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Miles and Ivan
With the unexpected and odd arrival of Miles ’ cousin Ivan Vorpatril, he deduces that a political faction in the Council of Counts is attacking his father back on Barrayar by charging Miles with maintaining a private army — an act of capital treason.
However, examples of successful such pairings include Inspector Morse and his sidekick DS Robbie Lewis, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie Goodwin, Hiro Nakamura and his sidekick Ando Masahashi, and Miles Vorkosigan and his sidekick cousin Ivan Vorpatril.
* 2000 30 Years of Montreux Jazz Festival ( Various ); Anthology ( Eddie Henderson ) ( bckgr ); Going Home: Tribute To Duke Ellington ( Various ); Love Affair: The Music of Ivan Lins ( Jason Miles / Various ); Never Gonna Give Up ( Lorrich ); Pure Cool ( Various ); Sci-Fi ( Christian McBride ); Smooth and Straight ( Various ); Smooth Grooves: Jazzy Soul, Vol.
* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, artificial uteri, called uterine replicators are widely used, and body births are considerably out of favor on most technologically advanced worlds, to the extent that Miles Vorkosigan disgusts some Cetagandan women by mentioning that his cousin Ivan was born from his mother's body.
Ivan probably understands Miles better than any other person his age, except possibly for Emperor Gregor.
In return, Miles trusts Ivan more than he trusts almost anyone else: when Ivan first called himself Miles's donkey, Miles answered " I don't know what I'll be asking you to carry, but it could be high explosives ... I need a donkey I can trust.
Miles sprang the trap and saved Ivan from a grisly end, which left Ivan less than enamoured with Mark for a while afterward.
In the event, Ivan manages to finally get one up on Miles by turning his usual " Ivan, you idiot!
Lady Alys is the mother of Ivan Vorpatril, the cousin of the series ' main character, Miles Vorkosigan.

Miles and are
The three -- Miles J. Cooperman, Sheldon Teller, and Richard Austin -- and eight other defendants are charged in six indictments with conspiracy to violate federal narcotic laws.
His plot thoroughly unraveled, Pseudolus appears to be in deep trouble — but Erronius, completing his third circuit of the Roman hills, shows up fortuitously to discover that Miles Gloriosus and Philia are wearing matching rings which mark them as his long-lost children.
Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock.
Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).
Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz, Billy Branch, John Popper, Tom Ball, " Dirty " Patrick Walsh, Big Dave Perea, Joe Filisko, Miles Ryan and others are keeping the harmonica tradition alive.
Also of importance are his five Blue Note recordings, collected in the Miles Davis Volume 1 album.
Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.
Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.
Though his frailties are gradually mended, Miles ' physical development is severely affected and, as an adult, he is subtly but noticeably misshapen and no taller than an adolescent boy.
200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, engineer Leo Graf encounters the Quaddies, who are genetically engineered to have an extra pair of arms instead of legs.
Miles breaks into Ryoval's laboratory, but is caught and imprisoned in a utility sublevel where they are also keeping Canaba's dangerous specimen, " Nine ".
At this point, they ( along with nearly everyone else ) are unaware that Naismith and Miles Vorkosigan are one and the same.
Miles and Ekaterin are caught up in the plot, but she proves to be just as effective as Miles in derailing their enemies ' plans, much to his rapidly growing admiration.
Once the Komarrans are defeated, the plot and the new weapon are classified at the highest levels possible — meaning that any information about Ekaterin's husband's death that might exonerate Miles in a subsequent inquiry cannot be disclosed.
Periplectomenos ( Miles Gloriosus ) and Daemones ( Rudens ) are regarded as senes lepidi because they usually keep their feelings within a respectable limit.
* January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and arrested.
Rock and roll pioneer Wynonie Harris ; jazz great Preston Love ; drummer Buddy Miles ; and Luigi Waites are among the city's homegrown talent.
Other early alternatives such as John Stiles and Richard Miles are now rarely used, and Mary Major has been used in some American federal cases.
Sam Spade and Miles Archer are hired by a Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has allegedly run off with Wonderly's younger sister.
At the time of Miles Archer's death, Spade is having an affair with Archer's wife, and while he does the " right thing " in the end, catching and turning in Archer's murderer, his reasons for doing so are somewhat ambiguous.

