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They imbibe enormous amounts of seawater, which they expel through their baleen plates ; the krill is retained on the plates and then swallowed.
Twenty observatories from around the world participated in exposing and measuring more than 22, 000 ( glass ) photographic plates in an enormous observing programme extending over several decades.
The enormous stresses brought on by the collision of these two plates caused the foredeep to migrate westward as the pressures continued from the eastern direction.
He uses his enormous power for self-satisfaction and bullying, such as threatening to break Sergeant Rugg and Mrs Wiggs like a stack of plates.
During this time, besides his editorial work and the engravings that had to be made regularly for the periodicals with which he was connected, Sartain produced an enormous quantity of plates for book illustrations.

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Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.
Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.
Three seconds flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moderate mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events.
Juveniles may also have had different lifestyles than adults, filling predator niches between the enormous adults and the smaller contemporaneous theropods, the largest of which were two orders of magnitude smaller than adult Albertosaurus in mass.
Due to the enormous amount of traffic at the Aachen road interchange, there is often serious traffic accumulation, which is why there are plans to expand the interchange in the coming years.
This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.
For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.
The enormous footprints for which it is named have been as large as long and wide.
This image portrays the world as consisting of an enormous text which is as large as the universe itself.
Octavian's prestige and, more importantly, the loyalty of his legions, had been initially boosted by Julius Caesar's legacy of 44 BC, by which the then nineteen-year-old Octavian had been officially adopted as the only son of the great Roman general and also established as the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth.
This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.
As predicted beforehand, the collisions generated enormous seismic waves which swept across the planet at speeds of and were observed for over two hours after the largest impacts.
Most Acadian fishing activities were overshadowed by the comparatively enormous seasonal European fishing fleets based out of Newfoundland which took advantage of proximity to the Grand Banks.
Centillion is an enormous number, which refers to either 10 < sup > 303 </ sup > or 10 < sup > 600 </ sup >, depending on where it is used.
His interest inside of McDonnell Douglas was focused on the enormous knowledge management and IT requirements involved in the lifecycle of an aerospace program, which served to strengthen Engelbart's resolve to motivate the information technology arena toward global interoperability and an open hyperdocument system.
Charged particles can move at relativistic speeds nearing field propagation speeds, but, as Einstein showed, this requires enormous field energies, which are not present in our everyday experiences with electricity, magnetism, matter, and time.

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As for myself, I had on an enormous black `` muff ''.
It was amazing how they had herded together for protection: an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper, rising from the breakfast table ; ;
Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).
In order to get the independence of Portugal recognized by Rome, his grandfather, Afonso I, had to legislate an enormous number of privileges to the Church.
Amalric had an enormous curiosity, and William was reportedly astonished to find Amalric questioning, during an illness, the resurrection of the body.
He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.
The invention of the bicycle has had an enormous effect on society, both in terms of culture and of advancing modern industrial methods.
* 1958: Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew took to a newspaper office a cast of one of the enormous footprints he and other workers had seen at an isolated work site at Bluff Creek, California.
Count Jean d ' Arco had been sent with 12, 000 men from the Franco-Bavarian camp to hold the town and grassy hill, but after a ferocious and bloody battle, inflicting enormous casualties on both sides, Schellenberg finally succumbed, forcing Donauwörth to surrender shortly afterwards.
He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.
He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.
They had, therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world.
The idea of Filial piety influenced the Chinese legal system: a criminal would be punished more harshly if the culprit had committed the crime against a parent, while fathers often exercised enormous power over their children.

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The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.
However, the Chinese were not completely defenceless, and from AD 1234 until 1279 the Southern Song Chinese held out against the enormous barrage of Mongol attacks.
While one report says Milo held his arm outstretched and challengers were unable to bend his fingers, another anecdote recorded by Claudius Aelianus disputes Milo's reputation for enormous strength.
From 1560 Bielsko was held by Frederick Casimir of Cieszyn, son of Duke Wenceslaus III Adam, who due to the enormous debts his son left upon his death in 1571, had to sell it to the Promnitz noble family at Pless.
BoC have written an enormous number of such fragments as well as full-length tracks, most of which have been held back from release.
The enormous statue was " kidnapped " in the dead of night on June 8, 2012, and held for " ransom ".
Throughout history, monarchs and heads of state were almost always held in enormous reverence.
Giraud's prestige in France – where comics are held in high artistic regard – is enormous ; In 1988 Moebius was chosen, among 11 other winners of the prestigious Grand Prix of the Angoulême Festival, to illustrate a postage stamp set issued on the theme of communication .< ref >
Between May and October 1900, the new organizing committee held an enormous number of sporting activities alongside the Paris Exposition.
For forty years Germanism, backed by all the weight of the empire and imposed with all the weapons of official persecution, had barely held its own in North Schleswig ; despite an enormous emigration, in 1905 139, 000 of the 148, 000 inhabitants of North Schleswig spoke Danish, while of the German-speaking immigrants it was found that more than a third spoke Danish in the first generation, although from 1864 onward, German had gradually been substituted for Danish in the churches, the schools, and even in the playground.
Ancient tradition held that the walls were built by the Cyclops because only giants of superhuman strength could have lifted the enormous stones.
Extensive breaches of Nazi Enigma signals gave Menzies and his team enormous insight into Adolf Hitler's strategy, and this was kept a closely held secret, not only during the war, but until as late as 1974.
As leader of one of Boston's primary churches, Cotton Mather held an enormous amount of influence during Stoddard's lifetime.
Joseph Szigeti considered those two dedications particularly stand out in demonstrating the enormous respect in which Ysaÿe was held.
Perhaps the most famous was the 1919 Black Friday rally, when campaigners for improved working conditions ( particularly protesting a 56-hour working week in many of the city's factories ) held an enormous rally, with at least 90, 000 protesters filling the square and the surrounding streets.
For example, when Emperor Alexander III died, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) held precedence over Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) which put an enormous strain on their already tense relationship.
The architect of this scheme was the Duke of Cumberland, who held enormous political sway at the time.
Since Himmler held the position of general plenipotentiary to the whole Reichs administration ( Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung ), this gave Schellenberg enormous influence within Nazi Germany.
He has an enormous political following in the country and I believe the respect in which all Rumanians hold him eclipses that held for any other Rumanian.
By the time sessions were held for his debut album, Dylan was absorbing an enormous amount of folk material from sitting and listening to contemporaries performing in New York's clubs and coffeehouses.
A zamindar or zemindar was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over his peasants, from whom the zamindars reserved the right to collect tax ( often for military purposes ).
An enormous memorial was held on Roncesvalles Avenue when Pope John Paul II died, with standing room only on the street and sidewalks of Roncesvalles from Marion Avenue to Wright Avenue.
Every year, people flock to the annual Portuguese Festival, known as Portugal Day, " Dia de Portugal " ( typically held the first or second weekend in June ), an enormous celebration of Portuguese culture which attracts nearly half a million people, and within the past few years reaching even higher.

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