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In Hrafnagaldr Óðins, there is a brief mention of Niflheimr as a location in the North, towards which the sun ( Alfr's illuminator ) chased the night as it rose:
For it was the case that in these parts the nights were very short, in some places two, in others three hours long, so that the sun rose again a short time after it had set.
A Pylon mirrored the hieroglyph for ' horizon ' or akhet, which was a depiction of two hills " between which the sun rose and set ", associated with recreation and rebirth.
Cloris was tasked with flying after the sun while it rose and scattering lilies, roses and violets behind it.
His nephew Richwin came with a message and greeting from the Emperor Otto II as the sun rose, and immediately upon this, while the clergy sang the Litany, St. Ulrich died.
Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a " famous tale " that " the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.
It was considered " the farthest voyage " according to an ancient Greek proverbial expression, the easternmost location in that society's known world, where the sun rose.
: He sang how the earth, the heaven and the sea, once mingled together in one form, after deadly strife were separated each from other ; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky ; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being and all creeping things.
From his armpits and navel emerged bandicoots, who dug their way out of the earth just as the first sun rose into the sky.
when, during the fall and spring equinoxes, it aligned over and touched the earth where the sun rose and fell.
Yuuki ends up revealing what Sara had wanted to show him years before on top of a Tokyo building during sunrise: billboards that spelled out " I love Jiro " as the sun rose up, leaving Sojirou devastated for missing his once-in-a-lifetime chance ( Sojirou's favorite motto when explaining his womanizing ways ).
While the French marshal, Lannes, who wasted no time, was approaching the outskirts of the city from the mountains of the north wind and the sun rose.
The Spur Royal, so called because the sun and rose on the reverse resemble a spur, was introduced during James I's second coinage ( 1604 – 1619 ) when it initially had a value of fifteen shillings ( 15 /-), but in line with all gold coins its value was raised by 10 % in 1612, to sixteen shillings and sixpence ( 16 / 6 ).
When the sun rose, Pyrrhus saw how strong the opposition was and decided the best thing was to retreat.
Aristotle ( Meteorology III. 2, 372a14 ) notes that " two mock suns rose with the sun and followed it all through the day until sunset.
The sun rose to a Paris awash in radical newspapers.
She is depicted as a warrior goddess, fully armed and courageous, and was invoked to protect against death in battle with the prayer " Defend me, O maiden, with your veil from the enemy, from the arquebus and arrow ..." She is a patroness of horses, protection, exorcism, and the planet Venus, and Slavs would pray to her each morning as the sun rose.
* Melanie: This Woodstock veteran played a well-received set as the sun rose.
After he makes Merrick his fledgling, he tries to commit suicide by placing his coffin in the open where he would be burned to death when the sun rose.
Rivers and lakes began to dry up, Poseidon rose out of the sea and waved his trident in anger at the sun, but soon the heat became even too great for him and he dove to the bottom of the sea.
As the sun rose the next morning, the group left for the Coroné pass.
The incised rocks and carins are explained as recordings of a land survey and latitude showing angles and bearings ,” the “ W ” rock which has components that “ represent a combination of sun and star sighting points to determine the longitude, date and time and day ,” and the “ Rays Rock ” which “ is a compass rose point used to measure points on Neahkahnie Mountain and beyond .”
Pirouz Sayar, the author of " paintings and drawings of Sohrab Sepehri ", states that, “ He gazes at the sun as it rise, at the bird as it sings far away, at a bud which blossoms, at a plant which is growing in the pot, at the life which is going on among the trees in the valley, and the red rose which plunges the onlooker into its enchantment ( 249 )”.
With Kellerman in charge of local events ( and with the assistance of Greer ), the Secret Service maintained custody of the most important evidence of the crime, including the president's body, clothing, limousine, forensic tissues, and autopsy photographs and X-rays, returning everything to the White House before the sun rose on November 23, 1963, less than fifteen hours from when the first shot was fired.

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Anyway, he doesn't deserve to lie there in the sun and be stared at.
He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.
He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.
The radio radiation of the sun which is reflected from the moon and planets should be negligible compared with their thermal emission at centimeter wave lengths, except possibly at times of exceptional outbursts of solar radio noise.
Since these electrons are moving like planets, you may wonder whether there is an atomic sun at the center of the atom.
A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.
at the sun and the heat of Mediterranean lands, always much brighter and hotter to an Englishman than to an American used to summers in New York or Kansas City ; ;
I think we were very tired, for we awoke at the same moment, deeply rested, surprised to see the late morning sun on the windows, which were wet where the rime had melted.
Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.
North of the Arctic Circle, the sun is above the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year ( and therefore visible at midnight ) and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year.
He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be " tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.
Some parts at least of the figure above mentioned are solar symbols, and the Basilidian Abrasax is manifestly connected with the sun.
In the West, astrology most often consists of a system of horoscopes that claim to explain aspects of a person's personality and predict future events in their life based on the positions of the sun, moon, and other planetary objects at the time of their birth.
Astrology's modern representation in western popular media is usually reduced to sun sign astrology, which considers only the zodiac sign of the Sun at an individual's date of birth, and represents only 1 / 12 of the total chart.
Sometimes they are also outfitted with irrigation systems or heat sink-systems which can respectively irrigate the plants or help to store energy from the sun and redistribute it at night ( when the greenhouses starts to cool down ).
The French mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin observed Arcturus in the daytime with a telescope ( a first for any star other than the sun ) in 1635, and has been seen at or just before sunset with the naked eye.
The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

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