The Indian roller ( Coracias benghalensis ), is a member of the roller family of birds.

Latin America s Currency Roller Coaster

It's known as the Eurasian Roller. In India it occurs in the northwest, so it's known as the Kashmir Roller.

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Among them, Aristotle proposed a spherical Earth in 330 B.C.

A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) on the surface of a sphere.

These traumatic events set the stage for Latin America s two decade long currency roller coaster.

On April 9, 1970, Frank Fox applied to patent his Spherical 3 3 3 .

CAMBRIDGE The prices of hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been on a veritable roller coaster.

Before hyperbolic geometry, mathematicians knew about two kinds of space Euclidean space, and spherical space.

A marble is a small spherical toy usually made from glass, clay, steel, plastic or agate.

It is roughly spherical, about 20 million light years in diameter and contains more than 3,000 galaxies.

(iv) The number of turns required to initiate the roller arm fuze shall be matched to the intended target.

Other papers, such as one on the determination of the direction of Mecca, are on the spherical astronomy.

This is a real accomplishment in a country that was on a political roller coaster for most of its history.

The following are some effects which make real orbits differ from the simple models based on a spherical earth.

Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.

With just six days to go until this roller coaster of an election campaign is over, everyone's nerves are thoroughly frayed.

The parabolic reflector transforms an incoming plane wave traveling along the axis into a spherical wave converging toward the focus.

NAIROBI The last two years have been a roller coaster ride in respect to securing a new global treaty to combat climate change.

Finally, spherical nanoparticles have three dimensions on the nanoscale, i.e., the particle is between 0.1 and 100 nm in each spatial dimension.

The Angels Beings which have appeared in order to claim Cores embodied as small spherical objects in order to eventually destroy the humanity.

The current best such set of spherical harmonic coefficients is EGM96 (Earth Gravity Model 1996), determined in an international collaborative project led by NIMA.

According to the Big Bang model, the radiation from the sky we measure today comes from a spherical surface called the surface of last scattering .

It builds a spherical nest among reeds in up to 1.5 m (5 ft) deep water, usually about 20 cm (8 in) above the water.

In quantum physics, the scattering amplitude is the amplitude of the outgoing spherical wave relative to the incoming plane wave in a stationary state scattering process.

Early cotton gins The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood.

Conversely, a spherical wave generated by a point source placed in the focus is reflected into a plane wave propagating as a collimated beam along the axis.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist.

When I saw Biraj, he was in his wheelchair, striving to climb to the top of the slope and then race down as if it was a roller coaster.

A down hole roller is set up between the camera tractor and the cable reel in the service truck, preventing cable damage from rubbing the top of the pipeline.

The universal belief in a flat Earth is confirmed by a contemporary Chinese encyclopedia from 1609 illustrating a flat Earth extending over the horizontal diametral plane of a spherical heaven.

Structure The spherical virus particles (virions) of Togaviridae have a diameter of 50 to 70 nm and are covered by a lipid membrane (viral envelope), derived from the host cell membrane.

When the camera tractor is near the original access point, the downhole roller is pulled up and the camera tractor is moved into the access point and pulled up to the service truck.

NAIROBI The last two years have been a roller coaster ride in respect to securing a new global treaty to combat climate change. Some even despair that the window for action is closing fast.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

The only known survivors of the Collapse are those living on Earth, who were saved by the Traveler, a white, spherical celestial body whose appearance centuries before had enabled humans to reach the stars.

Humans have this extraordinarily interesting property that will often seek out low level doses of pain in controlled circumstances and take pleasure from it as in the eating of hot chili peppers and roller coaster rides.

LONDON China s stock market has plunged yet again, this time by 8.5 the market s second largest fall in a single day, and the largest since the global financial crisis. The roller coaster ride is far from over.

Thus, its main application in optics is to solve the problem, Given a light source and a spherical mirror, find the point on the mirror where the light will be reflected to the eye of an observer.

In 2011, there were 4.5 million visitors, and by 2012 the park encompassed an area of 90 hectares, featuring eleven roller coasters, five themed hotels with a turnover of close to EUR 300 million and more than 3,000 employees.

Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

The tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica), known as the Husk Tomato or Mexican Husk Tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family, related to the cape gooseberry, bearing small, spherical and green or green purple fruit of the same name.

The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center, the primary direction aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy, and the fundamental plane approximately in the galactic plane.

On the recommendation of Miletić, the Serbian armed forces posed messenger pigeon stations (in 1908 in Medosevac near Nis and in 1909 in Pirot), and bought two free spherical and one tied kite balloon from the August Ridinger company from Augsburg.