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Spade and Archer take the assignment because the money is good, but Spade implies that the woman looks like trouble.
She is also co-producing Planet Earth, a musical CD featuring settings of Canadian women's poetry by well known composers like Violet Archer, Barbara Pentland, Chester Duncan, Jana Skarecky, Paul McIntyre, and others ( performed, commissioned for, and premiered at the Wider Boundaries conference / festival ), together with Barbara Godard, Jana Skarecky, and Brenda Muller.
* The Sturmey Archer and Fichtel & Sachs ' Torpedo ' systems defaulted to top gear at slack-cable, which could make the bicycle usable for long distance travel in flat terrain even if a fault developed in the change mechanism ( rather like a derailleur system, which can be manually set to a high gear in case of a similar fault ).
Phil, like his father, Dan Archer, before him, became a senior figure in the series, almost a village patriarch.
It is often referred to as ' Queen Anne's Footstool ' because as legend has it, when Archer was designing the church he asked the Queen what she wanted it to look like.
Dissatisfied with the poor definition and contrast of the calotype and the long exposures needed, Scott Archer invented the new process in 1848 and published it in The Chemist in March 1851, enabling photographers to combine the fine detail of the daguerreotype with the ability to print multiple paper copies like the calotype.
" He came down and just blew us all away ," remembers Archer .. " I thought he was mega but the others were worried what a 15-years-old kid on the road and on the lager would be like.
Archer interacted more in this prison with those inmates who could obtain for him goods and services not formally permitted by the authorities, like extra BT phone-cards.
Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
He blames those who set the rules ( i. e., politicians in Washington, D. C., bureaucrats at the United States Department of Agriculture, Wall Street capitalists, and agricultural conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midland ) of what he calls a destructive and precarious agricultural system that has wrought havoc upon the diet, nutrition, and well-being of Americans.
Authors like Jeffrey Archer have used this term in their novels.
Trick arrows are generally technological, although they can be magical, like those used by the comic book characters Celestial Archer and Maya, or Hank the Ranger of the Dungeons & Dragons TV series.
In 2010, Brooks starred as Mr. Blake Owens on Miss Behave, a webseries that also has fellow Days of our Lives stars like Jillian Clare ( who played Abigail " Abby " Deveraux in Days of our Lives ) as Victoria " Tori " Archer and Eric Martsolf as Marcus Dunne.
Wingfield apparently took a copy of the 1st Virginia Charter with him to Virginia, something that would have been provocative to a man like Gabriel Archer.
:" A couple miles up Archer there, she jumped with a start like a horse and said ' Here!
To the east, they continue on the express tracks ( except evenings and weekends when they switch to the local tracks like the F ) to Jamaica Center – Parsons / Archer, with limited rush-hour service to 179th Street.
Since 2010, Martsolf has starred as Marcus Dunne on Miss Behave, a webseries, that also has fellow DOOL stars, like Jillian Clare, who played Abigail " Abby " Deveraux but plays Victoria " Tori " Archer and Darin Brooks, who played Max Brady, also stars, but as Mr. Blake Owens.
* The Artful Archer ( voiced by Paul Frees )-A supervillain who was dressed like Robin Hood.

Archer and Hammett's
In 2009, with the approval of the estate of Dashiell Hammett, the veteran detective-story writer Joe Gores published Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON with Alfred A. Knopf, the original publisher of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
The Op can be regarded as a protoype for the hardboiled detective exemplified in such characters as Hammett's Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, and others.

Archer and fictional
* Archer ( DC Comics ), a fictional character
Archer City and its Royal Theater are the basis for McMurtry's fictional towns of " Thalia " and " Anarene " in his novels, including The Last Picture Show.
Jonathan Archer is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.
In the next version of novel, Archer replaced Kennedy with the fictional character of Florentyna Kane, and Bumpers with the real-life Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.
This legend has similarities with the Chinese tale of the fictional hero Houyi, sometimes referred to as the Archer, who is credited with saving the world by shooting down nine of the suns when one day all ten took to the air simultaneously.
* It was chosen by Phil Archer, a fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, to be played in his memorial service.
Borsetshire Blue is the name of a fictional cheese made by Helen Archer in the programme.
First Among Equals is a 1984 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer, which follows the careers and personal lives of four fictional British politicians ( Simon Kerslake, MP for Coventry Central and later Pucklebridge ; Charles Seymour, MP for Sussex Downs ; Raymond Gould, MP for Leeds North ; and Andrew Fraser, MP for Edinburgh Carlton ) from 1964 to 1991, with each vying to become Prime Minister.
* International Secret Intelligence Service, fictional spy agency in the TV series Archer
* Santa Teresa ( fictional city ), first used by Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels ; now the California home of Kinsey Millhone in Sue Grafton's " alphabet mysteries " books
Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald.
* Sterling Archer fictional spy on tv show of that name
He plays the lead fictional character of Danny Archer, an ex-mercenary, diamond-smuggler and self-proclaimed " Rhodesian " whose parents were murdered on their farm by rebels.
While Rawlins is clearly in the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, he differs sharply from these earlier fictional detectives in that Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator ( he acquires a license late in the series ) with no background or training in law enforcement.
* Jack Archer, fictional pilot and protagonist of video game Robotech: Battlecry
Golden Archer ( Wyatt McDonald ) is a fictional superhero that has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics.
Rainbow Archer is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics.

Archer and heroes
In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.
Four heroes from the present-Solar, Gilad the Eternal Warrior and his two brothers, Ivar (" Timewalker ") and Aram ( Armstrong from Archer & Armstrong )-survived into the 41st century, but their experiences through the centuries had made them different from their contemporary counterparts.

Archer and was
The 1966 movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the first Lew Archer story The Moving Target ( 1949 ).
Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C. R.
This view was challenged by Jim Bradbury in his book The Medieval Archer and more modern works are more ready to accept a variety of formations.
Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.
He saw the company through both world wars, became a noted community leader, and was a co-founder of the Mariners ' Museum with Archer Huntington.
* 1987 – Operation Nimble Archer was the attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by,,, and.
The first machine specifically designed to perforate postage stamps was invented in London by Henry Archer, an Irish landowner and railroad man from Dublin, Ireland.
The title of Series V was revealed to be Enterprise, with Scott Bakula, of Quantum Leap fame, playing Captain Jeffrey Archer, a name that was quickly changed to Jonathan Archer due to fan feedback.
Before posting to the Enterprise, Sato taught linguistics in Brazil ; it is not known whether she was an active Starfleet officer or was reactivated to serve under Jonathan Archer.
A teenage boy buried approximately 1550 BC was raised near the Mediterranean Sea ; a metal worker from 2300 BC dubbed the " Amesbury Archer " grew up near the alpine foothills of Germany ; and the " Boscombe Bowmen " probably arrived from Wales or Brittany, France.
Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.
Strachan was killed in an air crash on 29 August 2001, when the helicopter he was learning to fly solo crashed into Mount Archer near Kilcoy, northwest of Brisbane.
Dar-es-Salaam remained the seat of Government of the colony and the first Administrator was Sir Horace Archer Byatt CMG.
Among four Daley campaign appearances on the Sunday a week before primary week was a rally of Polish Highlanders at 4808 S. Archer Ave.
The Conservative Party had to replace Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare as their candidate when he was charged with perjury ; Steve Norris was elected as his replacement.
Hang ' Em High was widely praised by critics, including Archer Winsten of the New York Post who described it as, " a western of quality, courage, danger and excitement ".

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