Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 48. What are the first 5 complete sentences on the page?

Question

Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 48. What are the first 5 complete sentences on the page?

Answer 1

The location of the aerodynamic center of an airfoil is not affected by camber, thickness, and angle of attack. In fact, two dimensional in-compressible airfoil theory will predict the aerodynamic center of the 25 percent cord point for any airfoil regardless of camber,

thickness, and angle of attack. Actual airfoil, which are subject to real fluid flow, may not have the lift due to angle of attack concentrated at the exact 25 percent chord point. However, the actual location of the aerodynamic center for various sections is rarely forward of the 23 percent or aft of the 25 percent cord point. The moment about the aerodynamic center has its source in the relative pressure distribution and requires application of the coefficient form of expressions for proper evaluation.

Answer 2

The most spectacular early development in Oaxaca took place at Monte Alban. The city was founded at the beginning of the Late Formative, presumably as the Zapotec capital. A mountainous outcrop overlooking three important valleys of central Oaxaca was reworked into a great manmade acropolis. In the first era of occupation, a main axis running roughly north-south was established and at least some structures were erected to define the main plaza as the ritual core. Monte Alban has no natural source of water, and one might legitimately surmise that it took an advanced social organization to sustain a community high above the fertile valleys below.

Art of Mesoamerica

Answer 3

James Joyce. Finnegans Wake. The first page has 3 sentences on it. pg 48 hasn't got a complete sentence. A great read all the same.

Answer 4

Catlin R. Kiernan was born near Dublin, Ireland, but has lived most of her life in the southeastern United States.

Her short stories has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Dark Terrors 2, Darkside: Horror Lethal Kisses, Noirotica 2, Dark of the Night, Sandman: Book of Dreams, Best New Horror, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Her first novel, Silk, was published in 1998 and Meisha Merlin Press has recently released Candles for Elizabeth, a collection of her short fiction.

She made her comic writing debut with "Souvenirs" for DC Comics, series The Dreaming.

Kiernan currently lives in Athens, Georgia, where she divides her time between her writing and vertebrate paleontology.

Answer 5

Yens sat in front of the crystal and pushed the one button that was set into the device below the glass orb. Lights began to flicker inside the glass and where mere moments ago nothing had been, there now existed the image of the evil sorceress. Yens knew that his likeness was at the same time being projected onto a similar device in Haeron's castle.

Despite what her name and reputation might suggest, the evil sorceress was beautiful. More beautiful than anyone had a right to be.

Answer 6

Totally weird idea, and also the very coolest thing I have seen on this site in ages.



"Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.



Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension. Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him."



Did you want to know where it is from, or are you going to try to guess? If you want to know, post it in the details, and I will come back and edit my answer to include the name of the book.

Answer 7

"As they went first around the final buoy, both Bobby Scott and Joe Rogers looked back at the 'Icicle' and gave a long triumphant wave.

Derry never budged her red-mittened hands from the sheet rope. 'The 'Jack Frost' is a good boat but they are careless,' she said in her careful, stilted English. 'With the melted water on the top it is glary and hard to see where the ice has crack----'

She had not finished before a line of rough ice had snapped the rudder out of Bob Scott's unwary hands! In another second he was catapulting headlong across the flat deck of the 'Jack Frost'".

Answer 8

"Colonel James M. Phalen, writing for his /Army Medical Bulletin/, subtitled his biography of John Saw Billing 'A Many-Sided Genius.' Billings was probably the most remarkable person ever to serve the Army Medical Department. Billings graduated from Miami of Ohio in 1857 and recieved his medical degree in 1860 from the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati. He became a contract surgeon at the outbreak of the Civil War and was commissioned in July 1862. In March 1863, he reported to Jonathan Letterman, Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac."

-'Medics at War: Military medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century' by John T. Greenwood



I swear...that's a quote, and that 'Miami of Ohio' thing is in the book. It may/may not be a typo.

Answer 9

"Brad and his little boys would need her more than they have ever needed her. Sarah couldn't feel any personal sense of loss for Cheryl Keeton, although all human life mattered to her."



There are the first 2 sentences of Dead by Sunset by Ann Rule page 48. Its too late to type the next three.

Answer 10

I really like the idea, by the way....

