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- proper noun A male
given name , a modern spelling ofMaximilian , taken from films and video game characters.
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Gregory is having a great year already, fresh off painting the esteemed De La Barracuda wall on Melrose and back-to-back art shows at LAB ART and Maximillian Galleries at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
John Wellington Ennis: Timelapse Video: Gregory Siff Paints Mural for Project Angel Food's GET ART 4 John Wellington Ennis 2011
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But the drama that unfolds - particularly when Maximillian exercises his military might about midway through - made this story ultimately enjoyable.
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009
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Gregory is having a great year already, fresh off painting the esteemed De La Barracuda wall on Melrose and back-to-back art shows at LAB ART and Maximillian Galleries at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
John Wellington Ennis: Timelapse Video: Gregory Siff Paints Mural for Project Angel Food's GET ART 4 John Wellington Ennis 2011
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Maximillian occasionaly [sic] - after some old Kaiser or other!
Work Camp 1203 L 2010
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In "The Spacetime Pool" by Catherine Asaro, prophecy leads to an MIT Mathematics graduate (Janelle) being whisked away to a parallel dimension where she encounters an evil Emperor (Maximillian), the brother (Dominick) who is trying to capture the throne, and a world that is mysteriously medieval given the technological information they possess.
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009
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Gregory is having a great year already, fresh off painting the esteemed De La Barracuda wall on Melrose and back-to-back art shows at LAB ART and Maximillian Galleries at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
John Wellington Ennis: Timelapse Video: Gregory Siff Paints Mural for Project Angel Food's GET ART 4 John Wellington Ennis 2011
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While not everything has been a success, it has brought in fresh faces with different points of view, some with remarkable success. (e.g. Bill Viola, William Freidkin, Maximillian Schell., etc) While I do think local audiences can be easy to please, I also think they have a stronger sense of visual style and are much more open to new endeavors than other places I've lived.
Skin and Bone 2008
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Maximillian WOLF Vulpecula – Responsible for the discovery of hundreds of Asteroids through photography
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However, you get only half marks for Maximillian WOLF (Vulpecula) – Vulpecula is 'Fox'; Lupus is 'Wolf'; and no marks for Charles Augustione de COLUMBO (you mean Charles Augustin de Coulomb; the constellation Columba, the Dove, is not related to Coulomb).
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Then three successive goals off penalty corners in a six-minute span took the steam out of Canada as Jan-Marco Montag, captain Maximillian Muller and Martin Haner all found the target to give Germany a 4-0 advantage by halftime.
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