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Paul Winterton, British journalist and author, has written forty crime and suspense novels since 1938 under the pseudonyms Roger Bax, Paul Somers, and Andrew Garve, the name by which he is best known. He has amazed critics and reviewers by...
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Anger doesn't win games...
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Gary Geddes's poetry focuses on marginal figures in society, especially those who are caught in an ethical bind. Geddes is interested in people who are pulled between an instinctive sense of what is eternally, morally right and a desire, w...
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We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision....
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Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can. Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care o...
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Gary Cooper (1901-1961) possessed a distinctive screen image that mirrored much that was worthy in the American character. By box office figures, Cooper was the most popular male film star of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Although he had gr...
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Gary Edward Daniels (b. Surrey , England , May 9, 1963) is a British kickboxer, martial artist, and martial arts actor. Attributed I think you have to have the warrior spirit within you,...to get in the ring. On kickboxing career External ...
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Gary Fisher (born 1950 ) is an American cyclist, most famous for beeing one of the inventors of the mountain bike . Attributed Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine. External links Fisher Bikes website Charlie Kelly Website Gary Fish...
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Gary Mark Gilmore ( 1940-12-04 – 1977-01-17 ) was an American criminal who gained international notoriety, following two murders in Utah, for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled (which Utah authorities had no intention of doin...
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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it....
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Ernest Gary Gygax ( 27 July 1938 - 4 March 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer famous for designing the fantasy role playing game , Dungeons & Dragons , with co-creator Dave Arneson . Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Quotes...
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Gary W. Hart (born 1936) came to national attention as a political campaign organizer, a two-term U.S. senator, and a presidential candidate. Gary Warren Hart was born on November 28, 1936, in Ottawa, Kansas, an agricultural community wher...
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Gary Lawrence Francione (b. 1954) is an American legal academic well known for his writings on animal rights theory and animals and the law. Sourced Veganism The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual t...
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Gary Larson grew up in Tacoma, Washington, along the shores of Puget Sound. His mother was a secretary for the American Plywood Association, his father was a Chrysler dealer, and his brother was a distant cousin to Count Dracula. "I was hi...
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Gary Winston Lineker , OBE (born 30 November , 1960 in Leicester ) is a former English international footballer , playing as a striker for Leicester City , Everton , FC Barcelona , Tottenham Hotspur , and Nagoya Grampus Eight . Subsequentl...
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Gary Heidnik died by lethal injection in 1997 for the murders of two women in his North Philadelphia home. When he was captured, police found other women being held captive in his basement. Heidnik was born in 1944 and raised in Ohio, but ...
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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born....
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He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it....
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Gary Michael Null (born 1945) is a talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine and nutrition in the United States. He is also a social critic of psychiatry and conventional medicine. Unsourced We went through the r...
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Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory....
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Leonard Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, born in London. He won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Drama in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and ...
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Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. My father was a career mili...
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Gary Payton of the Seattle Supersonics has two nicknames. Other players call him "The Glove" because of his ability to guard opponents as tightly as a glove fits on a hand. Payton's defensive ability earned him the 1995-96 National Basketb...
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This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2008-04-15...
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Gary Player (born November 1 , 1935 ) is a South African professional golfer generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the game's history. Dubbed the Black Knight, Mr. Fitness and the International Ambassador of Golf, Player is ...
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American computer engineer who, with Robert Benner and John Gustafson, made significant contributions to the field of parallel computer processing. Parallel processing is the practice of linking a number of small computers together to form...
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile....
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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions....
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Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco, California. He has married three times, the first two marriages ending in divorce. In 1950 he married Alison Gass and was divorced in 1951; in 1960 he married Joanne Kyger and was divorced in 1964. Hi...
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Gary Soto is at heart a poet; everything he writes is overflowing with the vivid details of everyday life. Soto takes joy in the little things--remembered smells, voices in the distance, the pull of muscle when working. Growing up in a wor...
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Gary Webb (1955 - 2004) was an American investigative reporter, journalist, author, and legislative staffer. Sourced I do not believe -- and I have never believed -- that the crack cocaine explosion was a conscious CIA conspiracy, or anybo...
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Only the winners decide what were war crimes....
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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depen...
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A gas is a state of matter, the others being solids and liquids. Gases are distinguished from the other states by the amount of energy the constituent molecules have. With gases the molecules making up the gas have virtually completely fre...
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Compressed air is used in a variety of ways—from stoking a fire to propelling a jet aircraft --and is produced by many types of machines. Although such mechanisms as pile drivers, fans, or drills use air under pressure to perform som...
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Respiratory gaseous exchange occurs between the interior of an organism and the environment. In all animals with a vascular system, in which the blood transports respiratory gases, there is a twofold gaseous exchange within actively respir...
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The waste gases that escape from factories or power plants running on fossil fuels typically contain a variety of pollutants, including carbon monoxide, particulates, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur. The first of these pollutants, carbon mon...
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ETIOLOGY Gas gangrene is one of the most fatal infections. It has a mortality rate of 25% and can be 100% in patients with spontaneous gas gangrene or those with delayed treatment. Gas gangrene is caused by a bacterium called Clostridiu...
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EXPLAIN BOTH BOYLE'S AND CHARLES' LAW Boyle's law: pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume when temperature is constant. For example if the pressure slowly rises in a container, the volume will slowly drop. P = 1/V. Ch...
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Although gaslights might seem quaint today, the introduction of gas lighting transformed the way people lived during the 1800s. Just when books and newspapers were becoming less expensive, gas lighting made it possible for poor families to...
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Anselme Payen (1795-1871) and Garrett Augustus Morgan are credited with inventing the modern gas mask. Payen, a French chemist, was the son of an industrialist who established chemical factories. After his father's death, Payen took over t...
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A turbine represents a simple but effective way to harness energy by changing the force of a moving fluid into circular motion. Gas turbines are essentially a refinement of an ancient technology that underwent a rapid development in the ni...
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The Spanish priest and statesman Pedro de la Gasca (ca. 1496-1567) reestablished royal authority in Peru in the 1540s after the rebellious conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro overthrew the Spanish crown's representatives. Trained in theology and ...
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Tales of inhuman sentient creatures, distressed princesses, and mysterious lost lands, especially Atlantis, in the works of Jane Gaskell provide fare of interest to readers of both science fiction and fantasy. Nevertheless, except for such...
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South Carolina's most notorious criminal, Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins was put to death in 1991 after being linked to the murders of 14 people, but in an autobiography released after his death, he claimed to be responsible for over 100 deaths....
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Gasoline is a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons distilled from crude oil that is used as a fuel for internal-combustion engines. Gasoline was invented after discovery of crude oil in the late 1850s when various refining processes were develop...
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The Portuguese brothers Gaspar (died 1501) and Miguel (died 1502) Corte Reál were among the early explorers of the northeastern coast of America. The Corte Reál brothers were members of a noble Portuguese family. Gaspar was a...
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The Spanish explorer and colonial governor Gaspar de Portolá (ca. 1723-ca. 1784) headed the Spanish expedition that established the first missions in Alta California. Gaspar de Portolá was born at Balaguer in the province of ...
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