The man in the doorway, however, is the vanishing point.

It deals with such issues as slavery and race, the relationship between man and nature, the vanishing wilderness, stewardship versus ownership of land, and property and inheritance.

His knowledge of the vanishing world of industrial London made him the perfect man for the job.

Each location she visits has the same mysterious man in different costumes saying a brief statement to her and then vanishing as she turns around.

*" Observation of Perfect Potential Flow in Superfluid ", Paul P. Craig and John R. Pellam ( 1957 ) Physical Review 108 ( 5 ), pp. 1109 – 1112, – Experiments under superfluidity conditions, resulting in the vanishing of lift in inviscid flow since the Kutta condition no longer is satisfied.

", was followed by slaughter and destruction, culminating in the island vanishing from the face of the earth.

According to political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who is credited with inventing the phrase " Davos Man ", they are people who " have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the élite's global operations ".

In the mind " the whirlpool is still more rapid ": a drift of perceptions, feelings, thoughts and memories, reduced to impressions " unstable, flickering, inconstant ", " ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality "; and " with the passage and dissolution of impressions ... is a continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves ".

However, if the relative velocity > 0, then one can proceed as follows: The observer installs a row of clocks that either are synchronized a ) by exchanging light signals according to the Poincaré-Einstein synchronization, or b ) by " slow clock transport ", that is, one clock is transported along the row of clocks in the limit of vanishing transport velocity.

In this and in the instance of " imparted information ", the unsuspecting motorist subsequently makes contact with the family of a deceased person and finds that their passenger fits the description of a family member killed in some unexpected way ( usually a car accident ) and that the driver's encounter with the vanishing hitchhiker occurred on the anniversary of their death.

* The vanishing hitchhiker was the inspiration for Dickey Lee's recording on a 45 rpm single ( TCF-102 ) of the song " Laurie ", which is subtitled " Strange Things Happen ..." Country Joe McDonald wrote and performed a song about a vanishing hitchhiker called " Hold On It's Coming ", later covered by New Riders of the Purple Sage.

This led to several supporting roles in films including that of the ' vanishing lady ', " Miss Froy ", in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

Before the " Time Masters: Vanishing Point ", Alexandra appeared and left the messages regarding the altered timeline on Rip's chalkboard before vanishing.

One of the explanations for the Ponzo illusion is the " perspective hypothesis ", which states that the perspective feature in the figure is obviously produced by the converging lines ordinarily associated with distance, that is, the two oblique lines appear to converge toward the horizon or a vanishing point.

Generally, antiferromagnetic order may exist at sufficiently low temperatures, vanishing at and above a certain temperature, the Néel temperature ( named after Louis Néel, who had first identified this type of magnetic ordering ).

Patients who used the method of vanishing cues in therapy were found to learn and retain information more easily.

Talia tries to kill Selina before vanishing, but she survives and ultimately reunites with Bruce, who had recently returned to the present.

Published in 1999 by Oxford University Press, the collection contains prose and poetry of the homeless, short essays and stories by Midwestern and Mississippi Delta farm families, by small town residents of vanishing rural America, and by men who make their living on the Mississippi River: a towboat captain, a river pilot, a commercial fisherman.

The vanishing hitchhiker ( the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or the hitchhiker ) story is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle.

Other variants include hitchhikers who utter prophecies ( typically of pending catastrophe or other evils ) before vanishing.

The first proper study of the story of the vanishing hitchhiker was undertaken in 1942-3 by American folklorists Richard Beardsley and Rosalie Hankey, who collected as many accounts as they could and attempted to analyse them.

Beardsley and Hankey were particularly interested to note one instance ( location: Kingston, New York, 1941 ) in which the vanishing hitchhiker was subsequently identified as the late Mother Cabrini, founder of the local Sacred Heart Orphanage, who was beatified for her work.

* E332. 3. 3. 1 ( a ) for vanishing hitchhikers who reappear on anniversaries ;

* E332. 3. 3. 1 ( b ) for vanishing hitchhikers who leave items in vehicles, unless the item is a pool of water in which case it is E332. 3. 3. 1 ( c );

Here, the phenomenon blends into religious encounters, with the next and last vanishing hitchhiker classification-E332. 3. 3. 2-being for encounters with divinities who take to the road as hitchhikers.

* In early 1977, nearly a dozen motorists in and around Milan reported giving lifts to another vanishing nun, who ( prior to her unexpected disappearance ) forewarned her benefactors of the impending destruction of Milan by earthquake on 27 February ( this disaster did not happen ) ( La Stampa, 25 and 26 February, 1 March 1977 ; Dallas Morning News 25 February 1977 ).

The Midnight Globe ( 5 August 1980 ) quotes two police officers who had dealt with shocked motorists and one motorist who claimed to have met the vanishing woman or women.

Herded into freight trains by the hundreds, these workers often replaced English-speaking miners who, according to George Korson: "... were compelled to give way in one coal field after another, either abandoning the industry altogether for other occupations or else retreating, like the vanishing American Indian, westward ..." Frequently unable to read safety instructions, the immigrant workers: "... faced constant hazards from violation of safety precautions, such as they were.

