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He already had served his six years, but was called back for service in Iraq, said Paul Magnan, a friend of the family.
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He also enjoyed golfing, and took trips with his father, Magnan said.
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French author Magnan blends elegant clue-laying and deft characterizations that strike to the core of human frailties in his second mystery set in Provence.
Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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French author Magnan blends elegant clue-laying and deft characterizations that strike to the core of human frailties in his second mystery set in Provence.
News Ed Gorman 2008
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The two most astonishing statements in his book, I think, were, first, that there seemed "no room" in the lives of the Cro-Magnan artists and hunters for speculation and philosophy; and second, and still more staggering, the suggestion that men buried a rotting corpse with careful rites regarding weapons and other provision, because they did not know that the corpse was dead!
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Since bees have been observed to fly, the smart money has always been that Magnan and Sainte-Lague were, in scientific parlance, “wrong.”
Another suburban legend shattered Sean 2005
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In fact, this idea goes back to French entomologists August Magnan and André Sainte-Lague, who in 1934 calculated that bee flight was aerodynamically impossible.
Another suburban legend shattered Sean 2005
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Retief whirled, leaped past Magnan, took the unarmed servant by the throat and belt, lifted him and slammed him against the third man.
Gambler's World Keith Laumer 1959
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Magnan gulped, punched the button and slumped back, panting.
Gambler's World Keith Laumer 1959
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"Oh, the Nenni are a trifle frivolous, I'll concede," Magnan said.
Gambler's World Keith Laumer 1959
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