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runner
runner or stolon, slender, creeping stem capable of taking root where its nodes touch the ground and thereby producing new shoots. The runner itself usually dies at the end of the season, leaving independent new plants. Among the plants that propagate by means of runners are the strawberry, the... Read more |
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Sailboat
Sailboat Background For people who like to be near the water, sailboats provide a means of skimming over its surface. Even when the water is frozen, iceboats (sailboats with runners or blades on the hull) can glide across the ice. The sailboat is a form of transportation, a... Read more |
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Bow Street runners
Bow Street runners were constables attached to the Bow Street Police Office. Professional thief-takers had been established there by the magistrate Sir John Fielding in the mid-18th cent., but were too few to cope with escalating crime. Seven police offices were established in London in 1792 on the... Read more |
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Day Runner Inc
Day Runner, Inc. 2750 West Moore AvenueFullerton, California 92833U.S.A.Telephone: (714)680-3500Toll Free: (800)232-9786Fax: (714)680-0538Web site: http://www.dayrunner.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1980 as Harper House, Inc.Employees: 841Sales: $171.5 million (2000)Stock Exchanges: OTC... Read more |
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Saint George (town)
Saint George town (1991 pop. 1,648), on St. George's Island, Bermuda. It was the capital of Bermuda until 1815, when it was replaced by Hamilton . During the American Civil War it harbored Confederate blockade-runners.... Read more |
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sled
sled vehicle that moves by sliding. A sledge is typically a heavier, load-carrying sled drawn by a horse or dog, while a sleigh is a partially enclosed horse-drawn vehicle with runners that has seats for passengers. The simplest form of the sled is a board turned up in front, as in the... Read more |
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John Wilkinson
A CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE-RUNNER (1862, by John Wilkinson) During the time of the American Civil War, the closing of seaports was a matter left in the hands of local officials. In a move to prevent the delivery of supplies and weapons from allies both domestic and foreign, President Abraham Lincoln... Read more |
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Grete Waitz
Grete Waitz 1953- Norwegian marathon runner Distance runner Grete Waitz has set world records in the 3,000 meter, 8 kilometer, 10 kilometer, 15 kilometer, 10 mile, and the marathon. She was the first woman to run a marathon in under 2 hours and 30 minutes, and the first female world champion... Read more |
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Peanut butter
Peanut Butter Background Wild peanuts originated in Bolivia and northeastern Argentina. The cultivated species, Arachis hypogaea,was grown by Indians in pre-Columbian times. The peanut plant is a vinelike plant whose flowerstalks wither and bow to the ground after... Read more |
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New York City Marathon (Running)
Tegla Loroupe 1973- Kenyan marathon runner In 1998 Kenyan runner Tegla Loroupe became the first African woman to win a major marathon when she came in first at the New York City Marathon in 1994. She then set a women's world record on the 26.2-mile marathon course at the 1998 Rotterdam... Read more |
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Scott, Ridley
Scott, Ridley (1937– ) English film director. Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) were seminal science-fiction offerings. Thelma and Louise (1991) was another genre-breaking box-office success. Scott won an Academy Award for best picture for Gladiator (2000). |
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runner
...or hobby: a marathon runner. ∎ a horse that runs...there were only four runners. ∎ a messenger, collector...Baseball a base runner. ∎ a messenger in the...country or area: a drug-runner. 3. a rod, groove, or blade on which something ... |
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blade
blade / blād/ • n. 1. the flat...weapon. ∎ short for razor blade. ∎ poetic/lit. a sword...propeller. ∎ a thin, flat metal runner on an ice skate. ∎ a shoulder...or another similar plant: a blade of grass. ∎ Bot. the broad... |
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`Blade Runner' game does more than replicate movie
...futuristic twist in "Blade Runner," the sci-fi thriller...years later, "Blade Runner" has been made into...gives rise to the Blade Runners, a select police squad...drawback to being a Blade ... |
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The sacred and the profane: Examining the religious subtext of Ridley Scott's...
...Earth, giving blade runners the task of "retiring...sense, the blade runners parallel the cherubim...the characters in Blade Runner follow the Fall...if the blade runners are ... |
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Blade Runners: Cold-Water Killers.(fish lures)(Brief Article)
...it. And at no time is a blade's allure more powerful...Among the many brands of blades are the Reef Runner Cicada, Heddon Sonar, Blitz Blade and Silver Buddy. The original...Heddon in 1959. Since then, blades have developed a strong ... |
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RE-RELEASED 'BLADE RUNNER' BACK TO ITS BEST ON BIG SCREEN
...Ford, as Rick Deckard in "Blade Runner," runs over rooftops...have the chance to see "Blade Runner" on a big screen again. That...the thing that makes "Blade Runner" special has returned unaltered...Angeles in 2019 A.D., ... |
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Blade runners; Early adopters of blade server technology say the benefits...
...Byline: Jennifer Mears Blade runners Early adopters of blade server...could expand [the number of blade servers] quickly." Bowman initially brought in 20 blade servers, and today he has...company that got in on the blade ... |
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BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT ; NEON WILL SHOW SCI-FI CLASSIC FROM 35 MM PRINT
...1982 classic sci-fi film "Blade Runner" is making its way to the...originally intended to book "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" for an October...by Philip K. Dick, "Blade Runner" is set in a future where...soldier hybrids are ... |
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Blade runners. (fishing lures) (Column)
Mention "blades" and most anglers will...fishermen, however, blades are the hottest lures...the companies to make blade lures early on were Heddon...growing field include Reef Runner's Cicada, and the...This is the original blade lure ... |
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Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off.(Brief...
Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody...years after popular culture has moved on. "Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the...deserves his place in movie history, "Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing ... |
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Which blade runner is right for you?(THE FRONT: THE SCREEN)(Brief article)
...ABOUT REPLICANTS: Six versions of Blade Runner have been floating around ever...Twenty-five years later, Blade Runner-Final Cut (out this fall) is...to have feelings. Neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening ... |
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White and "Black" versus Yellow: Metaphor and Blade Runner's Racial Politics
...life, fucker. Roy Batty, Blade Runner IN SIR RIDLEY SCOTT...Future," concurs that Biade Runner "contains no black characters...presence in US cities. In Blade Runner's LA, however, the racial...contains no black bodies, Biade ... |
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