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Orphan-Maker


Orphan-Maker (Peter) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in "X-Factor" vol. 1 #31. Orphan-Maker's first appearance was in "X-Factor" #31 (August 1988), and he was created by Louise Simonson and Walt Simonson. The character subsequently appears in "X-Factor" #35 (December 1988), #40 (May 1989), "The Uncanny X-Men" #
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247-248 (August-September 1989), #265-267 (August-September 1990), "Generation X" #2-4 (December 1994-February 1995), "Generation X Holiday Special" #1 (February 1998), "Slingers" #9 (August 1999), and "Wolverine: Killing Made Simple" #1 (October 2008). Orphan-Maker received an entry in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89" #5. Little is known of Orphan
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Orphans of the Sky


Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts: "Universe" ("Astounding Science Fiction", May 1941) and its sequel, "Common Sense" ("Astounding Science Fiction", October 1941). The two novellas were first published together in book form in 1963. "Universe" was also published separately in 1951 as a 10¢ Dell paperback. These works contain one of the earliest fictional depictions of a generation ship. The gigantic, cylindrical generation
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Orphan-Maker


energy flow. He managed to escape pursuit in a technologically advanced vehicle disguised as an ice cream truck. Most recently, he and Nanny battled with Wolverine after they tried to make Trance an orphan. Orphan-Maker is a mutant, but has yet to exhibit powers aside from those of his hi-tech battle suit. Also, he remains intellectually a child. Orphan-Maker's armor is highly resistant to most forms of attack, and has certain reflective properties that allow him to deflect energy attacks such as Cyclops'
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Nanny (comics)


create new armor to contain it. She later sends the Orphan-Maker to protect a deformed child trapped in a schoolhouse by a mob believing him to be a mutant. This brings them into conflict with the Generation X team, who have the same goal. The heroes protect the mob and the boy's parents from the Orphan-Maker's violent methods. After the situation ends with an innocent death, Orphan-Maker escapes in a technologically advanced vehicle disguised as an ice-cream truck. It was revealed in the
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Orphans of the Helix


"Orphans of the Helix" is a 46-page science fiction short story by American writer Dan Simmons, set in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe (one of three, the others being "Remembering Siri", a story which is also a chapter of "Hyperion", and "The Death of a Centaur", which deals with an early and allegorical version of either "The Fall of Hyperion" or "Endymion"). It was first published in the anthology "Far Horizons" in 1999. "Orphans of the
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Christina Baker Kline


she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. Kline served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011, where she taught graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature. Set on present-day Mount Desert Island, Maine and in Depression-era Minnesota, Kline's fifth novel, "Orphan Train", highlights the real-life story of the orphan trains that between 1854 and 1929 carried thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and destitute children from the East Coast to the Midwest. Since its publication
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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Orphan-Maker


-Maker's past but apparently, Peter was held captive in Mister Sinister's "orphanage" for unknown reasons. Mr. Sinister had instead decided that Peter was too uncontrollable and must be killed. Saved by the cyborg Nanny, he became the first of her "Lost Boys (and Girls)". Under Nanny's direction, Peter, as the Orphan-Maker, began to kill the parents of young mutants (and thus "orphaning" them) and abducting them for Nanny. They would confront the X-Men
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Sep Smith


maker of all-time behind Graham Cross. Smith mentored former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie during his time at Leicester. Revie, who dedicated an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled "What I Owe to Sep Smith" claimed "I'm proud now to think of how much time Sep spent passing on his Soccer knowledge to me. He played a big part in my shaping my career." He also referred to Smith as "an extraordinary footballer," saying "he could place the ball within an inch
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Orphan-Maker


Havok blasts Nanny's ship, causing much destruction and seemingly causing the death of Storm. However, Orphan-Maker and Nanny had left behind a dead body that looked like Storm, while de-aging and kidnapping her. The pair would later confront X-Factor, a super-team made up of the five original X-Men. During an incident where a mentally ill young mutant had taken hostages inside his school, Orphan-Maker was driven away partly because the mutant Skin managed to interfere with his suit's
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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operating out of a small, faux-town in the Australian outback. Dazzler and Havok are ambushed and stunned in a ship designed to look like a crash-landed artifact. The captured are physically converted into children. They are given battlesuits themselves and convinced to attack the other X-Men. Some assistance is given by Jubilee, whom the X-Men did not know of at the time. Orphan-Maker and Nanny are temporarily defeated after Colossus rescues Havok from his battlesuit. Confused and disoriented from his experience,
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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The Saint and the Fiction Makers


