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...There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake." The ancient Japanese believed that the hundreds of quakes that shook (and still shake) their islands every year were caused by the casual movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Natives of Siberia's quake-prone Kamchatka Peninsula blamed the tremors on a giant dog named Kosei tossing snow off his fur. Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, believed that earthquakes were caused by the dead fighting among themselves. Another ancient Greek, Aristotle...
...while"--Parker flashed a grim little smile--"but we might just want to look at a question or two." Scattered, hisses and some laughter broke the tension in the air. Carie Graves, who was sitting on the ground, started wriggling her six foot one inch frame. "I think a spider just crawled up my pants," she explained. The laughter spread, and the attentive silence was over. Questions were being directed at Parker from all directions, questions about the future. What about breaking the time standard? What kind of a boat would they have in England? How much time would they...
Although the parallel between the Tsarist and 'Soviet regimes is not explicitly stated in his ambitious new book, Russia Under the Old Regime. Pipes wants this conclusion to emerge as an historical inevitability. In arid prose he tells the story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when...
...inclined. The renewed fascination with bicycles has brought with it a new fashion, as capricious-and expensive-as haute couture. Now discriminating enthusiasts can buy a futuristic ten-speed British Hetchins for $900, or the Italian Coinage for $1,200. Such merchandise features an airiness that makes spider webs appear cumbersome, and offers gears so refined that they ought to be able to do logarithms. Yet the superbikes' forward motion does not differ substantially from that of the cheaper models. Non-aficionados often wonder whether it might be cheaper to buy ten $100 models, replacing each...
Never mind the occasional barks. The infectious beat of Dixie Spider Man and some fancy guitar acrobatics on The Driver's Engine - an electrified country breakdown - are well worth plugging into...