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[1203] Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines calamine or lapis calaminaris as a kind of fossile bituminous earth, which being mixed with copper changes it into brass.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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They are doing the same thing in Syracuse, NY with Destiny USA, an 800 acre mall/golf course/research center that will be 100% fossile fuel free.
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Or a creationist with their ONE fossile that would prove it all.
NASA manager says Shuttle Extension Possible; Key Issue Is Money not Safety | Universe Today 2010
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FWIW, my favorite has always been "fossile fools" but in blogging I tend to use "denialist" almost exclusively.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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The current existing sources for augmentation involves either using fossile fuel power plants, dams, and (surprise) existing nuclear plants.
Jimmy Seidita: Ten Things to Consider Before we Start Building Nuclear Plants in Illinois Again 2009
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I'am not at all a paleontologist but I teach human anatomy and I'am very astonished by the spinous process of the vertebrae of the Maiacetus : on the skeleton you show us, spinous process of thoracic and lombar vertebral column are in the opposite angle caudal for thoracic and cranial for lombar : is it normal on dinosaurs ? was this on the original fossile ?
Maiacetus, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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If we really want to rid ourselvesof fossile fuels NOW, than we must take realistic, real world solutions.
Jimmy Seidita: Ten Things to Consider Before we Start Building Nuclear Plants in Illinois Again 2009
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Folks, this situation — fossile fuels and foreign oil — have no single-minded solution and there should not be any narrow-minded protests to what might be part of a complex alternative to what we are on — call it the wrong track.
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I'm talking about the ones that oppose burning fossile fuels, oppose nuclear energy, oppose wind energy (spoils the view and kills birds), oppose solar energy (harms the desert environment), and just about everything else.
"Good morning. I forget whether I'm supposed to wish you a 'Happy Earth Day' or a 'Happy Lenin's Birthday.' Oh, wait. It's both." Ann Althouse 2009
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We are in bed with barbarous middle eastern regimes because of our fossile fuel addiction and the government's best answer is to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve.
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