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Maurice Druon's Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings) sequence of historical novels has been adapted twice as miniseries for French television. [1] [2] Dubbed "the French I, Claudius", [1] [3] the 1972 TV adaptation of Les Rois maudits was broadcast by the ORTF from 21 December 1972 to 24 January 1973 and has been called "hugely successful". [4]
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] [18] [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. [18] [2] [5] He wrote:
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Pond was a band from Portland, Oregon. [1] They formed in 1991 and broke up in 1998. [2] They were signed to Sub Pop (first two albums) and the Work Group records sub-label of Sony Records (last album). On October 23, 2010, Pond reunited for a show to commemorate the closing of Portland club Satyricon.
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Pond started the album in a basement studio, using an 8-track and recording at different times and with different instruments; Kaspar then remixed some of the songs. [6] The band filtered its vocals through a megaphone on "Carpenter Ant"; they used a sitar on "Sundial". [7] [8] "Van" is an ode to Pond's mode of transportation during tours. [9]
The larger, southern pond is 40 metres (132 ft) by 16 metres (51 ft), while the smaller, northern pond is 28 metres (91 ft) by 16 metres (51 ft). The depths of the two ponds is 4.3 metres (14 ft) and 5.5 metres (18 ft) for the smaller pond and the larger pond respectively.
A pond is smaller than a lake [1] and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in area, less than 5 metres (16 ft) in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.