In the ancient oceans, green rust's ability to pull nickel out of the water would have been critical for some life forms, since nickel is an important nutrient for microbes that produce methane.

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The Gettys' palace, with its four courtyards, ancient harem and great green-glazed garden court, still retained much of its 19th-century grandeur, as well as decorative traces from the '20s and '30s.

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The ancient club is located amid green pasture in a haven of tranquility just beside the last stop on Calcutta's single Metro line.

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Which was no different than the graphical user experience revolution of the 1980s: the green screen user experience began to look ancient the moment users became familiar with the much more usable and effective GUI experience, and a wholesale redesign of enterprise software was underway.

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But Pan Yue, the best-known advocate of green concerns within the Chinese government, says ancient creeds, like Taoism, offer the best hope of making people treat the earth more kindly.

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Black fish dart over the submerged, ancient district, its foundations picked out pale green by the morning sun.

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But Green Party MP Caroline Lucas criticised the MoD's "ancient and rickety nuclear infrastructure".

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We shopped at Madeleine Castaing and an ancient place George knew where I bought ropes of green cut-class beads that looked like emeralds.

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One moment, the ethereal white or green curtains of light with a streak of violet take on forms that evoke the ancient mythology of the north - a palace of lights, a Sami fire in the wilderness, the prow of a Viking ship.

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