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[Purple Bullet]

Google has found more than its match on IFI. I believe that should represent The Last Whole Earth Catalog - Access to Tools

[JHCC]

14 minutes ago, Frosty said:

So what's the problem calling growth rings annular rings, isn't one revolution around the sun, an Annulus? The root of the term Annual?

There's no problem with calling growth rings "annular rings"; that's the proper term.

"Annual" and "annular" actually come from two different (albeit related) roots. As previously discussed, "annulus" comes from "anulus", which is the diminutive of "anus", meaning "ring". "Annular" comes from "annus", which means "year" (this is the same root as "annals", as in history). The relation between the two is that "annus" can refer to a planet's circuit, although "cursus" ("course") was also used for this.

One revolution around the sun isn't an annulus, since it neither has width (only direction) nor is circular.

[Purple Bullet]

...but why was it the Last Whole Earth Catalog? The Earth hadn't been whole since ~1959.

[JHCC]

Because there were a series of Whole Earth catalogs published between 1968 and 1998; the publishers thought that the 1971 edition was going to be the last one, hence the name.

[ThomasPowers]

Earth was whole until we started dropping pieces of it on other planets; or until it lost a chunk to become the moon---take your pick.

[arkie]

Purple Bullet, you "done good" on the BOP's.....