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A family tree of the main characters of the Galactic Milieu series. The Galactic Milieu Series is a series of science fiction novels by Julian May.It is linked to her previously-published series, the Saga of Pliocene Exile; and through the fantastical device of time-travel, acts as both a prequel and a sequel to this earlier series.
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall.The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo.
Sketch of the Orlov diamond from the book Precious Stones by Max Bauer, 1904. A description was given by Eric Burton in 1986: The sceptre is a burnished shaft in three sections set with eight rings of brilliant-cut diamonds, including some of about 30 carats (6 g) each and fifteen weighing about 14 carats (2.8 g) each.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Las Vegas Raiders now hold the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft next spring after their latest loss. That has to make their 2-11 start feel a little bit better.
The only man to lead both the FBI and the CIA urged caution to senators who might vote to confirm former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and Kash Patel to lead the FBI ...
Alexander Paffendorf expressed regret for his involvement when a judge offered a chance for final words before keeping an order to confiscate his guns and ammunition in place until April 4.
In crystallography, the diamond cubic crystal structure is a repeating pattern of 8 atoms that certain materials may adopt as they solidify. While the first known example was diamond , other elements in group 14 also adopt this structure, including α-tin , the semiconductors silicon and germanium , and silicon–germanium alloys in any proportion.