In 1614 Claude d'Abbeville published the work " Histoire de la mission de pères capucins en l’Isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines", where he exposed that the Tupinambá people already had an understanding of the relation between the Moon and the tides before Europe. If a question lands flat or causes too much of a stir, move the group in a completely different direction.

Marguerite Kelley’s childhood home was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle who vanished into thin air. A man who tries to impress his wife by cutting down a tree with a scythe during the hottest time of the day has many failings. Tides and centrifugal force Archived 2007-05-12 at the Wayback Machine: Why the centrifugal force does not explain the tide's opposite lobe (with nice animations).

In 1655, when England captured Jamaica from Spain, Oliver Cromwell needed to populate their new colony. One hundred years later in Ireland, a skeleton is discovered beneath a fallen tree on the grounds of Lugdale Estate. Tide tables can be used for any given locale to find the predicted times and amplitude (or " tidal range"). The standard procedure to counteract tidal effects on navigation is to (1) calculate a " dead reckoning" position (or DR) from travel distance and direction, (2) mark the chart (with a vertical cross like a plus sign) and (3) draw a line from the DR in the tide's direction.

The solid Earth deforms a bit, but ocean water, being fluid, is free to move much more in response to the tidal force, particularly horizontally (see equilibrium tide).Although a wealthy woman who witnessed great changes in the New World with a unique story of her own, it was the disappearance of her husband that preoccupied her most. Only when the credits rolled, I noticed the Irish surnames, Roche, McLaughlin, Crowe, Morrison, Maloney, Harris. The Earth's crust shifts (in/out, east/west, north/south) in response to lunar and solar gravitation, ocean tides, and atmospheric loading. However, for a given location the relationship between lunar altitude and the time of high or low tide (the lunitidal interval) is relatively constant and predictable, as is the time of high or low tide relative to other points on the same coast. I decided to come up with a generic list of book club discussion questions to compel us to dig deeper than “Did you like the book?