ATDTDA 752

[Mark Kohut]

Ya Sam writes:
  barkhan crescent-shaped sand dune.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002048.html

"traveling sand dunes...which might or might not possess consciousness"...???
  Cf. the mound in M & D........
   
  The (good) earth is somehow alive in TRP's vision?.......
   
  

Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
  

ATDTDA 752

“the vectorial nature of whose currents was clear enough”, “The effect of rotating ninety degrees from a moving timeline”
Has to do with imaginary numbers? The mathematickal ones, please comment!

barkhan crescent-shaped sand dune.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002048.html

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5:Libya_4983_Tadrart_Acacus_Luca_Galuzzi_2007.jpg

http://web.ru/db/msg.html?mid=1169829

“earthly projections of the angel of death” 
In the Holy Bible, the fourth horseman of Revelation 6 is called Death, and is pictured with the Jews and Hades following with him. The "Angel of the Lord" smites 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp (II Kings xix. 35). When the Angel of Death passes through to smite the Egyptian first-born, God prevents "the destroyer" (shâchath) from entering houses with blood on the lintel and side posts (Ex. xii. 23). The "destroying angel" ("mal'ak ha-mashḥit") rages among the people in Jerusalem (II Sam. xxiv. 16). In I Chronicle xxi. 15 the "angel of the Lord" is seen by King David standing "between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem." The biblical Book of Job (xxxiii. 22) uses the general term "destroyer" ("memitim"), which tradition has identified with "destroying angels" ("mal'ake Khabbalah") and Prov. xvi. 14 uses the term the "angels of death" ("mal'ake ha-mavet"). Uriel is sometimes referred as the angel of death, as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(personification)

Azrael (angel of death) is the archangel of death. It is an English form of the Arabic name Azra'il or Azra'eil (عزرایل), the name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam and some Hebrew lore.[1] The Qur'an never uses this name, refering instead to Malak al-Maut (which translates directly as angel of death). It is also spelled Izrail, Izrael, Azrail, Azraille, or Ozryel. Chambers English dictionary uses the spelling Azrael. The name literally means Whom God Helps.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izra%27il

• Izra'il (or Azrael). Izra'il is the Angel of Death who along with his helpers is responsible for parting the soul of the human from the body. The actual process of separating the soul from the body depends on the person's history or record of good or bad deeds. If the human was a bad person in life, the soul is ripped out very painfully. But if the human was a righteous person, then the soul is separated like a 'drop of water dripping from glass'. It is also noted that The Angel of Death will look like a terrifying beast or demon for the souls of bad people and will look like 'the most pleasant sight' when he comes for the souls of good people. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_Islam

1905 Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 (Jan. 9, O.S.) when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, who, led by a priest, were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II. This “bloody Sunday” was followed in succeeding months by a series of strikes, riots, assassinations, naval mutinies, and peasant outbreaks. These disorders, coupled with the disaster of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), which revealed the corruption and incompetence of the czarist regime, forced the government to promise the establishment of a consultative duma, or assembly, elected by limited franchise. Nonetheless, unsatisfied popular demands provoked a general strike, and in a manifesto issued in October the czar granted civil liberties and a representative duma to be elected democratically.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860856.html

deadhead
n 1: a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way; "the
deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as
possible"
2: a train or bus or taxi traveling empty

http://dictionary.die.net/deadhead

Samarkand , city (1991 pop. 395,000), capital of Samarkand region, in Uzbekistan, on the Trans-Caspian RR. It is one of the oldest existing cities in the world and the oldest of Central Asia. At the time of its greatest splendor medieval Samarkand was a fabulous city of palaces and gardens, with paved and tree-lined streets and a water system that supplied most of the individual houses. It had great silk and iron industries and was the meeting point of merchants' caravans from India, Persia, and China.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Samarkan.html

Namaz Premulkoff

Namaz (in Persian and Urdu), called Salah in Arabic
is the ritual prayer practiced by Muslims in supplication to Allah. The term is commonly used to refer to the five daily prayers, which are compulsory upon all mature Muslims. Salah (plural salawah) is considered the most important act of worship in Islam and its importance is such that under very few circumstances can it be omitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salah

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