A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. In addition to their microscopic structure, large crystals are usually identifiable by their macroscopic geometrical shape, consisting of flat faces with specific, characteristic orientations.[citation needed]
The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. The process of crystal formation via mechanisms of crystal growth is called crystallization or solidification. The word crystal is derived from the Ancient Greek word κρύσταλλος (krustallos), meaning both “ice” and “rock crystal”, from κρύος (kruos), "icy cold, frost".
Common crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, and table salt; however, most common inorganic solids are polycrystals. Crystals are often symmetrically intergrown to form crystal twins.
Halite (table salt, NaCl): Microscopic and macroscopic
The scientific definition of a "crystal" is based on the microscopic arrangement of atoms inside it, called the crystal structure. A crystal is a solid where the atoms form a periodic arrangement. (Quasicrystals are an exception, see below.)
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. He has hosted the Academy Awards nine times, including the 84th Academy Awards in 2012.
Crystal was born in the Doctor's Hospital in Manhattan and raised on Long Island in Long Beach, the son of Helen (née Gabler), a housewife, and Jack Crystal, a record company executive and jazz producer who also owned and operated the Commodore Record store. His babysitter was occasionally Billie Holiday. His uncle was musician and songwriter Milt Gabler, and his brother, Richard "Rip" Crystal, is a television producer. Crystal grew up in a Jewish family that he has described as "large" and "loving".
After graduation from Long Beach High School, Crystal attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, having learned the game from his father, who pitched for St. John's University. Crystal never played a game at Marshall because the program was suspended during his freshman year, and because he was too busy being the Editor in Chief of The BG News from 1969–70. He did not return to Marshall as a sophomore, staying back in New York with his future wife. He instead attended Nassau Community College and later New York University, where he graduated in 1970 with a BFA from its Tisch School of the Arts.
Derek Sanderson Jeter ( /ˈdʒiːtər/; born June 26, 1974) is an American baseball shortstop who has played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter has been a central figure of the Yankees during their success of the 1990s and 2000s due to his clubhouse presence, on-field leadership, hitting ability, and baserunning. He is the Yankees' all-time career leader in hits (3,155), games played (2,472), stolen bases (342), and at bats (10,066). His accolades include twelve All-Star selections, five Gold Glove Awards, four Silver Slugger Awards, two Hank Aaron Awards, and the Roberto Clemente Award. Jeter is the all-time MLB leader in hits by a shortstop, and the 28th player to reach 3,000 hits.
The Yankees drafted Jeter out of high school in 1992, and he debuted in the major leagues in 1995. The following year, he became the Yankees' starting shortstop, won the Rookie of the Year Award, and helped the team win the 1996 World Series. Jeter continued to contribute during the team's championship seasons of 1998–2000; he finished third in voting for the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1998, recorded multiple career-high numbers in 1999, and won both the All-Star Game MVP and World Series MVP Awards in 2000. He has consistently placed among the AL leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years, and since 2003 has served as the Yankees' team captain.
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles (including Nicks's song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only US number one) and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth best-selling album of all time.
Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna, and she has produced six more solo studio albums to date. Her seventh solo studio album entitled In Your Dreams, and her first in ten years, was produced largely by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame and Glen Ballard and was released on May 3, 2011. After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". Having overcome cocaine addiction, and dependency on tranquilizers, Nicks remains a popular solo performer. As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, a further five, of which one was the 1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours, which they won. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Nicks is known for her distintive voice, mystical visual style and symbolic lyrics as well as the famous (sometimes tense) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist/vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.
