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The heliacal rising (, ) of a star ( or other body such as the moon, a planet or a constellation ) occurs when it first becomes visible above the eastern horizon for a brief moment just before sunrise, after a period of time when it had not been visible.
Malayalam calendar is a sidereal solar calendar which consists of 12 months and each month is named after the constellation rising in the orbit of the earth.
Zeus, in recognition of their familial love, took pity upon them and changed them into stars — the constellation Hyades — and placed them in the head of Taurus, where their annual rising and setting are accompanied by plentiful rain.
Steiner ’ s approach is very similar to that of Terry MacKinnell, who hypothesizes that the basis of the astrological ages is the heliacal rising constellation instead of the Hipparchan vernal point which also places his rectification almost half a sign in advance ( 15 degrees ) of the common rectifications similar to Steiner.
The rising political tension is accompanied by the observatory staff enjoying the good fortune of observing a nearby supernova explosion in the constellation of Draco.
The Greeks believed that the heliacal rising and setting of the Hyades star cluster were always attended with rain, hence the association of the Hyades ( sisters of Hyas ) and the Hyades ( daughters of ocean ) with the constellation of the Hyades ( rainy ones ).
They recognized the importance of the heliacally rising constellation as markers for the astrological ages and claimed that knowledge of this phenomenon had been known for thousands of years previously.
" Seven days after a bright meteor appeared in the sky, amidst the Adu ( Mesha ) constellation, past midnight on the first leg of the starday of Krittikai in the month of Panguni ( Phalguna ) in the first quarter of Anusham, with North star going down on the west, Moolam rising from the east and Mrigasirisha wandering above towards north and east of the port of Tondi, Mantaran Cheral Irumborai died suddenly.

rising and just
As of August 2007, Chile ’ s share of worldwide salmon industry sales was 38. 2 %, rising from just 10 % in 1990.
Tom Wolfe, in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, describes a character's thoughts during an acid trip: " He looks down, two bare legs, a torso rising up at him and like he is just noticing them for the first time ... he has never seen any of this flesh before, this stranger.
In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.
In the south, it reaches its lowest level at the Dead Sea ( more than 400 meters below sea level ), rising in the north to just above sea level.
In late July 2011, NATO troops also handed control of Mazar-i-Sharif to local forces amid rising security fears just days after it was hit by a deadly bombing.
Several of those masterly addresses of Congress, written at the commencement of the late Revolution, contain such noble, just, and independent sentiments of liberty and patriotism, that I cannot help wishing to transfuse them into the breasts of the rising generation.
In January 2006 the population of Normandy ( including the part of Perche which lies inside the Orne département but excluding the Channel Islands ) was estimated at 3, 260, 000 with an average population density of 109 inhabitants per km², just under the French national average, but rising to 147 for Upper Normandy.
The population hit a historic peak at 148, 689, 000 in 1991, just before the breakup of the Soviet Union, but then began a decade-long decline, falling at a rate of about 0. 5 % per year due to declining birth rates, rising death rates and emigration.
This was characterised by the real incomes of employees increasing more sharply than incomes from entrepreneurial work, with the proportion of employees ’ incomes in the overall national income rising from 65 % to 70 % between 1969 and 1973, while the proportion of income from entrepreneurial work and property fell over that same period from just under 35 % to 30 .%
Unemployment was also rising ; it had been just over 300, 000 when Labour came to power, but two years later it was climbed to more than 500, 000.
The 1937 series was overprinted or just in 1940 by the Free French, and in 1941 they issued a series depicting a phoenix rising from the flames.
An additional flat platform was built above the portion of the hill rising above the general level of the top of the Temple Mount, and this upper platform is the location of the Dome of the Rock ; the rock in question is the bedrock at the peak of the hill, just breaching the floor level of the upper platform.
The double and triple gates ( the Huldah Gates ) are more substantial ; heading into the Mount for some distance they each finally have steps rising to the surface just north of the al-Aqsa Mosque.
On 8 September, just two days after the rising began, a party of around 100 Jacobite Highlanders, led by Lord Drummond, attempted to scale the walls with the assistance of members of the garrison.
But the Ceans continued to propitiate the Dog-Star, just before its rising, just to be sure.
Beyond the Col de Tenda the direction is first roughly west, then north-west to the Rocca dei Tre Vescovi ( 2, 840 m ), just south of the Enciastraia ( 2, 955 m ), several peaks of about 3, 000 metres rising on the watershed, though the highest of all, the Punta dell ' Argentera ( 3, 297 m ) stands a little way to its north.
From there to the St. Gotthard the divide runs north-east, all the higher summits ( including the Monte Leone, 3, 533 metres, and the Pizzo Rotondo, 3, 192 m ) rising on it, a curious contrast to the long stretch just described.
Over the millennia, the valley was filled by the sediments of these same ranges, as well as the rising Sierra Nevada to the east ; that filling eventually created an extraordinary flatness just barely above sea level ; before California's massive flood control and aqueduct system was built, the annual snow melt turned much of the valley into an inland sea.
A trail winds a quarter of a mile up along the falls and although it is not difficult to walk it is steep, rising in just a quarter mile.
She reunites with the group just as the song ends by rising from the ground.
The first rising of the Pleiades and of Rigel ( Puanga in Māori ) occurs just prior to sunrise in late May or early June.
Rathlin is the only inhabited offshore island in Northern Ireland, with a rising population of now just over 100 people, and is the most northerly inhabited island off the Irish coast.
Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.
To the east, Mount Watatic and Little Watatic Mountain rise in the northeastern part of town, with Jewell Hill to the southeast and Blood Hill rising just over the town line.

