And that's the most puzzling part of all of this.
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The most puzzling part was how little happened in between.
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This was by far the most puzzling part of Barr's letter.
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Perhaps the most puzzling mystery is the color of the crocodiles.
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What's most puzzling is how they are getting into these locked phones.
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Most puzzling of all: He's a billionaire who claims to the tribune
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One of America's most puzzling true crimes has received the Lifetime movie treatment.
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The most puzzling thing about these claims is how patently ridiculous they are.
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For Rasa, that verification is one of the most puzzling aspects of Mai's scheme.
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Some of the most puzzling evidence about R.E.M. sleep has come from the sea.
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Most puzzling was cold spinach with sesame paste under a tepee of strawberry Pocky.
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This is the one people keep coming back to, and it's the most puzzling one.
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The most puzzling, to me, was a dagger and sheath gifted from Turkey to Russia.
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For generations, humans have searched for answers to many of the universe's most puzzling questions.
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Murray Gell-Mann's discoveries illuminated the most puzzling aspects of nature, and changed science forever.
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But what is most puzzling is why U.S. taxpayers are not at least as furieux.
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The most puzzling critiques have come not from Republicans, but from the center left, broadly speaking.
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Perhaps the most puzzling part of Simone and Rasmus' stay is that Rasmus went through puberty.
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But that's the most puzzling conundrum of Suburbicon: It's the sixth film George Clooney has directed.
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Perhaps most puzzling is the punctual dimming and brightening of each of the cave's larvae colonies.
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I relate this experience as context for explaining one of the most puzzling paradoxes of our time.
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NASA and other agencies are building a handful of telescopes to probe the universe's most puzzling mysteries.
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It's a moment that will go down in Oscar history as its most shocking (and most puzzling).
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The area most puzzling is Trump's dramatic proposal to increase the defense budget by a whopping 10 percent.
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What's most puzzling is that you don't state that you despise Paul Simon's music, but the man himself.
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Determining which bottles to age and when to open them is among the most puzzling aspects of wine.
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But perhaps the most puzzling part of Mr. Tillerson's tenure was his poor oversight of the State Department.
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Here's what's most puzzling, though: Khloè Kardashian will be serving a mixed berry pie and a cheesecake for dessert.
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This is the most puzzling video project at Apple, and it's still unclear how the company plans to distribute it.
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Perhaps the most puzzling question for millions of American after election day is this: What explains Donald Trump's stunning victory?
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The most puzzling part of Mr. Tillerson's time at the State Department was the organizational chaos that defined his tenure.
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Here's what's most puzzling about this to me: Why is Trump pretending he never called Sessions or Rosenstein those names?
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This thing is full of WTF moments, but here are the 16 most puzzling ones that you may have forgotten about.
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So began one of the most puzzling episodes of World War II. Hess was found in a meadow by a farmer.
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Nearly two years after that anxiety-inducing salon trip, my stomach has remained the most-puzzling part of my entire body.
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One of the most puzzling and disturbing crimes of the last 20 years is getting the television treatment, according to Variety.
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Although the Mets have struggled to score runs beyond home runs, perhaps their most puzzling feature has been this: Entering Saturday, their .
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Reconciling sub-85033 percent unemployment and current wage growth levels remains one of the most puzzling aspects of the current labor market.
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But it was also the most puzzling: Why was an immune-response region so potently shaping the risk of a mental illness?
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Perhaps the most puzzling (or maybe not so puzzling?) part of Trump's presidency is his virtual inability to criticize Putin or Russia.
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But though all of that may be outrage-inducing, it is Clinton's anomic political handling of the scandal that has been most puzzling.
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What I think I find most puzzling is the push to alleviate doctors and nurses from performing procedures they don't want to do.
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That might win the prize for "obvious statement of the year," but it's actually one of the most puzzling observations of modern science.
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Her most puzzling discovery relates to Easy Nofemela, who was found guilty of the murder and subsequently granted amnesty and hired by the foundation.
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The extended stay in Houston was also the most puzzling part of the storm, and global warming's possible role in this is not well understood.
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The most puzzling thing about The Haunting of Sharon Tate — and that is saying something — is that it's not clear what it seeks to accomplish.
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Some people, however, still perform self-censorship in the most puzzling situations—holding onto what remains of "civilized discourse" by the skin of their teeth.