We're caught up in a web, you and I
Since Crystal came between us
The knots of friendship seem to be untied
And it hurts me most to cheat and that's no lie
She can swing us both forever
In the long run she's the one who must decide
And if she leaves me handle her with care
Don't hurt little Crystal
And if she calls you long distance just be there
Oh Crystal
The world is your oyster, you're a pearl
But he's a jewel and my friend
I'm sure that in the end, Crystal you'll be his little girl
Oh Crystal
You're stronger than me but I'm sure
That the fight would fall to no one
The cold hard truth is stronger than us all
And it breaks my heart to see us go this far
We're just captives in our separate cells
Do you always trust your first initial feeling
Special knowledge, holds true bears believing
I turned around and the water was closing all around
Like a glove, like the love that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like a clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet, to the sea, to the sea
To the sea, yeah
How the faces of love change, turning the pages
And I have changed, oh but you, you remain ageless
I turned around and the water was closing all around
Like a glove, like the love that had finally, finally found me
And then I knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like a clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet, to the sea, to the sea
Do you always trust your first initial feeling
Special knowledge holds truth
Bears believing
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love that had finally, finally found me
And I knew
In the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like a clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet
To the sea
To the sea
To the sea, yeah
How the faces of love have changed
Turning the pages
And I have changed oh, but you
You remain ageless
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love that had finally, finally found me
And I knew
In the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like a clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet
To the sea
To the sea
To the sea, yeah
To the sea, yeah
I turned around and the water was closing around me
I turned around and the water was closing around me
Avalanche looms overhead
Airplane flies overhead
Important man sits by the window
Sucked out of the first class window
Images run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume
Time to let off some pressure
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
When civilization falls in its grave
Technology throws on the dirt
You realize the finest things in life
Are the ones that can never be hurt
Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
The crystal in your china case is breaking in a million tiny pieces
We're like crystal, we break easy
I'm a poor man, if you leave me
I'm applauded, then forgotten
It was summer, now it's autumn
I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do), with a girl I betrayed
Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money, you're not alone anymore,
(whenever you're here with me),
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core
We're like crystal, it's not easy
With your love, you could feed me
Every man, and every woman
Needs someone, So keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming
I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do), with a girl I betrayed
Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money, you're not alone anymore,
(whenever you're here with me),
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Do you always trust your first initial feeling?
Special knowledge holds truth bears believing
I turned around and the water was closing all around
Like a glove, like the love that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet to the sea
How the faces of love have changed turning the pages
And I have changed oh, but you, you remain ageless
I turned around and the water was closing all around
Like a glove, like the love that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew in the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal like clear water fountain
Avalanche looms overhead
Airplane flies overhead
Important man sits by the window
Sucked out of the first class window
Images run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume
Time to let off some pressure
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
When civilization falls in its grave
Technology throws on the dirt
You realize the finest things in life
Are the ones that can never be hurt
Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
The crystal in your china case is breaking in a million tiny pieces
Avalanche looms overhead
Airplane flies overhead
Important man sits by the window
Sucked out of the first class window
Images run by, thousand miles an hour
But the time seems far away
Folding clothes in a folding closet
Folding money in a resume
Time to let off some pressure
Time to let off some steam
All your notebooks get thrown away
And you start your diary clean
Crystal glass lined up in a row
Watched over by the G.I. Joes
Sugar in your coffee doesn't taste quite right
Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights
When civilization falls in its grave
Technology throws on the dirt
You realize the finest things in life
Are the ones that can never be hurt
Shatters your brain in a million tiny pieces
The sounds you hear aren't coming out right
You think it might be mystic, you think I might be cryptic
Fade away...
All that we have dreamed of
Bergman said it all,
the magic is in the fall, so true...
When you see him tell him all that you
don't know
all how much we've grown
so I cry but like always, I don't feel
that much in here
so I sit by your side just to be near you
oh lord please don't take him yet
Now you're gone, you're with angels
I will soon come visit you
and talk about, the time we had together
and our town is filled with tears
Don't feel bad while you're there
life was only sad sad while you were here
filled with rage and fear
and now I sit by your side
but you can't hear me
you can always count on me
don't feel sad, you're with angels
I will soon come visit you
and talk about, the time we had together
now our town is filled with tears
so I sit by your side
although you're not with me
when I comfort you, when I come to you
and like always, RIGHT HERE BY YOUR SIDE
don't feel sad, you're with angels
I will soon come visit you
and talk about, the time we had together
there she is in the doghouse
she sure don't know what she's done wrong
still she lies in the doghouse
don't think that she can carry on
she holds you down
to free your soul
the hand of god
will make you whole
here i am in the doghouse
i sure don't know what i've done wrong
"crystal only ever smiles
through her eyes
crystal only ever lies
through her mouth
just no one sees it"
may i fight for my honour
without the pity you show
may i beg for my dinner
when the feeling takes me so
just saying sorry
won't ever be enough
just saying sorry
won't ever be enough
you have squandered my love
"crystal only ever smiles
through her eyes
crystal only ever lies
through her mouth
just no one sees it"
no one ever want
no one ever needed her
Smell your world when you come
I won't make a victim
I lie awake and I'm forsaken
From all the holes in my time
You saved up for this true lie
The devil bides her time in waiting
And still she comes
Crystallized in paranoia
Lost yourself inside her madness
Beast has glazed your being
With its torture
All the faults in your life
This suffering can't be mine
The curse will grow with what you prey for
And still she comes
She's calling
I'm falling
She makes me mine
Still calling
I'm crawling
She is benign
Smell your world when you came
Now I am a victim
I lie awake - I swim inside you
And still she comes...
