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• “We then went to what they call the Pifcina mirabilis, which is a let of arches, where there pro? bably was water, but to what end, my anti - quarian did not make clear to me.”

  Internet Archive: Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany, in the years 1759, 1760, and 1761

• “Lucerna huius insulæ lucens lucerna mirabilis which is evidently corrupt, and (as Colgan seems to regard it as the opening stanza) must show that the whole text had become disturbed by the time when Colgan wrote.”

  The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints

• “It truly has been an annus mirabilis for Van Persie, who arrived in north London as a young shaver seven summers since for a cut-price £2.75m.”

  The Guardian: Arsène Wenger full of praise for Robin van Persie's annus mirabilis

• “Thirty years later, in the annus mirabilis of sci-fi and horror that was 1982, John Carpenter came at the topic from an entirely new angle, drenching the screen in gore and goop and state-of-the-art effects and how!”

  The Guardian: The Thing - still mutating after all these years

• “Back in 1987-88 Luton enjoyed a season mirabilis, reaching both an FA Cup semi-final and, of course, the League Cup final not to forget a Simod Cup final and an appearance in the unforgettable Mercantile Credit Centenary Classic," writes Andy Collon.”

  The Guardian: Which club has put the most final nails in managerial coffins? | The Knowledge

• “Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.”

  Ss Petri & Pauli

• “By 1962 what Ms. Marquis calls Pop's "annus mirabilis" the Museum of Modern Art was sufficiently concerned about the movement's rise to devote a symposium to it.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Attack of the Hipsters

• “SOME OF THE PLANET'S LONGEST-LIVED ORGANISMSNAMIBIA: Welwitschia mirabilis The 2,000-year-old welwitschia plant found in the Namib-Naukluft desert is an unlikely-looking conifer that produces only two leaves in its lifetime? the longest in the plant kingdom.”

  The Guardian: The oldest living organisms: ancient survivors with a fragile future

• “Lander called it an “annus mirabilis,” one of the most prolific periods of discovery in human genetics.”

  Simon & Schuster: The $1,000 Genome

• “Suvanasuthi 2005 The ability of Proteus mirabilis to sense surfaces and regulate virulence gene expression involves FliL, a flagellar basal body protein.”

  Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb

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