For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

The Black Pullet, probably authored in late 18th century Rome or France, differs from the typical grimoires in that it does not claim to be a manuscript from antiquity but told by a man who was a member of Napoleon's armed expeditionary forces in Egypt.

In Four Black Dragons various peasants describe the arrival of the American ships with escalating panic, until finally the nightmarish event does seem to be, as claimed, the end of the world .... Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon-and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written ... The single Act II triumph, Bowler Hat, could well be a V. S. Naipaul tale set to music and illustrated with spare Japanese brushstrokes ... Bowler Hat delivers the point of Pacific Overtures so artfully that the rest of Act II seems superfluous.

This high-density saline water, like that of the Black Sea itself, does not migrate to the surface.

Thetis does not need to appeal to Zeus for immortality for her son, but snatches him away to the White Island Leuke in the Black Sea, an alternate Elysium where he has transcended death, and where an Achilles cult lingered into historic times.

The highway was completed in 2004, but Black Hawk, which prior to the introduction of gambling was much smaller than Central City, continues to generate more than seven times the gambling revenue that Central City does.

When rain does fall in the arid central regions, Black Swans will migrate to these areas to nest and raise their young.

The superfamily label does not include quite different designs given the same family name for what would seem to be purely marketing, rather than design, considerations: Caslon Antique, Futura Black and Futura Display are structurally unrelated to the Caslon and Futura families, respectively, and are generally not considered part of those families by typographers, despite their names.

This number does not include many Black Bermudians with White Portuguese ancestry, and obscures also that some of the Portuguese immigrants were Blacks from the Cape Verde Islands.

Winchester has since discontinued the sale of the Black Talon entirely, although Winchester does market very similar ammunition, the Ranger T-Series to law enforcement and the Supreme Elite Bonded PDX1 to civilians.

Constitutional historian Melvin I. Urofsky concludes that, " Scholars agree that as a judge, Warren does not rank with Louis Brandeis, Black, or Brennan in terms of jurisprudence.

To further prove his worth, the Black Pirate says he will capture the next ship of prey single-handed, which he does.

In their final confrontation, Peter does not cut off Black Stache's hand.

Unlike the Black Sea plankton which does not adapt well to the low salinity of the Sea of Azov and concentrate near the Kerch Strait, fishes and vertebrae of Black Sea adjust well.

; Black hat: An ISP that enables spamming, for example a hosting provider that does not act upon spam complaints.

Rise Against also does a cover of the Black Flag song " Fix Me " in the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

Because Black Eagle is not an incorporated city, it does not have the same levels of emergency services as the neighboring city of Great Falls.

Rapid City obtains most of its water supply from Rapid Creek and the alluvial aquifers associated with the creek, owning significant water rights in Pactola Reservoir located some west of the city, but does also obtain water from some springs in the vicinity, and has the ability to draw water from deep formations which receive water from recharge in areas of the Black Hills where the formations come to the surface.

Black would not be able to defend with 1 ... Kxe1 after this move, because the rook is instantly reborn on a1 from where it gives check ( black's bishop does defend a1, and the black king is free to move to e2 or capture at d2, but this is of no consequence as after Kxe1 it will be white's move .).

Although winter sport in the Harz does not have the significance of other mountain areas, such as the Thuringian Forest, Ore Mountains, Black Forest or even the Alps, there are plenty of winter sport facilities.

" As a slice of Black America, Julia does not explode on the TV screen with the impact of a ghetto riot.

He does appear in The Black Stallion Returns, alongside Cass Ole, by which time the studio bought out the syndicate of owners in order to secure El Mokhtar's services.

The most common color that does not appear every year is Pink, followed by Green, Black, and White.

" Noted baseball historian Bill James does not refute this claim, but adds that during the 1920s, the Klan had toned down its racist overtures and pulled in hundreds of thousands of non-racist men, including Hugo Black.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

* Edwin Black was a rhetorical critic best known for his book Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method ( 1965 ) in which he criticized the dominant " neo-Aristotelian " tradition in American rhetorical criticism as having little in common with Aristotle " besides some recurrent topics of discussion and a vaguely derivative view of rhetorical discourse.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

Hall used a 1 / 8 inch Tiffen Black ProMist filter for almost every scene, which he said in retrospect may not have been the best choice, as the optical steps required to blow Super 35 up for its anamorphic release print led to a slight amount of degradation ; therefore, the diffusion from the filter was not required.

Black is the best color for absorbing heat, but other factors are involved and the material may not necessarily be black.

Black is best known for a 1985 essay, " The Abolition of Work ," which has been widely reprinted and translated into at least thirteen languages ( most recently, Urdu ).

Black rats ( or their ectoparasites ) are able to carry a number of pathogens, of which bubonic plague ( via the rat flea ), typhus, Weil's disease, toxoplasmosis and trichinosis are the best known.

He is best known for Playing The Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us in the underwater scenes while other actors portrayed the creature on land.

Time also listed Black Dossier as the second best comic of 2007.

" But first, Fairbanks appears as the " Black Pirate ", who offers to join their company and fight their best man to prove his worth.

Buchan was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of the Marquess of Montrose, but the most famous of his books were the spy thrillers, and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

The ECC is probably best known for its song " Rocked By Rape ", consisting of samples of Dan Rather's deadpan delivery describing various atrocities over looped riffs from AC / DC's " Back in Black ".

With Roessler, Black Flag had arguably found their best bassist.

The Black Earth Film Festival takes place in September and presents the best in feature length, short subjects, documentaries, animation and foreign films.

The flavor of the " Red " water was only somewhat sulfurous and seemed to be at least slightly agreeable to many ; the " Black " was very-strongly flavored, off-putting to the novice, and an acquired taste ( at best ) for most.

She is best known for her membership in the punk rock group Black Flag.

They chose the name Heaven & Hell as Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were still in Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne and felt it was best to use a different moniker for the Dio version of the band.

Bob Black is best known for " The Abolition of Work " ( 1985 ), a widely reprinted and translated essay ( first widely circulated, in fact, as an insert in Anarchy in 1986 ), but for Anarchy he has mainly contributed critiques of leftists and anarcho-leftists such as Ward Churchill, Fred Woodworth, Chaz Bufe, Murray Bookchin, the Platformists and most recently AK Press.

He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis.

Bonham was the best man of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi at his wedding ceremony.

* Osamu Tezuka, a cartoonist and manga artist best known for creating Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, and Black Jack

Black won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for best newcomer in 1989.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

The mechanism is best known in crickets and grasshoppers, but other insects which stridulate include Curculionidae ( weevils and bark beetles ), Cerambycidae ( longhorned beetles ), Mutillidae (" velvet ants "), Reduviidae ( assassin bugs ), Buprestidae ( metallic wood-boring beetles ), Hydrophilidae ( water scavenger beetles ), Cicindelinae ( tiger beetles ), Scarabaeidae ( scarab beetles ), Glaresidae (" enigmatic scarabs "), larval Lucanidae ( stag beetles ), Passalidae ( Bessbugs ), Geotrupidae ( earth-boring dung beetles ), Alydidae ( broad-headed bugs ), Miridae ( leaf bugs ), Corixidae, notably Micronecta scholtzi, the Black imported fire ant ( Solenopsis richteri ), and some species of Agromyzidae ( leaf-mining flies ).