Then a friend mentioned the late Alexander Lippisch, a German who discovered wing-in-ground effect.
This Danville, CA house for sale includes an in-ground trampoline perfect for practicing aerial moves.
Most of the homes on this list boast in-ground pools and backyards perfect for Fourth of July shindigs.
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The little Mirra 530 fastidiously cleans in-ground pools, on and below the surface.
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The six bedroom house has been restored and the heated in-ground swimming pool is filled with water and in use.
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The price tag includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an in-ground pool.
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The home is very light, bright and open, with French doors and windows throughout that overlook beautiful lawns, a stunning in-ground pool and head-on city views.
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Researchers conclude that a potential future global population of 10 billion people could consume 1.7 trillion kilograms of copper total, greater than the estimated global in-ground stocks of 1.6 trillion kilograms.
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Mirra deep cleans any type of in-ground pool surface and water without using the pool's filtration system, hoses or booster pumps, which results in energy cost savings from running these pool systems less frequently.
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Knight Frank currently has a listing for a home within walking distance of downtown and the main beach of Luz that has four en-suite bedrooms with balconies, an in-ground pool and a patio overlooking the water.
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So less than a week after Saddam Hussein surrendered to American troops from his hole-in-the-ground hideaway, the world is avidly discussing the fate of Iraq's former dictator.
The turret does not rotate a full 360 degrees, so in ground-to-ground combat trying to manoeuvre the long-bodied Walrus around to get a firing position can prove frustrating.
So in the case of Clear Capital, the company has its market analytics department, but it also boasts an on-the-ground in-house staff that crunches tens of thousands of real-time valuation reports across the country, looking at everything from broker price opinions to appraisals.
Here was this big hole in the ground--fire coming out of the ground, buildings like stubs, body parts being carried out by firefighters and police officers.
Led by two English-speaking hosts, one foreign and one local to provide different perspectives, guests convene in the ground-level lounge and bar where they enjoy a Malabeca cocktail (malbec, pisco and apple juice) and mingle with the other diners.
This 1, 000-kilogram spacecraft will be similar to the two French Pleiades satellites now in orbit, with a 70-centimeter ground resolution in black and white and 2.8 meters in color.
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About 17 firefighters tackled the blaze in the ground-floor flat of a two-storey building.
Tamerlan stayed in a ground-floor apartment that his father bought in a simple residential neighborhood.
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And Richard Dunne was reportedly involved in a training-ground row after being dropped at the weekend.
In ground-based images, the patch of sky (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty.
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Lothian and Borders Police are to replace their traditional police notebooks with electronic handheld pads in a ground-breaking move.
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About half of those shipments are destined for commercial rooftops while the other half will be deployed in ground-mounted solar power plants.
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"That's because they built this peace line in the ground - a wall running nine feet down to be exact, " said George.
Not only are the 3D controls intuitive, but the developer didn't tamper with the normal ones you expect in a ground-based real-time strategy game.
In the two years before the storm, Mr. Dorman said, he and his wife had remodeled a bathroom, put in an above-ground pool and renovated their kitchen.
One Dagestani official said that after Mr. Tsarnaev's arrival local police determined he was staying in a ground-floor apartment his parents were renovating in the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala.
Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
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The same approach has been used in ground-based experiments to beam one kilowatt of power over a distance of several kilometres, notes Peter Fisher, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In a ground-breaking speech in parliament earlier this month, Mr Erdogan provoked tears when he spoke of the common pain of Turkish and Kurdish mothers who had lost sons in the conflict.
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