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sun's and movement
If time is the basis for house division, a difference must be made for whether the houses are based on invariant equal hours ( each house represents 2 hours of the sun's apparent movement each day ) or temporal hours ( daytime and night-time divided into six equal parts, but here the temporal hours will vary according to season and latitude.
The Egyptians often described the sun's movement across the sky as the movement of a barque carrying Ra and his entourage of other gods, and the sun disk can either be equated with this solar barque or depicted containing the barque inside it.
* A plant that exhibits heliotropism, diurnal motion in response to the sun's movement

sun's and towards
Examples include: the lightning that is portended by the silence and raindrops of a travelling storm cloud ; or the sun's rise and culmination at its midday zenith ; or a man traversing a rope stationed above an abyss, moving away from his uncultivated animality and towards the Übermensch.
This will occur if the interstellar medium is moving supersonically towards the Sun, since the sun's solar wind is moving supersonically away from the Sun.
:" I have in the burial served them, and their bones in the Death-shade, towards the sun's rising, are covered.
After ' Light Years ' was finished, her On a Night Like This Tour was named after the single, and featured the same artwork, which featured Minogue laying on a patio looking towards the camera, while the sun's golden rays accentuate her positioning.
After taking care of his family's burial, Vittorio gathers what riches he can and prepares himself for adventure as he flees towards Florence, away from the perilous crowd of vampires, under the sun's protecting wing.

sun's and Tropic
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.

sun's and upon
The nimbus or halo about the human figures ' heads represents the sun's disc and, equally, the sacred power bordering upon divinity that accrues not only to great hunters but to all those endowed with the vision to behold and apprehend the marvel of divinity in humble guise.
The photon thrust will be sufficient to more than counterbalance the pull of the sun's gravity, allowing the photon rocket to maintain a heliocentric velocity of 30 km / s in interplanetary space upon escaping the Earth's gravitational field.
Meursault is unaware of the absurdity of human existence, yet it colours his actions, the only real and true things are his physical experiences, thus, he kills the Arab man as ' his response to the sun's physical effects upon him ', as he moves toward his " adversary '" on the brightly overlit beach.
Where, in passing, Shakespeare discusses snakes and crocodiles forming from the mud of the Nile (), Izaak Walton again raises the question of the origin of eels " as rats and mice, and many other living creatures, are bred in Egypt, by the sun's heat when it shines upon the overflowing of the river ...".
Unlike dunes made of quartz-based sand crystals, the gypsum does not readily convert the sun's energy into heat and thus can be walked upon safely with bare feet, even in the hottest summer months.
Oscill., a copy being presented to me, in my letter of thanks to him I gave those rules in the end thereof a particular commendation for their usefulness in Philosophy, and added out of my aforesaid paper an instance of their usefulness, in comparing the forces of the moon from the earth, and earth from the sun ; in determining a problem about the moon's phase, and putting a limit to the sun's parallax, which shows that I had then my eye upon comparing the forces of the planets arising from their circular motion, and understood it ; so that a while after, when Mr Hooke propounded the problem solemnly, in the end of his attempt to prove the motion of the earth, if I had not known the duplicate proportion before, I could not but have found it now.
The most popular is that the first Europeans to discover and subsequently settle the area were French, naming the lake Bras d ' Or meaning " arm of gold "; this likely referring to the sun's rays reflected upon its waters.

