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Double Star follows in the footsteps of ESA's Cluster mission by studying the effects of the Sun on the Earth's environment.
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The Robert Cains brewery in Liverpool brews Cains Double Bock beer at 8 % abv, and the Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, produce a 5. 6 % abv Maibock.
He also wrote an extended essay attacking the ideologists on both sides of the cold war, Double Exposure ( 1985 ) and edited a collection of essays opposing Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars ( 1985 ).
Upgraded versions of the GHOUL system was later used in other Raven titles such as Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix and Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast.
* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Martians ( usually, human beings born and bred on Mars ) as characters in his novels and short stories, including Red Planet ( 1949 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).
The Washington Double Star Catalog, a database of visual double stars compiled by the United States Naval Observatory, contains over 100, 000 pairs of double stars, including optical doubles as well as binary stars.
Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction ( February, March, April 1956 ) and published in hardcover the same year.
Writing in 1957, however, Blish says that " The only first-person narrator Heinlein has created who is a living, completely independent human being is The Great Lorenzo of Double Star.
The cover illustration for a 1970s UK edition of Double Star ( artist: Anthony Roberts ) was the subject of an unlikely controversy when it was used as the basis of an entry for the 2000 Turner Prize for modern art.
The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.
* In Robert Heinlein's novel Double Star ( 1956 ), a down-and-out actor portrays, then replaces, a powerful political figure.
The Washington Double Star Catalog lists two optical components ; however, these do not share the system's proper motion and only appear close to Upsilon Andromedae because they happen to lie near the same line of sight.
Greenwood is known in the United States for his appearances in Star Trek, I, Robot, Double Jeopardy, The Core, Thirteen Days ( in which he played president John F. Kennedy ), Capote ( in which he played Jack Dunphy, Truman Capote's lover ), Eight Below ( in which he played Professor Davis McClaren ) and Firehouse Dog.
Revived the navy " Double Star " jerseys on Thanksgiving Day during the NFL's " Throwback Weekend " in 2001 – 2003.
Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein described therapeutic waterbeds in his novels Beyond This Horizon ( 1942 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).
He was also presented with the Commander ’ s Cross with the Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President of Hungary and the Order of the White Double Cross, First Class, by the President of the Slovak Republic.
Double and follows
Musically, the Single Jig tends to follow the pattern of a quarter note followed by an eighth note ( twice per 6 / 8 bar ), whereas the Double Jig follows the pattern of having three eighth notes ( twice per 6 / 8 bar ).
Like Nightmare Alley and Double Indemnity, which in a narrative sense it closely resembles, Brainstorm follows a typical noir pattern from romance, to melodrama, to crime, and finally to horror.
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Double and Cluster
Some others, such as the Double Cluster, are barely perceptible without instruments, while many more can be seen using binoculars or telescopes.
The Roman astronomer Ptolemy mentions the Praesepe, the Double Cluster in Perseus, and the Ptolemy Cluster, while the Persian astronomer Al-Sufi wrote of the Omicron Velorum cluster.
The best known example in the Milky Way is the Double Cluster of NGC 869 and NGC 884 ( sometimes mistakenly called h and χ Persei ; h refers to a neighboring star and χ to both clusters ), but at least 10 more double clusters are known to exist.
Double and mission
Other activities conducted during the mission included investigations using the Biorack facility, located in the SPACEHAB Double Module in Atlantis ’ s payload bay, a photo survey of Mir during docked operations, environmental air samplings and radiation monitoring.
STS-96 was a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station carrying the Spacehab Double Module ( DM ) 13th Spacehab overall ( 6th dual module use ).
Double Star is a joint satellite based space mission by the China National Space Administration ( CNSA ) and the European Space Agency ( ESA ).
After a nominal mission of one year ( from the launch of TC-2 in July 2004 ), the Double Star mission was extended twice by both agencies till the end of September 2007.
The Double Star mission uses two satellites in Earth orbit-each designed, developed, launched, and operated by the China National Space Administration.
KDHX is licensed to the Double Helix Corporation, a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit arts and educational organization with a mission to create community through media.
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* Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, Hardcover, 243 pages, Published 1985 by Dodd, Mead NY, ISBN 0-396-08747-7 includes 20 from 4 sets: The Tuesday Club Murders, The Regatta Mystery, Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, and Double Sin and Other Stories.
* Double down The player is allowed to increase the initial bet by up to 100 % in exchange for committing to stand after receiving exactly one more card.
Double progression dances, popularized by Herbie Gaudreau, added to the aerobic nature of the dances, and one caller, Gene Hubert, wrote a quadruple progression dance, Contra Madness.
He published at his own expense a volume containing six of his best stories, The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies, in an edition of 1000 copies printed by the Auburn Journal.
* The Double Shadow was filmed by Azathoth Productions on Super 8 film in 1975 with a script by Leigh Blackmore.
At the top of the order, Dernier and Sandberg were exciting, aptly coined " the Daily Double " by Harry Caray.
So by reducing the number of tracks used and thus capacity, it was possible to further reduce cost-in contrast to Double Density drives used e. g. in IBM PC computers of the day which saved 180 kB on one side ( by using a 40 tracks format ).
In 1976, American DJ, editor, and producer Walter Gibbons remixed " Ten Percent " by Double Exposure, one of the earliest commercially released 12 ″ singles ( aka " maxi-single ").
Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.
Not only one-player mode, Dance Dance Revolution provides two-player mode ( Versus Mode ) and Double Mode, which is played by one player but using two pads.
They were given consistent radio support by Sydney-based noncommercial rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ), one of the first rock stations outside America to play their recordings.
Other variants of East Coast Swing that use altered footwork forms are known as Single Swing or " Single-step Swing " ( where the triple step is replaced by a single step forming a slow, slow, quick, quick rhythm common to Foxtrot ), and Double Swing ( using a tap-step footwork pattern ).
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