John Harrison
John Harrison
John Harrisonwas a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. His solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel. The problem he solved was considered so important following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 that the British Parliament offered financial rewards of up to £20,000under the 1714 Longitude Act. Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth24 March 1693
Don't be in a hurry to file a return. I've found that when people file late, they forget half of the documentation. So go ahead and file an extension. That gives you plenty of time to get everything together.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
It's a payment basically made to shut you up, ... There's some money given to victims who complain. When that happens, the victims tell people of their success, that they actually got money. So more people invest more money and they (scammers) create a new crop of victims.
It's a payment basically made to shut you up. There's some money given to victims who complain. When that happens, the victims tell people of their success, that they actually got money. So more people invest more money and they (scammers) create a new crop of victims.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
We pays taxes, and it is your job to control the traffic.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open, ... We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
We started out when our two boys were early teenagers and we wanted to show them the country. I guess we've been in every state of the Union except Hawaii and Alaska.
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
Perception of a state is not the state.