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The City: The City of London, the part of Central London, England, that has the longest continuous recorded history The financial (and related) institutions in the United Kingdom [32] Davos: A town in Switzerland: The World Economic Forum [33] Fleet Street: A street in the City of London: The British national press [34] The Hague: A city in the ...
A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]
The product of two CW complexes can be made into a CW complex. Specifically, if X and Y are CW complexes, then one can form a CW complex X × Y in which each cell is a product of a cell in X and a cell in Y, endowed with the weak topology. The underlying set of X × Y is then the Cartesian product of X and Y, as expected.
Metaphoric architecture is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the mid-20th century. [1]It is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism whilst others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture.
The speed of a spaceship is often expressed in terms of c, the metaphorical speed of light (one cell per generation) which in many cellular automata is the fastest that an effect can spread. For example, a glider in Conway's Game of Life is said to have a speed of c / 4 {\displaystyle c/4} , as it takes four generations for a given state to be ...
The 1957 Encyclopédie Larousse [1] defines a cell in music as a "small rhythmic and melodic design that can be isolated, or can make up one part of a thematic context". The cell may be distinguished from the figure or motif: the 1958 Encyclopédie Fasquelle [1] defines a cell as "the smallest indivisible unit", unlike the motif, which may be divisible into more than one cell.
Reference to it has been made routinely throughout Western culture ever since its inception; two notable literary examples are Horace's ode 1.14 and "O Ship of State" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Roger Williams , the founder of Rhode Island , used the metaphor in his "Letter to the Town of Providence" (1656).
In cell biology, an organelle is a specialized subunit, usually within a cell, that has a specific function.The name organelle comes from the idea that these structures are parts of cells, as organs are to the body, hence organelle, the suffix -elle being a diminutive.