First described in 1810, it grows in small crevices in sandstone cliffs with highly acid soil.It can be recognized by its dark blue-green, highly divided leaves.A. montanum is the ancestor, through hybridization, of several other ferns of similar habitat.…
He soon gained the support of several key labor unions, and was endorsed by a reporter in the Indianapolis Star.Despite this support, at the state convention he was a dark horse candidate.Party boss Thomas Taggart did not support him because of Marshall's support of prohibition.…
They would then have the choice to walk the 7 miles to Bluff Cove or wait until dark to sail there.The officers on board said they would remain on board until dark and then sail.They refused to take their men off the ship.…
This could cause problems when it became too dark to see properly.
It has been argued that time-reversed solutions in general relativity require such double metric for consistency, and that both Dark Matter and Dark Energy can be understood in terms of time-reversed solutions of general relativity.Mention of dark matter is made in some video games and other works of fiction.In such cases, it is usually attributed extraordinary physical or magical properties.…
For tourists, the Czech Republic is considered a safe destination to visit.The low crime rate makes most cities and towns safe to walk around even after dark.…
In the end, the only way they seem to defeat time is through a death that makes them immortal through art.Time is also connected to the theme of light and dark.In Shakespeare's day, plays were most often performed at noon or in the afternoon in broad daylight.…
The once trumpeting bark was a hollow echo of itself.But the deep-set dark eyes, with a soul looking out of them, were as clear as ever.The uncannily wise brain had lost not an atom of its power.…Cited from Further Adventures of Lad, Albert Payson Terhune
The voices were over him; the strange feet almost stumbled in the hole where he lay.Looking out of his dark hiding place, he could see one of his enemies.…Cited from Baree, Son of Kazan, James Oliver Curwood
His sales were meager and he had no publicist or editor.He was writing in the dark, so to speak.He then went to Berlin for a short rest.…
Full of enthusiasm and vigor when he entered office, Polk left on March 4, 1849, exhausted by his years of public service.He lost weight and had deep lines on his face and dark circles under his eyes.He is believed to have contracted cholera in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a goodwill tour of the South after leaving the White House.…
Thus the density of atoms is on the order of a single hydrogen atom for every four cubic meters of volume.The properties of dark energy and dark matter are largely unknown.Dark matter gravitates as ordinary matter, and thus works to slow the expansion of the Universe; by contrast, dark energy accelerates its expansion.…
The next peak -- ratio of the odd peaks to the even peaks -- determines the reduced baryon density.The third peak can be used to get information about the dark matter density.The locations of the peaks also give important information about the nature of the primordial density perturbations.…
Red by a large margin is the color most commonly associated with seduction, sexuality, eroticism and immorality, possibly because of its close connection with passion and with danger.Red was long seen as having a dark side, particularly in Christian theology.It was associated with sexual passion, anger, sin, and the devil.…
A third objection is that some beliefs arise from experience and not from other beliefs.An example is that one is looking into a room which is totally dark.The lights turn on momentarily and one sees a white canopy bed in the room.…
Almaco jacks are generally dusky-colored with faint amber or olive stripes down their sides.Their upper bodies and lower fins are usually dark brown or dark blue-green.The belly is much lighter and appears brassy or lavender.…
She can use this to cast light even in the darkest of night.Earth Star takes an interest in Beauty Stem during their first meeting, much to Elf Cup's dismay.…
This model not only corresponds with statistical surveying of the visible structure in the universe but also corresponds precisely to the dark matter predictions of the cosmic microwave background.This bottom up model of structure formation requires something like cold dark matter to succeed.…
It turns out the total mass deduced from this measurement is approximately six times larger than the mass of the galaxies or the hot gas.The missing component is known as dark matter and its nature is unknown.In a typical cluster perhaps only 5% of the total mass is in the form of galaxies, maybe 10% in the form of hot X-ray emitting gas and the remainder is dark matter.…
Dark trees border the building on both sides.Virginia's educational system consistently ranks in the top ten states on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress, with Virginia students outperforming the average in all subject areas and grade levels tested.…
nounAn unenlightened state →
he was in the dark concerning their intentions,
his lectures dispelled the darkness
adjectiveDevoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black →
sitting in a dark corner,
a dark day,
dark shadows,
dark as the inside of a black cat
adjective(used of color) having a dark hue →
dark green,
dark glasses,
dark colors like wine red or navy blue
