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  2. Template:Non-free use rationale book cover/doc - Wikipedia

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    The type of book. (ex. novel, novella, etc.), default is book: Title Name of book, if different than article. Volume If part of a multi-volume series, the volume number of the cover. Author The author or creator of the book. Illustrator The illustrator of the book. Publisher The publisher of the book. Cover_artist The cover artist of the book ...

  3. Cattle - Wikipedia

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    Over the last fifty years, dairy farming has become more intensive to increase the yield of milk produced by each cow. The Holstein-Friesian is the breed of dairy cow most common in the UK, Europe and the United States. It has been bred selectively to produce the highest yields of milk of any cow. The average in the UK is around 22 litres per day.

  4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks , there are further alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets , ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand-binding .

  5. Self-replicating spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    It has been theorized [3] that a self-replicating starship utilizing relatively conventional theoretical methods of interstellar travel (i.e., no exotic faster-than-light propulsion, and speeds limited to an "average cruising speed" of 0.1c.) could spread throughout a galaxy the size of the Milky Way in as little as half a million years.

  6. Known Space - Wikipedia

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    A more advanced Quantum II hyperdrive introduced later is able to cover the same distance in one and a quarter minutes (420,768 c). In Niven's first novel, World of Ptavvs, the hyperdrive used by the Thrintun required a ship to be going faster than 93% of the speed of light. However, this is the only time that hyperdrive is described this way.

  7. The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space - Wikipedia

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    The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a human on the Moon and beyond.

  8. Man in Space - Wikipedia

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    It was a "novelization" in comic book form of two Walt Disney television programs, "Man in Space" (1955) and "Man and the Moon" (1955). Also found as a 1956 UK reprint as A World Distributors Movie Classic (#45) and a 1959 combined reprint with the other two Dell Comics adaptations of "Man in Space" films as Walt Disney's Man in Space ( Dell ...

  9. The Colors of Space - Wikipedia

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    First edition cover art of Ralph Brillhart published by Monarch Books. The Colors of Space is a 1963 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley.. The book has been reviewed by P. Schuyler Miller for the Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1964), by Steve Miller for the Science Fiction Review (1983), and also that year by Robert Coulson for the Amazing Science Fiction.