"In countries where it's dark half the year, you do tend to have a great tradition of storytelling, " he says.
Anxious casino executives were pleading with Higgins to help fend off the rolling blackouts that were hitting California: A dark half-hour on the Strip could mean tens of millions of gaming dollars lost, not to mention a security nightmare.
The sense of relief among the Dark Blue half of the city when Jocky's name was confirmed was palpable.
That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.
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Nerys Sanders, coastguard watch assistant at Swansea Coastguards, said staff at the base near Mumbles lighthouse first saw about 60 or 70 of the dark blue-grey whales about half a mile from the shore.
More personal and half-subsumed by a dark void, the later painting looks like the work of an entirely different artist.
Even though some of their mice survived the storm, Barcellos-Hoff says they could never account for the effect that the week and a half the animals spent in the dark might have had on the results.
The missing lizard is described as being dark green and black in colour, with around half its length being its tail.
The other half of the sky is 97% dark.
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But for the other half it will be moving with this tide and less dark matter will hit.
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The second time I died in Dark Souls, I was able to fight the monster to within half its health before succumbing.
"About half the schools in the country are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to admitting violence happens--they would rather just sweep it under the rug, " claims Catherine Bath, executive director of Security on Campus.
Put as simply as possible, it advocated eating from all food groups every day -- two cups of fruit and two and a half cups of vegetables a day, including veggies both dark green (kale, broccoli) and orange (carrots, squash), starches (potatoes, corn), and "other" (artichokes, green beans).
More than half of the language, the authors wrote, is "dark matter" that has evaded standard dictionaries.
In both registers, the first half of the book, from pre-history through the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, is outstanding.
Women today comprise half the workforce, but financially, many still live in the dark ages.
And even before she had allowed half an inch of morning light to show itself she was aware of a dark stripe cutting that light off.
During my tenure as a science journalist, I have interviewed at least half a dozen Nobel Prize winners and written about everything from potato blight to dark energy.
There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.
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