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14 unusual facts about nature


Buddha-nature

A denotation of note is the garba dence) of the Gujarati: where a spiritual circle dance is performed around a light or candle placed at the centre, bindu.

This view of the Buddha-nature as non-Buddhist is termed Critical Buddhism.

Cameron Davidson

He was awarded Environmental Issues award from Nature's Best magazine for his environmental work there.

CPNT

Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition (French: Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions, abbreviated as CPNT), an agrarianist French political party.

Material world

Nature, the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general

Nature, Culture and Gender

The contributing authors are Carol P. MacCormack, Maurice Bloch, Jean H. Bloch, L. J. Jordanova, Olivia Harris, Jane C. Goodale, Gillian Gillison, Marilyn Strathern.

Nature's Best Photography

In 1996, the Nature's Best International Photography Awards (now the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards) was created as an annual competition to recognize outstanding nature photography and foster the efforts of photographers worldwide, as well as further conservation awareness.

Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors

The large showy blossom cannot but attract the passing bee, whose favorite color (according to Sir John Lubbock) it waves.

Nature's God

God in Deism, that is used in the United States Declaration of Independence: "...the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."

Nature's Pride

Nature's Pride Bread was also featured in the 2010 House Beautiful Magazine Kitchen of the Year in Rockefeller Center.

Nature's Pride is an all-natural brand of bread was produced by Hostess Brands and now produced by Flowers Foods in the United States, which closed its operations in the wake of a BCTGM bakers' union strike and entered liquidation proceedings.

Travis Hansen

Nature's Sunshine Products is the founding corporate sponsor of the Sunshine Heroes Foundation.

World at Your Feet

As the follow-up to their previous single, the #2 hit "Nature's Law", "World at Your Feet" became another commercial success for Embrace, marking their second UK Top 3 single by peaking at #3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Written on Ya Kitten

It was later featured on Nature's Finest: Naughty by Nature's Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits: Naughty's Nicest.


Andriy Shtoharenko

Shtoharenko's music shows the influence of Mussorgsky and Borodin in that many of his works tend to be of a programatic and descriptive nature.

Archibald Thorburn

He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman (both in Nature in Art's collection), and he encouraged the young Donald Watson when he came to visit him in Dumfries and Galloway.

Archidamus II

These quotes are according to the copy of Thucydides edited by Paul Woodruff, "Thucydides on Justice Power and Human Nature"

Bam Thwok

The song's lyrics display a surrealistic and nonsensical nature typical of the band; Deal's inspiration was a discarded child's art book she found on a New York City street.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Bill Whatcott

The dramatic nature of his activities have attracted attention from the media, including an appearance on The Daily Show.

Boris Zeisser

Inspired by multiple visits to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and this type of relation between architecture and nature, Boris Zeisser decided to study and practice architecture.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Charles Bonnet

The account of the ant-lion in Noël-Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, which he read in his sixteenth year, turned his attention to insect life.

Charles Henry Jeens

About 1860 he became associated with Macmillan & Co., for whose Golden Treasury series and other publications he produced many vignettes, and portraits including a series of Scientific Worthies in Nature.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Christina Angelina

Angelina was commissioned by the musician Kaskade to paint live on his "Freaks of Nature" summer tour in support of his album Fire & Ice.

Coaching stock of Ireland

Because of the shared nature of the service the Enterprise has its own unique livery consisting of Dark Grey (NCS 8502-Y), Light Grey (NCS 5502-Y), Dark Green (NCS 9005-G20Y), Bronze strip & Enterprise logos (3M), and either Purple (NCS 5040-R40B) for Standard Class or Dark Red (NCS 4060-R10B) for First Plus.

Copenhagen interpretation

# The description of nature is essentially probabilistic, with the probability of a given outcome of a measurement given by the square of the modulus of the amplitude of the wave function.

Craig Blacklock

Craig Blacklock (born 1954) is a nature photographer best known for his book The Lake Superior Images.

Cuspy halo problem

One approach to solving the cusp-core problem in galactic halos is to consider models that modify the nature of dark matter; theorists have considered warm, fuzzy, self-interacting, and meta-cold dark matter, among other possibilities.

Demountable Rack Offload and Pickup System

As both vehicles are now out of commercial production, resulting in vastly reduced and resultantly higher cost spares provision, and taking into account the wider geographic nature of modern British Army deployment, the MOD is presently developing a replacement under the Enhanced Pallet Load System (EPLS), which will be based on the 15 tonne MAN SV.

Don't Be Saprize

Don't Be Saprize featured production from the Road Dawgs themselves, Clinton "Payback" Sands, Greg Royal and Naughty by Nature producer Kay Gee, who produced the song "Break Yourself" with Darren Lighty.

Dora Maar

Towards the end of her life, she renounced her earlier association with Surrealism, albeit staying involved in the art world through some exchanges with upcoming artists, as she did with Patrice Stellest while he defined the principles of the Trans Nature Art movement.

Dust Muhammad

The emperor Humayun sitting on some stone likeness of the throne, and in the distance under the trees playing three boys, one of whom the future Emperor Akbar I. Restless nature Doust Muhammad gave him root and in the court of the Mughal emperors - in the early 1560s, is already under Emperor Akbar I, Dust Muhammad left India and returned to Iran, where he lived out the last days in Qazvin.

