Susan and the newly-named Unity discover that Lobsang Ludd and Jeremy Clockson seem to share an astonishing mental connection.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

One of the strongest arguments against it is that it would be astonishing if Maimonides, famously opposed to the Karaites, had followed the authority of a Karaite, even in the matter of open and closed sections.

The main feature of the festival is the open-air screening space in the astonishing Piazza Grande, with room for over 8, 000 spectators, and with one of the largest open air screens in the world ( 26x14 metres ).

In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi, Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing characters in French literature.

A piece of exquisite baroque prose that George Saintsbury called " the longest piece, perhaps, of absolutely sublime rhetoric to be found in the prose literature of the world ," Hydriotaphia displays an astonishing command of English prose rhythm and diction.

The range of Morgagni's scholarship, as evidenced by his references to early and contemporary literature, is astonishing.

Current GDP per capita reached astonishing peak growth of 439 % in the 1970s.

The astonishing technical advances of the spectralist composers in the 1970s are only recently beginning to achieve wide recognition in the United States ; major composers in this vein include Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, and Claude Vivier.

In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the Soviet Union and the United States theorized, designed and in some cases even tested an astonishing variety of bizarre and exotic weaponry designed for warfare in outer space.

He has also offered to save struggling ITV breakfast show Daybreak by stepping in and repeating the astonishing turnaround he achieved in the 1980s for TV-am.

She competed in the South African ultramarathon, the Comrades Marathon in the late 1980s and early 90s with astonishing success, setting records for both up and down run, one of which was still standing in 2012.

It " developed an extremely effective and profitable corporate structure ", and " by the 1980s, the movement had evolved into a complex, interlocking network of corporations, with an astonishing number of both spiritual and secular businesses worldwide, offering everything from yoga and psychological counselling to cleaning services.

Chan has, in some ways, become a victim of his own excellence: the astonishing stunt work and action choreography of his peak years ( the 1980s period of the Police Story and Project A films ) have set up expectations that no performer could continue to live up to, certainly not after moving into middle age.

These letters dealt with an astonishing diversity of subjects, from local petty politics or the tricks of spiritualist mediums to principles of industry and finance and profundities of metaphysics.

In this section we have mainly dealt with the analogue to digital converter as a stand alone function which achieves astonishing accuracy with what is now a very simple and cheap architecture.

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

The guards came to life with astonishing menace.

The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

Maneuver warfare also developed with an astonishing pace with the advent of the tank, replacing the archaic cannons of the Enlightenment Age.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

Indeed, " after the first or perhaps the second century, there is not record of it in any Orthodox source, and it is not recorded as occurring even among the great Fathers of the Egyptian desert, who were so filled with the Spirit of God they performed numerous astonishing miracles, including raising the dead ".

This astonishing event resulted in a widespread demand within the Navy for lemon juice, backed by the Sick and Hurt Board whose numbers had recently been augmented by two practical naval surgeons who were well aware of Lind's experiment with citrus.

" It was decided in the affirmative previous to his return ; but he approved with astonishing eloquence, and thereafter was ever in the front rank in maintaining intercommunion between all churches holding the main doctrines of the Reformation.

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

Orbison was unhappy with the first two takes, but in the third, he abandoned the idea of using falsetto and sang the final high G sharp naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing.

In the 1998 NLCS, the Padres faced the Atlanta Braves, who had won the National League East with an astonishing 106 – 56 record.

Shah Jahan's cenotaph is bigger than that of his wife, but reflects the same elements: a larger casket on a slightly taller base, again decorated with astonishing precision with lapidary and calligraphy that identifies him.

One day, while Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were hard at work at NBC writing their venerable Amos and Andy show, a knock came on the door ; it was Paley himself, with an astonishing offer: " Whatever you are getting now I will give you twice as much.

" Erwin Rommel credited Patton with executing " the most astonishing achievement in mobile warfare.

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

Murray and Millet wrote that Raeder's views on the desirability of starting a war with the United States were " astonishing " because neither he nor anybody else in the Seekriegsleitung saw fit during the period July – December 1941 to commission studies on what would be the strategic consequences of war with the United States.

The Covadonga area is also rich with astonishing stories, such as the one which is said to have happened in a shepherd village where today Enol and Ercina lakes are situated.

The notion that animals, including human beings, can be taught to react to selected stimuli in a desired way -- by ' brainwashing ' them -- is one that naturally appeals to tyrants and perhaps it was this, along with the favourable light his success was casting on Soviet Russia among western intellectuals, which accounted for the astonishing tolerance with which Pavlov was treated by the Soviet regime.

Zaharoff had knowledge, with astonishing speed, of the young inventor and Spanish Navy officer's works.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.

Biological processes play a major role in the removal of contaminants and biotechnology is taking advantage of the astonishing catabolic versatility of microorganisms to degrade / convert such compounds.

This is what I see in the art of this astonishing people.

There is an astonishing number of taboo deformations in English, of which many refer to the infamous four-letter words.

This is an appropriate image, seeing as both the family and the genus are known for their astonishing variety and diversity of flowers and leaves.

With the recent developments in the mining industry and foreign interest increasing at an astonishing rate, it is claimed their Wolf Economy looks ready to pounce.

America sees the absurdities -- she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered ' and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition ': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom ; She secures the sacred rights of every individual ; and ( astonishing absurdity to Europeans!

As an illustration of artificial selection, he describes fancy pigeon breeding, noting that " he diversity of the breeds is something astonishing ", yet all were descended from one species of rock pigeon.

Nevertheless, the presence of a model of a horse-drawn vehicle on two spoked wheels in Northern Europe at such an early time is astonishing.

It is astonishing that in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers, the musical proportions can be preserved ........ it must be remarked however, that both Scotland and Wales strive to rival Ireland in the art of music ......

Yet, it is perhaps most telling that Seth's cultus persisted with astonishing potency even into the latter days of ancient Egyptian religion, in outlying ( but important ) places like Kharga, Dakhlah, Deir el-Hagar, Mut, Kellis, etc.

This vehemence of belief demonstrates that she was, by this time, considered " insane " by secular intellectuals ; it is therefore by all accounts astonishing that she was taken even remotely seriously in later years by the English establishment.