Overseas Temples and Tamil Migratory Space

Overseas seed dispersal by migratory birds.

Long-distance dispersal (LDD) promotes the colonization of isolated and remote habitats, and thus it has been proposed as a mechanism for explaining the distributions of many species. Birds are key LDD vectors for many sessile organisms such as plants, yet LDD beyond local and regional scales has never been directly observed nor quantified. By sampling birds caught while in migratory flight by ...

Temples on the Move

5 Thank you for the friendly introduction and for the invitation to share with you some ideas about architecture and its relationship with the automotive industry. One of the most striking aspects of this relationship is the different speed of development. In 1931, when Le Corbusier wanted to show that his Pavillon Suisse in Paris was really leading edge aesthetics he had the building photograp...

Drāviḍa Temples in the Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra

The relationship to actual practice of the vastuśāstras (or vāstuśāstras) and śilpaśāstras, the canonical Indian texts on architecture and sculpture, is a complex one. Scholarly attitudes to these texts range between an uncritical assumption that, traditionally, these texts set the rules for making buildings and sculptures, thereby holding the key to understanding them, and complete denial of t...

Greek temples , tropical kine and recombination load

New breeds typically arise from the cross of two or more existing breeds, often chosen to complement each other. For about 100 years, efforts have been made in the tropics to produce a milking breed combining zebu tropical adaptation with taurus production ability. All attempts have failed, although the F in nearly all instances has been superior. The Greek 1 Temple Model (GTM) is a graphical r...

Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi