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They first travel to the Puppeteer home world, where they learn that the expedition's goal is to explore a ringworld: an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit ( which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference ), encircling a Sol-type star.
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`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.
They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.
They were able to experience at first, in terms of past conventionality.
They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.
They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.
Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.
They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.
They applauded every number, not only at its conclusion but also at the first statement of the theme -- sometimes at the first chord.
They had their first real fight, and Bobbie went off to get drunk.
They are attracted there by the calling of the first male to find a suitable place, perhaps a pool that forms in the same place each rainy season.
They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.
They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.
They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.
They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.
They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.
They acquired premises at Henniker Place in Kensington and produced their first car in March 1915.
They are first mentioned in the papal bulls Extravagantes of Pope John XXII and of Pope Benedict XII.
They are used to treat a wide variety of conditions and symptoms and are usually a first choice when short-term CNS sedation is needed.
They would draw and fire with their strong hand, and when they had emptied the first gun, they drew the second gun with their weak hand and passed it over to their strong hand.
They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.
They also demonstrated the first Bluetooth PIN and Linkkeys cracker, which is based on the research of Wool and Shaked.
They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.
The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.
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They estimate further that with sufficient experience and when cost-data of compact cars is compiled, the break-even point may be reduced to 7,500 miles of travel per year.
They travel in pairs as much as a hundred-and-fifty miles a day ''.
They favor a more holistic approach based on the 4 ' E's ; education ( of everyone involved ), encouragement ( to apply the education ), enforcement ( to protect the rights of others ), and engineering ( to facilitate travel while respecting every person's equal right to do so ).
They travel in straight lines through the empty tube.
They said that that total cost was closer to $ 363 million, including $ 14. 3 million for " separation travel " following a servicemember's discharge, $ 17. 8 million for training officers, $ 252. 4 million for training enlistees, and $ 79. 3 million in recruiting costs.
They also had the range and speed to travel effectively with a battle fleet.
They give minimal protection, but are adequate for drums transported rarely and in private cars for example, and may be the only option for working drummers starting out, particularly when air travel is involved.
They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel by some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten.
They will travel apart, slow down, and then again be drawn towards each other, and again collide.
They explain that they can time travel back to 1944 and remove Godzillasaurus from Lagos, thereby avoiding the creation of Godzilla.
They were trying to travel to West Germany, but were being denied permission to travel by the Czechoslovak government at the request of East Germany.
They also usually have a shorter total key travel distance ( 2 mm instead of 3. 5 – 4 mm for standard dome-switch keyswitches ).
They travel onwards until they come across the " fairest of the castles of the world ", and meet Ysbaddaden's shepherd brother, Custennin.
They are therefore able to travel great distances through matter without being affected by it.
They are marine and form labyrinthine networks of tubes in which amoeba without pseudopods can travel.
They may also travel at relative speeds (" proper motions ") of a few hundred m / s when they first emerge onto the solar photosphere.
They can carry two people and travel 40 miles per day.
They can be divided into body waves that travel through the interior of the materials ; surface waves that travel along surfaces or interfaces between materials ; and normal modes, a form of standing wave.
They promise that as the ghosts travel onward and upward, they will become more solid and thus feel less and less discomfort.
They then proceeded to travel by Presidential railway car and automobile.
They have also served as a method for time travel.
They have relatively weak winds, smooth laminar walls, and typically travel very slowly.
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