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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water. Normally made of a sheep or goat skin, it retains water naturally and therefore was very useful in desert crossings until the invention of the canteen, though waterskins are still used in some parts of the world. Though it may have been used over 5,000 years ago by tribal peoples, the first pictures of it are from ancient Assyrians, who used the bladders as floats in 3000[citation needed] BCE. It also was used by large ancient empires such as Rome before the advent of the canteen.
Modern waterskins are often made of various plastic- or rubber-impregnated canvases, or sometimes simply thicker transparent plastics, and are often called water-pouches, water bags, or water bladders. Such modern waterskins offer many features, such as detachable straw-hoses, valves, refill openings of various widths, various closures and handles, styles of covering or cases, and removable cases or carry pouches. A particular style, often called hydration pack, is distinguished by a flexible hose for convenient on-the-go drinking.
The use of waterskins, or skin-bottles, to transport water is documented in a wide range of historical sources. In the 2nd century CE, the Mishnah (compiled in Judea in 189 CE) mentions their common use among the inhabitants of the land.[1] These skins, after being flayed from the carcass, dressed and prepared to contain liquid, could hold as little as 7 kabs (the equivalent of 168 eggs in volume, or about 9.8 L; 2.6 US gallons; 2.2 imperial gallons),[2] or far more.
Goat skin bottles used to transport water were typically found all throughout the Near East, including the Arabian Peninsula, where, in Yemen, it was common in the 18th century to see a slave carrying a waterskin on his back, or else 3 or 4 waterskins carried by donkey or by camel from the water source.[3] Most waterskins could hold between 18 and 27.5 L (5 and 7 US gallons; 4 and 6 imperial gallons) of water.[3]
The disadvantage of waterskins is that people who have fetched water in the skin bottle, and who have drunk water from the same, have complained of the water taking on the bad taste of the goatskin.[4]
In some societies, waterskins were used to churn milk into butter, by suspending the skin bottle with ropes between a tripod and two persons moving the waterskin violently back and forth between them. The Tosefta speaks of oil and wine also being stored in skin bottles.[5]
The Bedouins of the Negev would occasionally store clarified butter (samen) and olive-oil in special skins called عُكة (ʿukkah).[6] Their volume would be between 15 and 25 L (4 and 6.5 US gallons; 3.5 and 5.5 imperial gallons).
In the Negev, goat-skins were used in making waterskins (القربة = al-girbah), and for making churning bags (السعن = al-siʿin).[7] After flaying the carcass and removing the hairs, the skins were prepared by submerging the goat-skin in a boiled, bath solution containing the bark of either Acacia raddiana or Pistacia atlantica, or else the root of sumac (Rhus tripartita), or the rinds of pomegranates (Punica granatum), and left in that state of immersion for 1 to 3 days.[7]
In Arabic, ʻiṣām (عصام) is the tie of a waterskin, which is bound round the head to confine the contents. It is also the name of the strap that is used for carrying the waterskin; the name of the cord itself.
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A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water. Normally made of a sheep or goat skin, it retains water naturally and therefore was very useful in desert crossings until the invention of the canteen, though waterskins are still used in some parts of the world. Though it may have been used over 5,000 years ago by tribal peoples, the first pictures of it are from ancient Assyrians, who used the bladders as floats in 3000 BCE. It also was used by large ancient empires such as Rome before the advent of the canteen. Modern waterskins are often made of various plastic- or rubber-impregnated canvases, or sometimes simply thicker transparent plastics, and are often called water-pouches, water bags, or water bladders. Such modern waterskins offer many features, such as detachable straw-hoses, valves, refill openings of various widths, various closures and handles, styles of covering or cases, and removable cases or carry pouches. A particular style, often called hydration pack, is distinguished by a flexible hose for convenient on-the-go drinking.
Bilulu was a Mesopotamian goddess who most likely functioned as the deification of rain clouds. She might be related to Ninbilulu known from a number of Early Dynastic texts. She is known from the myth Inanna and Bilulu, in which she is responsible for the death of Dumuzi. This event is subsequently avenged by Inanna, who turns Bilulu into a waterskin.
Leather bag may refer to: a bag made of leather Waterskin, a receptacle, normally made of a sheep or goat skin, used to hold water Leatherbag, an American rock band
Asterix and the Black Gold (French: L'Odyssée d'Astérix literally "Asterix's Odyssey") is the twenty-sixth volume of Asterix comic book series, originally published in 1981. It is the second book to be both written and drawn by Albert Uderzo. The book describes Asterix's and Obelix's voyage to the Middle East. It is mainly inspired by James Bond films and biblical tales.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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