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  • The World is the final card of the Major Arcana, and as such represents saturnian energies, time, and completion.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008

  • To give you an idea: it takes less fuel to start on any given saturnian moon, fly to another and actually land again than it takes to go from earth just to low earth orbit ISS.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • And this: "Dynamical studies predict that small irregular saturnian satellites have struck Phoebe several times over the age of the Solar System14, providing known historic sources of material, much of which remains in the ring today."

    Spitzer Sees Giant Ring Around Saturn | Universe Today 2009

  • It's like they inhabited some saturnian age before the fall into sciencing the art of criticism.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • To give you an idea: it takes less fuel to start on any given saturnian moon, fly to another and actually land again than it takes to go from earth just to low earth orbit ISS.

    Realistic Space Exploration 2009

  • It appears to be composed of material blasted off the surface of two saturnian moons by meteoroid impacts.

    New Ring Discovered around Saturn » Fanboy.com 2006

  • Jam redit et virgo, redeunt saturnia regna; thus hailing the saturnian times of James I. and Charles I.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • Inscriptions of the last century of the Republic show that the saturnian still lingered in use side by side with the rude popular hexameters which were gradually displacing it; and the _Punic War_ of Naevius was still a classic.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • "No, sir; in not yourself having 'a saturnian reign '."

    The Trespasser, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • We have not been, nor are likely to be, a happy family, unless in your saturnian reign we learn to say, pax vobiscum -- do you know Latin?

    The Trespasser, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

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