Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730) was an English historian and clergyman. He wrote a History of England that was a standard work in its time. == Life == He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Echard or Eachard of Barsham, Suffolk, by his wife, the daughter of Samuel and Dorothy Groome, and was born at Barsham. On 26 May 1687, at the age of seventeen, he was admitted a sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1692 and M.A. in 1695. Echard, having been ordained by John Moore, bishop of Norwich, was presented to the livings of Welton and Elkington, Lincolnshire, and was appoi...

Таль (от нидерл. talie) — подвесное грузоподъёмное устройство с ручным или механическим приводом, состоящее из подвижного и неподвижного блоков и проходящего через их шкивы троса (лопаря) или металлической цепи. Ручные тали делят по числу шкивов в обоих блоках. Бывают 2-, 3-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 10- и 12-шкивные тали. Иначе называют «тали в 1 (2, 3 и так далее) лопаря». Каждый шкив в подтягивающемся блоке обеспечивает двукратный выигрыш в силе и такой же проигрыш в расстоянии. Механизированные тали широко применяют во всех сферах современной промышленности. Их заранее, обычно при строительстве, монтируют...

Een talie is in de eenvoudigste vorm een samenstel van een touw en twee enkelschijfs blokken. Het touw wordt ook vaak ‘taliereep’ genoemd. == Toepassing == Hijsen van lasten, verplaatsen of vastzetten van lading, strak zetten van tentzeilen, bedienen en strak zetten van zeilen bij zeilvaartuigen. Bij deze toepassing, die vele variaties kent, zijn vele benamingen ontstaan, zoals: Halstalie Zwaardtalie - talie om de zwaarden van platbodemschepen uit het water te hijsen als ze niet worden gebruikt Bulletalie Wanttalie - hulpmiddel om het staande want extra op spanning te zetten. Riftalie - hulpmiddel...

The Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature, also known as Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature, was proposed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1940s, for land development, agricultural practices and water projects to improve agriculture in the nation. Its propaganda motto and catchphrase was "the great transformation of nature" (великое преобразование природы, velikoye preobrazovaniye prirody).The plan was outlined in the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers and All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee of October 20, 1948: "On the...

The Great Plains Shelterbelt was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States, that began in 1934. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated the project in response to the severe dust storms of the Dust Bowl, which resulted in significant soil erosion and drought. The United States Forest Service believed that planting trees on the perimeters of farms would reduce wind velocity and lessen evaporation of moisture from the soil. By 1942, 220 million trees had been planted, covering 18,600 square miles (48,000 km2) in a 100-mile-wide zone from Canada to the Brazos...

An evaporative cooler (also evaporative air conditioner, swamp cooler, swamp box, desert cooler and wet air cooler) is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water. Evaporative cooling differs from other air conditioning systems, which use vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycles. Evaporative cooling uses the fact that water will absorb a relatively large amount of heat in order to evaporate (that is, it has a large enthalpy of vaporization). The temperature of dry air can be dropped significantly through the phase transition of liquid water to water vapor (evaporation)...

The Peacock Throne was a famous jewelled throne that was the seat of the emperors of the Mughal Empire in India. It was commissioned in the early 17th century by emperor Shah Jahan and was located in the Diwan-i-Khas (Hall of Private Audiences, or Ministers' Room) in the Red Fort of Delhi. It was named after a peacock as two peacocks are shown dancing at its rear. == History == Shah Jahan ruled in what is considered the Golden Age of the vast Mughal Empire, which covered almost all of the Indian subcontinent. He ruled from the newly constructed capital of Shahjahanabad. The emperor was the focus...

In Christian angelology, thrones (Ancient Greek: θρόνος, pl. θρόνοι; Latin: thronus, pl. throni) are a class of angels. This is based on an interpretation of Colossians 1:16. According to 1 Peter 3:21-22, Christ had gone to Heaven and "angels and authorities and powers" had been made subject to him.Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite includes the thrones as the third highest of 9 levels of angels. == Christian angelology == According to Matthew Bunson, the corresponding order of angels in Judaism is called the abalim or arelim/erelim, but this opinion is far from unrivaled. The Hebrew word erelim is...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a 2008 American action-adventure fantasy film, directed by Rob Cohen, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and produced by Stephen Sommers (director of the first two films), Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, and James Jacks. The film is set in China, departing from the Egyptian setting, and focuses on the Terracotta Army's origins. It is the third and final installment in The Mummy trilogy and stars Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Anthony Wong, and Michelle Yeoh. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor premiered in Moscow on July 24...

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict. It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture. The book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture during the occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures.Although it has received harsh criticism, the book has continued to b...