But since you asked to pick the nearest - there you go:



Die Kategorie des Neuen hat einen Konflikt hervorgebracht. Nicht unähnlich der querelle des anciens et des modernes im siebzehnten Jahrhundert ist der Konflikt zwischen dem Neuen und der Dauer. Durchweg waren die Kunstwerke auf Dauer angelegt; sie ist ihrem Begriff, dem der Objektivitäten verschwistert. Durch Dauer erhebt Kunst Einspruch gegen den Tod; die kurzfristige Ewigkeit der Werke ist Allegorie einer scheinlosen. Kunst ist Schein dessen, woran der Tod nicht heranreicht.



Theodor W. Adorno - Ästhetische Theorie, p. 48

Answer 11

But, we have already defined the relationship, between Yo, and To , in terms of equation. Y =(1/G) To where G is called the modulus of rigidity. Therefore we have shown that G= E/[2(+v)]. There is one other elastic constant that has not, as yet, been mentioned. This is the bulk modulus K, defined by the relationship K=p/(sV/V) where 8V?v, is the shange in volume, or 'dialation' suffered by an isotropic elastic medium subjected to hydrostatic pressure (p).

Answer 12

'The manifold world, in Anaximander's view, can arise only by robbery and misappropriation'(Cornford p. 10). One modern view of the universe is that life-forms an intricate, complexz, organised, sometimes symmetrical unnities which miraculously emerge from the formless of the primordal. As cornford remarks (pp.10-11), it is as if Anaximander has the opposite view: the emergence of life is a state of increasing instability, a move through conflict of elements into disorder and instability and injustice of individuated life-forms. (And, strange as this seems, perhaps this view is not unfamiliar: as we will see in Chapter 4, Freud's theory of the death drive will echo it.)

In th fragments of Heraclitus (533-473BC) we find an even more acute sense of the universe as being in a state of permanent change and ceaseless conflict:



"One must understand that war (polemos) is shared and Conflict (eris) is Justice, and that all things come to pass (and are ordained?) in accordance with conflict(Ixxxii)".

Answer 13

Bob Arctor had been told by Hank, who was Mr. F, to check out the local New Path residence centers in order to loacate a major dealer, whom he had been watching, but who had abruptly dropped from sight.

Now and then a dealer, realizing he was about to be busted, took refuge in one of the drug-rehabilitation places, like Synanon and Center Point and X-Kalay and New-Path, posing as an addict seeking help. Once inside, his wallet, his name, everything that identified him, was stripped away in preparation for building up a new personality not drug-oriented. In this stripping away process, much that the law enforcement people needed in order to locate their suspects disappeared. Then, later on, when the pressure was off, the dealer emerged and resumed his usual activity outside.

Answer 14

From the house of the spirits- page 48



With the light, i regain some of my strength. I began to resign myself to my misfortune and to ask no longer that she be resurrected but simply that I would arrive in time to see her one last time before they buried her. We doubled our pace and an hour later the driver took leave of me outside the tiny train station where I caught the narrow-gauge locomotive that linked the civilized world and the desert where I had spent two years.



I traveled more than thirty hours without stopping to eat, not even noticing my thirst, and I managed to reach the del Valle home before the funeral. They say that I arrived covered with dust, without a hat, filthy and bearded, thirsty and furious, shouting for my bride.

Answer 15

I dropped to the ground inside the wrecker's yard, a bloody bundle of terror spread-eagled on the oily ground. I groaned in pain as I saw Dawn run towards the bus. Over in his little office the caretaker looked up and scowled. I could see his face glowing dimly in the light of a desk lamp. His dog was curled up by the open door.

Answer 16

War of the Worlds byH.G. Wells:



I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death. It was nearly eleven when i started to return. The night was unexpectedly dark; to me, walking out of the light passage of my cousin's home, it seemed indeed black, and it was hot and close as the day. Overhead the clouds were driving fast, albeit not a breath stirred the shrubs about us. My cousin's man lit both lamps.



Hey...you asked for it.

Answer 17

Tomorrow would be Independence Day - the day for celebrating the birth of freedom. And this day was one for celebrating his own rebirth.

"Hey, Gillie", he called out, the lilt of a childhood in Kikenny still coloring his search. "Suds around, on me."

