That all changed in the 1920s after, as the story goes, a visit circa 1916 by a Russian princess to the tiny port of St.
We wiped the whole thing out but in doing so we saw a little Goonfleet circa 2006 with a bunch of 5 day old newbies in Frigates jumping stupidly into lowsec and it made us take a closer look at you guys.
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Looking very much like the cover of a circa 1970 science fiction novel, the engraving is a pleasing dedication to the art of the era of space flight.
On the outskirts of Omaha, Mr. Davis's sprawling 150-acre property consists of his main home, several barns, an observatory, a circa-1920s guest house and large swimming pool with a waterfall.
Mr. Myer himself lives in a circa-1880 home with plasma TVs, Lutron motorized shades, and a button marked "movie time" that dims his great room and lowers the blinds.
Gordigiani's beautiful "Portrait of the Marchesa Maria Luisa Ginora Lisci" (1884) shows the aristocratic Florentine in the couture finery and fake ringlets for which she was famous, and his smiling daughter "Giulietta as a Young Girl" (circa 1887) is a beguiling charmer.
The phone runs Android 2.1 without any of the Google applications (such as Gmail, Google maps, or the Android Market), and feels like it's powered by a circa 600MHz processor.
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When I first read the story I thought it was an exchange for actual goods, like bed pans and surgical kits, a circa-1999 idea like the old Commerce One or VerticalNet.
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Taylor Swift channeled Bianca Jagger circa Studio 54 in a white pantsuit from J.
The summer of love, circa 1967, needs a little more attention.
Indian consumers, for their part, think it is wonderful: compare the average Delhi taxi (technology circa 1955) with a new, air-conditioned version, courtesy of foreign investors.
That's what Douglas Carter Beane does with "The Nance, " a dead-serious comedy set in New York circa 1937 in which Nathan Lane plays a self-hating gay man who makes a living playing outrageously effeminate gay men on the burlesque stage.
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The computer under the dash of a BMW 7-series sedan is on par with a Pentium PC circa 1997.
Apple could end up like IBM circa 1965 when IBM had a 65 percent share of the computing market.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
This January marks the launch her new Circa Balanced Life Planner, a paper based system for the digital age, designed to help you make good decisions about where to spend your time.
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Situated in a restored mansion (circa 1853), the wine list alone boasts over 5, 000 bottles.
The Windows Live demo featured an events invite module that looked a lot like Evite circa 2002.
The momentum argument being espoused by plenty suggests that a significant loss of games or a season wiped away (a la the NHL circa 2004-05) would do irrevocable long-term damage to the interest in the sport.
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Schirrmann-Hamkens brought up the turkeys because their appearance in a mural allegedly painted circa 1300 was surprising: Turkeys are New World birds believed to have first been introduced to Europe by the Spaniards in the 1550s.
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"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970, " he says.
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"A kid in Africa with a smartphone is walking around with a trillion dollars of computation circa 1970s, " he says.
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Even in 1993, Charles still used only a plug-in calculator circa 1970, with blue keys the size of dimes, very rugged keys, which was indeed fortunate given the pounding he would give it when reproducing calculations by hand that some state-of-the-art mainframe, the pride of IBM and the size of a refrigerator, had no doubt taken many minutes to complete in some sealed room.
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Here's a look at five towns still relishing a status as wealth havens, circa 1900.
The Bitcoin economy today looks a lot like the PC market circa 1978.
By contrast, Peterson's latest is a classic Hollywood action adventure, circa 1997.
Vintage Queen Doris Raymond just bagged a plum cache of vintage lingerie, circa 1970s.
Rumor has it there are still a lot of DEC VAX systems, circa 1990, still running mission-critical applications.
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