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; and Lunar
Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.
The visuals were drastically simplified, being closer to early shooters like Wolfenstein 3D ; also, it consists solely of Lunar Apocalypse, the second from the original game's three " episodes ", which was heavily modified to suit the engine.
The game detailed the rise of the barbarian Prince Argrath to defend his homeland of Sartar against the red tide of the civilized Lunar Empire, and filled out the area of Dragon Pass ; the game has undergone several reissues since that time.
Lunar phases are the result of looking at the illuminated half of the Moon from different viewing geometries ; they are not caused by the shadow of the Earth or umbra falling on the Moon's surface ( this occurs only during a lunar eclipse ).
The Lunar series, despite the relatively narrow circulation the two titles on the Mega-CD received, was critically acclaimed and became a cult classic, with both games receiving remakes for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the late ' 90s ; and a prequel to the series for the Nintendo DS in 2005.
Single-stage-to-orbit has been achieved from the Moon by both the Apollo program's Lunar Module and several robotic spacecraft of the Soviet Luna programme ; the lower lunar gravity and absence of any significant atmosphere makes this much easier than from Earth.
In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.
; Lunar probes
1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).
* In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076 ; much of the book takes place in 2076.
In 1778, He published his method of reducing Lunar Distances for computing the longitude, still regarded as the best of several similar mathematical procedures for navigation and position-fixing in pre-chronometer days ; and used, for example, by Lewis and Clarke to measure their latitude and longitude during their exploration of the North-western United States.
The Federated Nations on Earth send armies to destroy the Lunar revolution ; but these are vanquished, with great loss of life, by the revolutionaries.
In The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the names of the signatoriess of the Lunar Declaration of Independence are studied ; but Room L of the Raffles Hotel, wherein the revolution was plotted, is still used as an ordinary hotel room, albeit with a plaque on the wall.
After escaping to the moon, Gwen refers to the now ancient Lunar Revolt ( as described in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ) and Mike ( Mycroft ), the self-aware computer responsible for the uprising's victory, and claims to have been present during the revolt ; despite her claim that she was only a girl at the time, Campbell grows suspicious, and learns that she is a rejuvenation of the revolution's most prominent female leader.
Ashoka, the South Asian student association, puts on a performance for Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, that includes a skit and dances ; Black Anthology is a student-run performance arts show celebrating black culture ; Lunar New Year Festival is a collaboration between the many East Asian organizations on campus culminating in a show to celebrate the holiday with a skit and dances from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures ; the Association of Latin American Students showcases various forms of Latin and Spanish dances during their performance, Carnaval.
* Aerozine 50 + nitrogen tetroxide ( NTO )-widely used in historical American rockets, including the Titan 2 ; all engines in the Apollo Lunar Module ; and the Service Propulsion System in the Apollo Service Module
The first ' true spacecraft ' is sometimes said to be Apollo Lunar Module, since this was the only manned vehicle to have been designed for, and operated only in space ; and is notable for its non aerodynamic shape.
* Luna 3 – 4 October 1959 – Lunar flyby ; First images of far side of Moon
Improvements in technology since then have resulted in greater use of the smaller arrays, by sites such as the Côte d ' Azur Observatory in Grasse, France ; and the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation ( APOLLO ) at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.
Imperial Bedrooms ( 2010 ) follows the characters of Less Than Zero 25 years later ; it combines the violence of American Psycho and the postmodernism of Lunar Park with the unaltered ennui of Ellis ' debut novel.
Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, making six spaceflights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service, becoming the first person to make six spaceflights ; and is the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command / Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
Within the game's history, they were very tightly bound to the First Age Solars ; each Lunar Exaltation is bound to a singular corresponding Solar one in such a way that that Lunar instantly feels a connection to the Lawgiver, though how they act upon this bond depends on the inclinations of the Exalts involved.

; and Hare
" R. M. Hare also criticised ethical naturalism because of its fallacious definition of the terms ' good ' or ' right ' explaining how value-terms being part of our prescriptive moral language are not reducible to descriptive terms: " Value-terms have a special function in language, that of commending ; and so they plainly cannot be defined in terms of other words which themselves do not perform this function "
However, the use of distortion was predated by Guitar Slim, Willie Johnson of Howlin ' Wolf, and Pat Hare ; the latter two also made use of distorted power chords in the early 1950s.
Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.
Thomas Hare ( born in England, 28 March 1806 ; died 6 May 1891 ) was a British proponent of electoral reform.
The Guardians are revealed in several scenes: the first is revealed when Roland is explaining to Eddie and Susannah Dean what Shardik was and his understanding of the Beams ; another is revealed when Eddie and Susannah approach the Cradle of Lud ; and the last, Bird and Hare, are revealed in the poem Roland and his lover, Susan Delgado, recite to each other occasionally: " Bird and Bear and Hare and Fish ...." The only pairs identified are by Susannah and Eddie while at the Cradle of Lud.
This scene has been recreated many times ; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, in The Three Stooges short Idle Roomers ( 1944 ), in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ), in the TV series Gilligan's Island (" Gilligan vs. Gilligan ", 1966 ), in the film Big Business ( 1988 ), The X-Files (" Dreamland ") and Family Guy (" Road to Germany ").
Aberthin contains two inns ; The Hare and Hounds and The Farmers Arms.
Three roads close to the vicinity of his cottage at Hare Street ( now renamed Main Road ) in the Gidea Park area of Romford were named after him ; Repton Avenue, Repton Gardens and Repton Drive, respectively.
In fact, in 1919 the Compo Company pressed records credited only to " Famous Tenor ," which used Victor sides cut by John McCormack ; these were quickly withdrawn, to be replaced by the same titles cut by Ernest Hare doing a creditable McCormack impression.
; Mary O ' Hare: The character briefly talked about in the beginning who Vonnegut promised to name the book The Children's Crusade.
Thach calculated that O ' Hare had used only sixty rounds of ammunition for each bomber he destroyed ; an impressive feat of marksmanship.
Swimming with Butch O ' Hare meant that at eight o ' clock in the morning, you swam out into the ocean off Maui ; he would still be out there at three in the afternoon!
Thirlwall now joined Hare in translating Niebuhr's History of Rome ; the first volume appeared in 1828.
These questions were often discussed by philosophers and religious scholars ; in England, there were notable contributions from GEM Anscombe and RM Hare.
In cartoons with non-Western themes, he uses various aliases, including " Chilkoot Sam " ( named for the Chilkoot Trail ; Sam pronounces it " Chilli-koot ") in 14 Carrot Rabbit ( although in the same cartoon, when he tries to gain Bugs Bunny's trust, he cleverly invents alias " Square-deal Sam "), " Riff Raff Sam " in Sahara Hare, " Sam Schulz " in Big House Bunny, " Seagoin ' Sam " in Buccaneer Bunny, " Shanghai Sam " in Mutiny on the Bunny, and " Sam Von Schamm the Hessian " in Bunker Hill Bunny and many others.
With his fiery, irascible temper, short stature ( in two early gags in Hare Trigger, a train he is attempting to rob passes right over top of him and he has to use a set of portable stairs to get on his horse ; in Bugs Bunny Rides Again, he rides a miniature horse ), and fiery red hair, Sam was in some ways an alter-ego of Freleng.
He has been a teetotaller ever since and owns a small shop fixing clocks and watches, living with his garrulous wife ( Doris Hare ) and aging father-in-law ;
In 2006, David Hare wrote that " Pinter regularly offers actors what will become the opportunities of a lifetime: to Meryl Streep, obviously, in The French Lieutenant's Woman ; to Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in one of the most overlooked of all British films, The Pumpkin Eater ; and, unforgettably, to Dirk Bogarde, both in Accident and The Servant.
Turning from law to divinity, Hare took holy orders in 1826 ; and, on the death of his uncle in 1832, he succeeded to the rich family living of Herstmonceux in Sussex, where he accumulated a library of some 12, 000 volumes, especially rich in German literature.
The designs for the Iliad and Odyssey were commissioned by Mrs Hare Naylor ; those for Dante by Hope ( originally published in London in 1807 ); those for Aeschylus by Lady Spencer ; they were all engraved by Piroli, not without considerable loss of the finer and more sensitive qualities of Flaxman's own lines.

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