rising and before
Global stratospheric temperatures rose immediately after the impacts, then fell to below pre-impact temperatures 2 – 3 weeks afterwards, before rising slowly to normal temperatures.
The minimum volume at Hīt remained relatively unchanged, rising from per second before 1990 to per second afterward.
Relations with China improved, as evidenced by Chinese aid to Albania being 4. 2 % in 1955 before the visit, and rising to 21. 6 % in 1957.
At this meeting, they decided to stage a rising before the war ended and to accept whatever help Germany might offer.
The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.
He was education minister before rising to lead the party after the resignations of Takeshita Noboru and Sōsuke Uno, elected on the platform of " clean leadership.
The Maas (; ) or Meuse (; ; Walloon Mouze ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea.
The largest systems -— from east to west Koshi, Gandaki / Narayani, Karnali / Goghra and Mahakali -- originate in multiple tributaries rising in or beyond the high Himalaya that maintain substantial flows from snowmelt through the hot, droughty spring before the summer monsoon.
The growth rate recovered in 1999, rising to 6 % before slipping slightly in 2001 to 5. 5 %.
The Giants had previously planned a $ 300 million dollar renovation to the Meadowlands, before deciding in favor of the new stadium which was originally estimated to cost approximately $ 600 million, before rising to an estimated cost of one billion dollars.
Federal revenue share of GDP fell from 19. 6 % in fiscal 1981 to 17. 3 % in 1984, before rising back to 18. 4 % by fiscal year 1989.
Kangaroo Island was inhabited long before the island was cut off by rising sea levels.
For sixteen years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.
The pressure dropped gradually as the vortex approached then dropped extremely rapidly to 850 mbar ( hPa ) ( 25. 10 inHg ) in the core of the violent tornado before rising rapidly as the vortex moved away, resulting in a V-shape pressure trace.
The independent Fitch Ratings credit-rating agency downgraded the city of Chicago's bond rating in August 2010, citing the Daley administration ’ s habit of drawing on reserve funds for general operating expenses and underpaying its pension funds since well before the recession started, and pointed out the city lacks a plan for developing new revenue and faces a rising tide of fixed operating costs.
John Bassett, Wadham College, Oxford graduate and assistant to Ponsonby, recommended jazz band mate and rising cabaret talent Dudley Moore, who in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had been a hit at Edinburgh a few years before.
The Verdon River is a tributary of the Durance, rising at an altitude of 2, 400 metres in the southwestern Alps near Barcelonette, and flowing southwest for 175 kilometres through the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Var ( départements ) before it reaches the Durance at near Vinon-sur-Verdon, south of Manosque.
From more than 60 % in 1994, the inflation rate dropped to 6. 4 % in 1998, before rising again to 14. 4 % in 1999 and 8. 7 % in 2000.
After having served a three-month enlistment in the Army's Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Adams, Rhode Island in World War I ( rising to the rank of corporal ), he attended Oberlin College before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1920, where he refined his writing skills as a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, a literary society.
Generally, this causes the leader arc to form in the anvil of the cumulonimbus and travel horizontally for several miles before veering down to meet the negatively charged streamer rising from the ground.
Later, he worked at Pathé, rising to become a member of the board of directors before leaving in 1921 to become an independent producer.
Lifting order wasrising bar ’ ( this was long before the Rounds system ).

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