The layout of the festival mimicked that of the on-site Masquerade, an almost 30-year-old music venue that's been around much longer than the majority of the neon-clad attendees, and consists of three areas: Heaven, Hell and Purgatory.
Local farmers called the area Hog Heaven.
The earth is represented by the narrow area between heaven and hell.
This machine can investigate an area of the heavens that is 2° across (as large as 20 full moons), analysing the precise spectral colours of up to 400 stars at a time.
Known as karūbiyūn in Islām, the cherubim continuously praise God by repeating the tasbīḥ ("Glory to Allāh") and dwell in peace in an area of the heavens that is inaccessible to attacks from Iblīs, or the devil.
In areas where we, heaven forfend, disagree, we hug it out with the Israelis.
For anyone not living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area however, it was heaven.
Although concentrated urban areas like Manhattan have, heaven knows, problems of their own — bedbugs, subway rats, cockroaches so big they could register for kindergarten — they are seldom the target of large-scale stinkbug invasions.
As white sea ice, which reflects sunlight and heat back to the heavens, loses area in the Arctic seas, the dark water beneath it absorbs sunshine and accelerates the heating of our oceans.
"When churches were originally built, they wanted them to be the tallest structure in the area -- the closest to heaven, or so people could hear the bells," Mr. Fryer said.