Charlie goes on a rampage, transforming or ' vanishing ' crew members who mock him.

The triangle is made up of the unnamed narrator, an authority on the vanishing A ———— tribe, his wife Edith, one of the last surviving members of the tribe, and their maniacal and domineering friend, F, who may or may not exist.

Mr Berry said he admired Lowry and once encountered him in a Manchester Gallery-said he was built and made for a particular task-as an artist recording the vanishing industrial scene of Manchester .... Mr Berry was, I feel, a humorist whose interest was the people of the old working class of Stoke-a type of person who no longer exists.

The mystery of such an accident, since the invitation to California was shown to be untrue later on, besides the vanishing of the car driver who jumped from the car just before it rushed down, made some people believe it was a planned assassination, voices claim that the Israeli Mossad was behind Sameera's murder by a Judeo-Egyptian actress, Raqya Ibrahim ( Rachael Abraham ).

His ruthless, berserked style of fighting causing Lavans to gain upper hands at first during his battle with James, but later also became his undoing, since James ( who is a calmer thinker ) uses the " vanishing " tricks to outwit him via Dolores ' Vector Trap.

But it is the wonder of wise architects who built the temple of Mahalakshmi at kolhapur that the rays of the setting Sun, bow at the feet of the Goddess through a window, for a while before vanishing.

His frantic shouts of " Maleta, Maleta " attracted the attention of the bathing natives who after realizing the situation promptly responded and retrieved the vanishing suitcase.

Thus, under time reversal, an invariant state must have vanishing EDM.

That is, the determinant of the matrix formed by must vanish for all choices of N. However, according to Jacobi's theorem, the determinant of a NxN antisymmetric matrix is always zero if N is odd, although for N even we find that all of the entries must vanish,, in order to obtain a vanishing determinant.

When the stock price process is assumed to follow a more general sigma-martingale or semimartingale, then the concept of arbitrage is too narrow, and a stronger concept such as no free lunch with vanishing risk must be used to describe these opportunities in an infinite dimensional setting.

For a QFT to be scale-invariant, its coupling parameters must be independent of the energy-scale, and this is indicated by the vanishing of the beta-functions of the theory.

While the final state must look identical to the initial state for a process occurring over a vanishing time period, there is no eigenstate of the new Hamiltonian,, that resembles the initial state.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Let M be a smooth manifold and let x be a point in M. Let I < sub > x </ sub > be the ideal of all functions in C < sup >∞</ sup >( M ) vanishing at x, and let I < sub > x </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > be the set of functions of the form, where f < sub > i </ sub >, g < sub > i </ sub > ∈ I < sub > x </ sub >.

Let g be a smooth function on N vanishing at f ( x ).

It can be argued that Snorri used this narrative device as a means of being able to safely document a vanishing and largely oral tradition within a Christian context.

The radial velocity of cluster members can be determined from Doppler shift measurements of their spectra, and once the radial velocity, proper motion and angular distance from the cluster to its vanishing point are known, simple trigonometry will reveal the distance to the cluster.

It also means that all parallel lines, be they millimetres apart or across the Solar System from each other, will seem to intersect the sphere at a single point, analogous to the vanishing point of graphical perspective.

Increasing costs of American television production led to most action half hour series vanishing in the early 1960s to be replaced by hour long television shows, increasingly in color.

If R > 1 − H ( p ), then the spheres will be packed too tightly asymptotically and the receiver will not be able to identify the correct codeword with vanishing probability.

In vanishing twin pregnancies with a second gestational sac with a dead fetus, first trimester screening should be based solely on the maternal age and the nuchal translucency scan as biomarkers are significantly altered in these cases.

Some bumblebees native to North America are also vanishing, such as Bombus terricola, Bombus affinis and Bombus occidentalis, with one, Bombus franklini, that may even be extinct.

The high-ceilinged room is presented, in the words of Silvio Gaggi, as " a simple box that could be divided into a perspective grid with a single vanishing point ".

The vanishing point of the perspective is in the doorway, as can be shown by extending the line of the meeting of wall and ceiling on the right.

Given a subset V of A < sup > n </ sup >, we define I ( V ) to be the ideal of all functions vanishing on V:

Given a subset V of P < sup > n </ sup >, let I ( V ) be the ideal generated by all homogeneous polynomials vanishing on V. For any projective algebraic set V, the coordinate ring of V is the quotient of the polynomial ring by this ideal.

which can be thought of as the vanishing of the product of an antisymmetric matrix and a vector of entropy fluctuations.

with vanishing at the boundaries of, the scalar product of the functional derivative with a function can be written

Logical implication does not bar the lamp from being on, off, or vanishing completely to be replaced by a horse-drawn pumpkin.

In response to the idea fluxions could be defined using ultimate ratios of vanishing quantities, Berkeley wrote: