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  • You caught me a little by surprise with your fatalist response starting with "Steve Petermann is right …".

    A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

  • You caught me a little by surprise with your fatalist response starting with "Steve Petermann is right" ¦ ".

    A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

  • Petermann, which is the fifth largest provider of student transportation in the U.S. with 3,351 vehicles in its fleet, is the market leader in its home state of Ohio and has further operations across 10 states in the Midwest, West, and Southwest of the U.S.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The flat-topped ice sheet has been dubbed Petermann Ice Island 2010, a reference to its origin: the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.

    Fort Frances Times Online - 2010

  • Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Last year's warm, dry winter and this year's very warm summer resulted in the highest melt rate since 1958 and the largest recorded glacier area loss in Greenland at Petermann Glacier, where 290 square kilometers of ice broke away, according to one study by scientists from research centers in the U.S. and Europe.

    Sea Ice Melting as Arctic Temperature Rises Cassandra Sweet 2010

  • Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • The largest recorded glacier area loss observed in Greenland occurred this summer at Petermann Glacier, where a piece of ice several times larger than Manhattan Island broke away.

    Sea Ice Melting As Arctic Temperature Rises AP 2010

  • Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword.

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

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