Elegiac comedy

Denying their true comedic nature, Edmond Faral called them Latin fabliaux, after the later Old French fabliaux, and Ian Thompson labelled them Latin comic tales.

Felipe Pazos

Felipe Pazos (September 27, 1912 – February 26, 2001) was a Cuban economist who initially supported the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro, but became disillusioned with the increasingly radical nature of the revolutionary government.

Georg Hermes

Hermes himself was very largely under the influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their doctrine of the moral law as the sole guarantee for the existence of God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his system obnoxious to his church.

Immanence

In Catholic theology, Christ and the Holy Spirit immanently reveal themselves; God the Father only reveals himself immanently vicariously through the Son and Spirit, and the Divine Nature, the Godhead is wholly transcendent and unable to be comprehended.

Information wants to be free

In the cyberpunk world of post-singularity transhuman culture by Charles Stross, described in his books like Accelerando and Singularity Sky, the wish of information to be free is a law of nature.

Intoxication defense

In other eras of a more puritanical nature, intoxication has been stigmatized as a sign of human weakness, of immorality, or as a sin.

Ira F. Stone

Among his other books are Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud (JPS, 1998), Seeking the Path of Life: Theological Meditations on the Nature of God, Life, Love and Death (Jewish Lights, 1993), Sketches for a Book of Psalms (Xlibris, 2000), and a commentary on Rabbi Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto's Mesillat Yesharim (Jewish Publication Society, 2010).

Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

John Barnard

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, where failures with his ideas (such as the numerous failures during testing of the semi-automatic gearbox throughout 1988), often made headlines despite being minor in nature.

John Muir College

The 8- and 11-story twin residence halls Tenaya and Tioga along with the 5- and 9-story Tuolumne and Tamarack apartment buildings stand as a testament to the nature-conserving policies of Muir as well as examples of the prevalent architectural style of the 1960s.

Léon Germain Pelouse

He moved to Britanny, there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse realised landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years.

Leopold Sulerzhitsky

He was well versed in Eastern-influenced religious practices, informing Stanislavski about yoga, meditation and the nature of Prana.

Lewis County, New York

Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (August 8, 1863 – September 22, 1948) was an American ornithologist and nature writer.

Old Codes New Chaos

The track "Feinman" features a quote from Richard Feynman, the last line of his report into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Pacita Abad

The Fundacion Pacita Batanes Nature Lodge in Basco, Batanes, "was lovingly refurbished by her brother", Butch Abad.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Pleasures of the Harbor

The best known track is "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", a sarcastic jab at the apathetic nature of people in certain situations, at its base the story of the Murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City (which numerous people witnessed, doing nothing to help), set to a Dixieland backing.

Pohnstorf Moor

The nature reserve has an area of 33 hectares and covers parts of the parishes of Roggenstorf (Gemarkung Grevenstein) and Damshagen (Gemarkungen Welzin and Pohnstorf) and was established on 27 June 2005 under the official number N 326.

Promotional Copy

Due to the misleading nature of the title, several retailers including Best Buy and Sam Goody sent back entire shipments of the album, because they believed that they were actually sent promotional copies of the album rather than the album itself.

Religious humanism

In addition, many Indian religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian religions and belief systems like Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Shenism, and Zoroastrianism, that focus on human nature and action more than theology, were always primarily humanistic.

River Went

While these species were suited to the ponded nature of the river below Sykehouse, the river above there is faster flowing, and more suitable for riverine species of fish such as chub and dace.

Serafima Meletieva

Some documents of a personal nature, and books are available in the archives of the Abbess' Christian Russia in Seriate, Italy.

Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge

There are no nature trails at this time, however from the surrounding roadways, there are opportunities to see northern harriers, red-breasted mergansers, black ducks, pied billed grebe, great blue herons, and numerous other bird species.

Thorn Creek Nature Center and Preserve

Thorn Creek Woods Nature Center and Preserve is located in Will County, Illinois near the municipality of Park Forest, Illinois.

Timo Hannay

In addition to his work at Nature, he is the co-organiser, with Tim O'Reilly and Chris DiBona of Science Foo Camp.

Tuku Nature Reserve

The Tuku Nature Reserve lies in the Tuku-a-tamatea (Tuku) River Valley in the south-west of the island of Rekohu, the main island in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands group in the south-west Pacific Ocean.

Tundra Yukaghir language

Case assignment for core participants behaves in a broadly split-intransitive manner, though actual assignment is very complex, involving semantic role, focus, relative animacy of the participants (first or second person versus third), and nature of the noun itself.

Vacuity

Śūnyatā, the Buddhist term about the impermanent nature of form

Wild River State Park

The park is managed to provide quieter, more nature-oriented recreation as a counterpoint to the busier William O'Brien and Interstate State Parks downstream.

Winnall, Hampshire

It is the location of the Winnall Moors nature reserve on the flood-plain of the Itchen and the University of Southampton's Erasmus Park hall of residence.