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...The Dueling Machine is the solution to settling disputes without injury. After you and your opponent select weapons and environments you are injected into an artificial reality where you fight to the virtual death… but no one actually ge...

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...s were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal machines, huge stones and blocks of wood to impel ...

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... have im- proved a wood-planer and a file-maker. I have designed a textile machine, a bet- ter barrow, a good water-lamp. For most field laborers, th... ...tudio I sketch from memory: I am able to reproduce plants, birds, people, machines. Years ago I lost an important sketchbook and was able to reprodu... ...back and legs: insomnia exhausts me: I think of stairways, dikes, weaving machines, cylindrical sails, cadavers, faces... Many times I have seen Ch... ... Proportions of man (Vitruvius). Star of Bethlehem plant and spurge. Machine for grinding telescopic mirrors. Life preserver. Parabolic compas... ...monino). 20 silverpoint drawings of horses. Sketch of sailboat. Weaving machine. Pincers for hoisting heavy objects. Sketch of windmill. Plane... ...books and manuscripts. It was my intention to compile an encyclopedia of machines of all kinds. 1519 307 Clo... ...bor maps and drawings for a windmill; I added sketches of a spool- winding machine; I remember I evolved my machine for polishing crystals. My sketch... ...t conversation—on April 23rd. Melzi - I heard that you created a mirror machine while you were in Rome. Da Vinci - I tried to amplify the stars—st...

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...verfly the object, observing it between themselves and the earth below. Military pilots are trained to estimate distances, shapes and speed of flying machines. Sometimes, pilots’ sightings are confirmed by radar detection, observers on the ground (control tower personnel, Ground Observer Corps, civilians,..) or other pilots in flight. In some cases electro-magnetic eff...

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...– what is ET and what is pseudo-ET disinformation, unless we penetrate the halls of smoke and mirrors that is the vast shadow government’s propaganda machine....

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...o the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the second world war - though he conveniently... ...and "low tar" designate tar and nicotine yields in cigarette smoke as measured by a machine. The number on the cigarette pack merely reflects the... ...ects the milligrams of nicotine or tar found in cigarette smoke as measured by the machine. It does not relate to the real amount of nicotine per c... ...ned in 1962) and SAGE with full e-mail capabilities by 1966. But these were same-machine e-mail applications. They could not connect different co... ...n their destructive mission. The Merck Veterinary Manual describes these killing machines thus: "The parasitic larvae are tapered and have mou... ...ektrik Lorenz, the French consumer electronics company Oceanic, and the Swiss cable machinery company Maillefer. It proceeded to become the largest ...

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...ars.” “I saw the file on Frankenberg’s computer. I just couldn’t open it.” The machine under Dan’s massive work area coughed and started and the... ...spent the last ten minutes grappling valiantly with an obstreperous coffee vending machine. She finally gave up and we settled for Coke. “When Hi... ...erisively: “You can do anything with a computer. That’s why it’s called a universal machine.” He paused and turned to the flat display, his back t... ...le Libby went through her traditional and valiant battle with the coffee vending machine and, predictably, settled on three cokes. “Who says I ... ...me. Well, Bauer’s voice to be precise. It emanated from the antiquated answering machine donated by my mother as a means of remotely micromanagin...

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...ina merge repede” se zice literar “La voiture va vite”, dar în creol ă – “Machine na couwioe vite”! Iar “Te iubesc” se zice literar “Je t’aime”, dar...

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...nus on the return voyage. On Mercury they find a strange city eerily abandoned. Sculptures of giant figures alarm them. In a building they discover a machine. The engineer gets it running, and blaring out of the machine a thundering voice speaking Mercurian begins to sound in a way that conveys to them that it is telling a story. After an enormous effort the men translate ...

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...erican humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

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...lopment. Attack aviation during this time was a branch of aviation used to provide direct and indirect combat support to ground forces in the form of machine-gun strafing, light bombing, and chemical attacks....

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...e second essay retells the first flight: This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started. (Introduction by Av...

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...Travis Fox and a band of fellow Apache AmerIndians have their racial memories and survival abilities enhanced by the Redax machine and are sent to the planet Topaz, one of the few worlds of the ancient star empire that the US has voyage tapes to. But the Reds have snooped the tapes and get there first, and have a nasty surprise waiting for any sh...

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..."Ready Fire Aim." Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine collapses in "Bloom." The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change." Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling ...

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...nlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence and the dreadful automatic nagging machine. All are classic-Nesbit: charming, novel and not afraid to squeeze in a moral or two -- told with proper fairy-tale style. Summary by Cori...

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...sion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spad...

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... it. Adieu. 1151 Thine euermore most deere Lady, whilst this 1152 Machine is to him, Hamlet. 1153 This in Obedience hath my daughter shew...

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...880, and Jack Baker is a young, driven student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" magic rather than machines, and most engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste at Harvard. There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, howeve...

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...pes still set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. ... ...xperiences with Gutenberg typography and Mergenthaler‘s wondrous Linotype machine, which allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in t... ...t off, working in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to m... ...ften sent me into composing rooms filled with those towering, typesetting machines‘ clickety-clacks and the acrid odors from their melting pots of m... ...is Khan To instill fear in his enemies, Genghis Khan created a propaganda machine that consistently inflated the number of people his warriors kille... ...and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle ... ...ellectual culture. She stresses that pioneer print shops—with their new machines and mechanics trained to operate them—served as:  Gathering p... ...780s that Frenchmen in Blanc‘s workshop turned out metal musket parts on a machine. Whitney didn‘t win his legendary patent for interchangeable gun p... ...un parts until 1794. Print shops also pioneered the revolutionary use of machinery to maximize employee productivity. In that same capitalistic ve...