The books largely take place on board Starbase 47, also known as " Vanguard ", which serves as a support facility for a colonization push by the United Federation of Planets into an interstellar expanse called " The Taurus Reach ".

His partner Titus Statilius Taurus becomes Consul for the second time.

The game focuses on the daring exploits of Groove Champion, his partner Taurus, and their mechanic, Skeeter.

Taurus recruits a reluctant Groove to the cause, with Groove operating Jade's heavily armed Picard Piranha.

The game follows Groove and Taurus ' quest for revenge and the truth.

* Groove Champion ( played by " Everett Mann ", voiced by Andrew Heckler )-The protagonist of Interstate ' 76 and middle Champion child, Groove reluctantly accepts the responsibility of the auto-vigilante lifestyle, takes the CB handle of " Swinger " and drives with Taurus to fight against Malochio's goons.

The 117, 000 pound Castor 120 first stage has a propellant mass fraction of 92. 23 % while the 31, 000 pound Castor 30 upper stage recently developed for Orbital Science's Taurus II COTS ( International Space Station resupply ) launch vehicle has a 91. 3 % propellant fraction with 2. 9 % graphite epoxy motor casing, 2. 4 % nozzle, igniter and thrust vector actuator, and 3. 4 % non-motor hardware including such things as payload mount, interstage adapter, cable raceway, instrumentation, etc.

* With the increasingly real threat to his Empire from the Romans, Antiochus III is eager to negotiate on the basis of Rome's previous demands, but the Romans insist that he first give up the region west of the Taurus Mountains.

) The release of the Ford Taurus was one of the most anticipated ever, mostly because it was a first in-car design and also the start of new quality standards for Ford.

The Taurus received its first cosmetic update in 1992.

It was optional in 1992 and became standard in 1994, making the Taurus the first car of its kind to have standard dual front airbags.

The 1996 model year saw the first complete redesign of the Taurus.

The Taurus became the first sedan to be approved for competition.

The first Taurus driver to win the Winston Cup ( now Sprint Cup ) championship was Dale Jarrett, who drove # 88 Ford Quality Care / Ford Credit-sponsored cars owned by Robert Yates.

The first Taurus driver to win the Busch Series ( now Nationwide Series ) championship was Greg Biffle, who drove # 60 Grainger Industrial Supply-sponsored cars owned by Jack Roush.

He used the same gun he had used to commit the other murders, a Taurus PT100 semi-automatic pistol in. 40 S & W caliber, which had been stolen from the first victim, Jeff Trail.

In the early 4th century all Cilicia was detached by order of Diocletian for administrative purposes from the northern slope of Taurus, and we find a province called at first Isauria-Lycaonia, and later Isauria alone, extending up to the limits of Galatia, but not passing Taurus on the south.

Though the Heckler & Koch VP70 was the first polymer-framed pistol and predates the Glock 17 by 12 years, the popularity of Glock pistols inspired other manufacturers to begin production of similar polymer-framed firearms, including the Walther P99, Smith & Wesson Sigma, HS2000 ( Springfield Armory XD ), Steyr M, Taurus PT 24 / 7, Caracal, FN Herstal FNP and Ruger SR9 pistols.

Under the hood, coil-on-plug ignition replaced the traditional spark plug wires ; a first for the 4. 6 L Modular V8, this was a design borrowed from the 3. 4 L V8 used in the 1996-1999 Ford Taurus SHO.

As Plutarch pointed out, " Lucullus the first Roman who carried an army over Taurus, passed the Tigris, took and burnt the royal palaces of Asia in the sight of the kings, Tigranocerta, Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians.

In the decades following Justinian's death, the local Christians were more concerned for their safety in the wars first against a resurgent Persia, then next against Islamic Arabs, who came to permanently control the territories beyond the Taurus Mountains in the 630s.

It was the first win for Ford's new Taurus, and Wallace's only victory at NASCAR's premier track ( as well as his only victory in any restrictor plate race ) in a Cup car.

Unlike sun-sign astrology where the first sign is Aries, followed by Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces, whereupon the cycle returns to Aries and through the zodiacal signs again, astrological ages proceed in the opposite direction (" retrograde " in astronomy ).

