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After discovering Dokusensha orders naming Yomiko Readman as the possessor of the final Gentleman Book, the "Book of the All Seeing Eye," the four manage to track Yomiko down to the National Diet Library, where she is hiding with an amnesiac named Nancy Makuhari. Yomiko is reluctant to greet a tearful Nenene and refuses to help them, but Joker ...
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament.
Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine; Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor; Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing; Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end
Robert Whitehead with a battered test torpedo, Fiume (modern Croatia), c.1875 Argentinian sailors with a Whitehead torpedo, Fiume, Austria, 1888. During the 19th century, an officer [who?] of the Austrian Marine Artillery conceived the idea of using a small boat laden with explosives, propelled by a steam or an air engine and steered by cables to be used against enemy ships; his papers came ...
Odd Rods was a group of non-sports trading card/sticker series created by the Donruss company beginning in 1969. [1] The original series, entitled Odd Rods , introduced the theme of the series in 44 stickers: monsters in cars.
Trenton Webb reviewed The Rod of Seven Parts for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. [2] He commented that "The Rod Of Seven Parts doesn't even pretend to be a 'proper' book; glibly ignoring such trifling conventions as characterisation, pacing and structure. It's a work of reportage that (almost too) accurately recreates the feel ...
Nakamura was the world's fifth highest rated human chess player at the time of the match, while Stockfish 5 was denied use of its opening book and endgame tablebase. Stockfish won each half of the match 1.5–0.5.
Big-game fishing effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, when fifty miles offshore, landed the first tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg). After a poor season in 1931, the following year saw Harold Hardy of Cloughton Hall battling with a tunny about 16 feet long for over seven hours before his ...