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Hydrology
Hydrology is the branch of science dealing with the earth's water—especially its movement iin relation to land.
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Who scouts through wilderness and cold
And finds the stone that turns to gold,
The gems of Nature's wealth untold--
The Engineer.
Who gets five paltry plunks per day
To give the thing he finds away
To some one else who makes it pay--
The Engineer.
Who's heart is always in the game,
When trouble comes it's just the same,
But when it comes, who gets the blame?
The Engineer.
- Robert Elmer Horton (Water Power and Water Supply Preliminaries, 1913, Michigan Engineer)
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A tangent that departs from the real to the imaginary: pure consciousness does and does not transcend the body, and I believe this after hearing that my mother felt suicidal after she took her medicines for weight loss and her biggest regrets in life came crushing down on her for three days in a row. This is the best of what I have learnt in my years of fascination for science and knowledge, and to make you grasp this takes fullness of life: in hydrology, the wet and the dry, and the hot and the
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