The canal line from Little Eaton led to Gandy's Wharf in Derby for onward distribution through the canal network or by road.

From the basin the canal fell into a lock before crossing the mill race ( which still runs beside Bass's Recreation Ground ) by way of the cast-iron aqueduct arriving at Gandy's Wharf roughly where the Cockpit island is now.

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They had never seen one before and had expressed a curiosity about it.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

Fleming was modest about his part in the development of penicillin, describing his fame as the " Fleming Myth " and he praised Florey and Chain for transforming the laboratory curiosity into a practical drug.

By the late 1920s, Al Capone and the Mob were inspiring not only fear, but piquing mainstream curiosity about the American underworld.

Vertov's interest in machinery led to a curiosity about the mechanical basis of cinema.

He even protected his privacy with invented press releases about his private life to satisfy the curiosity of the newspapers and the public.

However, liquid crystals were not popular among scientists and the material remained a pure scientific curiosity for about 80 years.

As the series unfolds, Lex's curiosity about Clark and all things connected to Clark ultimately destroys their friendship.

The grateful pygmies fed Johnston's curiosity about the animal mentioned in Stanley's book.

They exhibit a strong curiosity about reality.

* There is a single mention of Trimalchio in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as his showy parties and background parallels that of Gatsby: Chapter Seven begins, " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it began, his career as Trimalchio was over.

There was little scientific curiosity about the impact at the time, possibly due to the isolation of the Tunguska region.

There are people of religions besides Judaism, or even those without religious affiliation, who delve in the Zohar out of curiosity, or as a technology for people who are seeking meaningful and practical answers about the meaning of their lives, the purpose of creation and existence and their relationships with the laws of nature, and so forth ; however from the perspective of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, and by the Zohar's own statements, the purpose of the Zohar is to help the Jewish people through and out of the Exile and to infuse the Torah and mitzvot ( Judaic commandments ) with the wisdom of Kabbalah for its Jewish readers.

They encourage curiosity about the world.

his 1951 book ), following his mentor Hilbert, but his writings betray substantial philosophical curiosity and a very open mind about intuitionistic logic.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

Astonishing amounts of global reading fed his endless curiosity about the peoples, cultures, religions and natural history of the world, and left its traces as commentaries in his voluminous journals.

None of the men being injured, curiosity induced them to clear out the subterranean recess, when they discovered among the ruins a large stone, weighing about 500l.

Shepherd has revealed her sexual curiosity and desire in various interviews about having a physical relationship with a woman.

Thus, in ancient civilization, and even today with fortune telling as a true profession, humankind continues to be curious about its future, both out of sheer curiosity as well as out of desire to better prepare for it.

Some people volunteer during high school or college, either out of curiosity about health-care professions or in order to satisfy mandatory community service requirements imposed by some schools.

Dependence on and curiosity about soil, exploring the diversity and dynamic of this resource continues to yield fresh discoveries and insights.

He frequently accepts clients on a whim based on his curiosity about their problem, for a minimal retainer, and finances the investigation of their cases himself if necessary.

Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.

Critic Fernando F. Croce wrote of the film, " Fallen Angel, the director's follow-up to his 1944 classic, is often predictably looked down as a lesser genre venture, yet its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight ... Preminger's refusal to draw easy conclusions — his pragmatic curiosity for people — is reflected in his remarkable visual fluidity, the surveying camera constantly moving, shifting dueling points-of-view in order to give them equal weight.

But Navy officials ultimately declared the submarine a " useless curiosity ", scrapping the project.

The young whale, nicknamed " Humphrey ", attracted throngs of curiosity seekers before he was eventually guided back to sea by rescuers.

Other features of Salem's tourism history include Rockingham Park Race Track, the first horse race track in New England, and " America's Stonehenge ", a curiosity ( formerly " Mystery Hill ").

In 1852, the district administrator of Quedlinburg placed the Teufelsmauer, " a rock outcrop famous as an object of folklore and as a rare natural curiosity ", near Thale under protection, because the inhabitants of neighbouring districts were using the rocks as a quarry.

Humans are controlled from the age of 14 by implants called " caps ", which suppress curiosity and creativity and leave the recipient placid and docile, incapable of dissent.

Bourne is home to an archaeological curiosity known as the " Bourne Stone ", a stone featuring markings whose origin and significance have not been conclusively established.

Daggerfalls manual begins with a sort of design manifesto, declaring the developers ' intention to " create a book with blank pages ", and " a game designed to encourage exploration and reward curiosity ".

This theory plays stems children's natural curiosity and tendencies to " make believe ", mixing in educational lessons.

A comparable term that appears in 18th-and 19th-century French sale catalogs, though now less used, is objets de curiosité, " objects of curiosity ", now devolved into the less-valued curio.

The effect was discovered by John C. Mallinson in 1973, and these " one-sided flux " structures were initially described by him as a " curiosity ", although he recognised at the time the potential for significant improvements in magnetic tape technology.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Hide and Q ", Q states to Commander Riker that the Human desire to explore and to learn, as well as their curiosity, will eventually lead Humans to a higher state of being.

During its run, he did many advertisements for Vanilla Coke, in which he portrayed a mob boss who would threaten celebrities if they didn't praise the taste of the product in question, and then let them walk away with the Vanilla Coke to " reward their curiosity ", touching on its slogan at the time.

Tracy Hickman's sole contribution to the development of the kender was their curiosity and their tendency to " borrow " objects His desire for the skills of a thief, without the associated moral concerns raised by a " race of thieves ", led to depicting kender as possessing a habit of finding things that have dropped into their pouches by accident, picking things up in the streets, finding " junk ", and generally acquiring things that belong to other people.

To turn and twist into " new options ", " can help unblock or unstick fixed notions ", to find many other possibilities by following one ’ s own curiosity outwards into the world in flexible, twisting, plastique directions.

Another curiosity of this generation was the availability of a version with sliding doors, the " Slide Slim ", intended to simplify entering and exiting in tight spaces.

Darwin himself openly deplored the author's " poverty of intellect ", and dismissed it as a " literary curiosity.

: the first, who as far as he knows, made use of the phrase " RIGHTS OF MAN ", which was on the following remarkable occasion: A man who had been a farmer, and also a miner, and who had been ill-used by his landlords, dug a cave for himself by the seaside, at Marsdon Rocks, between Shields and Sunderland, about the year 1780, and the singularity of such a habitation, exciting the curiosity of many to pay him a visit ; our authorw as one of that number.

Gibson describes them as behaving " overtly and without shame ", while art historian Laurinda Dixon writes that the human figures exhibit " a certain adolescent sexual curiosity ".