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  • Getting up disgusted, Blake Carrington from the leather sofa says,

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  • Judson flew past cornerback Chris Adkins for the 60-yard pass that set up the opening touchdown, and, similarly receiver Jeff Cumberland blew by linebacker Justin Carrington for a 20-yard TD late in the first quarter.

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  • (Carrington is a Democrat; Cramton, a Republican.)

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  • (Carrington is a Democrat; Cramton, a Republican.)

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  • "It became known as the Carrington event, and the National Academy of Sciences worries about the impact of another such event today and the lack of awareness among officials."

    doggdot.us 2009

  • The fact that there are at least three places, in England called Carrington has not prevented one writer from seeking the origin of that name in the appropriate locality of

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • It is known as the Carrington event, after the British amateur astronomer Richard Carrington, who was the first to note its cause: "two patches of intensely bright and white light" emanating from a large group of sunspots.

    ThothWeb - Your Portal to the Unknown 2009

  • In 1859, a solar storm, also known as the Carrington event (after the astronomer Richard Carrington, who first recognized the cause) fried the telegraph system.

    ABC News: ABCNews 2009

  • The 1994 film "Carrington" also resulted from his seminal work.

    Revelations From a Biographer Paul Levy 2010

  • May be designers should go out and create attractive skins based on and for existing efficient frameworks and themes such as Carrington or Sandbox and similar.

    The Future of WordPress Themes 2009

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