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  2. Leonhard Baldner - Wikipedia

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    Leonhard Baldner or Leonard Baltner (1612 – 1 February 1694) was a Strasbourg fisherman and naturalist who produced a hand-written illustrated book on the fishes, birds, and mammals titled Vogel-, Fisch- und Thierbuch. Only six manuscript copies are now known to exist, two are dated 1653 and the other four 1666.

  3. List of R.O.D the TV episodes - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Herbert R. Axelrod - Wikipedia

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    The following year, however, the purchaser filed a countersuit against him, claiming that he had grossly and illegally inflated the value of the company before the purchase. [10] On September 1, 2005, Axelrod was ordered to pay Central Garden & Pet Company $16.4 million (net, after deducting $3.7 million the company was ordered to pay Axelrod ...

  5. Rod - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Scuba diving - Wikipedia

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    Recreational scuba diver The undersea kelp forest of Anacapa Island off of the coast of Oxnard, California Diver looking at a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. [1]

  7. Tigerfish (torpedo) - Wikipedia

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    The tribulations in the Tigerfish's development, from its conception in the mid-1950s to the introduction of the unsuccessful Mod 0 variant into Royal Navy service in 1980, prompted the decision to purchase cruise missiles to attack ships from Royal Navy submarines. Versions were: Mark 24-Mod-0 for ASW use. Dive depth 1,150 ft (351 m).

  8. Descent into the Depths of the Earth - Wikipedia

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    The original modules Descent Into the Depths of the Earth and Shrine of the Kuo-Toa were both written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR, Inc. in 1978. [5] [9] Gygax had recently finished writing the Player's Handbook (1978), and according to Gygax, he authored the D series "as sort of a relaxation to get away from writing rules". [10]

  9. Tower Publications - Wikipedia

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    Tower Publications' Tower Books line published science fiction and fantasy from 1965 to 1982. Writer Gardner Fox produced between thirteen and twenty-five "Lady from L.U.S.T." ( L eague of U ndercover S pies and T errorists) novels for Tower (and later Belmont Tower) between 1968 and 1975 using the name "Rod Gray".