The Saint and the Fiction Makers (some editions use the hyphenated form "Fiction-Makers") is the title of a 1968 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The novel is credited to Leslie Charteris, who created the Saint in 1928, but the book was actually authored by Fleming Lee and is adapted from a teleplay by John Kruse written for a two-part episode of "The Saint", "The Fiction Makers", which first aired in December 1968 and was
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Nanny (comics)


who is secretly living in the town, but evades capture. The tide of battle turns and Nanny and the Orphan-Maker flee in their ship. Storm pursues and is caught by the ship's appendages. After being freed from his battle suit, a confused Havok unleashes his plasma blast on the ship, seemingly killing Nanny, the Orphan-Maker, and Storm. In reality, Nanny deploys a decoy ship containing a Life Model Decoy that appears to be Storm's corpse. Nanny then regresses Storm's body to that
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Nanny (comics)


-shaped armored suit; she escaped their custody, but the ordeal left her borderline insane. At some later date, she rescued a young mutant named Peter, crafted a battle suit for him and christened him the Orphan-Maker. She also obtained (possibly self-manufactured) high-tech weaponry and a flying craft from Dr Tommy Wolf, a dwarf working for Hydra. Nanny and her Orphan-Maker became a pair of would-be saviors of mutant children, with Nanny as the brains and guiding force and
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New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol


, that may be connected with their apprenticeship, are also met by the funds of the Orphan Establishment. As it may be interesting to the reader to know the kind of trades or businesses to which we generally apprentice the boys, I state that, during the last fifty years, all the boys who were apprenticed, were bound to carpenters, or carpenters and joiners, cabinet makers, basket makers, boot and shoe makers, tailors and drapers, plumbers, painters and glaziers, linen drapers, printers, bakers, grocers
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Orphan-Maker as the brawn. In her addled state, Nanny believes that parents of mutant children are evil, especially those who abandon their children, or at the very least too incompetent and ill-equipped to properly raise young mutants and protect them from danger and exploitation. She and Orphan-Maker travel the world, searching for young mutants to take care of, murdering their parents to sever any family connections, and using her minor telepathic powers to control them. Nanny dubbed these children her "Lost Boys and Girls
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Little Orphan Annie


, before being retrieved in Elizabeth's drawer. Starting in 2014, gingerlock comedian Michelle Wolf appeared on numerous segments on "Late Night" as her fictional persona, "Grown-Up Annie", an adult version of Little Orphan Annie. In medicine, "Orphan Annie eye" (empty or "ground glass") nuclei are a characteristic histological finding in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. Harold Gray's work is in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. The Gray collection includes artwork, printed material
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Marjorie Harris


Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959, she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her second husband, writer Jack Batten. Besides writing 15 books she was a radio host job at CBC radio's "Metro Morning"
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Stanford Exploration Project


The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) is an industry-funded academic consortium within the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. SEP research has contributed greatly to improving the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the earth from seismic echo soundings (see: Reflection seismology). The consortium was started in the 1970s by Jon Claerbout and is currently co-directed with Biondo Biondi. SEP pioneered innovations in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack. SEP has recently been involved in 3-D seismic applications such as
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


Acapulco, Ciudad Altamirano and Taxco. On May 20, 1983, the roving radio station came to an end, with the university broadcasting once more from Chilpancingo — this time, without interference. 1984, however, presented yet another problem to the university radio station: a budget crisis spurred by a suspension of payments from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP). Workers spent all of 1984 without receiving their salaries, and in January 1985, the university and SEP began negotiating. The federal government required the university to shut
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List of awards and nominations received by Orphan Black


Critics' Choice Television Awards are presented annually by Broadcast Television Journalists Association. "Orphan Black" has received two awards from four nominations. The Directors Guild of Canada hosts an annual awards ceremony recognizing achievement in directing, production design, picture and sound editing. The Dorian Awards are organized by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. "Orphan Black" has been nominated four times. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, they honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction
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Final Fantasy XIII


is to transform into the beast Ragnarok and slay the sleeping fal'Cie Orphan, who keeps Cocoon afloat above Pulse. Slaying Orphan will result in the destruction of Cocoon. The party flees and learns from Cid that the fal'Cie believe that Cocoon's destruction will summon the Maker, the creator of the worlds. The fal'Cie cannot harm Orphan themselves. Vanille and Fang reveal to the party that they were involved in the War of Transgression centuries earlier, and that their Focus then had been the same: to transform into Ragnarok and attempt
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Maker (Reed Richards)


