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  • Can the surfacestations.org table be modified to quickly include additional columns such as groundcover, waterplant?

    A Second Look at USHCN Classification #2 « Climate Audit 2007

  • No hiding place on the station was worth an extra three percent, and like a targ to the Klingon wedding feast, Quark had climbed willingly into the sack, hugging the antigrav, until Base tossed him out on the deck of the waterplant room—and the four female Andorian hands went to work on him in a terrible travesty of his fantasy.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • No hiding place on the station was worth an extra three percent, and like a targ to the Klingon wedding feast, Quark had climbed willingly into the sack, hugging the antigrav, until Base tossed him out on the deck of the waterplant room—and the four female Andorian hands went to work on him in a terrible travesty of his fantasy.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • No hiding place on the station was worth an extra three percent, and like a targ to the Klingon wedding feast, Quark had climbed willingly into the sack, hugging the antigrav, until Base tossed him out on the deck of the waterplant room—and the four female Andorian hands went to work on him in a terrible travesty of his fantasy.

    THE FALL OF TEROK NOR 2000

  • For the vegetable part of their dinner they had shreds of some waterplant, which Gavia brought them, dangling from her bill.

    Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim

  • In consideration of these grants the University is to receive 185,000 gallons of water per day, as rent for the land leased, and on account of our one-seventh interest in the City's original waterplant, and is to pay for all excess at a rate — "To be hereafter agreed upon by said City and University, such rate, however not to exceed five cents for each 1000 gallons of water over and above said 175,000 gallons per day".

    Board of Visitors minutes 1927

  • + In (Genesis 41: 2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (Job

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • We crossed the river* [_Podostemom_ grew on the stones at the bottom: it is a remarkable waterplant, resembling a liver-wort in its mode of growth.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

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