RIGHT ASCENSION

in astronomy, one of the coordinates in the equatorial coordinate system. The right ascension of a celestial body is the angular distance measured eastward from the vernal equinox along the celestial equator to its intersection with the body's hour circle.

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books on: Right Ascension  - 7543 results

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Privacy as a Constitutional Right: Sex, Drugs, and the Right to Life
Book by Darien A. McWhirter, Jon D. Bible; Quorum Books, 1992
Subjects: Privacy, Right Of--United States
...free men had the right to come and go in...James II and the ascension to the British throne...a head with the ascension of Charles I...the Petition of Right, condemning royal...Toleration defending the right of religious and...Charles II and the ascension to the throne of...
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The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics
Book by Robert J. Spitzer; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: Pro-Life Movement--New York (State), Right To Life Party, Third Parties (United States Politics)
...periods, according to the ascension of either "narrow-gaugers...fewer than 14,000 votes. The ascension of the narrow-gaugers in 1896...beginning of a turn to the right that became fully evident by...social stagnation of the radical right." 115 The 1980 platform...
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Into a World of Hate: A Journey among the Extreme Right
Book by Nick Ryan; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Hate Groups, Right-Wing Extremists, White Supremacy Movements
...of HATE A Journey Among the Extreme Right Nick Ryan NEW YORK AND LONDON Published...world of hate : a journey among the extreme right / Nick Ryan. p. cm. Includes index...0-415-94922-X (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Right-wing extremists. 2. White supremacy movements...
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Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762
Book by Ernest Rhys, R. Brimley Johnson, Mary Wortley Montagu; J. M. Dent & Co, 1906
Subjects: Africa--Description And Travel, Asia--Description And Travel, Authors, English--18th Century--Correspondence, Reminiscences, Etc, Europe--Description And Travel
...BOSOMS LORD BACON LETTERS FROM the RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU...could not blame him "for being in the right." They thereupon agreed to elope, and...old does not find out that he is in the right. TO MRS. HEWET. Arlington Street...
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The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940
Book by John W. Sherman; Praeger, 1997
Subjects: Conservatism--Mexico--History, Mexico--Politics And Government--1910-1946
...constitution, arguing that only parents had the right to determine the nature of their childrens...changes wrought by the Revolution. With the ascension of Plutarco Elias Calles to the presidency...restricting the church. Thus the Catholic Right had set its face squarely against the...
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Reagan and Begin, Bibi and Jerry: The Theopolitical Alliance of the Likud Party with the American Christian "Right"
Journal article by Donald Wagner; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 20, 1998
Subjects: Falwell, Jerry--Political activity, Israel--Relations with the United States, Likud Party (Israel)--Political activity, Netanyahu, Benjamin--Political activity, Religious Right (American politics)--Political activity
...I will focus on the recent history of the Likud-Christian "right" relationship in the United States, examining its emergence...influence in the New Testament writer Lukes account of Jesus Ascension, which inserts an Apocalyptic question into the mouths of unnamed...
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Origen, Ezekiel's Merkabah, and the Ascension of Moses
Journal article by David J. Halperin; Church History, Vol. 50, 1981
Subjects: Church History
...Origen account of the ascension in his Commentary on John...through his passion" and "his right hand bloodied and entirely...I received Torah from Gods right hand and taught it to Israel...most mysterious feature of the ascension in the Commentary on John...
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Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China, and India
Journal article by Gary Gereffi, Vivek Wadhwa, Ben Rissing, Ryan Ong; Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 97, 2008
Subjects: China, Competition, Education, Engineering, Expansion, Globalization, Gross Domestic Product--GDP, India, Manufacturing, Research & development--R&D, Research parks, Technological change, United States
...position in knowledge-intensive industries, and short-term causes like the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s and the ascension of Zhu Rongji to the position of Premier in 1998 (Bai, 2006; Kang, 2000; Li, 2004; Ni and Wang, 2005; Yang, 2004). The reduction...
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The Potential of 'Alternative' Charter School Authorizers: Who Grants the Right to Run Charter Schools? Originally, Local School Boards Were Given This Authorizing Power. Now, as Ms. Bierlein Palmer Explains, There Are Many Different Types of Authorizers, Some of Which Function Better Than Others
Journal article by Louann Bierlein Palmer; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Charter schools--Management, School administration--Methods, School improvement programs--Evaluation, School management and organization--Methods
...total of 145 schools). The largest include two nonprofits created exclusively to deal with charter schools: the Friends of Ascension in Minnesota (chartering 16 schools) and the Ohio Council of Community Schools (chartering 45 schools). With the exception...
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'Crazy' Thesis: A Critique of Hitler's Willing, Executioners
Journal article by Norman G. Finkelstein; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1997
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...demonstrate Hitlers greater popularity right after the seizure of power, Goldhagen...can no longer be gauged after Hitlers ascension to power. Totalitarian rule corrupted...thesis for the period after Hitlers ascension to power than he was for the period before...
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Ideological, Bedfellows: College Professors and the Media Tell Us That There Are Right-Wing Totalitarians and There Are Left-Wing Totalitarians, but Is This an Accurate Assessment?
Magazine article by Bruce Walker; The New American, Vol. 25, November 9, 2009