Maker, also known as Ultimate Reed Richards, is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the Ultimate Marvel's version of Mister Fantastic, presented as superhero who later turns into the villainous Maker; he eventually becomes part of the regular Marvel Universe, serving as an enemy and evil foil to his parallel universe counterpart. Ultimate Reed Richards bears a resemblance to his Earth-616 counterpart, however, he differs in many aspects: the origin of his powers is different and he is much younger.
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Charles McKenny


Charles McKenny (Sep. 15, 1860-Sep. 23, 1933) was president of Central State Normal School (now Central Michigan University), Milwaukee State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). McKenny was born in Dimondale, Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and masters from both Olivet College and the University of Wisconsin. McKenny married Minnie E. Alderman (1869–1942) in 1890. She was a native of Vermontville, Michigan. They
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Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero


down the station, and on January 15, 1985, Radio Universidad Pueblo went off the air. In the meantime, university students went as far as organizing a hunger strike in Mexico City in order to protest the SEP's demand to close the station. The SEP, however, failed to keep some of its promises to the university. A new rector, Ramón Reyes Carreto, decided that if the SEP would not keep its promises, the university did not have a reason to stay off the air. In June 1987
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Keith Hartman


Keith Hartman (born 1966) is an American writer of speculative fiction and a self-described "struggling film-maker". He has also written non-fiction books on gay and lesbian issues. He has been nominated a number of times for the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards and Lambda Literary Award for LGBT literature. Hartman was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He graduated from Princeton University, then went on to study at the London School of Economics, then started a PhD in Finance at Duke University. Sometime around his third
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Mythopoeia


be a universe, and indeed was a fictional omniverse. It is stated that the two main protagonists, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser "travelled through universes and lands" and eventually going on to say they ended up back in the fictional city of Lankhmar. Star Maker (1937) by Olaf Stapledon is a rare attempt at a cohesive science fiction mythos. In the 1960s through the 1990s, Roger Zelazny authored many mythopoetic novels, such as Lord of Light. Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber is a ten-volume series of
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Sandy Frances Duncan


Sandy Frances Duncan is a Canadian writer of novels, mysteries, and short stories. Her novel "Gold Rush Orphan" was among the finalists for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005. She has contributed short fiction to anthologies, including "Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told" and "Celebrating Canadian Women", and to magazines including Makara, Northern Journey, and Canadian Fiction. Duncan, born in Vancouver in 1942, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia.
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Orphan Train


placement" or "out-placement" ("out" to distinguish it from the placement of children "in" orphanages or asylums) to refer to orphan train passengers. Widespread use of the term "orphan train" may date to 1978, when CBS aired a fictional miniseries entitled The Orphan Trains. One reason the term was not used by placement agencies was that less than half of the children who rode the trains were in fact orphans, and as many as 25 percent had two living parents. Children with both
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Nanny (comics)


of a child. Storm escapes, but with her memories of her adult life blurred and her childhood persona dominant. With the aid of Gambit, Storm regains her adult memories and defeats Nanny and the Orphan-Maker, sending the cyborg duo and their ship crashing into a swamp. Nanny reappears much later in "Generation X". In the course of acquiring another child, the Orphan-Maker's armor begins to malfunction; Nanny determines that his (still unrevealed) mutant power is growing stronger, and she has to
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The Fringe of the Unknown


Astounding Science Fiction", Jun. 1961)br 3. "Appius Claudius Crassus" (original title: "Appius Claudius Crassus: Roman Builder") (from "Science Digest", Jun. 1962)br 4. "The First Missile Launchers" (from "Science Digest", Oct. 1960)br 5. "The Iron Pillar of Delhi" (from "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", Sep. 1972)br 6. "The Mechanical Wizards of Alexandria" (from "Science Digest", Aug. 1962)br 7. "The Landlocked Indian Ocean
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Far future in science fiction and popular culture


history of humanity from 1996 to tens of thousands of years from now. The 11th millennium occurs after the end of the Robot stories. "The Future is Wild" was a speculative documentary hypothetising how life could evolve over the course of millions of years: Olaf Stapledon's novels "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker" are speculations on the evolution of intelligence in the universe. "Last and First Men" explores the future evolution of intelligence on Earth, while "Star Maker" explores the technological and social
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Kurse


Kurse is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/artist Walter Simonson, the Algrim version of Kurse first appears as the Dark Elf Algrim the Strong in "Thor" #347 (Sep. 1984). He is later transformed into Kurse in "Secret Wars II" #4 (Oct. 1985). Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "" (2013). The Dark Elf Algrim the Strong was created by Walter Simonson
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Halflife (comics)


Halflife is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. These characters have two distinct origins, and are detailed separately below. The first Halflife is a Marvel Comics supervillain. She first appeared in "West Coast Avengers" vol. 2 #12 (Sep. 1986). The second character in the Marvel universe to take the name Half-Life was a gamma-irradiated fiend and enemy of the Hulk. He first appeared in "The Incredible Hulk" vol. 1 #334.
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Nanny (comics)


