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Westminster Abbey: December 2008
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Sunday, 7 December 2008. Westminster Abbey in London. The only extant depiction of the original Abbey, in the Romanesque style that is called Norman in England, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Increased endowments supported a community increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, to about eighty monks. Abbey musicians such as Henry Purcell were also buried in their place of work. Subsequently it became an honour to be buried or memorialis...
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Westminster Abbey: Westminster Abbey
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The Great American Dam: February 2009
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The Great American Dam. Saturday, 14 February 2009. The Great American Dam. Early plans called for the dam to be built in Boulder Canyon, so the project was known as the Boulder Canyon Project. The dam site was eventually moved downstream eight miles to Black Canyon, but the project name remained the same. The two vertical foundations for each of the arch walls (the Nevada side and Arizona side) had to be founded on sound "virgin" rock; free of cracks and the weathering that the surface rock of the canyo...
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Prince of the Blacky Ruby: December 2011
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Prince of the Blacky Ruby. Saturday, 10 December 2011. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Http:/ www.history.ox.ac.uk/. Nice to meet the World. Nice to meet the World. Amateur Photographer and craftsman. View my complete profile.
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the human miracle: esophagus
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010. The layers of the esophagus are as follows:. Nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium: is rapidly turned over, and serves a protective effect due to the high volume transit of food, saliva and mucus. Muscularis mucosae: smooth muscle. Submucosa: Contains the mucous secreting glands (esophageal glands), and connective structures termed papillae. Upper third, or superior part: striated muscle. Middle third, smooth muscle and striated muscle. In most fish, the esophagus is ext...
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the human miracle: muscle
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Saturday, 19 June 2010. Muscles are predominately powered by the oxidation of fats and carbohydrates, but anaerobic chemical reactions are also used, particularly by fast twitch fibers. These chemical reactions produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules which are used to power the movement of the myosin heads. There are three types of muscle:. Cardiac muscle is also an "involuntary muscle" but is more akin in structure to skeletal muscle, and is found only in the heart. Cardiac and skeletal muscles a...
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Prince of the Blacky Ruby: The Fight
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Prince of the Blacky Ruby: The Prince of the Black Ruby
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Prince of the Blacky Ruby. Sunday, 25 January 2009. The Prince of the Black Ruby. When in England, Edward's chief residence was at Wallingford Castle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He served as the king's representative in Aquitaine, where he and Joan kept a court which was considered among the most brilliant of the time. It was the resort of exiled kings, like James of Majorca and Pedro of Castile. The Siege of Calais on the Northern Front, during which the inhabitants suffered worst and were reduced t...
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the human miracle: The Larynx
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Thursday, 10 June 2010. The larynx (plural larynges), colloquially known as the "voice box", is an organ in the neck of mammals involved in protecting of the trachea and sound production. It manipulates pitch and volume. The larynx houses the vocal folds, which are an essential component of phonation. The vocal folds are situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the esophagus. Intrinsic muscles associated with the larynx. Lateral cricoarytenoid muscles adduct and inte...
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the human miracle: The Eyes
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Saturday, 19 June 2010. Eyes are organs that detect light, and send electrical impulses along the optic nerve to the visual and other areas of the brain. Complex optical systems with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system. Image-resolving eyes are present in cnidaria, molluscs, chordates, annelids and arthropods. Eyes in various animals show adaption to their requirements. For example, birds of prey have much greater ...
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