The Greeks also had observed that the golden ratio provided the most aesthetically pleasing proportion of sides of a rectangle, a notion that was enhanced during the Renaissance by, for example, the work of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci and the publication of De divina proportione (1509; Divine Proportion), written by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli and illustrated by Leonardo.
Their "mess" is a crime of epic proportions, wrote Von Sponeck, referring to the Iraqi ministry of social affairs' estimate of 4.5 million children who have lost one or both parents.
"Sex and death in equal proportions," writes Hammerologist Sinclair McKay, "and particularly barely repressed sexuality in a Victorian setting, was the real winning formula".
Their victory pits them against West Virginia in the final eight, a matchup of Hatfield-McCoy proportions, writes Dan Wetzel on Yahoo.com.
An innuendo-filled poem of magnificently smutty genetic proportions, written by The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins, made its way into the public sphere today (scroll down to read it in full).
The only alarms going off were in the heads of the Flyers, who responded to their chance to sweep the Penguins with a goalie meltdown of epic proportions, writes Phil Sheridan in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Colts' disintegration has reached epic proportions, writes Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star, and one with no explanation on how Peyton Manning's injury also turned the defense and special teams to mush.
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"She has a great sense of proportion," he wrote by e-mail about her cooking, "which gives her food a natural balance".
'Some appear to view the situation as a social trauma of dire proportions,' Israel wrote.
