World tour

Report on part of world tour from the Abtei (Monastery) Thelema in Stein. Includes photographs with the text... 

Sandberg, G. (1997), The Red Dyes Cochineal, Madder and Murex Purple A World Tour of Textile Techniques, Lark Books, Asheville. 

Herman bought a computer system that was more than the round-the-world tour Malcolm had bought himself two years before. That kind of money made Malcolm silent and timid, and Herman, who believed timidity was somehow equated with genius, began to think Malcolm a genius. So Herman grew expansive and told Malcolm his dream. 

K. Poku, Small-Scale Palm Oil Processing in Africa, FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin 148, Rome, 2002 N. Thomma, Migros World Tour, 2002, 118. 

In 2007, Mercedes-Benz presented the F-Cell based on the B-dass (Figure 35.16). Approximately 200 vehicles of this type are currently in operation, a few having completed a world tour in 2011. Daimler announced market introduction for 2014. 

Seated camelback, from left to right, Setsuro Tamaru, Charlotte and Fritz Haber visiting the pyramids of Giza during Haber s world tour in 1924. 

The first volume of Advances in Protein Chemistry appeared in 1944, near the end of the Second World War. The papers it contained were written during the height of the battles, a tour de force considering the difficulty of communications at that time. The following quotations are taken from the Preface of Volume 1 ... 

Tour JM (2003) Molecular electronics commercial insights, chemistry, devices, architecture and programming. World Scientific, Singapore... 

A day ago you received your implants and decided to make a trip. Tanya, a woman who had already made several journeys into the fourth dimension, is by your side, functioning as a tour guide. After several months of intensive training with Tanya, studying ordinary shapes in your own world, you feel you are ready for the ultimate trip. 

So I knew I would not be able to resist the lure of writing about the elements. But I began to see also that an introduction to the elements need not after all become a tour of the Periodic Table—which anyway others have conducted before me, and more skilfully or more exhaustively than I would be able to manage. The story of the elements is the story of our relationship with matter, something that predates any notion of the Periodic Table. Intimacy with matter does not depend on a detailed knowledge of silicon, phosphorus, and molybdenum it flows from the pleasurable density of a silver ingot, the cool sweetness of water, the smoothness of polished jade. That is the source of the fundamental question what is the world made from ... 

D. S. Leigh, Report on an Overseas Study Tour of Some Tropical Fruit Areas of the World, N. S. W. Dept. Agric., Australia, 1972. 

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