Diurnal, observatory, shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet,

An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: A Horn That Defied the Nazis

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet, and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

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Chaskel Tydor, a survivor of Auschwitz, described for his family how, despite the danger, this shofar, or ceremonial ram’s horn, was blown at the camp during prayers.  Landon Speers for The New York Times

對於中國、日本和南韓這些石油需求巨大的亞洲國家來說，影響可能會被放大。其中許多國家近年來一直試圖減少對伊朗和委內瑞拉石油的依賴，這兩個國家均受到了美國制裁的打擊。根據麻省理工學院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)經濟複雜性觀察(Observatory of Economic Complexity)實驗室的數據，2017 年，中國、日本和南韓分別是全球第一大、第四大和第五大原油進口國。

Taipei 101 Observatory (台北101觀景台) 

observatory

NOUNobservatories

• 1A room or building housing an astronomical telescope or other scientific equipment for the study of natural phenomena.

  
  

  1. 1.1A position or building that gives an extensive view.

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Diurnal Fantasies, 1932

These various blends of diurnal and annual cycles are all perfectly comprehensible, if medically ill-advised. But just as the light that we humans deem "visible" represents a tiny part of the vast electromagnetic spectrum, so the collected clocks of the solar system are a meager sampling of the universal stock of tockers.


 diurnal

adjective

   BIOLOGY   specialized

UK 

 /ˌdaɪˈɜː.nəl/ US 

 /ˌdaɪˈɝː.nəl/

happening over a period of a day, or being active or happening during the day rather than at night

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nocturnal formal