{"query": "Quartz at 32,768 Hz — a power of two on the wrist", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9d42516b140c", "title": "Quartz at 32,768 Hz — a power of two on the wrist", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every quartz watch cuts a tuning fork to hum at exactly 2^15 = 32,768 Hz, sealed, and\n32768 / 2^15 = 1: run the signal through fifteen binary flip-flops, each halving the frequency,\nand the last ticks"}, {"id": "card_n_b10117556d41", "title": "The two clocks — quartz, cesium, and the second", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wrist clock and the world clock. Quartz beats 32,768 times a second; the SI second is\nDEFINED as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of cesium-133's hyperfine transition (since 1967) —\nsealed: the cesium c"}, {"id": "card_n_7c318469147b", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_09: Wild beasts come to the world for swearing in vain, and for the profanation o...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wild beasts come to the world for swearing in vain, and for the profanation of the Name. Exile comes to the world for idolatry, for sexual sins and for bloodshed, and for [transgressing the commandmen"}, {"id": "card_n_767b08e238ad", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_02_06: 'What now shall I say of rank and power, whereby, because ye know not true po...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'What now shall I say of rank and power, whereby, because ye know not true power and dignity, ye hope to reach the sky? Yet, when rank and power have fallen to the worst of men, did ever an Etna, belc"}, {"id": "card_n_8fe39337e3b8", "title": "Easton: Michmash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Something hidden, a town of Benjamin (Ezra 2:27), east of Bethel and south of Migron, on the road to Jerusalem (Isa. 10:28). It lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the nort"}, {"id": "card_n_2e5343daa4af", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_05: 'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power? Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever? And yet antiquity is full of examples, and these days a"}, {"id": "card_n_5a0d951f0365", "title": "Easton: Ezra, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the"}, {"id": "card_n_3f10a1bd0ed5", "title": "Easton: Gerizim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A mountain of Samaria, about 3,000 feet above the Mediterranean. It was on the left of the valley containing the ancient town of Shechem (q.v.), on the way to Jerusalem. It stood over against Mount Eb"}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_n_ab437ef6a525", "title": "Easton: John the Baptist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr. 24:10)"}, {"id": "card_n_505139b1b9ab", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, “Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words” (Gen. 49:21). It was intended thus to set forth under poetic imagery the future characte"}, {"id": "card_n_19b10fa2e595", "title": "Leviticus 16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD, and died;\n2. and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time"}, {"id": "card_n_b8e39dea4ae9", "title": "Easton: Mahanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name wa"}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}, {"id": "card_n_3f246e1f63aa", "title": "Easton: Dothan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two wells, a famous pasture-ground where Joseph found his brethren watching their flocks. Here, at the suggestion of Judah, they sold him to the Ishmaelite merchants (Gen. 37:17). It is mentioned on m"}, {"id": "card_n_c42ad4111361", "title": "Easton: Ephraim, The tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the fo"}, {"id": "card_n_7ccceb024537", "title": "Easton: Ahijah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Brother (i.e., “friend”) of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:7, R.V.). In A.V. called “Ahiah.” (2.) One of the five sons of Jerahmeel, who was great-grandson of Judah (1 Chr. 2:25). (3."}, {"id": "card_n_34ea8224bac3", "title": "Easton: Barnabas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of consolation, the surname of Joses, a Levite (Acts 4:36). His name stands first on the list of prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch (13:1). Luke speaks of him as a “good man” (11:24). "}, {"id": "card_n_f24a6ecc4dd4", "title": "Easton: Mesha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Middle district, Vulgate, Messa. (1.) A plain in that part of the boundaries of Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Gen. 10:30). (2.) Heb. meysh’a, “deliverance,” the eldest son of Caleb (1"}, {"id": "card_n_0e26c67f02b1", "title": "Easton: Rabbah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Rab’bath, great. (1.) “Rabbath of the children of Ammon,” the chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams which united"}]}