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The waste book was intended for temporary use only; the information needed to be transcribed into a journal in order to begin to balance one's accounts. [2] The book's name comes from the fact that once its information was transferred to the journal, the waste book was no longer needed. [3] The use of the waste book has declined with the advent ...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the youngest of 17 children.His father, Johann Conrad Lichtenberg [] (1689–1751), was a pastor ascending through the ranks of the church hierarchy, who eventually became superintendent for Darmstadt.
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, ... Eliot was to receive a royalty of 15% for a book version of the poem planned for autumn publication, [56] ...
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands: Redemption, commonly known simply as The Waste Lands, is a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the third book of the Dark Tower series. The original limited edition hardcover featuring full-color illustrations by Ned Dameron was published in 1991 by Grant.
Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands of people like Mimi toil day and night, hoping that one day they too will get to enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three scrap families who have ruled the isle for generations.
The lawsuit, Bean v. Southwestern Waste Management, Inc., was the first of its kind in the United States that charged environmental discrimination in waste facility siting under the civil rights laws. Houston's middle-class, suburban Northwood Manor neighborhood was an unlikely location for a garbage dump except that it was over 82 percent black
The first robosquirrel was built using a taxidermically mounted adult female California ground squirrel. [19] The tail was moved by a servo, which allowed robosquirrel to flag it tail at specified intervals.