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Deserters from the US military face a court martial and up to five years in prison.
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In my role as a leader of the so-called Deserters, I made it my business to be familiar with every type of spacecraft and propulsion system ever built or proposed, and I neither saw nor heard of anything like these two, certainly none powered by this ‘impulse drive’ you mention.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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In my role as a leader of the so-called Deserters, I made it my business to be familiar with every type of spacecraft and propulsion system ever built or proposed, and I neither saw nor heard of anything like these two, certainly none powered by this ‘impulse drive’ you mention.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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In my role as a leader of the so-called Deserters, I made it my business to be familiar with every type of spacecraft and propulsion system ever built or proposed, and I neither saw nor heard of anything like these two, certainly none powered by this ‘impulse drive’ you mention.
INTO THE NEBULA GENE DeWEESE 2000
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July the 12th, we saw the rocks near the island of Madeira, which our people call the Deserters, from Desertes, a name which has been given them from their barren and desolate appearance: The next day we stood in for the road of Funchiale, where, about three o'clock in the afternoon, we came to an anchor.
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On the side next the Deserters is a low flat island, and near it a needle rock; the side next to Madeira is full of broken rocks, and for that reason it is not safe to come within less than two miles of it.
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Sailing from this city you will come to the "Deserters" in another period of time equal to that in which you came from Elephantine to the mother-city of the Ethiopians.
An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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Now the name of these "Deserters" is _Asmach_, and this word signifies, when translated into the tongue of the Hellenes, "those who stand on the left hand of the king."
An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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Sailing from this city you will come to the "Deserters" in another period of time equal to that in which you came from Elephantine to the mother-city of the
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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The Nile then, besides the part of its course which is in Egypt, is known as far as a four months 'journey by river and land: for that is the number of months which are found by reckoning to be spent in going from Elephantine to these "Deserters": and the river runs from the West and the setting of the sun.
An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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