And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.

Pilgrimages to holy wells are traditional at this time, and offerings and prayers to the spirits or deities of the wells are usually part of this practice.

By placing the molecules in wells in the gel and applying an electric field, the molecules will move through the matrix at different rates, determined largely by their mass when the charge to mass ratio ( Z ) of all species is uniform, toward the ( negatively charged ) cathode if positively charged or toward the ( positively charged ) anode if negatively charged.

This theory is confusing as Gurmukhi characters have a very close resemblance with " Siddh Matrika " inscriptions found at some sacred wells in Punjab as G. B Singh notes, one being the hathur inscription dating to just before the brith of Guru Nanak.

Salt wells were sunk at the salt springs to increase the supply of brine for evaporation.

Early salt brine wells that produced byproduct oil included the Thorla-McKee Well of Ohio in 1814, a well near Burkesville, Kentucky, in 1828, and wells at Burning Springs, West Virginia, by 1836.

Arrow slits, concealed doors for sallies, and deep water wells were also integral to resisting siege at this time.

He also constructed wells, canals and tanks at different places.

Progressive cavity pumps are single-screw types typically used in shallow wells or at the surface.

Production at Spindletop began to decline rapidly after 1902, and the wells produced only by 1904.

Arrow slits ( also called arrow loops or loopholes ), sally ports ( airlock-like doors ) for sallies, and deep water wells were also integral means of resisting siege at this time.

The churches at Perranuthnoe and Perranarworthal were dedicated to Piran and holy wells at Perranwell and Probus, Cornwall are named after him: in Brittany St. Peran, Loperan and Saint-Perran are also named after him.

Orthogneiss dated at 525 million years of age is known to underlie some of the oil wells in northern Tierra del Fuego.

Since Neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery culture wells at Kückhofen and Eythra.

Drinking water is often collected at springs, extracted from artificial borings ( wells ) in the ground, or pumped from lakes and rivers.

On both sides of the sight are fuse wells set at 45 degrees.

They constructed stepped wells called Pushkarni or Kalyani, the ornate tank at Hulikere being an example.

In freight traffic, the exportation of oil from the oil wells from Baku at the Caspian Sea to the Georgian port of Batumi at the Black Sea, forms an important share of the rail transport in Azerbaijan.

Water wells discovered by archaeologists in western Cyprus are believed to be among the oldest in the world, dated at 9, 000 to 10, 500 years old, putting them in the Stone Age.

The name of Fountain Valley refers to the very high water table in the area at the time the name was chosen, and the many corresponding artesian wells in the area.

However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves world wide, combine with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates cannot form, initially, in salt water.

Until the late 16th century, London citizens were reliant for their water supplies on water from shallow wells, the River Thames, its tributaries, or one of around a dozen natural springs, including the spring at Tyburn which was connected by lead pipe to a large cistern or tank ( then known as a conduit ): the Great Conduit in Cheapside.

After the first oil wells were drilled nearby in the 1850s, Oil City became central in the petroleum industry while hosting headquarters for the Pennzoil, Quaker State, and Wolf's Head motor oil companies.

Notable examples of petrifying wells in England are the spring at Mother Shipton's Cave in Knaresborough and Matlock Bath, in Derbyshire, while in Ireland, such wells were noted by John Rutty on Howth Head, among other locations.

Prior to this the village was supplied by a series of shallow wells ( many of which still remain although bricked up under the village's more modern housing estates ), although there were three springs which fed public ponds at the Queen's Head, on Lexden Road, and near the White Hart, and there was a deep well at the brewery.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

As in the case of Old Scatness in Shetland ( near Jarlshof and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water ( some have wells or natural springs rising within their central space ).

Brockovich and Masry alleged that 300 cancer cases were linked to the oil wells.

Artesian wells were dug, and landfill was hauled in from incoming ships ' ballast and from construction of New York City's subway tunnels, which doubled the size of Ellis Island to over six acres.

Some of the wells were hand-dug, but salt producers also learned to drill wells by percussion ( cable tool ) methods.

Soon many gas wells were drilled in the area, and the gas-lit streets of Fredonia became a tourist attraction.

However, before the Drake well, oil-producing wells in the United States were wells that were drilled for salt brine, and produced oil and gas only as accidental byproducts.

During the Black Death, many Jews were murdered after being accused of poisoning wells.

These cities were well planned with wide streets, public and private wells, drains, bathing platforms and reservoirs.

Helium-3 was hypothesized to be a radioactive isotope until helions were also found in samples of natural helium, which is mostly helium-4, taken both from the terrestrial atmosphere and from natural gas wells.

He had gone back to all of the wells that his father dug and saw that they were all stopped up with earth.

Since the 1840s, Kier's salt wells were becoming fouled with petroleum.

Between Lake Chad and Fezzan lay a sequence of well-spaced wells and oases, and from Fezzan there were easy connections to North Africa and the Mediterranean Sea.

In Europe in the early eighteenth century, improvised land mines or booby traps were constructed in the form of bombs buried in shallow wells in the earth and covered with scrap metal and / or gravel to serve as shrapnel.

Various wells used by these ancients were found by later settlers to be dry or brackish.

Moreover, exports, along with oil wells, gem mining and teak production were controlled by the monarch.

The first were local wells, such as the Zamzam Well, that produced generally brackish water.

Nearly 700 oil wells were set ablaze by the retreating Iraqi army and the fires were not fully extinguished until November 6, 1991, eight months after the end of the war.