that were available to him; folk, blues, rock, bluegrass and developed an ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- sources for certain types of generators in space probes and artificial heart ... thermoelectric generators used for space probes and artificial heart ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- fishing--from sandy and rocky beaches, rock jetties, or even fishing piers ... rocks or when fishing from mossy and slimy rock jetties, cleated boots or ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- albums—Under the Jasmine Tree (1967) and Space (1969). of playing for little money (compared to rock and roll stars). As there ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- include at least one root (such as "rock", "god", "type ... orthography, the letter sequences "rock," "god," "write ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- also known as traprock, and sedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers ... accounts for the highest surface layers of rock strata on the southern three–fourths ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- Pink Floyd is an English progressive rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- in that the center of mass lies in open space between the two, a characteristic ... primarily with artificial objects flown in space – including, sometimes ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- In addition, they contribute to urban space easement. Road construction ... often begun with the removal of earth and rock by digging or blasting, construction ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- hand, when density is calculated based on the space lattice structures of these elements, one obtains a value of 22,650 kilograms per cubic meter ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- planets. They shared the same region of space, between Mars and Jupiter ... to Earth—with bodies largely composed of rock: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- of the most influential guitar players in rock music history. ... Hendrix was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- government, delayed the introduction of rock music until the 1990s. ... The music progressed into Chinese rock, which remained popular in ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- world is the best possible world and that space and time must be relative ... when we assert that the throwing of a rock caused the breaking of a window ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- of carriage roads, and the central space, called Andohalo, was enhanced with walks, terraces, flower-beds, and trees. Water, previously obtained ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- " "Fairyland," "Iceberg Rock," "Temple of the ... Pit," "Giant Dome," "Rock of Ages," and "Painted ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- An avalanche is a huge, rapid slide of snow, ice, rock, or soil down ... Avalanches occur when the load on the upper layers of snow, rock, ...28 KB (4,333 words) - 07:09, 23 August 2023
