Citations:Earth

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English citations of Earth

  • 10th century, "An Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy":
    Seo eorðe stent on gelicnysse anre pinn-hnyte, seo sunne glit abutan gewislice be Godes gesetnysse...
    The Earth stands the form of a pinenut, & the sun glides about it by God's ordinance...
  • 1914Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core
    "How thick is the Earth's crust, Perry?" I asked.
  • 1934H. P. Lovecraft, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, Ch 6
    He thought that his calculations would let him perform a voyage with a light-wave envelope such as no being of Yaddidi had ever performed - a bodily voyage through nameless eons and across incredible galactic reaches to the solar system and the Earth itself.
  • 1985Ronald Reagan, Fourth State of the Union Speech
    Our second American Revolution will push on to new possibilities not only on Earth but in the next frontier of space.
  • 1989 - (pagan goddess) A Book of Troth, Eldred Thorsson, Llewellyn Publications, 1989, →ISBN, page 195.
    "Wise Wanes and mighty, who ever wend your ways through the world and shower blessings upon your kindred here on the Earth - mother of us all."
  • 1993 - (pagan goddess) The Rites of Odin, Ed Fitch, Llewellyn Publications, 1993, →ISBN, page 59.
    "Hail Earth mother of us all."
  • 1998 - (pagan goddess) Thunder issue 7, (Heathen Journal) Thorbiorns Ritual to Thor, ( copy on www.thorshof.org).
    "From Thy high-seat within Thy holy house in Asgard, come down to Earth, Thy Mother, and share blessings with Thorbjorn Thy son!"
  • 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
    Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.