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Ms. Sidibe鈥檚 aunt is Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a founder of Ms. Magazine; a famous portrait from 1971, of Ms. Pitman Hughes and Gloria Steinem raising their fists in a Black Power salute, hung in her sitting room, where Ms. Sidibe passed it every day on her way to school, and Ms. Steinem was a regular guest. While Ms. Sidibe averred that she is 鈥渁 link on a chain of powerful women,鈥� her own steely self-confidence, she said, wasn鈥檛 nurtured by her activist relatives so much as a survival skill she taught herself in the bruising theater of elementary school.

Ours is called the Age of Science for a reason, and that reason is reason itself, which in recent decades has come under fire by cognitive psychologists and behavioral economists who assert that humans are irrational by nature and by postmodernists who aver that reason is a hegemonic weapon of patriarchal oppression. Balderdash! Call it 鈥渇actiness,鈥� the quality of seeming to be factual when it is not.

Beyond the stereotyped 鈥淕鈥檇ay鈥� (hello) of souvenir T-shirts and 鈥淐rocodile Dundee鈥� movies, are many words rich in tradition that define the Australian identity and give continuity to the variety of voices and experiences that shaped the country鈥檚 history. Assuming you pass the tests and move to Australia, you鈥檒l probably find yourself flat out like a lizard drinking, that鈥檚 extremely busy, from the hard yakka or labour of your new job.

In Adelaide there may be periods when the ball darts around and the bowlers move to attacking lengths to induce batters into coming forward, and other times when seamers will have to plug away and do some hard yakka, which England鈥檚 are capable of doing. The path to victory is to bang away with accurate seam bowlers.

The pork clock was excavated in the 1760s from the ruins of the Villa dei Papiri, a grand country house in the Roman town of Herculaneum. Early scholars were quick to realize that the unprepossessing object was a sundial, though some experts argued that it was modeled after a water jug rather than a ham …. The original clock is missing its gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig鈥檚 tail…

Though not exactly a clock, the Samrat Yantra鈥攐r supreme instrument鈥攊s the largest sundial in the world, measuring more than 88 feet in height. Made of marble and local stone with a gnomon that stands at 90 feet, this time-keeping attraction can tell accurate time, with just a two-second margin of error, day or night.