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"Please read carefully before scheduling showings," is the ominous, precedent-setting introduction to the most puzzling house listing you'll read all day (or all year).
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Stanley may have thought he was doing the right thing by his friends, but how he knew that is one of IT's most puzzling mysteries.
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Perhaps the most puzzling shortcoming of the quotas is that they have had no discernible beneficial effect on women at lower levels of the corporate hierarchy.
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Bush did think an overture from Lee Atwater, his campaign manager, to consider Mr. Trump for the 1988 vice-presidential nomination the most puzzling of notions.
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Initially, the most puzzling detail of Genz's translation of Joel's description was his claim that the di lep connected each atoll and island to all 2561 others.
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What was perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the mystery burger was its pristine condition — it was fully intact, even though it was more than six hours old.
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One of the most puzzling moves by the Trump administration has been the decision to publicly name top Maduro officials whom they say were in contact with Guaidó's camp.
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Of all the great ironies of the Obama years, the conferring of the Nobel Peace Prize before the Oval Office drapes were hung, is one of the most puzzling.
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This increasingly open power struggle between the secret agencies and an out-of-control president is not the only unprecedented feature of America's constitutional crisis, merely the most puzzling.
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"The present economic backdrop is one of the most puzzling I have experienced in my career," James Foote, CSX's chief executive, told investors and analysts on a conference call.
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One self-described political strategist created the single most puzzling electoral map I had ever seen, envisioning an Election Day where Trump won California but lost Kansas and Alabama.
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Straughn, the associate director of the astrophysics science division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, studies the Universe's most puzzling phenomena — from supermassive black holes to the evolution of galaxies.
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Mr Clover hints, but does not state explicitly, that a "deep state" of KGB veterans has been behind the most puzzling (he favours "troubling") events of the past 25 years.
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"The present economic backdrop is one of the most puzzling I have experienced in my career," James Foote, CSX's chief executive, told investors and analysts in a July earnings call.
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But what Cramer found most puzzling was that despite these intensifying exchanges, shares of companies that do a lot of business in China — companies like , and — are actually going higher.
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Tulsi Gabbard is at the center of perhaps the most puzzling moment of the Democratic debates, because a magic act happened on her chin ... and the question is WHO's the magician??
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In addition to the spin-off, Odenkirk starred on other TV shows and in movies — but one of the most puzzling ones is perhaps "Hell & Back," an animated film for adults.
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"Attacks by lone operator terrorists provide the most puzzling and unpredictable form of terrorism," Edwin Bakker and Beatrice Graaf, terrorism scholars at the University of Leiden, write in Perspectives on Terrorism.
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From Washington, D.C., to San Fransisco, California, bars plan to watch the political madness unfold in style: with FBI-themed food, Russian-inspired drinks, and a serious appreciation for Trump's most puzzling tweets.
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The most puzzling decision, however, comes at the very end, when the filmmakers finally if fleetingly make use of Elmer Bernstein's rousing 1960 theme, about as recognizable a piece of movie music ever written.
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One of the most puzzling elements of Haley's departure is that it was announced less than a month before the midterm elections even though she's not stepping down until the end of the year.
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One of the most puzzling injustices in American history is our time-honored tradition of eating turkey, a bird that excels in its mediocrity, on the best holiday this great nation has to offer.
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But what Cramer found most puzzling was that despite these intensifying exchanges, shares of companies that do a lot of business in China — companies like Honeywell, United Technologies and Emerson Electric — are actually going higher.
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It's home to some of the most puzzling features ever observed in our solar system, including a giant pyramid that dwarfs many mountains on Earth and several dazzling bright spots inside a 50-mile-wide crater.
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One of the most puzzling elements of the 20123 election, at least for a lot of Americans, was the millions of voters who switched from voting for Barack Obama in 2012 to Donald Trump in 2016.
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What's most puzzling and also exciting about these early paintings is how un-Guston-like and self-conscious they are, offering few hints at his forthcoming transformation into one of the most lyrical and inventive painters of his generation.
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The answer could help the central bank solve one of the most puzzling paradoxes of the modern economy: The current expansion is the longest in history, yet productivity gains are weak and GDP growth, while steady, is far from stellar.
