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Founded by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras in Roubaix in 2001, ANKAMA is an independent group which produces digital creations and employs over 250 people.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Charles Chafer, chief executive officer of Space Services Inc. that operates Celestis spoke of the "precious payload" carried by the SpaceLoft XL, including over 12,000 digitized messages and tributes to Doohan and Cooper from all over the world.
Private Rocket Launches Ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty to Suborbital Spa | Impact Lab 2007
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"We return the flight capsule in a nice case with a certificate, so that people actually have a keepsake that shows dad, mum or their cousin has been put into space and has then returned to Earth," says Chafer brightly.
More and More People Want to be Stardust Memories | Impact Lab 2007
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Then I mounted and nudged Sirlofty to catch up with Chafer.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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Long-armed Chafer, which has been already mentioned in the account of my residence at Amboyna (Chapter XX.).
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Again, we may be powerless to destroy the Chafer grubs as they feed or hibernate beneath turf, but in their perfect state as Cockchafers or Rose Chafers many may be beaten down during quiet evenings, and others can be shaken from Roses at dawn or sunset.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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A small specimen of the Euchirus longimanus, or Long-armed Chafer, which has been already mentioned in the account of my residence at
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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_Chafer_, which, if he be suffer'd to creep over the hand, or any other part of the skin of ones body, does make his steps as sensible to the touch as the sight.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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But this contrivance, as it often fails the _Chafer_, when he walks on hard and close bodies, so would it also our Fly, though he be a much lesser, and nimbler creature, and therefore Nature has furnish'd his foot with another
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The farm's Sands and Chafer sprayers can cover the wheat area in about four days.
FWi - All News 2010
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