"Lost" children in tow; Marvel Girl is forced to let her niece and nephew go with Nanny to pursue the demons who had taken Nathan Christopher. This initial appearance of Nanny gives the heroes the impression that she and the Orphan-Maker are robots. Later, Nanny and the Orphan-Maker attack the X-Men in their Australian outback-town headquarters in an effort to save them. Nanny seals Psylocke, Dazzler, and Havok in battle suits and mentally regresses them to childlike behavior. She confronts Jubilee,
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Adriaan Anthonisz


', or surveyor). They each became prominent members of society. Adriaan Metius (9 Dec 1571 – 6 Sep 1635) was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. Jacob Metius worked as an instrument-maker and a specialist in grinding lenses and applied for patent rights for the telescope a few weeks after Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey tried to patent the same device. In 1585 Anthonisz discovered that the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, later called pi, approximated the fractional value of . His son Adriaan
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Sep Lambert


though, against Scotland in 1920 and against the Irish Military and Scotland in 1921. In all matches for Ireland, Sep Lambert scored 342 runs at an average of 20.12, with a top score of 60 not out against Oxford University in May 1902, his only half-century for Ireland and also his top first-class score. He took ten catches and no stumpings. Sep Lambert came from a cricketing family. His brother Bob was one of Ireland's finest cricketers, and his nephew Ham also played cricket for Ireland
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) combines an online encyclopedia of philosophy with peer-reviewed publication of original papers in philosophy, freely accessible to Internet users. It is maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from many academic institutions worldwide. Authors contributing to the encyclopedia give Stanford University the permission to publish the articles, but retain the copyright to those articles. , the "SEP" has nearly 1,600 published entries. Apart from its online status, the
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Martin J. Whitman School of Management


Partnership (SEP) is a collaboration between the Whitman School and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. The SEP conducts research through the Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program, holds seminars on ways for businesses and organizations to incorporate sustainability into their products and practices, and awards scholarships for students and researchers interested in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. The SEP also offers a Certificate of
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Summer Enrichment Program (University of Colorado)


The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is a summer camp for gifted and talented children entering grades 5 to 10, located at Center for the Education and Study of the Gifted, Talented, Creative at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. SEP consists of one two-week session in mid-July, during which students reside in the university dormitories and eat in campus dining halls, supervised by camp counselors assigned to each grade. The students choose four classes which they attend every day from Monday to Friday.
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The Reluctant Shaman


of contemporary fantasy stories de Camp set in the fictional town of Gahato and the surrounding Adirondack region of New York, the others being "The Hardwood Pile" ("Unknown", Sep. 1940) and some of his Willy Newbury stories, notably "The Lamp" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction", March 1975), "Algy" ("Fantastic", Aug. 1976), "Darius" ("Escape!," fall 1977) and "The Huns" ("Fantasy and Science Fiction",
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Yosef Greenwald


Pupa Hasidic movement. He travelled to Belz many times before World War II, and after the war he made the trip from United States to Israel to visit Aharon Rokeach, the fourth Rebbe of Belz. Greenwald was born on Wednesday the 24th of Elul 5663 (Sep. 16 1903) in Brezovica, Hungary. In his youth, he studied Torah in his father's Yeshiva in Pápa, Hungary. In 1855 he married Chana the daughter of his grandfather's brother Rabbi Ya'akov Yechezkiya Greenwald, who was orphaned by her father and
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List of awards and nominations received by Orphan Black


editors. "Orphan Black" received four nominations with one win. The Canadian Screen Awards are given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media. "Orphan Black" has been honoured with 35 awards from 54 nominations. The Constellation Awards were a set of Canadian awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works, the winners were determined by voting by the general public. "Orphan Black" won four awards from five nominations. The
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Star Maker


Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, "Last and First Men" (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. "Star Maker" tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations.
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S.W.O.R.D. (The Saint)


S.W.O.R.D. (an acronym for Secret World Organization for Retribution & Destruction) is a fictional criminal organization that exists as a creation within a creation. The organization appears in the novel "The Saint and the Fiction Makers", written by Fleming Lee. It is credited to editor Leslie Charteris who created the title character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". "The Fiction Makers" was adapted from a two-part episode of the same title written by John Kruse from "The Saint" TV series. This was
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The Universe Maker


