Re: Looking for maker of sundial in cemetery

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dials show ‘clock time’! Still, it is the Daily Fail! Best Regards, Barry Wainwright Best Regards, Barry Wainwright > On 21 Feb 2019, at 09:23, Dan-George Uza wrote: > > Here's the link. > > https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727419/Top-sundial-expert-sheds-fascinating

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Re: Sundial Puzzle Corner

If you stand at the South Pole, any time that the sun is visible, then any shadow is pointing North, because all directions are north! > On 28 Oct 2016, at 07:58, Frank King > wrote: > > When you have recovered, ponder this puzzle: > > Where on

Re: A Strange Rainbow

days as any cloud in the lower atmosphere will prevent them from being seen. -- Best regards, Barry Wainwright > On 17 Aug 2016, at 15:24, Jackie Jones <jac...@waitrose.com> wrote: > > Dear Sundial folk, > > I know this is not really sundial related, but I am sure

Re: Tarzan's sundial

The film is the 1942 “Tarzan’s New York Adventure” and the scene is about 6 minutes in. I’ve uploaded a clip of the scene to You Tube, you can find it at https://youtu.be/G-Of5dyGq38 -- Barry On 18 Jul 2015, at 23:29, sasch stephens sasch...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks Michael, you've

Sun tracks

The BBC has a series of pictures taken by pinhole camera at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-27221895 Image 7 is described thus: John Rigg: This is a six-month exposure using a pinhole camera made from an empty soup tin and photographic paper, not film. The resulting image is then scanned

Re: Dominical Letter

I see that Patrick has given the history of this dial, so the actual date is determined. However, for completeness to your actual enquiry, the candidate dates where the Golden Number and Canonical Letters match are: 1649, 1706, 1858, 1915 (and +/- 400 years on either side of those dates, but

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them.There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining Diacritical Marks" which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

he outline into discrete pathsmove the ".42" horizontally to align with the degree markRecombine all the elements into a compound pathThis will have the advantage that the characters will be correctly rendered wherever they can be displayed, but are not easily editable.--BarryOn 6 Jul 2013, at 12:38,

Forensic Shadows….

As part of a speeding case which came to court last July 2011, he provided CCTV footage from a system at his home showing him and his Mitsubishi, date-stamped with the time he was said to have been speeding. However, police experts noticed the shadows in Moore's driveway on the CCTV were too

Re: BBC iPlayer - Antiques Roadshow.

For the sake of those who cannot access it directly, I have uploaded the relevant section to https://www.dropbox.com/s/xavxsquc1x1plwt/sundial.m4v I will leave this file up for the next two weeks only, please do not distribute the file URL. -- Barry On 15 Oct 2012, at 12:05, Mac Oglesby

Re: Where it wil be sprig equinox, at noon [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Now I read my own message, I realise that it is 16 minutes difference between the two extremes, ±8 minutes is correct, not ±16minutes. -- Barry On 4 Oct 2011, at 08:13, Mr. Barry Wainwright wrote: Plus or minus 16 minutes, surely? -- Barry On 30 Sep 2011, at 04:13, Hank de Wit

Re: BBC bans The B.C. and A.D.

investigation will reveal. Unless, of course, you can point us to the wording of this BBC 'ban'... -- Barry Wainwright On 5 Oct 2011, at 21:22, Patrick Powers patrick_pow...@compuserve.com wrote: John was correct to mention this and the matter is gathering pace. See this from a UK broadsheet

Re: BBC bans The B.C. and A.D.

I'm sorry, but did you even read the article you linked to? The following are quotes from that article... The guidelines suggested that the modern phrases “the common era” and “before the common era” should be considered as potential replacements [emphasis is mine] The corporation has

Re: Where it wil be sprig equinox, at noon [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Plus or minus 16 minutes, surely? -- Barry On 30 Sep 2011, at 04:13, Hank de Wit wrote: Hi all, to be pedantic, just to make it sound like I understand this discussion, I think it takes about 43 minutes for light to get here from Jupiter (plus or minus 8 minutes depending on whether it

Re: Where it wil be sprig equinox, at noon [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Now I read my own message, I realise that it is 16 minutes difference between the two extremes, ±8 minutes is correct, not ±16minutes. -- Barry On 4 Oct 2011, at 08:13, Mr. Barry Wainwright wrote: Plus or minus 16 minutes, surely? -- Barry On 30 Sep 2011, at 04:13, Hank de Wit

Re: trying to CORRECT [simplify] the math

On 26 Jul 2011, at 00:59, karon wrote: My grandfather, who I know for a fact had a second grade education, could make a perfectly square corner because he knew he only needed the corner to be 2 on one side, 3 on the other and 5 on the hypotenuse. Slightly off-topic, i know, but I'm glad

Re: DeltaCAD Human Figures

On 17 Oct 2009, at 19:17, John Carmichael wrote: Hi CADets: I’m designing a large public sundial using DeltaCAD and would like to include some human figures in the drawing to give the sundial drawing a sense of scale. Do any of you who use CAD drawings know where I can locate free

Re: Are there any USA members of this list, near Racine (Wisconsin)?

On 8/1/07 19:20, Douglas Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps anyone on this Mailing List could say how 'up-to-date' (on average), the typical Google Earth photographs are. On average, about 2 years. -- Barry ---

Leap Second Talks Postponed

A working party weighing the proposed change to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) has decided more time is needed to build a consensus on the issue. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4420084.stm -- Barry -

Re: Sundial mottos for clergy

On 8/11/05 23:21, J. Tallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have a sundial client who is interested in commissioning a Spectra dial for the minister of their (Protestant) church. The question was asked whether there have been any classical/traditional sundial mottos, in Latin or

Re: UK Phone Info Request

On 7/9/05 06:54, Thaddeus Weakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear UK Folks: This is off topic of dialing and I ask someone please email me off list. I am in the US and I am trying to verify a London residential address and only have a name and phone #. I can't find a suitable site online

Re: The J. Carmichael stone technique...

Title: Re: The J. Carmichael stone technique... On 7/9/05 14:25, Goodman Gary-FGG002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, In steps 3 and 10 Dry stone in sun for 3 or 4 days or in an oven. What temperature do you use? It should be low so as not to subject the stone to thermal shock. Gary Well,

Software Search - Apple Mac!

Can anyone point me in the direction of good Macintosh software for the design of sundials? I have seen several windows programmes out there, but none for Apple Mac. If there isn't anything already available and there is a reasonable demand, I may consider writing my own... -- Barry -