Staps

Dutch designer Marieke Staps has figured out a way to grow time, instead of killing it.

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From the soil clock by Marieke Staps to the Grow 1 mini photovoltaics by New York-based S-M-I-T, some of the design ideas are very literal while others are more inventive.

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I immediately went to find Duroc, and we proceeded together to the apartment to which Staps had been taken.

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When Corvisart arrived Napoleon directed him to feel the young man's pulse, which he immediately did; and Staps then very coolly said, 'Am I not well, sir?'

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I learned that Staps, whose attempt on the Emperor's life was made on the

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I have been informed on unquestionable authority that Staps set out from Erfurth with the intention of assassinating the Emperor; but he wanted the necessary courage for executing the design.

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Write to General Lauer: direct him to interrogate Staps.

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Emperor asked Staps whether he could speak French, and he answered that he could speak it very imperfectly, and as you know (continued Rapp) that next to you I am the best German scholar in Napoleon's Court, I was appointed interpreter on this occasion.

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I recollect his showing me the knife taken from Staps, which the Emperor had given him; it was merely a common carving-knife, such as is used in kitchens.

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German Mutius Scaevola had a marked influence on the concessions which the Emperor made, because he feared that Staps, like him who attempted the life of Porsenna, might have imitators among the illuminati of

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