In classical thought, the four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire frequently occur ; sometimes including a fifth element or quintessence ( after " quint " meaning " fifth ") called Aether in ancient Greece and India.

Each character begins with twenty points to divide between four Element scores roughly equivalent to statistics for Strength ( Fire ), Perception ( Water ), Intelligence ( Air ) and Endurance ( Earth ).

The First Order Grades were related to the four elements of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, respectively.

The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.

* 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

This is the theory that certain compounds could be synthesized only from their classical elements — Earth, Water, Air, and Fire — by action of a " life-force " ( vis vitalis ) possessed only by organisms.

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

Columbia was successfully launched on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight ( Vostok 1 ), and returned on April 14, 1981, after orbiting the Earth 36 times, landing on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

* Deprecation of the Aristotelian theory that matter was continuous and made up of the elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire because its classic rival, Atomism, better lent itself to a " mechanical philosophy " of matter.

In Hinduism Akasha means the basis and essence of all things in the material world ; the first material element created from the astral world ( Air, Fire, Water, Earth are the other four in sequence ).

Scott Cunningham describes the Akasha as the spiritual force that Earth, Air, Fire, and Water descend from.

The others represent Fire, Earth, Air and Water.

USNO also has an " Alternate Master Clock " site in Colorado Springs, CO which, with the " Master Clock ", provides precise time to the GPS satellite constellation run by the U. S. Air Force ; and it performs radio VLBI-based positions of quasars with numerous global collaborators, in order to produce Earth Orientation parameters.

These eight divisions are the elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Akash, Mana, Buddhi, Ahamkara.

* The Inner Planes ( representing planes of elemental nature, such as Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, as well as the Positive and Negative energy planes )

Western practitioners typically use the Classical elements of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire.

While a nuclear penetrator ( the " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ", or " RNEP ") was never built, the U. S. DOE was allotted budget to develop it, and tests were conducted by the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

The first successful attempt to circumnavigate the planet Earth by air occurred in 1924, flown by aviators of the U. S. Army Air Service in a quartet of Douglas World Cruiser biplanes.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 10 kg of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

It was designed by the United States Air Force ( USAF ) as the first satellite in the Pioneer program and was one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country, but the rocket failed shortly after launch.

The text is broken up into three parts: On Plants and Brute Animals, On Man and On Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.

** Vol 5: Earth, Water, Air, Fire ( with Wes Kublick, 1998 )

Nut appears in the creation myth of Heliopolis which involves several goddesses who play important roles: Tefnut ( Tefenet ) is a personification of moisture, who mated with Shu ( Air ) and then gave birth to Sky as the goddess Nut, who mated with her brother Earth, as Geb.

p. 25 And Daksha, Prachetas, Pulaha, Marichi, the master Kasyapa, Bhrigu, Atri, and Vasistha and Gautama, and also Angiras, and Pulastya, Kraut, Prahlada, and Kardama, these Prajapatis, and Angirasa of the Atharvan Veda, the Valikhilyas, the Marichipas ; Intelligence, Space, Knowledge, Air, Heat, Water, Earth, Sound, Touch, Form, Taste, Scent ; Nature, and the Modes ( of Nature ), and the elemental and prime causes of the world ,-- all stay in that mansion beside the lord Brahma.

* 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Kayak Camel, and Earth and Fire )

LaPread left in 1986 and moved to New Zealand, and Reynolds departed for Earth, Wind and Fire in 1987, which prompted trumpeter William " WAK " King to take over primary guitar duties for live performances.

The Chinese had a somewhat different series of elements, namely Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood, which were understood as different types of energy in a state of constant interaction and flux with one another, rather than the Western notion of different kinds of material.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

* Noble, Gordon ( 2006 ) Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire.

* 1948 – Al McKay, American guitarist and songwriter ( Earth, Wind & Fire )

George R. R. Martin set the Ice and Fire story in an alternative world of Earth or a " secondary world ", such as J. R. R. Tolkien pioneered with Middle-earth.

* 1951 – Philip Bailey, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor ( Earth, Wind & Fire )

Acts like Earth, Wind and Fire, Kool and the Gang and Ohio Players, who began as psychedelic soul artists, incorporated its sounds into funk music and eventually the disco which partly replaced it.

On Earth, elemental sulfur can be found near hot springs and volcanic regions in many parts of the world, especially along the Pacific Ring of Fire ; such volcanic deposits are currently mined in Indonesia, Chile, and Japan.

Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire.

While Earth is considered " north "; Fire is " south "; air is " east "; Water is " west ", while Akasha is " center ".

* Earth and Fire

* Water distribution on Earth

* Verbum ( Earth, Sky and Water ), lithograph ( 1942 )

Then they knead some fertile soil with the water ... and fashion therefrom a crescent-shaped figure, which they cloth and adorn, this indicating that they regard these gods as the substance of Earth and Water.

Water is an important natural resource that covers 71 % of the Earth | Earth's surface.

Water is a liquid at temperatures above 0 ° C ( 273. 15 K, 32 ° F ) at sea level, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state ( water vapor or steam ).

Water on Earth moves continually through the hydrological cycle of evaporation and transpiration ( evapotranspiration ), condensation, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea.

Water appears in nature in all three common states of matter ( solid, liquid, and gas ) and may take many different forms on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky ; seawater in the oceans ; icebergs in the polar oceans ; glaciers and rivers in the mountains ; and the liquid in aquifers in the ground.

The third season of science fiction television series Lexx was set on binary planets Fire and Water which were revealed to be in orbit around the sun on the side opposite to Earth.

The 2007 event included a parade of schoolchildren with banners on the theme " Earth, Wind, Fire and Water " and the first public journey of a full-size, working reproduction of Murdoch's Steam Carriage.