In Greek legend, the city was first called Thoana because Thoas, a Thracian king, was its founder ( Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi ); it was in Cappadocia, at the foot of the Taurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates ( Strabo, XII, 537 ; XIII, 587 ).

The Taurus and Sable were the first domestically produced, mainstream sedans to use the new lights.

The smaller LTD continued in sedan and station wagon forms through 1986, overlapping with the first model year of the Ford Taurus in 1986, the car that became its successor.

The Q45's use of a Cloisonné insignia instead of a conventional grille also caused buyers to shy away because of its unconventional appearance, and may have been influenced from the first generation Ford Taurus, the 1993 update featured a more conventional appearance including a more traditional appearing grille, woodgrain / chrome interior trim and cushy seats.

Drummund makes his case that at the time of Abraham, the Amorites first recorded the shift from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries as represented by the year commencing with the Ram ( Aries ) rather than the bull ( Taurus ).

Taurus is associated with the metal copper, and bronze ( an alloy of copper and tin ) was for the first time smelted and worked into bronze swords during the early phase of this era.

It has a relatively high orbital inclination, but at the time of Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto, Makemake was only a few degrees from the ecliptic near the border of Taurus and Auriga at an apparent magnitude of 16.

Nevertheless, he was able to withdraw the bulk of his army intact to the Taurus Mountains, where he was able to hold the passes for a few months as Niger returned to Antioch.

However, Ford revived the Taurus name during the 2007 Chicago Auto Show a few months later by renaming two new models that had been intended to be updated versions of the Five Hundred and the Freestyle, the " 2008 Taurus " and " 2008 Taurus X ", respectively.

It served as a rebadged variant of the Ford Taurus, with a few cosmetic changes.

The company also offers a few unique features not found elsewhere, for example while some polymer-frame firearms such as the Glock have no exterior safety features, the Taurus equivalents have a manual safety.

While the station does in fact help colonies across the area, its true mission ( known only to a few people ) is to study a mystery that began with the discovery of genetically engineered DNA millions of times more complex than any previously encountered, known as " The Taurus Meta-Genome ".

According to the book: Space Patrol, missions of daring in the name of early television " It's rumored that Gene Roddenberry was a huge fan of the show and patterned Star Trek's engineer, Mr Scott, after McCloud's Scottish sidekick, Taurus ".

* Zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries ( astrology ) ( until April 19 ) and Taurus ( astrology ) ( April 21 onwards ).

* The Zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus ( until May 20 ) and Gemini ( May 21 onwards ).

BAS was wholly owned by Bertolt Flick ( President and CEO ) until December 2010, when 50 % of BAS shares were transferred to Taurus Asset Management Fund Limited, registered in the Bahamas.

Ford would not replace its family-sized Fairmont with a front-wheel drive design until the 1986 Ford Taurus, while cars like the Chevrolet Cavalier and Ford Tempo would be marketed as upscale compacts rather than family sedans.

Ford's Mustang has stayed rear-wheel drive, as it must maintain a sporty presence, as were Ford's full-size cars based on the Ford Panther platform ( the Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis, and Lincoln Town Car ) until they were discontinued in 2011 in favour of the Ford Taurus, which has a transverse front-wheel-drive layout.

4-cylinder Sable sales were so poor that the engine was dropped in 1987 ( it remained an option for the Taurus until 1991 ).

It was sold with Mercury badges as the Ford Taurus up until 1995, especially with the second generation.

Another inaccuracy is the depiction of Rusty Wallace's car as a Dodge Intrepid in the Daytona 500-Penske Racing did not switch to Dodge until 2003, and Wallace was driving a Ford Taurus in 2001.

In the twentieth century, a concept called " natural houses " was popular, in which it was argued that each of the twelve houses of the astrological chart corresponds to a sign of the zodiac: the first house corresponds to Aries, the second to Taurus, and so forth, continuing through the chart until the twelfth house, which is linked to Pisces.

Ford would not have a true replacement for the midsize market in terms of interior space until the Taurus was introduced as an 1986 model.

The Ford Taurus SHO ( Super High Output ) is a performance sedan based on the Ford Taurus that was originally produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1989 until 1999.

The situation did not stabilize until after the failure of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople in 718, when the Taurus Mountains on the eastern rim of Asia Minor became established as the mutual, heavily fortified and largely depopulated frontier.