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His father committed suicide in 1920 [2] and his mother remarried in 1926; Maurice subsequently took the name of his adoptive father, the lawyer René Druon (1874–1961). He was the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel , with whom he translated the " Chant des Partisans ", a French Resistance anthem of World War II , with music and words (in ...
Martin dubbed The Accursed Kings "the original game of thrones", citing Druon's novels as an inspiration for his own series A Song of Ice and Fire. [1] [19] [2] [5] Martin's UK publisher HarperCollins began reissuing the long out of print Accursed Kings series in 2013, [1] [2] with Martin himself writing an introduction. [19] [2] [5] He wrote:
Researchers for the British charity Pond Conservation (now called Freshwater Habitats Trust) have defined a pond to be 'a man-made or natural waterbody that is between 1 m 2 (0.00010 hectares; 0.00025 acres) and 20,000 m 2 (2.0 hectares; 4.9 acres) in area, which holds water for four months of the year or more.'
Allen Bartlitt Pond was born in Ann Arbor, MI, on November 21, 1858, and died in Chicago on March 17, 1929. Irving Kane Pond was born in Ann Arbor on May 1, 1857, and died in Washington, D. C., on September 29, 1939. Architects trained through the firm of Pond and Pond include Andrew Willatsen.
Specific spray pond surface areas tend to range between 1.2 and 1.7 m 2 per m 3 /h of water to be cooled. The width chosen for a drift channel around the active zone of the pond (containing the sprays) is dependent on a number of factors, including the prevailing wind strength, the average size of the spray droplets produced by the nozzles, and the presence of any nearby structures which may ...
Dudley Pond is an 84 acre Great Pond in Cochituate, Massachusetts. The Pond is a shallow glacial landform fed primarily by rain. [1] Dudley Pond was used in the mid-1800s as a stand-by water source for Boston. At the time it was connected by pipe to the nearby and much larger Lake Cochituate. [2]
The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of ...
Don Juan Pond is a shallow, flat-bottom, hyper-saline pond. It has the second-highest total dissolved solids on record, 1.3 times greater salinity than the Dead Sea. Salinity varies over time from 200 to 474 g/L, dominated by calcium chloride. It is the only Antarctic hypersaline lake that almost never freezes.