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It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and acquaintances — notably Clive's snobbish, backstabbing cousin Barnes Newcome.
Without enough energy to return to Earth, a squadron including Colonel Sumner, Major John Sheppard ( Joe Flanigan ), and Lieutenant Aiden Ford ( Rainbow Sun Francks ) travels to a random planet for help.
Representing the present day was Squeek ( a mute cowboy puppet boy ), and representing the past was Scratch, a caveman of great physical strength who was awakened from a sleep of several thousand years by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the same event that triggered Colonel Bleep's travels to earth.
In this capacity, he travels to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and is forced to work with Colonel Harrison ( Hack ) Peters, his rival for Rhoda's love.
But it was not so ; the travels of Colonel Prjevalsky in the commencement of 1877 had not been unobserved by the Chinese, and it was assumed that where a Russian officer with his Cossack following could go, there also could go a Chinese army.
During the episode Peter travels to Kentucky and visits a Kentucky Fried Chicken, hoping to meet Colonel Sanders.

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Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?
In later life Ampère claimed that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew ; but, a polymath, his reading embraced history, travels, poetry, philosophy, and the natural sciences.
Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.
The general account of the travels of the two brothers was published by Arnaud in 1868 under the title of Douze ans dans la Haute Ethiopie.
The first part of Einstein's argument was to determine how far a Brownian particle travels in a given time interval.
He was not ready to commit to a film, however, and busied himself with writing a 50, 000 word serial of his travels.
Scientists experimenting in time travel choose him for their studies, and the man travels back in time to contact the mysterious woman, and discovers that the man's death at the Orly Airport was his own.
It was a work of synthesis, backed by his own personal observations on his travels.
" And all the construction of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according to everything that God had commanded Moses ", and from that time God dwelt in the Tabernacle and ordered the travels of the Hebrews.
He was so taken with Italian culture and language during his travels that after his return he became known as the " Italian Earl " at court.
The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.
Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there.
Margaret Fell petitioned the king for his release, which was granted, but Fox felt too weak to take up his travels immediately.
It was therefore an outward-looking, international-minded port within the Persian Empire and the historian's family could well have had contacts in countries under Persian rule, facilitating his travels and his researches.
Unfortunately his health was damaged by the endeavours of these travels, and he died after an illness of several months.
(, ), or simply Ibn Battuta (), also known as Shams ad-Din ( February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369 ), was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla ( lit.
There Ibn Battuta was acquainted by a local Malian merchant named Abu Bakr Ibn Yaqub, together they ventured around Timbuktu and sailed to Gao, it was during their travels that Ibn Battuta first encountered a hippopotamus, which was feared among the local boatmen because it drowned or killed local inhabitants.
Music journalist Chris Welch argues that " Zeppelin's travels spawned many stories, but it was a myth that were constantly engaged in acts of wanton destruction and lewd behaviour ".
Marco Polo (; ; September 15, 1254 – January 9, 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.
Possibly this prompted Musashi to leave, embarking on a new series of travels, winding up in Edo in 1623, where he became friends with the Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan, who was one of the Shogun's advisors.
His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries.
During his travels, he collected crumbling Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece.

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Another strong influence was his travels, first to Egypt and Italy and then to northern Russia, where he was deeply impressed by the Old Believers.
On her travels, she visits the town of Alice Springs, where Joe lived before the war, and is much impressed with the quality of life there.
First, she visited Provence ( Norah was deeply impressed by Nîmes, and dedicated some of her later work to her travels there ).

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He returned from his travels much improved, and again commenced his labors with vigour and enthusiasm.
Paul travels to Jerusalem where he meets with the apostles — a meeting known as the Council of Jerusalem ().
His brother-in-law Balthasar van der Ast also lived and worked in his workshop and moved with him on his travels.
In the course of these travels he made a point of complying with all local enactments, even where such compliance laid him open to the charge of inconsistency ( Yer.
From 1778 a display of objects from the South Seas brought back from the round-the-world voyages of Captain James Cook and the travels of other explorers fascinated visitors with a glimpse of previously unknown lands.
Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.
He is a loyal friend to those true to him, with a barbaric code of conduct that often marks him as more honorable than the more sophisticated people he meets in his travels.
* In the Stargate Universe TV series, an Ancient spaceship, Destiny, travels to an artificial source of CMBR with indications that the universe as we know it might have been created by some form of sentient intelligence.
Intuition tells us that on a flat curve with no banking at all, the ball will simply slide off the road ; while with a very steep banking, the ball will slide to the center unless it travels the curve rapidly.
The unit vector u < sub > ρ </ sub > travels with the particle and always points in the same direction as r ( t ).
Unit vector u < sub > θ </ sub > also travels with the particle and stays orthogonal to u < sub > ρ </ sub >.
Tappers have a mercury drop in a reservoir at the center, with a capillary tube leading to another reservoir at a side ; the load is activated by tapping the die so that the mercury travels to the side.
However, it is apparent from many episodes and movies where Nobita travels to the future that in the end he does marry Shizuka, leads a happy life and separates with Doraemon, although Nobita and his friends fondly remember him.
If called upon, the neighbouring amoeba midwife travels up to 200 μm towards the dividing amoeba, usually advancing in a straight trajectory with an average velocity of about 0. 5 μm / s.
The vesicle then travels into the cytosol and fuses with other vesicles such as endosomes and lysosomes.
" Ash " Williams A common guy who travels to the cabin in the woods to spend the weekend with his girlfriend Linda.
She travels to the cabin looking forward to share her discoveries of the book of the dead with her father.
The transmittance T is generally not equal to | t < sup > 2 </ sup >|, since the light travels with different direction and speed in the two media.
* Light travels at speed c / n when not in a vacuum but travelling through a medium with refractive index = n ( causing refraction ), and in some materials other particles can travel faster than c / n ( but still slower than c ), leading to Cherenkov radiation ( see phase velocity below ).
As with the Alcubierre drive, travelers moving through the wormhole would not locally move faster than light which travels through the wormhole alongside them, but they would be able to reach their destination ( and return to their starting location ) faster than light traveling outside the wormhole.
Emmy, however, travels to the future and returns with Mecha-King Ghidorah, a resurrected cyborg version of the original.
The GM may also direct a particular " NPC " that travels with the party ( commonly known as a GMPC ), but this may occasionally be open to abuse since the Game Master having a " pet " NPC may compromise his neutrality.

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