Because the Earth rotates through two tidal bulges every lunar day, coastal areas experience two high and two low tides every 24 hours and 50 minutes. High tides occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart. It takes six hours and 12.5 minutes for the water at the shore to go from high to low, or from low to high. References.
 William Wilson  is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.t would also form the basis for the Smithereens ' song of the same name, from their 1989 album  11 . There are strains of the story of William Wilson in Andrew Taylor's The American Boy, in which Edgar Allan-Poe is a character.
William Gibson is an American-Canadian novelist who pioneered the genre of science/speculative fiction. Explore this biography to learn more about his profile, childhood, life and timeline. Credit William Gibson 60th birthday portrait by Gonzo Bonzo - originally posted to Flickr as William Gibson. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. William Gibson is a speculative fiction writer who is often referred to as the noir prophet of the cyberpunk subgenre. In his short story Burning Chrome he introduced the word âCyber-punkâ which was later popularized as a concept in his first novel, âNeuromancerâ.