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Ley-lines
The term "ley lines" was coined by Alfred Watkins when explaining his theory that ancient sites around Britain had actually been constructed or formed giving alignments between and across the inhabited landscape of Britain. The sites mentioned include Stone Circles, Standing Stones, Long Barrows, Cairns, Burial Mounds and Churches; 440; MORE; Wikipedia entry
Any Argument from Design, here, must include a yearning for
Flight
"Argument from design for the existence of God, that is, proved
by the simplicity and orderliness of his thereby presumed Creation. A
GR theme and a poke at rationalism, which, the more it succeeds in
reducing complexity to order, the more it emphasisies (sic) the presence of
design, or is that Design, a terribly loaded word for we paranoid." -- Dinn's Notes on the Pynchon-L
March
1765
Azimuth
- An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.
- The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
-- Wiktionary
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strike
Consider some multiple meanings of "strike" (v.) (all quotes from the OED):
- "To bring (an arc) into being"
- "To make one's way, go"
- "Of a serpent or other venomous animal: To wound (a person) with its fangs or sting"
- "To mark with lines, draw a line"
- "To mark, stigmatize"
- "To deal a blow, to smite"
- "To imprint on the mind"
- "to produce a flame with flint and steel or by the friction of a match"
- "To produce (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument"; "Of a clock: To make one or more strokes on its sounding part"
- "To kill or wound (deer) with an arrow or spear"; "To hit with a missile, a shot, etc"
- "To lance or cut (a vein)"
- "Of lightning, thunder, a thunderbolt: To descend violently upon and blast"; "To send out or forth (a beam of light)"
- "said of a moving shadow"
- "Of a thought, an idea: To come into the mind of, occur to (a person)"
- "To agree (to articles or terms)"
- "of an electric charge, to pass as a spark"