Miles and sent
In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville.
Halsey sent along his irascible chief of staff, Captain Miles Browning, to aide Spruance.
On the other hand, the British sent Lord Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel and Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn to bring the Dutch and Indonesians to the negotiating table.
Due to Gayda's highly botched mixed tag match on the July 8 edition of Raw, Miles and Gayda were sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling for further training and development.
The strike was broken up by United States Marshals and some 2, 000 United States Army troops, commanded by Nelson Miles, sent in by President Grover Cleveland on the premise that the strike interfered with the delivery of U. S. Mail.
Major Igles sent couriers reporting the Nez Perce location to General Miles who was advancing cross country from Ft. Keogh with fresh troops to intercept the Nez Perce.
Miles swore off liquor and was sent to the supposedly quiet post at Harpers Ferry.
A sample sent away to the assayer in Cloncurry confirmed that Miles had hit the jackpot.
Miles crystallized electric jazz fusion and that he sent his emmissaries out.
During the Spanish-American War, he was dispatched to Guantánamo, Cuba, and later sent to Puerto Rico, alongside General Nelson Miles.
Once in Britain, and having passed basic flight training the newly qualified pilots were sent for advanced operational training to an operational training unit ( OTU ) for two to four weeks to learn to fly Miles Master trainers, Hawker Hurricanes, and Supermarine Spitfires before being posted to a squadron.
At some point he also served his community as a representative to the General Court. In 1637 and 1642 it is written Miles Standish shall goe captaine to lead those forces that shall be sent forth ….. Among “ the names of the souldiers that willingly offer themselves to go upon the Serive, with Mr. Prince and the Leiften was Perregrine Whites
In 1910 no fewer than four volumes were privately printed, Moreton Miles, Southern Songs, A Northern Trail, and The New Life, of which copies were sent to the principal public libraries, but few, if any, were sold to the public.
The son of the Bene Gesserit Lady Janet Roxbrough of Lernaeus ( a Fish Speaker descendant ) and Loschy Teg, a " CHOAM station factor " chosen for breeding by the Sisterhood for his " gene potential ," Miles Teg had been instructed in the Bene Gesserit ways by his mother before being sent to Lampadas to train as a Mentat, a human computer.
While buying books for his studies, Kid's tuition cheque bounces and he is sent to the finance office where first he meets Miles, the Dean's assistant who tells him not to be intimidated.
While the title character's death was given a sense of finality, the story was left open in one respect: when Miles Hawkins returned to 1994 from the year 2026 ( a 32 year difference ), he did so precisely 32 seconds after his vehicle sent him forward in time, thus altering the computer-controlled future that his disappearance had led to.
As such, Miles Hawkins, while dying in the reality that he returned to, was also sent forward in time to an unknown future.
Not needing the infantry support, Sheridan sent Miles back.
Heth, now in command of Hill's Third Corps, repulsed two attacks from Miles before the latter sent for reinforcements.
On December 10 Miles and the others presented a letter to the President that assured him that the forts in Charleston would not be molested " provided that no reinforcement should be sent into those forts, and their relative military status " maintained.
She becomes fearful of him and is hostile towards Richard Alpert ( Nestor Carbonell ), Miles and Frank Lapidus ( Jeff Fahey ) when she believes that they have been sent to kill her.
Soon after Locke is separated from the group Jin, Sawyer, Juliet and Miles get sent to an ancient time, in which a gigantic statue is seen standing far away from them.
For 1949 a Research and Development flight was formed under Stan Quill, equipped with the three Avengers and a Douglas DC-3, while instructions were sent to England to modify 2 RNZAF Miles Aerovans then on the production line to carry one-ton hoppers.

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