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aM laboratory. Book recommendations from readers like you. U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time. Gallery 63 Auction Kings - Antiques Consignment - Architectural - Classic Cars - Furniture - Jewelry - Garden - Statuary - Fountains - Louis Icart - Paintings - Rare - Unusual - Bizarre - Collectibles - Furniture - Bedroom - Dining - Game Room. Free Visual English Dictionary and Thesaurus | Discover meaning of words and associated words at SnappyWords.com. It’s an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words.

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Useful Sites Another fun, free and interactive education application is the Madison Falls High School course which covers core high school subjects. Bad URL. TRANSLATOR, BINARY. In praise of the sci-fi corridor. There's a moment in every geek's life when one goes for the 'communal hug' on a pet-subject and finds oneself unexpectedly out in the cold. The piano player stops playing. The landlord shakes his head as his eyes head heavenward, and he slinks away to rearrange the crisps.

The lonely sound of a misdirected dart is all that haunts the otherwise silent pub. And it's definitely time to get your anorak. "You like what...? " Corridors in science-fiction movies. I wasted too much of my childhood and youth imitating and developing the superb production sketches of Ron Cobb, Syd Mead, Ralph McQuarrie and many others. Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they're so utilitarian by nature - really they're just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. Here's what started me off... The designs that Roger Christian synthesised from Ron Cobb's prolific and extraordinary conceptual sketches for Alien (1979) are lingered over lovingly at the start of the movie.