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That essence is perfectly encapsulated by Peter Saul's "Stalin in 2200" (51960) — at first glance the most puzzling painting in the show (as well as one of the most formally impressive, an irresistible combination of hyperkinetic movement, solid drawing, and rich, deep color).
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One of the most puzzling and complicated cases of anti-gay sentiment in the genre is Odd Future's Tyler, the Creator, a well-known name in hip-hop who has simultaneously denigrated and hinted at his own apparent queerness for years now.
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The most puzzling aspect of Maloney's story, and the detail that has led to the belief that he was living a "double life," is the time he spent in a first-year university program, allegedly telling his classmates that he was 21.
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Most puzzling of all are left reformers who are continuing to push favorite procedural nostrums that have precisely zero chance in a GOP-dominated polity — pie-in-the-sky causes like abolishing the Electoral College, instituting the public financing of elections, or banning gerrymandering.
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Among the most puzzling of recent political developments on the continent is that anti-immigrant sentiment has been just as ferocious in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania as in Western Europe, even though the number of immigrants to Central and Eastern European countries is much lower.
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Here are three things to know about Timberlake's halftime show: The most puzzling thing about Timberlake's performance was its muddy sound, which came to the fore in the opening moments of the performance as Timberlake performed his new song "Filthy," a synthy, gooey mix laced with a falsetto.
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It's hard to say what's most puzzling about this service, which launched in 2008: That filmmakers would want it to exist, that scientists would be willing to help out the world's biggest sources of scientific misinformation, or that someone would pay for it to exist without asking Hollywood for anything in return.
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Read more: One of the US's largest railroads just slashed its profit forecast and gave a dire warning about President Trump's trade war"The present economic backdrop is one of the most puzzling I have experienced in my career," James Foote, CSX's chief executive, told investors and analysts on a conference call.
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But perhaps the most puzzling question is why the opponents of U.S. energy are so eager to please Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and Russia itself, in light of the favor they are doing Putin and Russia by helping keep energy prices high — thus financing what some see as our most dangerous enemy.
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The most puzzling came in the 10th inning when, after a 10-pitch inning from Dellin Betances in the ninth, Girardi turned not to Miller, the closer who has yet to allow a run this season, but to the rookie right-hander Johnny Barbato, who has begun to look vulnerable after a strong start to the season.
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The setting (the dusty, rocky field and the trees) looks to be the same: If this is indeed how Carol gets her powers, it seems like the movie will then fill us in on how an earthling with powers eventually made her way to marching with Starforce, the elite military unit of the Kree: The most puzzling element of the trailer is who we see Carol going up against when she assumes her identity as Captain Marvel.
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Indeed, Kennedy calls Umar "the most puzzling character among the Marwanid rulers". As Kennedy states "He was a pious individual who attempted to solve the problems of his day in a way which would reconcile the needs of his dynasty and state with the demands of Islam".
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The two perennials are sympatric and very similar and some consider them to be one species. What many consider to be the most puzzling teosinte is Z. m. huehuetenangensis, which combines a morphology rather like Z. m. parviglumis with many terminal chromosome knobs and an isozyme position between the two sections.
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This particular case is often said to be the most puzzling as Jacob was almost home. Passing motorists witnessed Jacob approaching within yards of her parents driveway as well as numerous other sightings, but she never made it to her house. No trace has ever been found and she was never seen again. The last disappearance to be included on the list was Sinnott in 1998.
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Critics have varied in their reactions to the play. T. S. Eliot wrote that it is "disfigured by all the faults of which Ford was capable," while Ronald Huebert called it "not a great play, but...a fertile one," and "Ford's most typical play."Eliot quoted in Huebert, p. 159. The play is, in one view, "the most puzzling of Ford's works,"Logan and Smith, p. 135.
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Difficulties in reading some of the individual letters and identifying errors made by the scribes mean that a definitive edition of the poem is impossible. One of the most puzzling features is the dialect, which shows a mixture of High German and Low German spellings which cannot represent any actually spoken dialect. In spite of the many uncertainties over the text and continuing debate on the interpretation, the poem is widely regarded as the first masterpiece of German literature.
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Interior (), also known as The Rape (), is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painted in 1868–1869. Described as "the most puzzling of Degas's major works",Reff 1976, p. 200. it depicts a tense confrontation by lamplight between a man and a partially undressed woman. The theatrical character of the scene has led art historians to seek a literary source for the composition, but none of the sources proposed has met with universal acceptance.
