Climate and the Carboniferous Period. West Virginia today is mostly an erosional plateau carved up into steep ridges and narrow valleys, but 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, it was part of a vast equatorial coastal swamp extending many hundreds of miles and barely rising above sea level.
technically speaking definition, technically speaking meaning | English dictionary. technical. n. 1. the art of public speaking in which gesture, vocal production, and delivery are emphasized 2.the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone. n. ! n.
that with which anything is tied, Old English teag, from Proto-Germanic *taugo (cf. Old Norse taug tie, tygill string), from PIE *deuk- to pull, to lead (cf. Old English teon to draw, pull, drag; see duke (n.)). Figurative sense is recorded from 1550s. Meaning equality between competitors is first found 1670s, from notion of a connecting link (tie-breaker is recorded from 1961).