Lithophone, however, is not as well known a pigment and a full discussion of its properties and characteristics may prove of interest and profit. The discovery of lithophone is credited to Orr, an Englishman, in 1874.

https://archive.org/stream/gaianewlookatlif00loverich#page/n16/mode/1up page 1 As I write, two Viking spacecraft are circling our fellow planet Mars, awaiting landfall instructions from the Earth. Their mission is to search for life, or evidence of life, now or long ago. This book is also about a search for life, and the quest for Gaia is an attempt to find the largest living creature on Earth. […] [I]f Gaia does exist, then we may find ourselves and all other living things to be parts and partners of a vast being who in her entirety has the power to maintain our planet as a fit and comfortable habitat for life. […] https://archive.org/stream/gaianewlookatlif00loverich#page/11/mode/1up page 11 We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.

And now let's take another keek at the red-coats, says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood.

Just like last month's strikes on Syria put the US, France, and the UK on the opposite side of Russia, China, and Iran, so too might Trump's decision to tinker with or outright scrap the nuclear agreement do the same in exacerbating the growing New Cold War divide between the world's unipolar and multipolar forces.