The Universe Maker is a science fiction novel by American author A.E. van Vogt, published in 1953 by Ace Books as an Ace Double with "The World of Null-A". It is based on the author's "The Shadow Men" ("Startling Stories", 1950). Set 400 years into the future, the main character is Morton Cargill, a U.S. Army officer who served in the Korean War. Morton Cargill, Korean War soldier, accidentally kills a girl named Marie while driving drunk. He runs
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The Maker of Universes


The Maker of Universes (1965) is a science fiction novel by American author Philip José Farmer. It is the first in his "World of Tiers" series. The story follows Robert Wolff, a man disenchanted with his life and his marriage. One day, while looking at a new house, Wolff discovers a strange horn in the basement. Blowing the horn, Wolff is transported to a strange new world, the World of Tiers. Wolff finds himself initially in an edenic paradise known as Okeanos. This region is
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Soft science fiction


already established shift from hard sf (chemistry, physics, astronomy, technology) to soft sf (psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and even [...] linguistics) is continuing more strongly than ever." Poul Anderson, in "Ideas for SF Writers" (Sep 1998), described H. G. Wells as the model for soft science fiction: "He concentrated on the characters, their emotions and interactions" rather than any of the science or technology behind, for example, invisible men or time machines.
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Spacecraft in Red Dwarf


about Carbug for the official Dave website. In the special, the Dwarfers find themselves in a hallucination caused by a despair squid. In this delusional state, they borrow Carbug from Swallow, a maker of movie props, in order to track down their creator after discovering that they are in fact fictional characters who have somehow escaped from a TV show called "Red Dwarf". Within this hallucination's universe, Carbug originally belonged to the "Red Dwarf" fan club president and was stolen by Swallow after the fictional series IX
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List of orphans and foundlings


Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. While the exact definition of orphan varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment. "See also " See also for lists
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Michael Cassutt


, the 1991 "Dragon Season", the 2001 "Red Moon" and the 2011 "Heaven's Shadow," in collaboration with David S. Goyer. In addition, Cassutt contributes non-fiction articles to magazines and is the author of the non-fiction book, "The Astronaut Maker," a biography of NASA legend George W. S. Abbey (2018). Although born in Owatonna, Minnesota, Cassutt was raised in Hudson, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Hudson High School. He attended the University of Arizona
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Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)


best Starfleet character of "Star Trek". (Starfleet is a fictional organization within the Star Trek science fiction universe) In 2016, ScreenRant rated Miles O'Brien as the 20th best character in "Star Trek" overall as presented in television and film up to that time, highlighting the character's role in episodes such as “,” “,” “,” and “Time’s Orphan”. In 2017, "IndieWire" ranked Miles as the 13th best character on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
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Adam Johnson (writer)


Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, "The Orphan Master's Son", and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection "Fortune Smiles". He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona. He earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer
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Jill Godmilow


Jill Godmilow was born outside Philadelphia in 1943. She is a working independent film and video maker, primarily of non-fiction works. Godmilow studied Russian literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1974 her film, "", on the conductor Antonia Brico, received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2003. In 1984 she made "Far From Poland", a non-fiction feature about the Polish Solidarity movement. She
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The Softwire


The Softwire is a series of four young adult science fiction novels by PJ Haarsma. It is set in space, in an original fictional universe of Haarsma's creation. A group of around two hundred children are orphaned in outer space on their journey to the Rings of Orbis: giant, planet-like rings which surround a wormhole. The children's parents are killed during an incident in the "seed-ship" in which they are traveling and the computer controlling the ship has raised the children—the eldest of whom
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Orphan Black


on Metacritic. On Rotten Tomatoes, it received a 94% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 8.02 out of 10 based on 31 reviews. The site's consensus reads: ""Orphan Black" is a wild science fiction ride that incorporates dramatic sensibilities which can turn from suspenseful to light at a moment's notice." Tatiana Maslany received acclaim for her performance as the various clones. Tim Goodman of "The Hollywood Reporter" called her performances "fantastic". "Orphan Black" continued to receive
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List of awards and nominations received by Orphan Black


science fiction and fantasy. The Satellite Awards are a set of annual awards given by the International Press Academy. "Orphan Black" has four nominations. The Screen Actors Guild Awards are organized by the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. First awarded in 1995, the awards aim to recognize excellent achievements in film and television. "Orphan Black" has one nomination. The members of the Television Critics Association vote annually for outstanding achievements in television. "Orphan Black" has one award from three nominations. The
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J.R. Carpenter


J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher, performer and maker of maps, zines, books, poems, fiction, non-fiction, non-linear hypermedia narratives, and computer-generated texts. She was born in Nova Scotia in 1972, and lived in Montreal from 1990 to 2009. She now lives in Plymouth, England. Carpenter studied Life Drawing and Anatomy at the Art Students League of New York in 1988 and Fibres and Sculpture at Concordia University in Montreal 1990–1995. In 2015 she was awarded
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Anna Livia (author)