sun's and their
Because individuals with albinism have skin that entirely lacks the dark pigment melanin, which helps protect the skin from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, their skin can burn more easily from overexposure.
Many plant species native to arid biomes have adapted so that their flowers only open at night when the sun's intense heat can't wither and destroy their delicate, moist blossoms.
Because black daisies absorb more of the sun's radiant energy, they are able to increase their individual temperatures to healthy levels on the still cool surface of Daisyworld.
At a certain luminosity their population crashes, and the barren, gray surface of Daisyworld, no longer able to reflect the sun's rays, rapidly heats up.
In 1940, Alfred Romer and Llewellyn Ivor Price proposed that the sail served a thermoregulatory function, allowing individuals to warm their bodies with the sun's heat.
Finding that this planet allowed them to tap that sun's energies to use in their magical spells, the Wraiths settled there and named it " Wraithworld ".
Vegans who do not eat foods or pills fortified with synthetic vitamin D and with little exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation ( e. g., those who don't expose their extremities for at least 15 – 30 minutes per day or those living at latitudes close to the poles ) are vulnerable to Vitamin D deficiencies.
However, the Necrontyr then discovered that a C ' tan, a member of a race of enigmatic energy beings who had come into existence not long after the act of Creation itself, was living within their home star, feeding on the sun's radiant power.
These stones are extremely thin and polished so that they emit a warm glow when the sun's rays dance across their surface.
Swami Satchidananda was familiar with the symbology of these aquatic flowers and their characteristic behavior of always opening and turning to face in the sun's direction.
Their pale coats reflect the sun's rays instead of absorbing them, and their hooves are slightly enlarged to help them walk on the sand, although occasionally they occupy stony regions.

sun's and return
Attenborough visits the Sahara to illustrate a species that makes the longest overland journey of any insect: cataglyphis, an ant that uses the sun's position to enable it to return to its nest in a straight line.

sun's and on
The Rotem Industrial Complex outside of the city has dozens of solar mirrors that focus the sun's rays on a tower that in turn heats a water boiler to create steam, turning a turbine to create electricity.
Some have countered this finding by saying that the angle of the film from the horizontal along with sun's angle on that day made shadows underwater unlikely.
Based partly on data taken from Pytheas, Hipparchus correlated cubits of the sun's elevation at noon on the winter solstice, latitudes in hours of a day on the summer solstice, and distances between latitudes in stadia for some locations.
Theocritus, in his narration of the ( boxing ) match between Polydeukēs and Amykos, noted that the two opponents struggled a lot, vying to see who would get the sun's rays on his back.
The temple at Arasavilli was constructed in such a way that on the day of Radhasaptami, the sun's rays directly fall on the feet of the Sri Suryanarayana Swami, the deity at the temple.
An alternative method is to estimate the current altitude ( angle ) of the sun from navigation tables, then set the index bar to that angle on the arc, apply suitable shades only to the index mirror, and point the instrument directly at the horizon, sweeping it from side to side until a flash of the sun's rays are seen in the telescope.
The level of the sun's contribution depends on the solar flux.
Cloud albedo varies from less than 10 % to more than 90 % and depends on drop sizes, liquid water or ice content, thickness of the cloud, and the sun's zenith angle.
Scientists also cite other factors in the formation of monsoons, including the barrier of the Himalayas on the northern fringe of the South Asia and the sun's northward tilt, which shifts the jet stream north.
The majority of mission sanctuaries were oriented on a roughly east-west axis to take the best advantage of the sun's position for interior illumination ; the exact alignment depended on the geographic features of the particular site.
Deviations from the ( evolving ) galactic average, locally-sampled around the time that the sun's nuclear burning began, can generally be accounted for by mass fractionation ( see the article on mass-independent fractionation ) plus a limited number of nuclear decay and transmutation processes.
The ability to achieve these goals simultaneously is fundamentally dependent on the seasonal variations in the sun's path throughout the day.
On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications ; these vary from designer to designer, but might include curves for time conversions, a calendar for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 degrees around the back edge.
On the opposite sides of the same chain the exposure to the sun or to warm winds may cause a wide difference in the level of permanent snow, though the increased fall of snow on the side exposed to moist winds may more than compensate for the sun's rays.
Isidore of Seville explains that the quadriga represents the sun's course through the four seasons, while the biga represents the moon, " because it travels on a twin course with the sun, or because it is visible both by day and by night — for they yoke together one black horse and one white.
The purpose of the observation was to photograph the sun's corona and the apparent distorted placement of stars due to the sun's gravitational pull on those star's rays while passing by the sun.
The Rotem Industrial Complex outside of Dimona, Israel, has dozens of solar mirrors that focus the sun's rays on a tower that in turn heats a water boiler to create steam, turning a turbine to create electricity.

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