Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier question
36457''Where is your house?''
36457I said:''What height is it above the sea?''
36344And how is it possible for him to satisfy the conflicting demand?
36344But how can he suit them all in one locality on a single day?
36344THE OPEN LETTER"What is lightning and what causes it?"
36344The question then,"What is lightning and what causes it?"
38928And what are we to expect?
38928And even, if that were the case, would not the space be quite colourless?
38928But how have the particles been increased in size in the east?
38928But turn up the surface next the earth, or the road, or the grass, and what do you see?
38928But what is the practical benefit of this information?
38928But whence comes the dust?
38928CHAPTER II THE FORMATION OF DEW The writer of the Book of Job gravely asked the important question,"Who hath begotten the drops of dew?"
38928CHAPTER XII HAZE What is haze?
38928Can the varying condition of the sun exert any influences upon terrestrial affairs?
38928Can these, then, be counted?
38928Does it fall from the heavens above, or does it rise from the earth beneath?"
38928For is not health the greatest of all possessions?
38928Has the regular periodicity of eleven years in the sun- spots no effect upon climate and agricultural produce?
38928How is it formed?
38928Is it connected with the variation of rainfall, the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere, and the frequency of storms?
38928Is there any audible accompaniment to the brilliant spectacle?
38928Now why that brilliancy of the east, when the west was colourless?
38928Now, what is this fog?
38928The question has been frequently asked: Why are such aërial effects not more widely observed?
38928Then what is it?
38928We repeat the question in another form,"Whence comes the real dew?
38928What if it were yet possible to predict the variations of prices in the coming sun- spot cycle?
38928What is the cause of the spiral movement in storm- winds?
38928What is the explanation?
38928What, then, produces the blueness?
38928Why so?
38928Why was that?
38928Why was the surface brighter than usual?
22472A resinous substance that fell after a fireball?
22472But that the science of Astronomy suffered the slightest in prestige?
22472But what went up, from one place, in a whirlwind?
22472Cannon balls and wedges, and what may they mean?
22472Do you want power over something?
22472Editor''s note:"May not these appearances be attributed to an abnormal state of the optic nerves of the observer?"
22472How can one think of something and something else, too?
22472How could a mountain be without base in a greater body?
22472I shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky-- Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous?
22472If it stood in the sky for several days, we rank with Moses as a chronicler of improprieties-- or was that story, or datum, we mean, told by Moses?
22472If six observations correlated, what more could be asked?
22472Interesting, but mere speculation-- but what solid object, high in the air, had that bird struck against?
22472Looking back-- why did n''t I do this or that little thing that would have cost so little and have meant so much?
22472My notion of astronomic accuracy: Who could not be a prize marksman, if only his hits be recorded?
22472Or-- if they were of substances that had had origin upon some other part of this earth''s surface-- had the hail, too, that origin?
22472Our own expression: What matters it how we, the French Academy, or the Salvation Army may explain?
22472Scientists in the past have taken the positivist attitude-- is this or that reasonable or unreasonable?
22472Shadow of the earth on the moon?
22472So how can you prove that something is not something else, when neither is something else some other thing?
22472So we shall interpret-- and what does it matter?
22472Storekeeper live without customers?
22472That fragments are brought down by storms?
22472That meteors tear through and detach fragments?
22472That something was trawling overhead?
22472That the twinkling of stars is penetration of light through something that quivers?
22472The greatest of mysteries: Why do n''t they ever come here, or send here, openly?
22472The mystery of it is: What could have brought so many of them together?
22472The other instances seem to me to be typical of-- something like migration?
22472The question: Was it a thing or the shadow of a thing?
22472The shapes were of great diversity-- or different aspects of similar shapes?
22472Then Mr. Proctor wrote disagreeable letters, himself, about other persons-- what else would you expect in a quasi- existence?
22472Then one thinks of lightning?
22472Then some pity crept in?
22472What does it matter what my notions may be?
22472What is a house?
22472What is meant by the fittest?
22472What is there to say, except that it fell with high velocity and embedded in the tree?
22472When is fiction bad, cheap, low?
22472Where did he get a rare coin, and why was it not missed from some collection?
22472Whirlwinds we read of over and over-- but where and what whirlwind?
22472Why that?
22472Why?
22472Will you look over your records and tell me where your engine was at about ten minutes past four, July fifth?"
22472Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation?
22472You''d think that such a question as that would make trouble?
22472_ Notes and Queries_, 8- 12- 228: That in the province of Macerata, Italy( summer of 1897?)