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  Encyclopedia topic: Human physical appearance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Variation in the physical appearance of humans is believed by anthropologist (A social scientist who specializes in anthropology) s to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations in particular physical attractiveness (additional info and facts about physical attractiveness).
Some people have traditionally linked some differences in personal appearance such as skeletal shape with race (A contest of speed), such as prognathism or elongated stride (but this is a controversial and sensitive matter).
The concept of the dandy (A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance) was prevalent in the Western world prior to the contemporary period--namely, a man who devotes particular attention to his physical appearance.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/human_physical_appearance.htm   (508 words)

  
 PAPER - Online Information article about PAPER
Germany and France are the two principal users of straw, which closely resembles esparto in its chemical constitution, and is reduced to a pulp by a somewhat similar process.
The waste heat is utilized in raising steam in a steam boiler set behind the furnace, and often in keeping the thick liquor hot after leaving the evaporator and before entering the rotary furnace.
During the operation of beating various materials and chemicals are added to the pulp for the purposes of sizing, loading, colouring, andc.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PAPER.html   (7080 words)

  
 Hannah Arendt [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
This is not, however, to gloss over the profound differences that Arendt had with Heidegger, with not only his political affiliation with the Nazis, or his moves later to philosophical-poetic contemplation and his corresponding abdication from political engagement.
The realm of action and appearance (including the political) is subordinated to and becomes instrumental for the ends of the Ideas as revealed to the philosopher who lives the bios theôretikos.
The quality of freedom in the world of appearances (which for Arendt is the sine qua non of politics) is to be found elsewhere in the vita activa, namely with the activity of action proper.
www.iep.utm.edu /a/arendt.htm   (7110 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Francis of Assisi
The sudden appearance of this repulsive object filled him with disgust and he instinctively retreated, but presently controlling his natural aversion he dismounted, embraced the unfortunate man, and gave him all the money he had.
Full of colour, dramatic possibilities, and human interest, the early Franciscan legend afforded the most popular material for painters since the life of Christ.
The literary materials for the history of St. Francis are more than usually copious and authentic.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06221a.htm   (8264 words)

  
 Photography: Soulcatcher Studio: Glossary of Photographic Terms & Processes
The print material has at least three emulsion layers of silver salts.
This process produced an extremely fine and delicate grain, and was favored by publishers who wanted a means of reproduction that emulated the appearance of an actual photograph.
A contact print is made by placing a sheet of sensitized material in direct contact with the negative.
www.soulcatcherstudio.com /glossary.html   (2225 words)

  
 ArtLex's P-Par page
Packaging is both the material used in making such containers, and the container itself.
They are described on the paint's container, and more fully on the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) which can be obtained from the paint's manufacturer.
- An ancestor to contemporary paper, parchment is a material on which to write or paint prepared from the skin of a sheep or goat.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/P.html   (4677 words)

  
 JET 14(1) - April 2005 - Bostrom - Transhumanist Thought
In the early golem stories, a golem could be created by a holy person who was able to share some of God’s wisdom and power (although the golem, not being able to speak, was never more than a shadow of God’s creations).
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
But a kinder gloss is possible: decent people recognized that difficult moral problems arose in modern biomedicine, that these problems needed to be addressed, and that having some professional scholars trying to clarify these problems in some sort of systematic way might be helpful.
jetpress.org /volume14/bostrom.html   (9763 words)

  
 BC Printing: Online Custom Business Cards Design - Educational
Training material and educational resources for eBay auction sellers.
Content distributors specializing in material for parenting, family and lifestyle websites and ezines.
Both syndicated and archived articles for use on your website or ezine.
www.businesscardsprinting.biz /links/links27.htm   (388 words)

  
 Decals, Car Decals, Inkjet Decals, Etched Glass Decals, Biker Decals, Windows Decals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This red and fl A'PEXi decal affixes to your windshield or back window and gives a true tuner-car appearance...
Their is not transparet, ours is! This material has many uses...
Striving to be your complete online source for automotive stripes and decals, custom graphics and aftermarket accessories, Stripeman.com is proud to present this do-it-yourself, auto and truck accessories catalog.
www.designerdecals.com   (1431 words)

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