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The first curses library was developed at the University of California at Berkeley, for a BSD operating system, around 1980 to support a screen-oriented game.
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" The Curse of Muldoon was born-although Coleman admitted years after the fact that he had fabricated the whole incident-and became one of the first widely known sports " curses.
Rogue was one of the first widely used applications of the curses screen control library.
Semele plots to find the star first and restore her own youth, but the witch-queen curses her so that she will never perceive the star in any way.
The master blesses the first two and curses the third.
The first curses library was written by Ken Arnold and originally released with BSD UNIX, where it was used for several games, most notably Rogue.
It is reported that it was the first of three curses of increasing severity, the other two being:
In 1005, al-Ḥākim ordered a public posting of curses against the first three Caliphs ( Abū Bakr, ‘ Umār and ‘ Uthmān ibn ‘ Affān ) and against ‘ Ā ' isha ( wife of Muhammad ) for denying caliphate to Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law ‘ Alī.
During the 1980s, Spanish narrative began appearing regularly on best seller lists for the first time since the pre-war era and many of this new generation became literary and cultural celebrities, living off their work as writers with all its blessing and curses, including the obligation to publish or perish.
He took Fay in to draw his curse to kill everyone stronger than him upon himself, however, Fay's curses were both activated ( the first due to Sakura, and the second after Ashura-ō's death ).
Isabella curses Antonio and says that she would have never found herself in such a miserable situation if her first husband ( Sebastian ) had lived.
Asia becomes upset that Demogorgon will not reveal the name of God, first demanding, " Utter his name: a world pining in pain / Asks but his name: curses shall drag him down.
Traditional curses and blessings invoked disease or fecundity among animals, and good manners required that a person ask first about the health of a man's livestock when greeting him and only afterward inquire about the human aspects of his life.
Her first screen role was in the Arcturus Pictures release Obeah, a film about Obeah curses.
Lord Brahma curses this Yaksha that whenever the time comes to eliminate all the evil forces on Earth, then Lord Vishnu will first kill him.
For the first few centuries, then, Tenjin was seen as a god of natural disasters, worshipped to placate him and avoid his curses.
Lord Brahma curses this Yaksha that whenever the time comes to eliminate all the evil forces on Earth, then Lord Vishnu will first kill him.
first and library
In the first instance, adequate appropriate reading materials and library accommodations must be planned.
It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.
Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.
* Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of free modern Greece ( 1776 – 1831 ), had a large building erected ; intended as a barracks, it was subsequently used as a museum, a library and a school.
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry ( 1867 – 1928 ), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library, who had suggested the more limited paradox arising from the expression " the first undefinable ordinal ".
Sagan recalled taking his first trips to the public library alone, at the age of five, when his mother got him a library card.
After the first, each schedule was an expansion of the previous one, and Cutter provided instructions for how a library might change from one expansion to another as it grows.
The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 – 618 ), who had one installed for his royal library.
* Oracle Corporation claimed the first Exabyte tape library with the SL8500 and the T10000C tape drive in January 2011.
This gave rise to the first rumour of a New Zealand " library ban " on Blyton's books, a recurrent press canard.
Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.
Located in the center of campus, the $ 30 million, building was built as the first of its kind building on any American campus, acting both as a library and a student union.
With its hierarchical structure, Gopher provided a useful platform for the first large-scale electronic library connections.
The first such library was freeglut, which aims to be a reasonably close reproduction, though introducing a small number of new functions to deal with GLUT's limitations.
The resultant product was backward compatible, a first for a handheld system, and leveraged the large library of games and great installed base of the predecessor system.
In its first year, Mattel sold 175, 000 Intellivision consoles, and the library grew to 35 games.
In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.
The two men became personally acquainted, and it was in Savigny's well-stocked library that Grimm first turned over the leaves of Bodmer's edition of the Old German minnesingers and other early texts, and felt an eager desire to penetrate further into the obscurities and half-revealed mysteries of their language.
The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.
* Callimachus, ( early 3rd century BC ), the first bibliographer and developer of the Pinakes, popularly considered to be the first library catalog.
The first library classification system was set up during the Han Dynasty.
The first textbook on library science was published 1808 by Martin Schrettinger.
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But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
It was her first smile.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
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