` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.

There are several types of alabaster found at the site, including pink, white, and the rare black alabaster.

In fact, alabaster vessels and earthen jars with black ink inscriptions with very similar font design showing Nynetjer's name were found in Periben's tomb.

Weneg's name appears in black ink inscriptions on alabaster fragments and in inscriptions on schist-vessels.

Peribsen ´ s serekh name was found pressed on earthen jar seals made of clay and mud and in inscriptions on vessels made of alabaster, sandstone, porphyry and black schist.

The Northern and Uncompahgre Ute were the only group of Indians known to create ceremonial pipes out of salmon alabaster, as well as a rare black pipestone found only in the creeks that border the southeastern slopes of the Uinta Mountains in Utah and Colorado.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

In other words, like automation machines designed to work in tandem, they shared the same programming, a mutual understanding not only of English words, but of the four stresses, pitches, and junctures that can change their meaning from black to white.

As well as the usual yellow-orange-brown that is associated with the color " amber ", amber itself can range from a whitish color through a pale lemon yellow, to brown and almost black.

You can see this in the quote above from the Supreme Court where the Court is noting that while the black letter law is clear, New York precedent deviates from the general principles.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale are preserved as black carbon films on black shales, and so are difficult to photograph ; however, various photographic techniques can improve the quality of the images that can be acquired.

The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.

Although black is sometimes described as an " achromatic ", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like " black cat " or " black paint ".

A black pigment can, however, result from a combination of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors.

The plumage can vary in Britain from almost pure white to black, but is usually shades of brown, with a pale ' necklace ' of feathers.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Matter falling onto a black hole can form an accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe.

If there are other stars orbiting a black hole, their orbit can be used to determine its mass and location.

Similarly, the total mass inside a sphere containing a black hole can be found by using the gravitational analog of Gauss's law, the ADM mass, far away from the black hole.

While the mass of a black hole can take any positive value, the charge and angular momentum are constrained by the mass.

Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as " black ", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of " whiteness " and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for " blackness " in a particular setting.

`` That'll be a pleasure to see '', the big black murmured as he stared down the barrel of his rifle.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.

It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.

Calloused fingers, caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries, had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted, never to be tweezed away.

They would be black or white or horse-blanket plaid, chic and splashy, like Vivian herself.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

These warning colours tend to be red or yellow combined with black, with the fire salamander ( Salamandra salamandra ) being an example.

It could be any color: black, red, green, blue.

Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with twelve tassels ( the galero of a territorial abbot would be green )

Only red abalone may be taken ; black, white, pink, and flat abalone are protected by law.

Snorri quotes his own source saying: " The sun will go black, earth sink in the sea, heaven be stripped of its bright stars ;...." ( Section 56 ).

He later spoke out for black suffrage, though not based solely on race, but rather merit oriented, arguing, " The better class of them will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal Negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man.

Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.

* 1943 – The, the first U. S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.

Unlike McCaffrey's black crystal transceivers, Le Guin's ansibles are not mated pairs: it is possible for an ansible's coordinates to be set to any known location of a receiving ansible.

In the U. S., ACE inhibitors are required to be labeled with a " black box " warning concerning the risk of birth defects when taken during the second and third trimester.

The work which black women have been forced to perform, either in slavery or in a discriminatory work place, that would be non-gender conforming for white women has been used against black women as a proof of their emasculating behaviour.

The location of the black stump may be some hypothetical location or may vary depending on local custom and folklore.

Contract, tort and land law are typical black letter law subjects, whereas administrative law, for example, would be considered considerably less black letter.