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  • Until the death of my old mac I was running Oolite, which is Elite in all but name, with an incredible 'Mod' community, which gives you the option of adding spacecraft sets.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

  • Until the death of my old mac I was running Oolite, which is Elite in all but name, with an incredible 'Mod' community, which gives you the option of adding spacecraft sets.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

  • I jumped overboard wearing them in the Miami Oolite ooze of upper Florida Bay, and promptly sank to my waist in mud.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • I jumped overboard wearing them in the Miami Oolite ooze of upper Florida Bay, and promptly sank to my waist in mud.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Ask the same question with regard to the Oolite or the Chalk, or even to particular beds of these when they differ considerably in their fossils, and you may then get some notion of how small a portion of the whole we know.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • "Oolite a big one," Oroles insisted, as a raven flapped away overhead.

    The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981

  • Cycadeoideae, a Family of Plants found in the Oolite Quarries of the Isle of Portland "(Ibid.); (6)" On the Discovery of a New Species of

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • Great Oolite, with limestones in the upper part, much quarried for building stones at Westbury, Thornborough, Brock, Whittlewood Forest, &c.; the lower portions are more argillaceous.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • That merely minute, indefinite variations in all directions should unaided have independently built up the shoulder structure of {73} the pterodactyles and carinate birds, and have laterally depressed their optic lobes, at a time so far back as the deposition of the Oolite strata, [56] is a coincidence of the highest improbability; but that an innate power and evolutionary law, aided by the corrective action of

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Institution on 7th January, 1904, is reported to have referred to a brontosaurus skeleton of sixty-five feet long, which had been discovered in the Oolite deposit in the southern part of the United

    The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot

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