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The two escape in the giant no-ship, with Scytale, Teg and the Jews.
Diprotodon, meaning " two forward teeth ", sometimes known as the giant wombat or the rhinoceros wombat, is the largest known marsupial ever to have lived.
Inside the cave, they discover ancient paintings, including a picture of two giant insects fighting one another.
The monument will also feature a young boy holding a scrapbook as he looks at the two giant figures.
It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".
He and his twin were just eight months old when Hera sent two giant snakes into the children's chamber.
There are two small strips of dry land composed of coral rubble and giant clamshells on the eastern rim with areas of and having a coastline of.
She sends two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons.
The film Robot Jox, featuring two giant mecha fight scenes, and the Japanese live-action film Gunhed are other examples.
The first two, unlike scattered disc objects, have perihelia outside the gravitational reach of Neptune, and thus their orbits cannot be explained by perturbations from the gas giant planets.
Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.
The market is extremely dynamic, and dominated by two giant companies-Romanian based RCS & RDS and United States based UPC-Astral.
Mid-sized stars are red giants during two different phases of their post-main-sequence evolution: red giant branch ( RGB ) stars, whose inert cores are made of helium, and asymptotic giant branch ( AGB ) stars, whose inert cores are made of carbon.
The pregame ceremonies featured two giant figures, one dressed as a Packers player and the other dressed as a Raiders player.
There are two types of Sentinels: one is a smaller, aerial model ; and the other is a giant walking behemoth.
The deaths of two merry missionaries lead the agents to the plains of Brazil and a giant dam with no apparent purpose.
Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.
It featured the singer and two dancers wearing giant cowboy hats around a glowing campfire.
Fiberglass giant Johns Manville's two plants in the metro area were originally built by a subsidiary of Libbey Owens Ford.
* Wu Zetian gives two giant pandas to Japan.
Australia is home to the world's two largest freshwater crayfish – the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi, which can achieve a mass of up to and is found in the rivers of northern Tasmania, and the Murray crayfish Euastacus armatus, which can reach and is found in much of the southern Murray-Darling basin.
It seems all facades were to have a giant order of pilasters rising at least two storeys to the full height of the piano nobile, " a gandiloquent feature unprecedented in private palace design ".
In addition to fire, two animal agents also assist giant sequoia seed release.

two and contributions
We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.
A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years ''.
But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.
Marlin has made two contributions to the harvest of new offerings.
At the end of this period, the two were sent up to Jerusalem ( 44 ) with the contributions the church at Antioch had made for the poorer members of the Jerusalem church.
Gauss also made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ( Latin, Arithmetical Investigations ), which, among things, introduced the symbol ≡ for congruence and used it in a clean presentation of modular arithmetic, contained the first two proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity, developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms, stated the class number problem for them, and showed that a regular heptadecagon ( 17-sided polygon ) can be constructed with straightedge and compass.
The artworks, which are considered " priceless contributions to American narrative art ", consists of two panels: Exploration and Colonization by Alston and Settlement and Development by Woodruff.
His work in this part of analysis provided the basis for important contributions to the mathematics of physics in the next two decades, though from an unanticipated direction.
Desi Arnaz has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one at 6327 Hollywood Boulevard for contributions to motion pictures, and one at 6220 Hollywood Boulevard for television.
** for his profound contributions to two major areas of operations research and management science: stochastic networks and mathematical finance.
Herzog would later say of Smith's contributions that, " If he saved two runs a game on defense, which he did many a night, it seemed to me that was just as valuable to the team as a player who drove in two runs a game on offense.
He made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, most notably two studies of Russian case and an analysis of the categories of the Russian verb.
The involvement of the former two poets in giving the sestina its established form, together with the contributions of others in the country, account for its classification as an Italian verse form – despite not originating there.
The two known songs that had Sondheim contributions are " In There " from the adaption of The Exception and the Rule ( which would later be named The Race to Urga ) and a cut song from West Side Story " Kids Ain't ( Like Everybody Else )".
The first ruler of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, King Ramathibodi I ( ruled 1351 to 1369 ), made two important contributions to Thai history: the establishment and promotion of Theravada Buddhism as the official religion – to differentiate his kingdom from the neighbouring Hindu kingdom of Angkor – and the compilation of the Dharmashastra, a legal code based on Hindu sources and traditional Thai custom.
Despite his short reign he made two important contributions to Roman government which outlasted him.
In eligible plans, employees can elect to contribute on a pre-tax basis or as a Roth 401 ( k ) contribution, or a combination of the two, but the total of those two contributions amounts must not exceed the contribution limit in a single calendar year.
He is known for two major contributions:
The radiation received at a distant point is the sum of two contributions: the waves that travel directly from the antenna to the point, and the waves that reach the point after reflecting off the ground plane.
Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
She has also won an Oscar, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globes and a Grammy Legend Award for her contributions and influence in the recording field, along with many other honors and awards.
In consequence, the Centre for Juridical Research of the Faculty of Law has made significant contributions towards the Penal Procedures Reform which is being implemented throughout the country ; whilst two other Centres belonging to the Faculty of Humanities and Education ( Cognitive Development Centre ) and the Faculty of Communication and Letters ( Journalism and Advertising Research Centre, CIPP ) are implementing programmes of public interest in the areas of cognitive development, community strengthening and the role of the communications media in society.

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