After three months of pain and worry, after more than a dozen trips to Manchester for radiation therapy, after sitting time and again in the doctor's office, waiting for the other shoe to fall, waiting for the news that "We can't get it all," he was back on the road, cured.

Answer 18

Beal walks along the newly plowed road. He pictures Death to be a place of no pain, no shame. His pant legs are frozen and they scuff together like heavy canvas. Beal considers the dying part of suicide, those moments between life and death when the body lets go of those shreds of soul. His body perhaps will also be shreds.

(Beans of Egypt Maine)

Answer 19

"Na njegovo veliko zadovoljstvo, Kerolajn se nije opirala dok je izvodio iz sale za predavanje. Ali otkrio je da je u necemu veoma pogresio. Dodir njene nezno oblikovane ruke kroz materijal rukava haljine pokazao se kao nesto sto mu je neocekivano skrenulo paznju. Morao je da se bori protiv iznenadnog poriva da je uhvati jace i privuce k sebi. Ovo je bio prvi put da je dodirnuo." (Amanda Kvik - Sacekaj do ponoci)



I can translate that from word to word if you want.

But, it's like this - He took her out of the classroom, and it was first time he touched her (he took her arm) and that disturbed him. Suddenly he wanted her closer to him in his arms, etc. (book is Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick)

Answer 20

Then they got down to business. They sat on the bed cross-legged and looked straight at each other. They began with an abstract thought, discussed it; reminded each other of another abstract point forgotten in the rush of events; Dean apologized but promised he could get back to it and manage it fine, bringing up illustrations.

Carlos said, "And just as we were crossing Wazee I wanted to tell you about how I felt of your frenzy with the midgets and it was just then, remember, you pointed out that old bum with the baggy pants and said he looked just like your father?"

"Yes, yes, of course I remember; and not only that, but it started to rain of my own, something real wild that I had to tell you, I'd forgotten it, now you just reminded me of it..."

Answer 21

there became no quantity of magic, Clary theory as she and Luke rotated the block for the third time, which could create new parking areas on a brand new york city highway. (Cassandra Clare 22) - city of Glass

Answer 22

Hazel looked at the path upstream. "There's grass down there," he said. "Let's go and feed."

They scrambled down the bank and set to nibbling beside the water. Between them and the stream itself stood half-grown clumps of purple loosestrife and fleabane, which would not flower for nearly two months yet.



Watership Down



by



Richard Adams

Answer 23

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.



From: 'A Confederacy Of Dunces'

Answer 24

Build Transportation:

Everything you need to know to build a smoothly functioning transport net for your sims is available here, from roads to subway systems, train stations to highway ramps.

Answer 25

The only book i can find right now only gets to page 47.Sorry!

Answer 26

"Noble shook his head. 'What are you talking about?'



She set the embroidery frame aside on the bed. It was pleasing, under the circumstances, to feel worldlier than he was. 'Fools are the latest rage in the continental courts.'"



- "The Fool's Tale" by Nicole Galland

Answer 27

Another flick of the wand and the sofa zoomed back to its original position. "We may as well be comfortable," said Dumbledore pleasurebly. As he replaced his wand in his pocket, Harry saw that his hand was blackened and shriveled; it looked as though his flesh had been burned away. "Sir--what happened to your--?" "Later, Harry," said Dumbledore.

Answer 28

37 Now that you have felt through all my goods, what of all the goods of your house have you found? Put it here in front of my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between us two. 38 These twenty years I have been with you. Your female sheep and your she-goats did not suffer abortions, and the rams of your flock I never ate. 39 Any animal torn to pieces I did not bring to you. I myself would stand the loss of it.



Book of Genesis; Chapter 31, verses 37-39a

Answer 29

"I was at the ball game, the kid interrupted. Pointing to the photos he said, "You can see right here this wasn't me. These are granny knots. They can pull out. I use square knots.

Answer 30

"How much can we tell him?" Eragon asked Saphira, thinking quickly.

"He's always treated us fairly, but we can't know what he may have promised other people. We'd best be cautious until Nasuada actually takes power."

"Very well."

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pg 48 of Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Answer 31

See jane. See Jane run. See Jane run up the hill. Thats all I have mastered so far

Answer 32

I'm just gonna give you one sentence



Mary lied on her bed and spreaded her thighs.