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  2. Intergalactic travel - Wikipedia

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    Intergalactic travel is the hypothetical travel between galaxies. Because the Milky Way and its closest neighbors are separated by millions of light-years, any such venture would also require millions of years based on current physics. Thus, intergalactic travel is impossible within the human lifetime.

  3. Gobo (lighting) - Wikipedia

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    The exact derivation of the term gobo is unclear, although it appears to have originated in cinema studios in the 1930s. [5] [7] It may be an American slang abbreviation of "go-between", [1] or "go-before" (just as New York's "SoHo" signifies the area "South of Houston Street").

  4. Go-Between - Wikipedia

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    A go-between is an intermediary. (The) Go-Between may refer to: The Go-Between, a 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley; The Go-Between, the 1971 film adaptation of L.P. Harley's novel by Harold Pinter; The Go-Between, the 2015 BBC adaptation of L.P. Harley's novel; The Go Between Bridge, a bridge in Brisbane, Australia; The Go-Betweens, an indie rock ...

  5. Parallel universes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Time travel can result in multiple universes if a time traveller can change the past. In one interpretation, alternative histories as a result of time travel are not parallel universes: while multiple parallel universes can co-exist simultaneously, only one history or alternative history can exist at any one moment, as alternative history usually involves, in essence, overriding the original ...

  6. The Go-Between - Wikipedia

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    The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider.

  7. The Go-Betweens - Wikipedia

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    Opened in 2010, the Go Between Bridge in Brisbane is named after the band. The focal point of The Go-Betweens was the song writing skills of Forster and McLennan, described by The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau as "the greatest songwriting partnership working today." Each developed a distinctive but complementary style: Forster's songs ...

  8. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  9. The Go-Between (1971 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Go-Between is a 1971 British historical drama film directed by Joseph Losey. Its screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of the 1953 novel The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley. The film stars Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave and Dominic Guard. [4] The Go-Between won the Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes Film ...