Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly ; Nobby's Piles ; Johnny Fartpants ; Buster Gonad ; Sid the Sexist ; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres.

The French use of the term, clair-obscur, was introduced by the seventeenth century art-critic Roger de Piles in the course of a famous argument ( Débat sur le coloris ) on the relative merits of drawing and colour in painting ( his Dialogues sur le coloris, 1673 was a key contribution to the Débat ).

Piles of timber were driven thirty-two feet underground, on top of which was laid a grillage of steel, filled with cement.

The Windscale Piles were shut down following a fire in Pile 1 on 10 October 1957 which destroyed the core and released an estimated 750

The river leaving its gorge with part of Piles Copse on the left

As the river reaches the edge of the high moor, it flows through the gorge it has cut between Stalldown Barrow on the west and Piles Hill to the east.

Here, on the eastern bank, lies Piles Copse which is one of the few areas of ancient woodland on Dartmoor and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

André Félibien and Roger de Piles, author of Dialogue sur les coloris ( Paris, 1673 ) " were and are the best-known writers on fine arts in seventeenth-century France ".

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

* 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.

The mare concretum appears to match Strabo's pepēguia thalatta and is probably the same as the topoi (" places ") mentioned in Strabo's apparent description of spring drift ice, which would have stopped his voyage further north and was for him the ultimate limit of the world.

The association of Pytheas ' observations with drift ice has long been standard in navigational literature, including Bowditch, which begins Chapter 33, Ice Navigation, with Pytheas.

Amundsen planned to freeze the Maud into the polar ice cap and drift towards the North Pole ( as Nansen had done with the Fram ), and he did so off Cape Chelyuskin.

Maud, under the command of Wisting, was to resume the original plan to drift over the North Pole in the ice.

** A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.

Due to its great age, the geographical distribution of Magnoliaceae has become disjunct or fragmented as a result of major geologic events such as ice ages, continental drift, and mountain formation.

Because the family is quite old and has survived many geological events ( such as ice ages, mountain formation and continental drift ), its distribution has become scattered.

The water temperature is close to freezing in the northern part in winter, so drift ice patches and continuous ice fields form and hinder navigation between November and March.

Continental drift affects the thermohaline circulation, which transfers heat between the equatorial regions and the poles, as does the extent of polar ice coverage.

Lomonosov got close to the theory of continental drift, theoretically predicted the existence of Antarctica ( he argued that icebergs of the South Ocean could be formed only on a dry land covered with ice ), and invented sea tools which made writing and calculating directions and distances easier.

It was a very cold winter, and when he spotted some drift ice in the fjords he gave the island its current name, Ísland ( Iceland ).

As the ice sheets melted, sea level gradually rose and longshore drift caused a spit to form between this and other islands along the moraine.

As the ice retreated, Co. Wexford would have been one of the first areas to be covered with glacial drift ( a mixture of boulders, clay, sand and gravel ) that blanketed the existing bedrock.

The ice drift is relatively short.

The continental ice sheet scraped off an average of 65 feet ( 20 m ) of surface material from the New England landscape, then deposited the material ( known as drift ) from the Connecticut coast into the Sound, creating what is now Long Island ( the terminal moraine ).

When the ice sheet stopped advancing 18, 000 years ago ( as addition of snow at the origin was in equilibrium with the melting at the southern edge ), a large amount of drift was deposited, known as the Ronkonkoma Moraine, which stretches along much of southern Long Island.

Negros Island, the third largest island in the Philippines, is believed to have once been part of the island of Mindanao, but was cut off — either by continental drift or the rising waters at the end of the ice age.

In the winter, tourists visit the city to watch the drift ice.

Monbetsu is famous for drift ice, a yearly phenomenon which reaches the city every January or February from the northern Sea of Okhotsk.

As such, the city has taken on the drift ice as its symbol and has become a center for research on sea ice generally, with an international conference held in February ( usually the time of peak sea ice ) each year.

When the system is on automatic leveling, the gyro drift is canceled by the output of the leveling system ( amplifier Af ).

Another likely explanation for the loss of its eyes is that of selective neutrality and genetic drift: in the dark environment of the cave, the eyes are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous and thus any genetic factors that might impair the eyes ( or their development ) can take hold with no consequence on the individual or species.

Some sort of continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor, who suggested in 1908 ( published in 1910 ) that the continents were dragged towards the equator by increased lunar gravity during the Cretaceous, thus forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern faces.

His Principles of Physical Geology, ending with a chapter on continental drift, was published in 1944.

As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheiddiger on the following grounds.

For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0. 5 mm < sup > 2 </ sup >, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second.

The earliest evidence of the Chinese calendar is found on the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty ( late second millennium BC ), which seem to describe a lunisolar year of 12 months, with a possible intercalary 13th, or even 14th, added empirically to prevent calendar drift.

His book Language provides everything from a grammar-typological classification of languages ( with examples ranging from Chinese to Nootka ) to speculation on the phenomenon of language drift, and the arbitrariness of associations between language, race, and culture.

Left arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman ( towards off-stump ) upon landing on the pitch.

In contrast to natural selection, which makes gene variants more common or less common depending on their reproductive success, the changes due to genetic drift are not driven by environmental or adaptive pressures, and may be beneficial, neutral, or detrimental to reproductive success.

The predictions of neutral theory, based on genetic drift, do not fit recent data on whole genomes well: these data suggest that the frequencies of neutral alleles change primarily due to selection at linked sites, rather than due to genetic drift by means of sampling error.

When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits ( identified as " black soots " in early subtitles and " soot sprites " in the later English dubbed version ) leave the house to drift away on the wind.

However, the German military considered the frequency drift of Hollman's device to be undesirable, and based their radar systems on the klystron instead.

The energy that drives a sailboat is harnessed by manipulating the relative movement of wind and water speed: if there is no difference in movement, such as on a calm day or when the wind and water current are moving in the same direction at the same speed, there is no energy to be extracted and the sailboat will not be able to do anything but drift.

This means that the upward drift on one side is counteracted by the downward drift on the other.

Some of the plasma in a flux surface will be on the outside ( larger major radius, or " low-field side ") of the torus and will drift to other flux surfaces farther from the circular axis of the torus.

Since some of the outward drift is compensated by an inward drift on the same flux surface, there is a macroscopic equilibrium with much improved confinement.