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  2. Symplegades - Wikipedia

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    The New Critic I. A. Richards refers to 'Symplegades' in his work Practical Criticism.In Chapter 2, 'Figurative Language', he refers to dangers of misinterpretation in reading poems: "These twin dangers - careless, 'intuitive' reading and prosaic, 'over-literal' reading - are the Symplegades, the 'justling rocks', between which too many ventures into poetry are wrecked."

  3. Thomas Herbert Lewin - Wikipedia

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    Rampur, which was a European civil station consisting of merchants and indigo planters, had experienced the restlessness of the planters, which called for a military police battalion. [27] Lewin was temporarily in command as the commandant was on leave when he arrived. Lewin presided over 600 men in the battalion of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh origins.

  4. Otolith - Wikipedia

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    An otolith (Ancient Greek: ὠτο-, ōto-ear + λῐ́θος, líthos, a stone), also called otoconium, statolith, or statoconium, is a calcium carbonate structure in the saccule or utricle of the inner ear, specifically in the vestibular system of vertebrates. The saccule and utricle, in turn, together make the otolith organs.

  5. Audiology - Wikipedia

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    If hearing loss is identified, audiologists determine which portions of hearing (high, middle, or low frequencies) are affected, to what degree (severity of loss), and where the lesion causing the hearing loss is found (outer ear, middle ear, inner ear, auditory nerve and/or central nervous system).

  6. Archaeoacoustics - Wikipedia

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    Archaeoacoustics is a sub-field of archaeology and acoustics which studies the relationship between people and sound throughout history.It is an interdisciplinary field with methodological contributions from acoustics, archaeology, and computer simulation, and is broadly related to topics within cultural anthropology such as experimental archaeology and ethnomusicology.

  7. Rollright Stones - Wikipedia

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    The Rollright Stones are three separate megalithic monuments, constructed close to one another during the later prehistoric ages of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Their current names – the King's Men, the King Stone, and the Whispering Knights – descend from folklore that has surrounded the site since the Early Modern period.

  8. Cochlea - Wikipedia

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    A long coiled compartment, rather than a short and straight one, provides more space for additional octaves of hearing range, and has made possible some of the highly derived behaviors involving mammalian hearing. [23] As the study of the cochlea should fundamentally be focused at the level of hair cells, it is important to note the anatomical ...

  9. History of mineralogy - Wikipedia

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    The only other works from these two eras worth mentioning were the Shi Pin (Hierarchy of Stones) of Yu Jun in 1617, the Guai Shi Lu (Strange Rocks) of Song Luo in 1665, and the Guan Shi Lu (On Looking at Stones) in 1668. [20] However, one figure from the Song era that is worth mentioning above all is Shen Kuo.