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Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.
And I lay on the pavement stretching over that yellow line, and one of my neighbors came running over.
If you were standing near enough, your ear would resonate with the squeezing and stretching of space.
Okay, part one starts back in 1929 when the great astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that the distant galaxies were all rushing away from us, establishing that space itself is stretching, it's expanding.
It's got to be stretching.
When you flex your ankle, muscles in the front of your leg contract, simultaneously stretching muscles in the back of your leg.
Here, muscles in the back of your leg contract, stretching muscles in the front.
These clouds spread out at the top in this enormous anvil fashion stretching 10 miles up into the atmosphere.
And he postulated a suggestion that there's this infinite, incredibly small field stretching throughout the universe, and as other particles go through those particles and interact, that's where they get their mass.
The last time I'd painted, I was 16 years old at summer camp, and I didn't want to teach myself how to paint by copying the old masters or stretching a canvas and practicing over and over again on that surface, because that's not what this project was about for me.
Ancient historians located the Amazon homeland in Scythia, the vast territory stretching from the Black Sea across the steppes of Central Asia.
Whether it's saving lives in rural Africa or stretching the boundaries of long-span technology or just crossing the road next-door, I hope we continue to build elegant and beautiful stuff that save lives and build communities.
If we think of raisins as a stand-in for galaxies, and batter as the space between them, we can imagine that the stretching or expansion of intergalactic space will make the galaxies recede from each other, and for any galaxy, its faraway neighbors will recede a larger distance than the nearby ones in the same amount of time.
The first line of protection was a moat 60 feet wide and 22 feet deep, stretching all four miles from coast to coast.
For example, he thought that because giraffes spent their lives stretching to reach leaves on higher branches, their children would be born with longer necks.
All that stretching and squashing of space-time has just muddled together what we used to think of separately as space and time.
Scientists have offered several explanations, including rapidly stretching ligaments, and in severe cases, actual bones grinding against each other.
As for knuckle-cracking, one study suggests that all that joint stretching and bubble bursting can cause your hands to swell and weaken your grip.
Not one to travel on a budget, he brought a caravan stretching as far as the eye could see.
Which of course was a lie, because you know how you hit, like, 42 or 43, and sometimes you just, I don't know, you pee a little bit when you cough or sneeze, when you're running upstairs, or you're stretching.
The bladder can go on stretching, but only to a point.
Is it a weird coincidence or a deeper connection stretching across the centuries?
In 2015, China announced the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which together with a network of other organizations aims to construct a network of iron and silk roads, stretching from Shanghai to Lisbon.
And these are not mere little dots on the map, but they are vast archipelagos stretching hundreds of kilometers.
The Bohai Rim around Beijing, The Yangtze River Delta around Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta, stretching from Hong Kong north to Guangzhou.
It has plans for a rail network that will make it the anchor of a vast Atlantic coastal corridor, stretching across Benin, Togo and Ghana, to Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast.
They're building a trade corridor stretching from Northeast India through Myanmar and Bangladesh to Southern China.
Their trade volume has grown from 20 billion dollars a decade ago to 80 billion dollars today. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought three wars and continue to dispute Kashmir, but they're also negotiating a most-favored-nation trade agreement and want to complete a pipeline stretching from Iran through Pakistan to India.
The crux culminated in a karate kick with my left foot over to the inside of an adjacent corner, a maneuver that required a high degree of precision and flexibility, enough so that I'd been doing a nightly stretching routine for a full year ahead of time to make sure that I could comfortably make the reach with my leg.
The Pacific was stretching all around me as far as the eye could see, and the waves were rocking our boat forcefully, a sort of constant reminder of its untold power.
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