Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.

ECONOMIST: How Norsemen found their way round in cloudy weather

But with "Tiny Cities, " Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon makes an argument not just for his own abilities as a song interpreter but for the underappreciated songwriting skill of Isaac Brock.

NPR: Sun Kil Moon: 'Tiny Cities'

This year, that work would be the star feature at Marlborough Fine Ar t: a dazzlingly beautiful, sun-drenched Mark Rothko canvas, seeped in burnt orange and the palest pink, and dated 1954.

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For the Sun, the talks mark crunch-time for the euro.

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As we looped around the Velodrome at the one-mile mark, to the sounds of a samba band, the sun came out, glinting on the temporary fences, scaffolding and equipment still being used by the neon-jacketed workmen who waved and cheered on the runners -- and walkers.

CNN: Crossing the Olympic finish line

The fact that the film, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is an action-comedy has angered survivors of the Sun Gym gang's crimes and those who investigated them nearly two decades ago.

NPR: Survivors Angry Over 'Pain & Gain' Depiction

There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

BBC: A tale of the South Pacific