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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.

    December 2006 glimpses 2007

  • He also enjoyed golfing, and took trips with his father, Magnan said.

    December 2006 glimpses 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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!

    G.K.'s Weekly - On Mr. Wells and Mr. Belloc 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Magnan gulped, punched the button and slumped back, panting.

    Gambler's World Keith Laumer 1959

  • "Oh, the Nenni are a trifle frivolous, I'll concede," Magnan said.

    Gambler's World Keith Laumer 1959

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