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, Mussolini, Benito, Right and left (Political science)--Analysis, Totalitarianism--Analysis
...1962 book Jews, God and History that Nazi propaganda had been anti-Christian since 1919. Hitler stated in 1932, before his ascension to power: "We are not against the hundred and one different kinds of Christianity, but against Christianity itself." Gustavus...
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The Curious Clout of Japan's Right
Magazine article by Karl Taro Greenfeld; The Nation, Vol. 253, August 12, 1991
Subjects: Japan--Politics and government, Right and left (Political science)--Japan
...was a bone thrown to the militarist far right. Some government policies also seem geared...religious daijosai, the Shintoist Imperial Ascension ceremony, and insisting on rewriting textbooks...veteran observer, "meant to appease the right wing." Mainstream politicians heed the...
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Slime-Master: Inside the 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy'
Magazine article by Gary Dorrien; The Christian Century, Vol. 119, November 6, 2002
Subjects: Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative (Book)
...unifying enemy when the Soviet Union imploded, and cheered the ascension of Newt Gingrich. "I instinctively identified with his fanatical...it preached about morality. If the culture-warriors on the right had been clean-living people, he would have been forced to...
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Living by the Word: Power Point: The Ascension Is Not Merely a Matter of Visualizing Jesus as Lifted Up into the Clouds
Magazine article by Mark Harris; The Christian Century, Vol. 122, May 3, 2005
Subjects: Bible. English (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Bible. English (Sacred work)--Quotations, Incarnation--Religious aspects, Jesus Christ--Personalities, Religious leaders--Personalities
...it was the notion of recapitulation--that somehow in Christ the church, the people of God, got right-headed. That too grew from the notion of ascension as expressed in Ephesians. God has "put all things under his feet and has made him the head over...
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Ascension: Amy Sullivan Says That the Era of the Religious Left Has Begun
Magazine article by Paul Baumann; Washington Monthly, Vol. 40, January 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap (Book)--Book reviews
Ascension: Amy Sullivan Says That the Era of...storybook marriage between the religious right and the Republican Party is troubled...Democrats think of as a monolithically right-wing evangelical movement describe...brainchild of a group of mostly secular New Right activists who saw conservative Christians...
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Catholics Observe Feast of the Ascension Today
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 20, 2007
Subjects: Catholics, Roman Catholics
...human nature glorified. It is the greatest triumph of the human nature." In the Bible, the ascension of Jesus into Heaven to take His place at the right hand of the Father is narrated in Mark 16:14-19 and Luke 24:50-5: "Jesus led the eleven to...
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Island Colony Protests British Levies; "Taxation without Representation" Rallies Citizens on Ascension
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 23, 2002
...control of Gibraltar to Spain. Ascension Island is a 35-square-mile...though they do not have the right to vote. British Prime Minister...to the fury of Madrid. On Ascension, the residents have taken their...taxation without representation on Ascension and the failure of Ascension...
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The Ascension of Jesus
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 25, 2008
The Ascension of Jesus. Mark...took His seat at the right hand of God. But...no way does Jesus ascension suggest that "Gods in His heaven and alls right with the world...The scene of the ascension doesnt mean that...
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What Christ's Ascension Means
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 22, 2004
...In the Apostles Creed, we pray: "He (Jesus) ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father." * * * But theres more to the Ascension than "going up" toward the heavens. First, the Lords Ascension was his hour of glorification...
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Jesus' Ascension: An End and a Beginning
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 20, 2007
...the Father. . ."). Jesus departure and ascension into heaven was both an end and a beginning...risen Lord and Savior ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven, He also...death and His glorious resurrection. His ascension is a call for us to continually make...
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encyclopedia articles on: Right Ascension  - 7 results

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Right Ascension
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RIGHT ASCENSION in astronomy, one of the coordinates in the equatorial coordinate system . The right ascension of a celestial body is the angular distance measured eastward from the...
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Equatorial Coordinate System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...angle is called the stars right ascension and is measured in hours, minutes...hours in a full circle.) The right ascension is always measured eastward...analogous to latitude on the earth. Right ascension and declination together determine...
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Hour Circle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...that passes through both the body and the north celestial pole. A stars hour circle is used in determining its right ascension and declination . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of...
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Constellation , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...plan prepared by Eugene Delporte, with the boundaries fixed by international agreement in 1930, along lines of right ascension and declination (see equatorial coordinate system ). The 12 constellations located along or near the ecliptic...
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Ephemeris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Greenwich meridian) is issued well in advance of the dates covered and contains such information as the daily right ascension and declination of the sun, moon, planets, and other celestial bodies, and daily data on the sunrise, sunset, moonrise...
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