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Their article quotes alleged friends of Travis, the “Hansons,” as saying: “The name Tumlinson apparently springs from an ancient ancestor Travis told ns that it came from ‘Peg-Leg’ Tumlinson, who is mentioned in J.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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This "increases the chances we'll directly observe the death of massive stars during that epoch," said Jason Tumlinson of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who had no role in the study.
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One of them, consisting of 125 recruits from the Guadalupe River settlements under Captain John J. Tumlinson, intercepted the army near Victoria.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Perhaps predictably, it was the same one Tumlinson had made two days before: He ordered his men to dismount on the open plain, and form a “hollow square” battle line.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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And we do mean “you”: If you’re bold enough, Tumlinson hopes you’ll be Orbital Outfitters’s first space diver, pioneering what he calls “the most extreme sport in human history.” Even if you’d never volunteer to test their prototype, you might end up benefiting anyway, because when commercial suborbital flights become commonplace, Clark thinks the suits and chutes he and Tumlinson are developing could function as the first serviceable life jackets of the spacefaring age.
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Tumlinson, co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes public access to space, said the effort had become a geeky status symbol.
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In a chapter entitled “Down the Nueces,” Dobie relates a search for hidden gold by a Texas treasure-hunter named “Peg Leg Tumlinson.”
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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None of the Shuttle's capabilities are indispensable, argued Tumlinson, and the ISS should not be used as an excuse to keep flying it at the risk of more astronauts lives.
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Additionally, the person who allegedly found the Superstition Mountain stone tablets in 1949 was a man named Travis Tumlinson.3 Some suggest that Travis Tumlinson was directly related to Peg Leg Tumlinson.4
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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Led by Rick Tumlinson and Jim Muncy, the Space Frontier Foundation has a very strong free-enterprise tilt.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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