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  • That's the spaceship used by Aelphaeis Mangarae aka Elvis,a highly trained alien from the Maian extraterrestrial race in the first-person shooter video game Perfect Dark.

    (Aelphaeis Mangarae) Elvis' Ship Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010

  • One of its leader, Maian Njenga, claims he had a vision from God (Ngai) commanding him to unite the Kikuyu and fight foreign ideologies.

    Profile: Kenya’s secretive Mungiki sect 2003

  • The servant brought the drinks, whiskey and soda for Michael, wine of Maian skyberries for Ramil, together with kelp crackers and garlic nuggets.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • It was like a dyke bursting, with first a trickle of men making for the river, and then the main body giving back, and suddenly that magnificent host that I'd gaped at on Maian Mir had dissolved into a mass of fugitives pouring back to the bridge of boats, spilling into the river on either side of it, or trying to escape along the banks.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Jemadar, find the orderly, tell him the husoor wants him, double quick - and if he asks, say I'm out at Maian Mir.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • That morning on Maian Mir the confidence I'd felt, viewing our forces on the Grand Trunk, vanished like Punjabi mist.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • It must have been five hundred yards from wing to wing, with lancer regiments on the flanks, and in the centre the heavy squadrons in tunics of white and red, tulwars at the shoulder, the low sun gleaming on polished helms from which stiff plumes stood up like scarlet combs - and only when I remembered those same plumes at Maian Mir did I realise the full horror of what I was seeing.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • You remember her that night at Maian Mir, don't you?

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • And she reviled them in fishwife terms, as she had at Maian Mir, until Gardner stepped swiftly forward and caught her by the arm.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • The Khalsa began to reassemble on Maian Mir, Lal was confirmed as Wazir and Tej as commander-in-chief, both made proclamations full of fire and fury, and the leading generals took their oaths on the Granth, pledging undying loyalty to young Dalip with their hands on the canopy of Runjeet's tomb.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

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