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Dora Kunz née Theodora Sophia van Gelder (April 28, 1904 – August 25, 1999) was a Dutch-American writer, psychic, alternative healer, [1] occultist and leader in the Theosophical Society in America. [2] Kunz's works have been widely published in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The 'water jacket' blast furnace design for non-ferrous smelting arose in North America, during the 1870s, [3] and an alternative name for it, in Australia, was 'American water jacket furnace'. [4] The design evolved from earlier German cupola furnace designs, with the distinguishing innovation being a well-controlled cooling of the furnace shell.
Oilskin jacket and sou'wester. Oilskin is a waterproof cloth used for making garments typically worn by sailors and by others in wet areas. The modern oilskin garment was developed by a New Zealander, Edward Le Roy, in 1898.
Water jackets were used to cool the barrels of machine guns until several years after the First World War, but modern machine guns are air-cooled to conserve weight and hence increase portability. In a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine , the water jacket is a series of holes either cast or bored through the main engine block and ...
Water carried into the mantle eventually returns to the surface in eruptions at mid-ocean ridges and hotspots. [131]: 646 Estimates of the amount of water in the mantle range from 1 ⁄ 4 to 4 times the water in the ocean. [131]: 630–634 The deep carbon cycle is the movement of carbon through the Earth's mantle and core.
Capsized: Blood in the Water is an American biographical natural horror-survival film, based on a true story from 1982. Roel Reiné directed the film, from a script written by Stephen David, with the story co-written by David, Tim K. Kelly and Jonathan Soule. The film plot centers around a small boat crew aboard a private yacht who are stranded ...
He was the son of a skillful armourer with the same name (d. 1527), and his two brothers Heinrich and Hans who were also skillful armourers and blacksmiths. [1] In 1543, Lochner started working for the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I , and the following year he began his service at the future Maximilian II as court armourer. [ 2 ]
They may be found in lagoons or associated with seaward reefs and seagrass beds; some species may also enter estuaries. Some species are closely associated with dense mats of sargassum , a particularly ubiquitous "sea weed"; these filefish, notably the planehead filefish ( Stephanolepis hispidus ) are also coloured and patterned to match their ...