This boundary is known as the Bullen discontinuity, or sometimes as the Lehmann discontinuity. A few years later, in 1940, it was hypothesized that this inner core was made of solid iron; its rigidity was confirmed in 1971. The outer core was determined to be liquid from observations showing that compressional waves pass through it, but elastic shear waves do not â or do so only very weakly.
Flannery Literary is a Chicago area literary agency representing writers of books for children and young adults because the most interesting, well-written, and time-honored books are written with young people in mind.
Synopsis. Flannery O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. Her father died of systemic lupus erythematosus when she was a teenager. She studied writing at the University of Iowa and published âThe Geranium,â her first short story, in 1946.She wrote novels, but was best known for her short story collections.arly on, Flannery O'Connor demonstrated her literary talents for school publications. Studying at what is now the University of Iowa for a master's degree, O'Connor's first story, The Geranium, was published in 1946. She had also begun what was to be first novel, Wise Blood, published in 1952.