Ceremonial

Much has already been written about the Stockholm Nobel ceremonies. I would like, therefore, only to mention some personal recollections. The events, like all the activities of the Nobel Foundation, are... 

Saturday, December 10, finally arrived. In the morning, there was a rehearsal of the award ceremony (with a stand-in for the King). Instead of the formal tails obligatory at the ceremony itself, I could wear a warm sweater and slacks, much more familiar and comfortable attire. We were instructed in detail and rehearsed the event. The award cer-... 

After completion of the award ceremony in the Concert Hall we were driven to the city hall for the Nobel banquet. By this time it was a bitterly cold, windy evening. The courtyard of the city hall was lighted by the torches of hundreds of school children lining it. It was a most impressive sight, but we felt sorry for the children, who must have braved the weather for a long while. 

At ceremonies in Berlin in 1890 celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of his proposed struc ture of benzene August Kekule recalled the origins of his view of the benzene structure... 

A special class of stones are the precious and semiprecious gemstones, with a long history of use in decorations and jewelry. Especially in the Far East and pre-Columbian America, jade was used extensively for carving ceremonial and luxury items. Jade encompasses two different minerals quite similar... 

X(9-l,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptaii-2-ol [124-76-5]) produces camphor (43), an important product used in religious ceremonies in Asian countries (82). 

The oldest form of combined heat and power is the smokejack, developed in Tibet to turn prayer wheels during religious ceremonies. Captured Tartar slaves introduced this device into Europe by the early fourteenth centuiy and Leonardo da Vinci sketched one around 1480. Commentators as diverse as Montaigne (1580), John Evelyn (1675), and Benjamin Franklin... 

Schwenckfeld also had a novel interpretation of the dogma of tran-substantiation, maintaining that it was the body of Christ that was the bread of life, not vice versa. As a result, he rejected the doctrine of transubstantiation, as well as all other sacraments, ceremonies and priests. ... 

The investigation of the pyrolysates of the olibanum resins was initiated by an article in a newspaper. The anthor of this article seemed to be apprehensive about the pharmacological and toxicological effects of the fume of the resins, which are used in religious ceremonies, on the health of people. The resins used in churches named as Pontifical or Olibanum Konig mainly consist of B. carterii, whereas those of inferior quality contain B. serrata resins. For this reason, the fumes of both resins were investigated by Basar [4]. 

Tea is found in every shape and size, grown and processed everywhere across a wide belt throughout China. In the U.S., we are used to only a few types of tea however, the varieties of Camellia sinensis found in China are almost endless. Each of them is given a name that often reflects the romantic and almost metaphysical nature of tea in Chinese culture. Probably nowhere else in the world is tea worshipped as a mystical and ceremonial beverage as in Asian countries, and especially in China, where C. sinensis finds its roots. 

This EPMA line scan was analysed by wavelength dispersive spectroscopy, being part of a study by Horz and Kallfass of ornamental and ceremonial artifacts dated to approximately AD 50-300, recovered from the Royal Tombs of Sipan, Peru. 

The Hall was silent, but we dared not linger for the usual ceremonies. In my chamber my mother helped me undress to my smock in silent haste, unbound my hair and looped it up again with a pin or two, kissed me formally, and left with a curtsy to the King where he waited on the landing as if he were no more than his own page. 

The austringer and cadger were mounted as well as the men-at-arms and the rest, for we were to make a day of it and dine on the ground wherever we found ourselves at noon. Such a lack of ceremony will do you no disworship, said Antony. And it is good to show Ned that even his royal mother has no need of it. We rode out from the castle gate and around by Dinham to cross... 

When the door is shut behind her I say, in French, You must forgive my lack of ceremony, and that I speak French, not the Gascon tongue. But you are nonetheless welcome, Monseigneur le Chevalier de Bretaylles. ... 

Madame, I see no lack of ceremony in such royal discretion. I pray you excuse my directness, but I have little time and must... 

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