Sometimes when my life is dark and stormy,
I close my eyes and try hard to recall.
I see your face and trouble fades before me,
When I’m staring in a crystal ball.
Crystal, was the water,
And crystal, was the sand,
And crystal was our pure love,
Like the water running all around the town,
And crystal is my memory,
When I think about the moonlight,
Shining in her eyes and on the town.
And crystal will be this winter.
Frozen tears.
You’re not around.
For awhile we were just like children.
We were diving far beneath a waterfall.
As we tumbled far beneath that rolling river,
I said “Jesus why do I go back at all?”
From the crystal, in the water,
From the crystal, in the sand,
From the crystal in our pure love,
Like the water running all around the town,
And crystal is my memory,
When I think about the moonlight,
Shining in her eyes and on the town.
And crystal will be this winter.
Frozen tears.
She's got crystal
Oh yeah, and she wave your down
Shine like crystal
Oh yeah, and she get your gun
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah, that's right
Get your crystal
Baby, get your gun
She's like crystal
Oh yeah, she got you on the run
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah, that's right
Oh, yeah
That's right
She got crystal
Oh yeah, she would kill you Joe
That shining crystal
Oh yeah, but what a way to go
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah, that's right
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Aaa, aaa
Smell your world when you come
I won't make a victim
I lie awake and I'm forsaken
From all the holes in my time
You saved up for this true lie
The devil bides her time in waitin'
And still she comes
Crystallized in paranoia
Lost yourself inside her madness
Beast has glazed your being
With it's torture
And all the faults in your life
The suffering can't be mine
The curse will grow with what you prey for
And still she comes
She's callin'
I'm fallin'
She makes me mine
Still callin'
I'm crawlin'
She is benign
Smell your world when you came
Now I am a victim
I lie awake, I swim inside you
And still she comes
And still she comes
Still she comes
(Aaa, aaa)
Buckingham.nicks/crystal
**This song can also be found on the FIRST Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey
And Stevie (the one that has "Rhiannon" on it). The version on this record,
In my opinion, is MUCH better. Those of you that are Stevie and Lindsey
Fans should DEFINATELY try to get a copy, although it isn't easy, believe
Me!! But it's worth the cash, I promise.
And now....the song:
Do you always trust your first initial feeling?
Special knowledge holds truth, bears believing
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love...that had finally, finally found me
Then I knew
In the crystalline knowledge...of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal-like clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet....to the sea
How the faces of love have changed
I'm turning the pages
And I have changed...oh, but you...you remain ageless
I turned around
And the water was closing all around
Like a glove
Like the love..that had finally, finaly found me
Then I knew...in the crystalline knowledge of you
Drove me through the mountains
Through the crystal-like, clear water fountain
Drove me like a magnet...to the sea
To the sea....
To the sea....
Aaa, aaa
Smell your world when you come
I won't make a victim
I lie awake and I'm forsaken
From all the holes in my time
You saved up for this true lie
The devil bides her time in waitin'
And still she comes
Crystallized in paranoia
Lost yourself inside her madness
Beast has glazed your being
With it's torture
And all the faults in your life
The suffering can't be mine
The curse will grow with what you prey for
And still she comes
She's callin'
I'm fallin'
She makes me mine
Still callin'
I'm crawlin'
She is benign
Smell your world when you came
Now I am a victim
I lie awake, I swim inside you
And still she comes
And still she comes
Still she comes
(Aaa, aaa)
You're moving between
Time and space
Deceiving me
Your lack of time
Rays of light
Something between
Knock yourself out
Get your keys
From another me
Build your alibis
In every you
There's is me
Feel my rage
Just stay away
Get away
Return my life intact
I want it back
Feel my rage
Just stay away
Get away
Return my life intact
I want it back
Are you loaded again
Fooling around or here to stay
Violating truce
It's your way of sinking me
Feel my rage
Just stay away
Get away
Return my life intact
I want it back
Welcome
Choose wise
Goodbye
No one
Could die
More than I
Welcome
Choose wise
Goodbye
No one
Could die
More than I
Feel my rage
Just stay away
Get away
Return my life intact
I want it back
Feel my rage
Just stay away
Get away
Return my life intact
I want it back
Welcome
Choose wise
Goodbye
No one
Could die
More than I
Welcome
Choose wise
Goodbye
No one
Could die