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`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.
The head was then fixed on a pole at Westminster, and the rest of the body was buried under the gallows.
They marched with bayonets fixed, and as fixed on their faces was anger, fear, and torment.
Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.
This habit had become so fixed over the years that it seemed futile to do anything for which no one was waiting.
A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.
Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.
The fixed wooden scaffold was removed, and, so as to reach all the frieze, one of pipe, on wheels, built up from the floor.
It fixed on Dartmouth College, which was ready-made and just what the proctor ordered.
There was a fixed grin on Roberts' face, made hideous by the swollen nose and the smeared blood.
Rev's face was suddenly a little fixed and questioning.
Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.
Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.
The appearance of fixed lines in this spectrum was successfully explained by these orbital transitions.
The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.
The computer was brought to Polytechnic University of Turin where it was fixed and used to run the BASIC programming language .</ li >

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With one third of the game ( 9 levels ) distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture ; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as " Doom clones ".
According to GameSpy, Doom was voted by industry insiders to be the greatest game of all time in 2004.
The Doom franchise was continued with the follow-up Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ) and numerous expansion packs, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Master Levels for Doom II ( 1995 ), and Final Doom ( 1996 ).
The series started to lose mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the original.
On May 7, 2008, following speculation by John Carmack at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007, Doom 4 was announced as in production.
This episode was developed by independent master level designers with id's approval, and was designed for expert Doom players seeking a major challenge.
In some versions of Doom II, both of these secret levels incorporate level design and characters from Dooms precursor, Wolfenstein 3D, which was also developed by id.
The advance from id Software's previous game Wolfenstein 3D was enabled by several new features in the Doom engine:
The use of darkness to frighten or confuse the player was nearly unheard of in games released prior to Doom.
Wolfenstein 3D was not designed to be expandable, but fans had nevertheless figured out how to create their own levels for it, and Doom was designed to further extend the possibilities.
The development of Doom was surrounded by much anticipation.
The large number of posts in Internet newsgroups about Doom led to the SPISPOPD joke, to which a nod was given in the game in the form of a cheat code.
The first public version of Doom was uploaded to Software Creations BBS and an FTP server at the University of Wisconsin – Madison on December 10, 1993.
Doom was released as shareware, with people encouraged to distribute it further.
They did so: in 1995, Doom was estimated to have been installed on more than 10 million computers.
In 1995, The Ultimate Doom ( version 1. 9, including episode IV ) was released, making this the first time that Doom was sold commercially in stores.

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His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.
At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.
Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.
It was heard again in Philadelphia in 1927 in the first version of `` Strike Up The Band '' and again abandoned shortly before the entire show was given up.
Fudo, the god of wisdom, was also thought of as the Japanese version of Acala.
As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.
A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.
Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.
The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.
Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.
The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.
Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.
In 1960, Nicholas Poppe presented what was in effect a heavily revised version of Ramstedt ’ s volume on phonology that has since set the standard in Altaic studies.
In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.
" The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism was formulated by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray Rothbard in the mid-twentieth century, synthesizing elements from the Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism, and nineteenth century American individualist anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker ( rejecting their labor theory of value and the normative implications they derived from it ).
In the most famous version of her myth, her birth was the consequence of a castration: Cronus severed Uranus ' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea.
In another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.
As someone in constant contact with ( this watered-down version of ) “ nature ”, the farmer was positioned to experience moments that transcend the mundane material world.
" In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked.

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