Age: 9+ Shot through with mystery, this is a deliciously old-fashioned story of how one lonely little girl unravels the obscurity of her past.
Plant fanciers and farmers have often laboured in complete obscurity during the past thousand or more years to classify plants, but they've helped build a clearer understanding of the natural world so we all can communicate and think about it in an organised way.
His was not the sort of whiggish, anecdotal approach by which senior scientists tend to ossify the progression from past obscurity to present clarity, but a deeper attempt to understand the twists and turns of theory and evidence, which ensure that even our present-day knowledge is provisional, and like life itself, historically constrained.
Kristy came out to discourage bullying against LGBT youth, although some cynics were quick to point out that since she has lived in obscurity for the past 20 years, the gesture doesn't have much of an impact now.
He hopes the album will rescue forgotten public speakers of the past from obscurity.
"Not to act all falsely nostalgic for literary obscurity, but in the past I had always written my books in the belief that very few people would read them".
One of them is Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), a poet, author and landscape painter of talent who has spent much of the past century in obscurity.
Until recently its past lay steeped in obscurity.
With luck, his obscurity may end with "Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts From the Metropolitan Museum of Art," at the Bard Graduate Center on the Upper West Side.
All four teams involved in Thursday's day session — Butler and Bucknell tip off at 12 40 p.m. Eastern, Marquette and Davidson about 3 10 — captivated the tournament in Marches past, rising from relative obscurity to become national darlings.
