`` Thanks '', Owen said, `` but Friday is a long way off and anything can happen ''.

Thanks to a well-designed set of chips designed by MOS Technology, the Commodore 64, ( also referred to as C64 ), possessed remarkable sound and graphics for its time and is often credited with starting the computer demo scene.

Thanks to Magneto, though, this re-imagined world is a place where a much more numerous mutant-kind are the dominant species, humans a disenfranchised and oppressed ' silent majority ', and Magneto himself rules supreme.

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Thanks to the use of pure notation, a mnemonics system and a hierarchical decimal place system, it is generally easier to use.

Thanks to the Bristol-based Aardman Animations, the UK is still recognised as a world leader in the use of stop-motion animation.

* TFTC – ( Thanks For The Cache ) This is often used at the end of logs to thank the cache owner.

Thanks to these extra elements, Earth in the Marvel Universe is home to a large number of superheroes and supervillains, who have gained their powers by any of these means.

Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger (" Thanks for the Memory ", " Love in Bloom ", " Blue Hawaii ").

Thanks to being a scripting language with module architecture, syntax simplicity and rich text processing tools, Python is often used for Natural language processing tasks.

Thanks to its architectural heritage Toruń is visited by more than 1. 5 million tourists a year ( 1. 6 million in 2007 ).

Thanks in large part to the work of users of XyWrite, the program is still very usable with Windows ( or MS-DOS, and thus Linux ).

* October 23 – Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger (" Thanks for the Memory ") is among 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U. S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.

Thanks to television, RG-6 is the most commonly-used coaxial cable for home use, and the majority of connections outside Europe are by F connectors.

Thanks to advances in digital recording and internet distribution, radio drama is experiencing a revival.

The candle is raised three times during the procession, accompanied by the chant " The light of Christ " to which the assembly responds " Thanks be to God ".

) Thanks to the aforementioned rivers, a large amount of cheap irrigation is available.

Later in the series, Ford is surprised to discover that all of his contribution had been edited back into the Guide, prompting his reunion with Arthur on the alternative Earth in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

In the alternate ending, after the destruction of Earth, the description of the Babel fish from the earlier series is replayed with an additional section, which states that dolphins and Babel fish are acquainted, and that the dolphins ' ability to travel through possibility space ( first mentioned in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ) is shared by the Babel fish as well.

Thanks to a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism, among the dominant strains in the theology of the English church of his time, which rigidly divides humanity into the damned and the elect, which focuses on human sinfulness and inadequacy more than in the other denominations of Christianity.

" Thanks to Molière ," Anouilh said, " the true French theatre is the only one that is not gloomy, in which we laugh like men at war with out misery and our horror.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " trilogy " written by Douglas Adams.

Thanks to " eidetic intuition " ( or " essential intuition "), we are able to grasp the possibility, impossibility, necessity and contingency among concepts and among formal categories.

Thanks to funds raised by Golda Meir from sympathisers in the United States, and Stalin's decision to support the Zionist cause, the Jewish representatives of Palestine were able to sign very important armament contracts in the East.

Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to construct the FNRS-3.

Thanks to its long runway ( 4, 000 m ), even the largest types of plane are able to use its facilities.

Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.

Thanks to the money Paganini had given him after hearing Harold, Berlioz was able to pay off Harriet's and his own debts and suspend his work as a critic.

Thanks to Gleason's influence, Thompson was able to book the group for appearances at the Berkeley Folk Festival and at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Thanks to this second hit he has now been able to release his Greatest Hits album.

Thanks to the BSSD the students are able to meet new people and have a wonderful time.

Thanks, in part, to these proceeds, which began flowing in 2004, the City has been able to purchase police cars and equipment, complete the Mildred Street streetscape project in 2007 adding sidewalks, curb, gutter and benches ; renovate and construct parks ; and renovate City Hall.

Thanks to the long-standing Franco-Ottoman alliance, the Ottomans were able to resume naval activity in the western Mediterranean.

Thanks to the dogged defense waged by the III Corps, commanded by Marshal Davout, and the Bavarian VII Corps, commanded by Marshal Lefebvre, Napoleon was able to defeat the principal Austrian army and wrest the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war.

Thanks to Schwarzenberg's able combat leadership, his division escaped a very tight spot.

Thanks to his association with Jackson, Broonzy was able to get an audition with Paramount executive J. Mayo Williams.

Thanks to its independence as a family concern, it was also able to bridge the gap with educational and cultural projects.

Thanks to him, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman, among others, were able to come and study.

Thanks to the historic “ Dart Elevator ” ( operational on 1 June 1843 ), which worked almost seven times faster than its non-mechanized predecessors, Buffalo was able to keep pace with – and thus further stimulate – the incredible growth of American agricultural production in the 1840s and 1850s, but especially after the Civil War, with the coming of the railroads.

Thanks to some ingenious shortcuts, Jim is able to make up for lost time in the second leg and is neck and neck with Thorndyke as the approach the finish line.

Thanks to a benefactor, Rodney was able to secure his release and returned to Britain where he was appointed to a new command.

Thanks to a system of grants, Danish artists are able to devote themselves to their work while museums, theatres, and the film institute receive national support.

Thanks to the Harlows ' assistance in cooperation with Masorti Olami, the Bnei Anusim of Lisbon have been able to return to the Jewish faith, and a new congregation ( Kehilat Beit Israel ) has been founded in Lisbon, namely the first non-orthodox synagogue in the history of Portugal.

Thanks to generous donations from the United States, the Freie Universität was able to construct several new central building complexes including the Benjamin Franklin university clinic complex and the Henry Ford Building, the central lecture building.

Thanks to the publisher Gustav Heckenast, who in 1857 bought the rights to publish all Volkmann's works in exchange for regular income regardless of sales, Volkmann was able to fully dedicate himself to composition, until Heckenast closed down his Budapest publishing house in the early 1870s.

Thanks to an annual growth of revenues from local taxes and quick privatization of the municipal property, the community was able to finance several large-scale investment projects.