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Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...
The Odyssey ( / ˈɒdɪsi /; [ 1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized : Odýsseia) [ 2][ 3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus ...
Calypso (mythology) In Greek mythology, Calypso ( / kəˈlɪpsoʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ, romanized : Kalupsō, lit. 'she who conceals') [ 1] was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer 's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will. She promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with ...
The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle ), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. The mass of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time. However, the partitioning of the water into the major reservoirs of ice, fresh water, salt water and ...
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]
First motion picture camera and first projector by Louis Le Prince, Frenchman who worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. [24] [25] [26] The cinematograph by Léon Bouly (1892). First commercial, public screening of cinematographic films by Auguste and Louis Lumière in Paris on 28 December 1895. [27]
Odyssey 5. Odyssey 5 is a Canadian [1] science fiction television series, which was shown in 2002 on Space in Canada and on Showtime in the United States. The premise involves five space travelers who witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm.
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...