Anna Livia (born Anna Livia Julian Brawn; November 13, 1955 – August 5, 2007) was a lesbian feminist author and linguist, well known for her fiction and non-fiction regarding sexuality. From 1999 until shortly before the time of her death she was a member of staff at University of California, Berkeley. Anna Livia was born on November 13, 1955 in Dublin, Ireland. She was born to Patrick St. John, a writer and film maker, and Dympna Brawn, a poet, and had two
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Thomas Wildey


Thomas Wildey (1782–1861) was the founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in North America. Wildey was born in London, England, in 1782. He was left an orphan five years later - and the IOOF pledge to "Educate the Orphan" sprang from his personal childhood experiences. At the age of 14, Wildey went to live with an uncle. After he had 9 years of schooling, he became an apprentice to a maker of coach springs. He joined the British Oddfellows in 1804.
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Asa Earl Carter


Carter", "The Times" noted, "the author has declined to be interviewed on the subject." In 1985, Carter's autobiography was purchased for a paperback edition and marketed by the University of New Mexico Press as a memoir. It was subtitled "A True Story by Forrest Carter". The story described the relationship between the boy and his Scottish-Cherokee grandfather, a man named Wales (an overlap with Carter's other fiction). Written from the perspective of a boy orphaned at age five,
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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List of awards and nominations received by Orphan Black


award. The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works. "Orphan Black" has accepted one award, with two nominations. The IGN Awards are chosen annually by the IGN editors, honoring the best in film, television, games, comics and anime. "Orphan Black" has two wins from eight nominations. The IGN People's Choice Awards are voted on annually by the general public, they honor the best in film, television, games, comics and anime.
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Richard Powers


Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel "The Echo Maker" won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2018 Powers has published twelve novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Overstory". One of five children, Powers was
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


topic to reflect reasoned disagreements among scholars. Initially, the "SEP" was developed with U.S. public funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. A long-term fundraising plan to preserve open access to the encyclopedia is supported by many university libraries and library consortia. These institutions contribute under a plan devised by the "SEP" in collaboration with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and the Southeastern Library Network, with matching funding from the National Endowment for
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Star Maker


Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Arthur C. Clarke considered "Star Maker" to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written, and Brian W. Aldiss called it "the one great grey holy book of science fiction". A single human narrator from England is transported out of his body via unexplained means. He realizes he is able to explore space and other planets. After exploring a civilization on another planet in our galaxy at a level of
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Somatosensory evoked potential


Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP or SSEP) is the electrical activity of the brain that results from the stimulation of touch. SEP tests measure that activity and are a useful, noninvasive means of assessing somatosensory system functioning. By combining SEP recordings at different levels of the somatosensory pathways, it is possible to assess the transmission of the afferent volley from the periphery up to the cortex. SEP components include a series of positive and negative deflections that can be elicited by virtually any sensory stimuli. For example, SEPs can be obtained in
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Newsboy Legion


The Newsboy Legion are fictional characters, a kid gang in the DC Comics Universe. Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, they appeared in their own self-titled feature which ran from "Star-Spangled Comics" #7 (April 1942) to "Star-Spangled Comics" #64 (January 1947). A group of orphans, living on the streets of Suicide Slum, they were so named because they sold newspapers to make a living. They were also frequently in trouble with the law, although local
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The Tar-Aiym Krang


The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. It is Foster’s first published novel and started both his Humanx Commonwealth universe and his two most popular recurring characters, Pip and Philip Lynx ("Flinx"). The book is second chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series. The story follows Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he steals a starmap from a dead body, that leads to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world. This simple,
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The Godmakers (novel)


The Godmakers (1972) is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. The title of early editions was sometimes styled "The God Makers". It explores the concepts of war and peace, good government and religious belief. It can be seen as a bridging novel between the all-human "Dune" universe and the ConSentiency universe series. It is a novel expanded from four short stories: The story focuses on Lewis Orne, an agent for a government agency which develops 'lost planets.' After correctly identifying a
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Dinah Watts Pace


