Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

The book Coleridge was reading before he fell asleep was Purchas, his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered, from the Creation to the Present, by the English clergyman and geographer Samuel Purchas, first written in 1613.

Peter allegedly raised a woman named Dorcas ( called Tabitha ), and Paul revived a man named Eutychus who had fallen asleep and fell from a window to his death, according to the book of Acts.

The book described geostationary satellites ( first put forward by Tsiolkovsky ) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays.

Such a book fell within the broad tradition of natural theology works written during the Enlightenment ; and this explains why Paley based much of his thought on Ray ( 1691 ) and Derham ( 1711 ) and Nieuwentyt ( 1750 ).

Shortly after the publication of his book, he fell ill and his illness, it is reported, revealed to him his spiritual needs.

This danger is part of the conclusion to Asimov's book The End of Eternity, in which " Project Eternity " ( which manipulated human history to maintain human comfort ) had to be destroyed to undo that same extraterrestrial disaster -— extraterrestrials giving humanity no hope of expansion, at which point the birth rate fell, and humanity became extinct.

The New York Timess theatre critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lerner's book was based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstäcker, later translated by Charles Brandon Schaeffer, about the mythical village of Germelshausen that fell under a magic curse.

The job of producing this book fell to Seamus O ' Riain.

Potočnik's book described geostationary satellites ( first put forward by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays ( developed by Arthur C. Clarke in his Wireless World article of 1945 ).

He fell in love with Charlotte Ives, daughter of Bungay's reverend ( CF: First part of Les Mémoires d ' Outre-Tombe, book 10, chapter 9 " Charlotte ")

From the book " Indian Legends of Minnesota " by Mrs. Carl T. Thayer, J. R. Osgood & Co., 1883, pp 583 – 593, " It is said that a Sioux maiden fell in love with a Chippewa brave.

For several years, the company's retail side had difficulties competing with specialist book and music chains on one side and large supermarkets on the other: this led to poor financial performance, and a takeover bid in 2004 by the Permira group, which fell through.

It appears that very few Death Eaters stood for their fallen master and proudly went to Azkaban for him ( like Bellatrix Lestrange ), since, in the sixth book, Snape states that if Voldemort had refused to welcome back all those who turned their backs on him when he fell, then he would have very few followers.

Villars claimed that a few more such French defeats would destroy the allied armies ; and the historian John A. Lynn in his book The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714 terms the battle a Pyrrhic victory but the attempt to save Mons failed, and the fortress fell on 20 October.

José Maria Rodriquez states in his book, Memoirs of Early Texas, that during the charge, the Texans fired and fell to the ground expecting a volley from the Mexican camp, but Flores remained standing and challenged the Texian Army to " get up " and advance, for " Santa Anna's men are running "!

The book says that Jesus appeared and converted all the Lamanites to Christianity ; however, after about two centuries, the Lamanites fell away and eventually exterminated all the Nephites.

This fell through, and was replaced by the Death Race 2000 license, as a sequel to the original film was at that time planned ( it eventually emerged as a comic book ).

But Grenville ’ s ministry fell – again over a difference of opinion with the King on the Catholic question – before the book could be distributed and, as a member of the new Government, Perceval drafted a cabinet minute acquitting Caroline on all charges and recommending her return to court.

While Kempe began dictating her book, her husband John Kempe fell ill, and she returned to Lynn to be his nursemaid.

* American comic book icon Captain America fell into suspended animation at the end of World War II, only to be awakened in the modern era.

* In 1996, Factor self-published The Letters of Wanda Tinasky with an introduction by a Pynchon scholar supporting the identification of Pynchon with Tinasky, though, under legal duress, the book fell short of making an overt claim of authorship, and did not put Pynchon's name on the cover.

Included in the game book is targeting information for the missiles that fell, full details on Morrow Project teams, vehicles and equipment, weapons, complete medical details, and information about the people and creatures who live in the post-holocaust world.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

alt = A statue of young Lincoln sitting on a stump, holding a book open on his lap

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

With these open guidelines the book was granted approval by the Church of England Convocations and Church Assembly in July 1927.

Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.

* The Evergreen State College-A state sponsored college in Olympia, Washington that emphasizes book seminars, an open interdisciplinary curricula with students taking a single course at a time that may last several quarters and written evaluations rather than numerical grades.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

This figure was positioned in a flying horizontal position holding an open book in one hand and a trumpet in the other.

Authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics. The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this — randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking his cue from whatever page it happened to fall open at.

A typical illustration of this distinction is to compare an ancient scroll ( sequential ; all material prior to the data needed must be unrolled ) and the book ( random: can be immediately flipped open to any random page ).

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

Her " incredible controversy " is characterized by David Hartwell in the opening sentence of a book chapter entitled " New Wave: The Great War of the 1960s ": " Conflict and argument are an enduring presence in the SF world, but literary politics has yielded to open warfare on the largest scale only once.

The organisation is based at 49 Marloes Road, Kensington, London, with a library and office open to members, and with large book and archival holdings in Cambridge University Library, Cambridgeshire, England.

9788890177064 The book was written " to stop the conventional hand-clapping and any preconceived interpretation of Vatican II and to open a far-ranging debate on its historical, theological, and dogmatic significance " ( Brunero Gherardini, ' Il discorso mancato ' ( Lindau 2011 ) p. 48 ).

" Philosophy physics is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written.

There have been stylistic changes, the main one being the Coat of Arm's mantling, the shape of the escutcheon ( shield ), the removal of the motto scroll, and also others more subtle within the Arms itself such as the mane and fur of the lion, the number of lines in the open book, and the colouration.

: Argent on a Cross Azure and open book proper, clasps Gold, between four Stars of eight points Or, on a chief Gules a Lion passant Guardant also Or, together with this motto " Sidere mens eadem mutato " to be borne and used forever herafter by the said University of Sydney on their Common Seal, Shields or otherwise according to the Law of Arms.

:" murrey a fleece argent, in base a plough or, and on a chief wavy or an open book proper bound murrey, edged and clasped or between a pall azure charged with four crosses formy fitchy or and a cross flory azure.

“ An open book ” is self-explanatory.

The Bishop's Pall and the cross flory represent Canterbury's ecclesiastical connections, and the open book denotes scholarship.

* Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels, the Fitzgerald convict brothers who were sent to help open up the north of Van Diemen's Land in 1805, under the leadership of the explorer Colonel William Paterson.

Though Mrs. Harding did keep a little red book of those who had offended her, the executive mansion was now once again open to the public, including the annual Easter egg roll.

The audience milled about the open festival floor for a long 45 minutes / hour after opening act Oingo Boingo departed the stage, and then finally it was announced that XTC would not take the stage due to the " illness " of one of the band members ( later revealed as Andy Partridge's ongoing fight with stage fright in Chris Twomey's book XTC: Chalkhills and Children ).