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They also finished ahead of the Dodgers in the division for the first time in franchise history. Furthermore, Colorado set the single- season MLB record for fielding percentage by one team (.98925).Sure hands + strong arms = winning edge : Rockies : The Rocky Mountain News Despite the Rockies record-setting performance, the National League coaches and players didn't vote in any of Colorado's players for the NL Gold Glove award. The two most puzzling omissions were first baseman Todd Helton and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.
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On a table next to the bed were some of his personal effects, including his wallet (with cash), a nickel ring with "Ted" engraved on it, and a gold necklace he also wore. Also on the table was a gold watch, without its crystal, which Weiher's family said was not his, and a partially melted candle. He was wearing a velour shirt and lightweight pants, but his shoes could not be found. Most puzzling to the investigators was how Weiher had come to his fate.
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246 Focusing on the later phase of the incident at Lakenheath, he came to the remarkable conclusion that "this is the most puzzling and unusual case in the radar-visual files. The apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of this sighting".Thayer, Condon Report, Optical and Radar Analysis, p.246 Aviation journalist and noted UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass concluded, however, that the incident could be explained as a combination of false radar returns and misperceptions of meteors from the Perseid stream.
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Todd referred to the background of the Historian's fragment as "most puzzling" and stated that William Lund and Earl Olsen, assistant Church Historians, did not recall any information about the fragment except that it had been there with the Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar throughout their service, which dated to 1911. The Church Historian's fragment was labeled IX by Hugh Nibley and appears on page 40-H of the Improvement Era article, with the image heading; "IX. Church Historian's fragment" and the text:Improvement Era, February 1968, pp. 40–40H.
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X/1872 X1, occasionally referred to as "Pogson's Comet", was a probable cometary astronomical object seen from Madras (now Chennai) on December 3 and 4, 1872, by astronomer N. R. Pogson. Pogson believed the object to be the lost Comet Biela, but subsequent orbital calculations have suggested that this was unlikely.Kronk, G. Cometography: a catalog of comets, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.388 Neither Biela's Comet nor Pogson's object have been recovered since, and the episode remains one of the most puzzling in solar system astronomy.
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Engineers theorized that the film cassette, being lighter than the camera, might be further away, blown north by winds at altitude. FRC engineer Victor Horton organized a search and on 29 November, during the first pass over the area, Willard E. Dives found the cassette. Most puzzling was Adams' complete lack of awareness of major heading deviations in spite of accurately functioning cockpit instrumentation. The accident board concluded that he had allowed the aircraft to deviate as the result of a combination of distraction, misinterpretation of his instrumentation display, and possible vertigo.
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Swift J164449.3+573451, initially referred to as GRB 110328A, and sometimes abbreviated to Sw J1644+57, was a tidal disruption event, the destruction of a star by a supermassive black hole. It was first detected by the Swift Gamma- Ray Burst Mission on March 28, 2011. The event occurred in the center of a small galaxy in the Draco constellation, about 3.8 billion light-years away. Studied by dozens of telescopes, it is one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts of high-energy radiation ever observed when it comes to brightness, variability and durability.
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Foreign Affairs has had various articles covering the movement. In the January/February 2012 issue, Francis Fukuyama argued that the Occupy movement was not as influential as the right-wing Tea Party movement. "One of the most puzzling features of the world in the aftermath of the financial crisis," he wrote, "is that so far, populism has taken primarily a right-wing form, not a left-wing one." In contrast, a survey for the think tank Center for American Progress suggested that the Occupy movement has succeeded in substantially boosting the coverage of the job crisis in the American media.
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Writing about Rogers as a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", Poe tried to solve the aforementioned enigma by creating a murder mystery. As Poe wrote in a letter in 1842: "under the pretense of showing how Dupin ... unravelled the mystery of Marie's assassination, I, in fact, enter into a very rigorous analysis of the real tragedy in New York." He situated the narrative in Paris using the details of the original tragedy. Although there was intense media interest and immortalizing of a sort by Poe, the crime remains one of the most puzzling unsolved murders of New York City.
