Furthermore, he opined that art should not be judged by the medium for which it is created ( i. e., there is no " high " art or " low " art — just art ).

* Rice — long, medium, or short grain white ; also popcorn rice

Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover — making it the first known American prototype comic book.

* fogging / participating medium — how light dims when passing through non-clear atmosphere or air

This was in the medium and longer term of much greater significance to the royal house of France than it was to De Montfort — and with the battle of Bouvines was to secure the position of Philip Augustus vis a vis England and the Empire.

A ' documentary film ' was originally shot on film stock — the only medium available — but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas.

* Morse code uses six digital states — dot, dash, intra-character gap ( between each dot or dash ), short gap ( between each letter ), medium gap ( between words ), and long gap ( between sentences )— to send messages via a variety of potential carriers such as electricity or light, for example using an electrical telegraph or a flashing light.

Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial — more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.

Laws dealing with pollution are often media-limited — i. e., pertain only to a single environmental medium, such as air, water ( whether surface water, groundwater or oceans ), soil, etc .— and control both emissions of pollutants into the medium, as well as liability for exceeding permitted emissions and responsibility for cleanup.

For him, the unique essence of the cinema — that which could be duplicated in no other medium — is editing.

Composite structures have become widespread, and include major structural components, reducing the steadily increasing weight — most modern fighters are larger and heavier than World War 2 medium bombers.

A useful technique is to rub a very thin film of Maroger medium over the area to be painted and paint into that — known as " painting into the couch.

This is so because the earth is constantly rotating, and therefore knowing the time while making an altitude measurement to a known heavenly body such as the sun, provided critical data for a ship's position east-west — a necessary capability for re-approaching land after voyages over medium and long distances.

The most common type of laser uses feedback from an optical cavity — a pair of mirrors on either end of the gain medium.

The disruption of the river's natural flow, run-off from agriculture, and the introduction of pest species like the European Carp has led to serious environmental damage along the river's length and to concerns that the river will be unusably salty in the medium to long term — a serious problem given that the Murray supplies 40 % of Adelaide's domestic water.

Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging — and by then already highly popular — new medium of comic books.

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil — especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil.

The weak absorption of radio waves by the medium through which it passes is what enables radar sets to detect objects at relatively long ranges — ranges at which other electromagnetic wavelengths, such as visible light, infrared light, and ultraviolet light, are too strongly attenuated.

Light of these wavelengths would activate both the medium and long wavelength cones of the retina, but not equally — the long-wavelength cells will respond more.

# fouetté ( literally " whip ", roundhouse kick making contact with the toe — hard rubber-toed shoes are worn in practice and bouts ), high ( figure ), medium ( median ) or low ( bas )

* Maximum operating frequency: low, medium, high, radio frequency ( RF ), microwave ( The maximum effective frequency of a transistor is denoted by the term, an abbreviation for transition frequency — the frequency of transition is the frequency at which the transistor yields unity gain )

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

There are three primary types of erosion that occur as a direct result of rainfall — sheet erosion, rill erosion, and gully erosion.

In the late 1970s, Lyon & Healy was purchased by Steinway & Sons ( then owned by CBS ), and consequently closed their retail stores in the Chicago area, that had been selling sheet music and musical instruments, and their education departments — to focus on the harp division.

* Minisheet — a commemorative issue smaller than a regular full sheet of stamps, but with more than one stamp.

* Perforated stamps — while this term usually refers to perforations around a stamp to divide a sheet into individual stamps, it can also be used for stamps perforated across the middle with letters or a pattern or monogram, which are known as " perfins.

* Souvenir sheet — a commemorative issue in large format valid for postage often containing a perforated or imperforate stamp as part of its design.

* rolling hitch — rigging a stopper to relax the tension on a sheet

* single and double sheet bend — joining two ropes of different diameters

: There is even a daily newspaper — the Washington Times — published strictly for the movement ’ s benefit, a propaganda sheet whose distortions are so obvious and so alien that it puts one in mind of those official party organs one encounters when traveling in authoritarian countries.

The Bellman supporting the Banker by a finger entwined in his hairAfter crossing the sea guided by the Bellman's map of the Ocean — a blank sheet of paper — the hunting party arrive in a strange land.

* Odhecaton — the first sheet music printed with movable type

* 1989 — Margaret Geller and John Huchra discover the " Great Wall ", a sheet of galaxies more than 500 million light years long and 200 million wide, but only 15 million light years thick,

A Fresnel lens can be made much thinner than a comparable conventional lens — in some cases taking the form of a flat sheet.

d ) they could not be certain that the two halves of the map, held together by a binding strip glued on the back, had ever been a single sheet — unlike any other known medieval double-page map ; looking at the map, it is clear that the artist knew exactly, to the nearest millimeter, where it was going to be folded, because several place-names start or finish right next to it while none are written straight across it, and the rivers of eastern Europe run parallel to it ;

There are usually an odd number of plies so that the sheet is balanced — this reduces warping.

The darky icon itself — googly-eyed, with inky skin ; exaggerated white, pink or red lips ; and bright, white teeth — became a common motif in entertainment, children's literature, mechanical banks and other toys and games of all sorts, cartoons and comic strips, advertisements, jewelry, textiles, postcards, sheet music, food branding and packaging, and other consumer goods.

During its Illinoian stage ( 300, 000 — 130, 000 years ago ), Ridgway was covered by the Laurentide ice sheet.

While he did not possess a musical talent as rich as his eldest son's, nor a business mind as astute, he was among the handful of early waltz composers along with Joseph Lanner to actively write pieces with individual titles — with the view to boost sales of their sheet music — which enabled music enthusiasts to easily recognize those pieces.

As an unintended consequence, the soundtrack to one of the films — Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — renders Alex unable to listen to his beloved classical music.

So it is no surprise that the science of acoustics spreads across so many facets of our society — music, medicine, architecture, industrial production, warfare and more.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

Druyan was responsible for the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record for the pioneering exploratory missions of the Solar System — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

This led to changes in the way music was performed, the most crucial of which was the move to standard instrumental groups and the reduction in the importance of the continuo — the harmonic fill beneath the music, often played by several instruments.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

In a 1996 New York Magazine piece on women in rock music, it was noted that Love " had the ambition most people would associate with a male rock star ... one thing you have to admire her for is that she refuses — just refuses — to be overlooked in any way.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

The disco sound was also shaped by Tom Moulton, who wanted to extend the enjoyment of the music — thus creating the extended mix or " remix ".

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

The proportions of the spheres of the planets and stars ( which at the time were still thought to revolve around the earth ) were perceived as a form of music, without necessarily implying that any sound would be heard — music refers strictly to the mathematical proportions.

Additionally, Schaeffer ( 1968, 284 ) describes that the sound of classical music " has decays ; it is granular ; it has attacks ; it fluctuates, swollen with impurities — and all this creates a musicality that comes before any ' cultural ' musicality.