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  2. Drowning Girl - Wikipedia

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    Tony Abruzzo's splash page from "Run for Love!"in Secret Hearts no. 83 (November 1962) was the source for Drowning Girl.. Drowning Girl is derived from the splash page from "Run for Love!", illustrated by Tony Abruzzo and lettered by Ira Schnapp, in Secret Hearts #83 (November 1962), DC Comics.

  3. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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    The first stage of cold water immersion syndrome, the cold shock response, includes a group of reflexes lasting under 5 min in laboratory volunteers and initiated by thermoreceptors sensing rapid skin cooling. Water has a thermal conductivity 25 times and a volume-specific heat capacity over 3000 times that of air; subsequently, surface cooling ...

  4. Hypothermia - Wikipedia

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    The pulse of some was weak and hard to detect; others groaned; yet others had eyes open and wild with quiet delirium. [79] Deaths from hypothermia in Russian regions continued through the first and second world wars, especially on the Eastern Front in battles such as the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad where German soldiers were ...

  5. Chinese water torture - Wikipedia

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    A victim of Chinese water torture at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York A reproduction of a Chinese water torture apparatus at Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Chinese water torture , or use of a dripping machine , [ 1 ] is a mentally painful process in which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for a prolonged ...

  6. Leisure (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

  7. Maybe it helped break up the mundanity of her domestic duties, or the telling of the story felt like a duty in itself. No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls.

  8. Diving reflex - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the diving reflex is not induced when limbs are introduced to cold water. Mild bradycardia is caused by subjects holding their breath without submerging the face in water. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] When breathing with the face submerged, the diving response increases proportionally to decreasing water temperature. [ 8 ]

  9. With Her Eyes - Wikipedia

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    "With Her Eyes" (Chinese: 带上她的眼睛; pinyin: dài shàng tā de yǎnjīng) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in October 1999. The short story was included in the collection The Wandering Earth published by Head of Zeus in October 2017.