Re: The Eleven Days

Clive D.W. Feather scripsit: > See also and the Easter Act 1928. Most interesting, and an excellent Web site. -- "[T]he Unicode Standard does not encode John Cowan idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private http://www.ccil.org/~cowan use char

Re: The Eleven Days

John Cowan said: >> What, I wonder, did the various churches do about the Eleven Days? > Why, nothing. It's a bit like coppery. >> They can hardly have been taken down and rebuilt at a slight angle, >> after all. > Orienting to saints' days was an architectural nicety, not a dogmatic > requiremen

The Eleven Days

Clive D.W. Feather scripsit: > What, I wonder, did the various churches do about the Eleven Days? Why, nothing. > They can hardly have been taken down and rebuilt at a slight angle, > after all. Orienting to saints' days was an architectural nicety, not a dogmatic requirement. Even the general

Re: our customers' needs

Rob Seaman said: > Our modern sensibility may lead us to discount Egyptian and Druidic (or > earlier) world views, but surely the many cultures worldwide that > produced pyramids and other monolithic structures do demonstrate the > frequent centrality of spirituality in human decision making. Thos

Re: Crustal rebound

Steve Allen said: > In brief, the ice load caused the mantle to flow toward the equator. > Lately it has been flowing back from the United States toward Canada, > from central Asia toward Siberia. So the earth as ice skater is > pulling its arms in as it gets less oblate. Thanks. That makes sense

Re: Crustal rebound

On Thu 2005-01-27T07:45:33 +, Peter Bunclark hath writ: > I guess the ice melted, flowed into the oceans and the whole planet is > closer to hydrostatic equilibrium. The crustal rebound must have a > counterpart in ocean-basin depressing (since presumably magma is an > uncompressible liquid).