* In 1994, Fred Gardner started a " Best of AVA " project, came upon the Tinasky letters, and learned from Anderson the latter's belief that Pynchon wrote them.

Unlike the case with Pynchon, where there were both similarities and discrepancies throughout, the identified mismatches between Hawkins and Tinasky were limited to the Tinasky façade, and a small number of " transparent forgeries ", as Foster calls them, that had been culled ahead of time.

At the temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, for instance, the architrave blocks weigh up to 60 tons each, and one corner cornice block even over 100 tons, all of them raised to a height of about 19 m. In Rome, the capital block of Trajan's Column weighs 53. 3 tons, which had to be lifted to a height of about 34 m ( see construction of Trajan's Column ).

Just as a judge does not merely apply the law but to some degree makes it through judicial discretion, so too a person does not merely discover weights but assigns them ; one not only weighs reasons but also weights them.

Another episode had Blanche discovering Roses ' attempts to find out her age, whereupon she says that she will-on the condition that Rose tell how much she weighs, which results in them both giving obvious fake answers.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He'd be an idiot to let them stay he thought, but he couldn't send them on, either.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

Fiske joined them, unsteady on his feet.

There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.

And here all the time you knew the Sioux would be using our rifles on them!!

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

The chaplain married them, on the next day.

The man stalked toward them, his big boots heavy on the wooden flooring.

He advanced on them, and abruptly there was a shocked electricity in the car.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying on of a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; ;

The university rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never to mention the color of their skins.

Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes -- among them women's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians.

Badminton offers a wide variety of basic strokes, and players require a high level of skill to perform all of them effectively.

These cultures show a variety of influences: Pomeranian, Milograd, Scythian and Getic, with La Tene and Roman Danubian influences evident at their maturity ; making them more " Central European " in outlook ( i. e. similar to the Przeworsk culture ) rather than of the " forest-Venedic " or Carpic-Dacian types.

Bach was held in such high regard: he understood the older forms quite well and knew how to present them in new garb, with an enhanced variety of form.

In his essay Turing discussed a variety of possible objections, and presented a counterargument to each of them.

Curry () ( plural, Curries ) is a generic term primarily employed in Western culture to denote a wide variety of dishes originating in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southern and Southeastern Asian cuisines, as well as New World cuisines influenced by them such as Trinidadian or Fijian.

Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the ex nihilo variety.

While there were some papers from before that time, this collection documented an entire variety of finished, working audio coders, nearly all of them using perceptual ( i. e. masking ) techniques and some kind of frequency analysis and back-end noiseless coding.

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

Unlike the anime and manga ( some based on the stories in select volumes ), they are more action-adventure oriented and have more of a shōnen demographic, taking the familiar characters of Doraemon and placing them in a variety of exotic and perilous settings.

They both study primarily the properties of differentiable manifolds, sometimes with a variety of structures imposed on them.

A consequence of this theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal opportunities to learn in a way that is effective for them.

... By keeping all of the little people in focus, Coppola shows the variety of a young lawyer's life, where every client is necessary and most of them need a lot more than a lawyer.

Getting unsatisfactory responses from city officials, as many as 7, 000 women joined the march to Versailles, bringing with them cannons and a variety of smaller weapons.

When there are two choirs of strings at the same length, it is possible to arrange for them to give different tonal qualities, and thus to increase the variety of sound produced by the instrument.

To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue.

In Pourtrait he went beyond them ; for he communicated to that description of the art, in which English artists are the most engaged a variety, a Fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher Branches, which even those who professed them a superior manner, did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature.

Hoover and his chosen assistant, George Ruch monitored a variety of U. S. radicals with the intent to punish, arrest, or deport them.

In the 2007 film documentary Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Daltrey and Townshend state that Moon had a real talent for dressing up as a variety of various characters and embodying them.

In contrast to thermotropic liquid crystals, these lyotropics have another degree of freedom of concentration that enables them to induce a variety of different phases.

Additionally, the residential experience of living on campus brings a wide variety of cultural, political, and intellectual events to students who might not otherwise seek them out in a non-residential setting ( though not every college has such strict residency requirements ); and

Kosher for Passover cakes and cookies are made with matzah meal or a finer variety called " cake meal ", which gives them a denser texture than ordinary baked foods made with flour.

A microscopic examination shows that nerves consist primarily of the axons of neurons, along with a variety of membranes that wrap around them and segregate them into fascicles.