In 1944 the German navy operated a very successful two-man mini-sub, the Seehund.

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The vessel could also be a British two-man mini submarine - known as an X craft, a small boat or even a private yacht - one is known to have sunk in the area many years ago.

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Chanderpaul proved the man for the mini-crisis, however, as he rotated the strike adroitly in tandem with Hinds.

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Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.

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In recent years no small car, not even the new Mini (designed by Frank Stephenson, the man behind the new 500), has been greeted with such enthusiasm.

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The man picks up the guitar, and we get a mini rock concert as the two people handing the controllers start head banging to the music.

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Yet it may still not be good enough: the best mini-mill firms can make a ton of steel using less than one man-hour of labour.

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Paul MacCready, the man behind the Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft, founded the mini-conglomerate.

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It was during his era that seminal programmes such as Man Alive premiered, but probably the biggest TV event screened during this period was mini-series The Forstyte Saga, which became one of the first-must see costumes dramas.

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While we were at CES, however, we bumped into the man behind the MK802, and he happened to have a new, updated iteration of the Android mini PC.

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