Pace, a local blacksmith and coffin maker. After his assurance that he would allow her to continue with her work, the two were married. In 1886, Pace resigned her teaching post to devote her time to raising funds for her orphans. She traveled the state trying to secure funds. In 1890, she incorporated the Covington Colored Orphans Home with the goal of providing care, education and training for orphans or abandoned children who had no one to care for them. Perhaps her most steadfast benefactor was her brother, Lewis
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Saints and Revolutionaries


to readers of his science fiction – the universe and humanity's place in it, both personally and as a species. He argues that humanity is undergoing a period of rapid change and that our beliefs, and the nature of belief itself, are changing. To an extent, the themes and preoccupations of "Saints and Revolutionaries" can be said to be present in most of Stapledon's fiction and philosophy. However, the posthumously-published "Nebula Maker" is closest in theme, as its two main protagonists embody these
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Samuel Ready School


and could have retired at any time he worked until his very death because he loved helping the people. He came up with the idea of the Samuel Ready institution while he was an employee at the Sail Making Firm. While working as a Sail Maker he came across a few female orphans who used to "hang around" the dock. Ready would always engage in conversation with them in order to learn more about their lives. From these conversations he learned about the struggle of the orphans to find a place that felt like
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The Crucible of Time


The Crucible of Time is a fix-up science fiction novel by John Brunner. It was first published in 1983. Parts 1 and 2 appeared in "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" as "The Fire is Lit" (Sep 1982) and "Fusing and Refusing" (Jan 1983). The novel deals with the efforts of an alien species to escape their homeworld, whose system is passing through a cloud of interstellar debris, resulting in a high rate of in-falling matter. The species' unique
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Christina Baker Kline


Christina Baker Kline (born 1964) is an American novelist. She is the author of seven novels, including "Orphan Train", and has co-authored or edited five non-fiction books. Kline is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship recipient. She was born in Cambridge, England, and raised in Cambridge, the American South, and in Maine. Kline is a graduate of Yale (BA in English), Cambridge University (MA in Literature), and the University of Virginia (MFA), where
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Orphans of Chaos


Orphans of Chaos is a 2005 science fiction, fantasy novel by John C. Wright. It is the first volume of the Orphans of Chaos trilogy that continues with the novels "Fugitives of Chaos" (2006) and "Titans of Chaos" (2007). Five orphans - Victor, Amelia, Vanity, Colin, and Quentin (see Names and identities below) - who have spent their lives in a luxurious but strict and secretive British boarding school (Saint Dymphna's School and College for Destitute Children) begin to discover
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The Echo Maker


The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers. It won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman —
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Leicester City F.C. Under-23s and Academy


"player of the decade" at the end of the 1970s also came through the "Foxes"' ranks. Leicester's all-time top appearance makers Graham Cross and Sep Smith were also among notable products of the academy. The academy is overseen by director Jon Rudkin, with Steve Beaglehole currently holding the position of 'Development Coach', working in the new Under-21 league set up from the summer of 2012. Trevor Peake and Chris Tucker currently look after the Under-18s, whilst Kevin Fogg and Paul Cheney are in charge
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Under Wildwood


by the Makers. Unthank sends Elsie and Rachel and a third girl named Martha into the I.W. There they discover dozens of orphans previously exiled from the machine shop living in a cabin with an elderly blind man named Carol. Carol is the second Maker who, along with Esben, originally built the mechanical body in which the Governess brought Alexei back to life. The Governess had Carol's eyes poked out before banishing him to the Periphery Bind, a stretch of woods where those trying to enter the Woods find themselves lost forever.
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Harm (comics)


Harm is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in "Young Justice" #4 (January 1999). William "Billy" Hayes (whose secret origin is found in Young Justice #42), is an orphan boy adopted by two loving middle-class parents and their young daughter Greta. When William (then Billy) is first adopted, Greta sees prophetic visions of his evil nature, but is calmed by Billy, who swears to protect Greta and her innocence from the bad things of
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Geldoff


Geldoff is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in the Ultimate Marvel Universe's "Ultimate Spider-Man" #40 (July 2003) written by Brian Michael Bendis with art from Mark Bagley. Geldoff was brought into Earth-616 by Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage in "" #8 (February 2008) where he was given the code name Proton. Geldoff was a Latverian orphan who was experimented on in the womb. While drunk at a party, Geldoff blew up
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List of awards and nominations received by Orphan Black


"Orphan Black" is a Canadian science fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett, starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical people who are clones. The ACTRA Toronto Awards are given annually by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, recognizing outstanding performances by its members. "Orphan Black" has one win from seven nominations. The Canadian Cinema Editors is a non-profit organization which promotes the art and science of picture editing in all media, they host annual awards honouring professional film
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Daughter of Time Trilogy


The Daughter of Time Trilogy is the omnibus of the novels "Reader", "Writer", and "Maker" by biomedical scientist Erec Stebbins. The novels are space operas and metaphysical adventure fiction centered on the character Ambra Dawn, a slave with the ability to "read” and "write” spacetime. The trilogy features elements of cosmology, parallel universe (fiction), time travel, alternate history, prescience, telepathy, telekinesis, alien invasion, cybernetics, and spirituality, with the novels repeatedly breaking the fourth
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Scaleup company