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United States President Benjamin Harrison granted George H. K. Carter a homestead in 1889 on the yet unnamed land. In 1931, the sparsely populated settlement was incorporated by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt as the "Town of Manalapan". A large share of the first settlers being natives of Manalapan, New Jersey caused the name to be selected. One of the most puzzling mysteries in Florida history was the disappearance of Circuit Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie, who left a friend's home on the night of June 14, 1955, en route to their oceanfront cottage in Manalapan.
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They were accompanied by grave goods from overseas, including pottery vessels and a fine toiletry set. The settlement continued into the early Roman period before the area was abandoned, probably before the end of the 2nd century. However, one of the most puzzling features on the site, a double ditched sub-circular ‘monument’, partially lying beyond the southwest edge of excavation, dated from a later period. The remains of at least three individuals, five late Roman bracelets and a group of large iron nails, with butchered cattle remains interspersed, were recovered from high up in the inner ditch, suggesting a funerary function for the feature.
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One of the most puzzling features of the Hildebrandslied is its language, which is a mixture of Old High German (with some specifically Bavarian features) and Old Saxon. For example, the first person pronoun appears both in the Old Saxon form ik and the Old High German ih. The reason for the language mixture is unknown, but it seems certain it cannot have been the work of the last scribes and was already present in the original which they copied. The Old Saxon features predominate in the opening part of the poem and show a number of errors, which argue against an Old Saxon original.
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Balch served as an editor of The Nation, a well-known magazine of political commentary. Balch converted from Unitarianism and became a Quaker in 1921. She stated, "Religion seems to me one of the most interesting things in life, one of the most puzzling, richest and thrilling fields of human thought and speculation... religious experience and thought need also a light a day and sunshine and a companionable sharing with others of which it seems to me there is generally too little... The Quaker worship at its best seems to me give opportunities for this sort of sharing without profanation."Randall, Improper Bostonian, p.
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Top Dog (1985) has more stories about Ranjha, the dog detective. They live in Mumbai and Ranjha has been so skilfully trained in the art of tracking that he has become famous for the crimes he has solved. All the stories in this book are based on real cases and Ranjha tells us, in his own words, about some of the most puzzling he has helped to solve. He tracked down a local thief, he got involved in a particularly unpleasant case of what seemed to be ritual murder, he got to the bottom of a series of thefts from a warehouse that had reduced the owner of the goods to despair.
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On its review, Monthly Film Bulletin qualified Presley's career as "one of the most puzzling and less agreeable aspects of modern popular music". the review declared: "Presley adopts a slurred and husky style of delivery and a series of grotesque body gestures to impose on his otherwise innocuous material a suggestive meaning. ... in 'Loving You' he is allowed more scope and is at times both the cause and sum total of the film's somewhat doubtful entertainment value." Down Beat opened its review mentioning the negative reception of Presley by the press, indicating that while other publications "hotly despised" him, Down Beat was "prepared to dismiss him with a decimating round of punfire".
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By the 19th century, most words had set spellings, though it took some time before they diffused throughout the English-speaking world. In The Mill on the Floss (1860), English novelist George Eliot satirised the attitude of the English rural gentry of the 1820s towards orthography: : Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,–why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.
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A post mortem established that he died of a heart attack earlier that day, and discovered burns on his neck, shoulders and back of his head. These appeared to have been dressed by a green ointment, which toxicology tests were unable to identify. Adamski's case has never been solved, no suspect was ever arrested and in a television documentary the coroner, James Turnbull, described it as "one of the most puzzling cases I've come across in 25 years". Among the explanations to gain currency was that Adamski was the victim of extraterrestrial abduction, following comments by police officer Alan Godfrey about what he saw on 29 November 1980, described in Jenny Randles' 1983 book The Pennine UFO Mystery.
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His secular compositions are of three types: thirteen madrigals, forty-six ballate (some of which are fragmentary, and others of which have the ascription to Paolo erased in the source), and five miscellaneous secular songs. All of his music is for two or three voices, and all is datable through sources or stylistic features to the period before 1410. Whether he did any composing after 1410 is not known. The most puzzling question about any source of Paolo's music is the presence in the Squarcialupi Codex, the compilation of which he probably supervised, of thirty-two pages, all with his name on the top, his portrait in the front, and containing nothing but empty staves.
