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The Run Bra zeros in on figure-8 movement, the Ball Bra has extra support at the top to control up-down bounce, and the Racket Bra is constructed in an M-shape to prevent too much lateral swing.
The sports bra: Your No. 1 supporter Vicky Hallett 2011
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A gap of three feet was left open in both pools where the two pools met, and one of the feeding boxes was placed in the open gap, so that the two pools were then connected by the box, forming a figure-8 shape.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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THREE PETS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED 1. Sigfreid Sebastian Bach, the greatest beagle who ever lived 2. Spartacus, a black emperor scorpion 3. Ocho, a figure-8 puffer fish
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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A typographic solution for Will Hudson and Alex Beck aka “Hudsonbec” for a recent UK exhibition that included a giant figure-8 skateboard ramp.
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So these two buses were racing each other in a figure-8 confirmation.
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Because surely it would be interesting to find out, among other things, that after living in a private space station orbiting the moon and the earth in a figure-8 trajectory, a young married couple have decided to forgo messy genetic exchanges altogether and instead rear clones of themselves exclusively.
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THREE PETS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED 1. Sigfreid Sebastian Bach, the greatest beagle who ever lived 2. Spartacus, a black emperor scorpion 3. Ocho, a figure-8 puffer fish
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Because surely it would be interesting to find out, among other things, that after living in a private space station orbiting the moon and the earth in a figure-8 trajectory, a young married couple have decided to forgo messy genetic exchanges altogether and instead rear clones of themselves exclusively.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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For those who are not familiar with the Durango Crit course, it is a really sweet figure-8 style, with the final corner being a fast downhill left onto Main Street.
Archive 2008-05-01 Isaac 2008
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Two U-turns make a circle, two circles make a figure-8, two figure-8's make a butterfly...
"We know how to talk about eatin' fried squirrel." Ann Althouse 2008
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