Growth', an independent report that presents results from other nations that have changed their economic policy towards scaleups and recommends actions the UK needs to take to ensure is the leading economy in the world for generations to come. Alberto Onetti: Chairman – Mind The Bridge Foundation (MTB) that leads Startup Europe Partnership (SEP); SEP Coordinator at MTB. Professor of Entrepreneurship at Insubria University and serial entrepreneur. He is a scaleup advocate. Alberto Onetti Linkedin Alberto Onetti crunchbase Brad Feld: A noted American entrepreneur, author,
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Barbary (novel)


Barbary is a 1986 science fiction novel written by Vonda McIntyre about an orphan and her cat moving to a space station. It is considered one of the best science fiction stories of the decade for children and young adults. Barbary, a twelve-year-old girl, is an orphan who has lived in several group homes and foster families since the death of her mother. The novel opens with her waiting in a spaceport for a seat on a shuttle to Earth orbit, which will be the first step on a journey
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Orphan


; the Hebrew prophet Moses and the Muslim prophet Muhammad; writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, and Leo Tolstoy; athletes such as Aaron Hernandez and Jacques Villeneuve. The American orphan Henry Darger portrayed the horrible conditions of his orphanage in his art work. Other notable orphans include entertainment greats such as Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth, Ray Charles and Frances McDormand, and innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. Wars and great epidemics, such as AIDS, have created many orphans. The Second World War, with
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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Universidad Azteca


in Austria, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, India. Universidad Azteca is affiliated with the "Centro de Estudios Superiores Azteca". The private university was established in 1984 and recognized by the federal Secretary of Public Education (SEP) of the United States of Mexico in 1987. The university is accredited by the "Reconocimiento de Validez Oficial de Estudios" (RVOE) and the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) to award graduate and postgraduate degrees. It is listed with the official Mexican government cultural and scientific information exchange network
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SEP-IRA


deducted from the net profit. The result is then multiplied by 20% to arrive at the maximum SEP deduction, $9,293. SEP contributions and earnings are held in SEP-IRAs and can be withdrawn at any time, subject to the general limitations imposed on Traditional IRA. A withdrawal is taxable in the year received. If a participant makes a withdrawal before age 59½, generally a 10% additional tax applies. SEP contributions and earnings may be rolled over tax-free to other Individual retirement account and retirement plans.
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Fictional brand


the plot, and using a real brand would limit creativity as the author would be constrained by the actual attributes of that brand. A subset of this is comedic brands, the most famous being "Acme" for the maker of complicated gadgets that never quite work. Finally, the use of a real brand may be excluded also when the plot is meant to develop in a time or place (e.g. in a distant future, or in a fictional universe) where the real brand would not have existed anyway. Alternately,
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Laleh Khadivi


, is the story of a Kurdish boy whose father is killed in a battle with the Iranian army in 1921. The boy is captured, becomes a soldier and eventually is turned into an oppressor of his own people. She has worked extensively as a documentary filmmaker. She taught at Emory University as the 2007-2009 Fiction Fellow. She also taught creative writing at Santa Clara University during the 2010-2011 school year. She currently resides in San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, has been translated
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Mama Day


The novel takes place within the same fictional universe as some of Naylor's other novels, indicated through its passing references to events and characters from both "Linden Hills" and "Bailey's Cafe". "Mama Day" centers around the characters George and Cocoa. Cocoa, whose real name is Ophelia, is a young southern woman living in New York who is still deeply connected to her family and ancestry, even though her family's history is fraught with pain and tragedy. George grew up an orphan, overcoming a
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Milkweed (novel)


Milkweed is a 2003 young adult historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli. The book is about a boy in Warsaw, Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust. Over time he is taken in by a Jewish group of orphans and he must avoid the Nazis (or "Jackboots") while living on the streets with other orphans. The story narrator is the boy in the future living in America recalling his past experiences. Despite being a historical fiction novel, Doctor Korczak, a minor character in
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Sam J. Lundwall


such as "New Maps of Hell", "Billion Year Spree", "Seekers of Tomorrow", "In Search of Wonder", and "The Universe Makers". In the summer of 1973, he left A&K and worked with Delta Förlag that he ran together with the literary agent Gunnar Dahl. Until the end of the 1980s Delta published about 200 science fiction books. During the 1990s Lundwall continued publishing science fiction on his own company, Sam J. Lundwall Fakta & Fantasi. Lundwall was also the editor of
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