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The quagga roamed the Karoo in great numbers together with wildebeest and ostriches, which always seemed to accompany them. These quagga seemed gentle and easy to domesticate. (A pair of quagga was used to draw a horse carriage through London, more for curiosity than for any superiority the quagga might have had over a horse.) They were consequently also easy prey for hunters, who hunted them for sport rather than their meat. By the middle of the 1800s, they were almost extinct, and in 1883, the last one died in an Amsterdam zoo. Louis XVI's menagerie at Versailles by Nicolas Marechal, 1793 Probably the strangest and most puzzling zoological phenomenon in the Great Karoo was the periodic, unpredictable appearance of massive springbok migrations.
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Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows. George Catlin 1846-1848. Western Landscape In battle, light horse archers were typically skirmishers, lightly armed missile troops capable of moving swiftly to avoid close combat or to deliver a rapid blow to the flanks or rear of the foe. Captain Robert G. Carter described the experience of facing Quanah Parker's forces: "an irregular line of swirling warriors, all rapidly moving in right and left hand circles.. while advancing, to the right or left, and as rapidly concentrating... in the centre... and their falling back in the same manner...all was most puzzling to our... veterans who had never witnessed such tactical maneuvers, or such a flexible line of skirmishers"Carter, Captain R. G. On the border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches.
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Its taxonomic placement was unclear for many years, as its plumage and migration inland to nest suggested it belonged with the marsh terns of the genus Chlidonias yet it did not nest in marshes like the other members of that genus. Martin Moynihan described it as "the most puzzling case", ultimately placing it in Sterna as he suspected the similarity of its breeding plumage to that of C. hybrida was due to similarity in environment and observed that the nonbreeding plumage resembled that of other members of Sterna. Gochfeld and Berger (1996) followed in keeping it in Sterna, while Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe placed it in Chlidonias. A 2005 molecular study by Bridge and colleagues placed it as a basal member of the marsh terns, settling the issue.
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She added that she believed that the young man her parents knew and thought was a bad lot - and very possibly a murderer – was Parry. Author Antony M. Brown surveyed all the published theories, both evidentially and logically, in his 2018 book Move to Murder,Antony M Brown, Move to Murder, Mirror Books, before concluding that, on balance, a previously-unpublished theory "is the best explanation for one of the most puzzling murder cases in British criminal history." The new theory, first posited in 2008 by Merseyside-based researcher Rod Stringer, holds that Parry was indeed the brains behind a robbery, which turned to murder when his unknown accomplice was confronted by Julia after rifling the cash box – after first gaining entry to 29 Wolverton Street on the pretext he was “Qualtrough”.
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Reichstag on 11 December 1941 On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the U.S. was still officially neutral during World War II. The decision to declare war was made by Adolf Hitler, apparently offhand, almost without consultation. It has been referred to as Hitler's "most puzzling" decision of World War II.Kershaw (2007), p.382 Publicly, the formal declaration was made to American Chargé d'Affaires Leland B. Morris by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the latter's office. Later that day, the U.S. declared war on Germany.
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Nikolaus Pevsner described the church as "one of the most interesting, and also one of the most puzzling in North Devon", mentioning its massive, apparently Norman, south tower; its lead-covered broach spire, similar to that at St Peter and St Paul at Barnstaple; and the nave which despite being 34 ft wide, has no aisles. Betjeman describes the church as "not very prepossessing but well worth visiting", and as having "a remarkably wide nave covered by a fine roof enriched with fifteenth century bosses". It also boasts an early Norman font, a Jacobean pulpit, and fourteenth-century carved wooden pews, which are listed. A series of 16th-century chestnut pew ends are of carved woodwork;Betjeman, J. (ed.) (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: the South.
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He has written fourteen popular books on science. These include Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science (Morrow, NY, 1989), which addresses several of the most puzzling controversies in modern science, Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future (Morrow, NY, 1991), a volume dealing with problems of scientific prediction and explanation of everyday events like the weather, stock market price movements and the outbreak of warfare, and Complexification (HarperCollins, NY, 1994), a study of complex systems and the manner in which they give rise to counterintuitive, surprising behavior. Dr. Casti has also written three popular volumes on mathematics: Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th- Century Mathematics---and Why They Matter; a sequel, Five More Golden Rules (1995, 2000) both published by John Wiley & Sons (New York); and Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time, published and later recalled by Oxford University Press (New York).
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