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World and Ptavvs
* World of Ptavvs ( 1966 )
** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )
The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.
In Niven's first novel, World of Ptavvs, the hyperdrive used by the Thrintun required a ship to be going faster than 93 % of the speed of light.
They debuted in Niven's World of Ptavvs, in 1966.
Niven is either inconsistent about the actual size of a Thrint, or supposes a wide degree of variation among them: in World of Ptavvs, the character Kzanol is about half the height of a human, whereas later stories portray Thrintun as about 8 feet high.
In World of Ptavvs, Kzanol desperately wagers his future on a competitive animal race.
The story is partially told in the novella World of Ptavvs and the story Peter Robinson from the book Man-Kzin Wars X.
In the years following the events of World of Ptavvs, humans encountered artifacts remaining from the time of the Thrintun.
This course of events is alluded to in the novel World of Ptavvs and a still functioning suicide amplifier itself is discovered in the short story " Peter Robinson " by Hal Colebach, at which point it is destroyed.
The githyanki / illithid relationship was inspired by Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs.

World and /
In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.
However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.
* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan / Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
In addition, ASU is ranked 78th in the world / 45th in the US by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and was named as one of " America's Best College Buys " by Forbes magazine.
World War II, German SdKfz 234 | SdKfz 234 / 4.
The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.
World Bank / International Monetary Fund | IMF protesters smashed the windows of this PNC Financial Services | PNC Bank branch located in the Logan Circle, Washington, D. C. | Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D. C.
The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.
* " Assessment of the health risk of dioxins ", World Health Organization / International Programme on Chemical Safety, 1998
" ( Saturday Review / World, August 24, 1974 )
These effects, often several of them at a time, made it very difficult for World War II era aircraft to reach speeds much beyond 800 km / h ( 500 mph ).
In addition, El Lissitzky's book Russia: an Architecture for World Revolution published in German in 1930 featured several illustrations of Vkhutemas / Vkhutein projects there.
Dry beans come from both Old World varieties of broad beans ( fava beans ) and New World varieties ( kidney, black, cranberry, pinto, navy / haricot ).
It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.
He has also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the U. S. Department of Energy and the Norbert Gerbier / MUMM award from the World Meteorological Organization.
* Bubble Bobble II ( World ) / Bubble Symphony ( Europe, Japan, U. S .) ( 1994 Arcade, Sega Saturn ( Japan only ))
As a result of a study conducted in 1947, the policy was implemented that authorized the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal ( w / o " V ") to soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.
A growing trend in anthropological research and analysis is the use of multi-sited ethnography, discussed in George Marcus ' article, " Ethnography In / Of the World System: the Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography ".
In the latest ( 2011 / 2012 ) Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011 / 2012 Chalmers ranked between 226 and 250 of all global universities.
* How To Stomp the Blues and Funk the World: Chuck D / Public Enemy at Fine Print Magazines website
* Lost World Museum buys Blanco Texas Chupacabra article Syracuse Post Standard 9 / 26 / 09
The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.

World and Gift
Her autobiography Der geschenkte Gaul-Bericht aus einem Leben ( The Gift Horse-Report of a Life ) from 1970 was a candid recount of her life in Germany during and after World War II.
The album track, " Love Is a Gift ," won Newton-John a 1999 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song after being featured on the daytime serial, As The World Turns.
" Transatlantic Generosity: Canada's ‘ Billion Dollar Gift ’ to the United Kingdom in the Second World War.
* Tom Miles, professional athlete / sprinter, Winner 1927 Stawell Gift, 1928 World Champion.
* Season 5: " No Place Like Home " ( first appearance ); " Family "; " Shadow "; " Checkpoint "; " Blood Ties "; " I Was Made to Love You "; " Forever "; " Intervention "; " Tough Love "; " Spiral ; " The Weight of the World "; " The Gift " ( killed )
* Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift
Some of the celebrities who have read on the show include Philip Bosco ( Barbara Bash's Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus ), Michael Ansara ( Paul Goble's The Gift of the Sacred Dog, Sheila MacGill Callahan's And Still the Turtle Watched ), Josie de Guzman ( Leyla Torres ' Saturday Sancocho ), Jason Robards ( Francine Jacobs ' Sam the Sea Cow ), Bill Cosby ( Marc Brown's Arthur's Eyes ), Eartha Kitt ( Megan McDonald's Is This a House for Hermit Crab?
* Louis Werner, 2001, A Gift of Ghazals, Saudi Aramco World
Their CD, Gift to the World was produced by her husband Mike Denneen, with whom she is raising a child.
* Gift to the World ( CD )-Q Division-2003
30 % comes from other World Vision programs and nonprofit organizations as Gift in Kind.
The 2011 Gift Carnival included the inaugural World Banana Hurl Championship which was won by Tim Eschebach from Thornton with a throw of 65. 99 metres.
It is also the place of residence for the Jewish community targeted by Hitler during the Second World War in the novel The Morning Gift.
* Russia's Gift to the World ( 1915 )
During World War I he contributed to relief books, including King Albert's Book ( 1914 ), Princess Mary's Gift Book, and, unusually, his own Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross ( 1915 ) including 20 colour images.
“ Obligation, Coercion, and Economy: The Gift of Deed in Congreve ’ s The Way of the World .” In The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, ed.
The Turner family purchased the building in 1967 to create the World ’ s Largest Gift Shop and the King of Kings Wax Museum, adding faux lava portions at that time.
A Gift of the Emperor ( 1997 ), her first novel, concerns a Korean schoolgirl, Soon-Ah, who is forced into military prostitution by the Japanese government during World War II.
In the CBS movie of the week " A Mother's Gift " she was seen as a character that aged thirty years, whereas in in a World War II drama entitled “ Miriam ” she played a Catholic woman who risks her life to save a Jewish girl from the Nazis.
The building also houses Peaceful World Foundation, the Peace Center, Peace Arts Gallery and Gift Shop and Red Vic Peace Cafe.
He is President of the National Holiday Fund, which takes sick and disabled children to Disney World in Florida, has been patron to Childline for over 18 years, and of the Orphans ' Gift Fund South East London Boroughs, Constables Branch Board, Metropolitan Police.
* Author, " Surfing, Hawaii's Gift to the World " ( 1977 )

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