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The first known instance of the phrase "a thousand points of light" appears in Arthur C. Clarke 's short story "Rescue Party," initially published in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1946: One entire wall of the control room was taken up by the screen, a great black rectangle that gave an impression of almost infinite depth.
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection.
Points of Light presentation in the East Room of the White House in January 1993. Points of Light is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Georgia, United States dedicated to engaging more people and resources in solving serious social problems through voluntary service.
1, 2, and 3 Meqabyan. Paralipomena of Baruch. Josippon. Broader canon. Bible portal. v. t. e. The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [ a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the ...
This is equivalent to finding the point on the edge of a circular billiard table at which a player must aim a cue ball at a given point to make it bounce off the table edge and hit another ball at a second given point. Thus, its main application in optics is to solve the problem, "Given a light source and a spherical mirror, find the point on ...
The marker on The Extra Mile, depicting W. E. B. Du Bois (left) and Mary White Ovington (right) in 2006. The Extra Mile – Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a memorial in Washington D.C. Located adjacent to the White House, the monument is composed of 34 bronze medallions honoring people who "through their caring and personal sacrifice, reached out to others, building their dreams into ...
The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars ...