And, in an astonishing feat, it raised nearly half a billion dollars before opening.
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However, to go from those missions to human exploration of Mars in just seven years would be an astonishing feat.
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It was an astonishing feat, given no good maps of the comet even existed before Rosetta arrived, just three months before.
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But almost 72 percent of TVs in the U.S. were tuned in to "I Love Lucy" that day, an astonishing feat.
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Last week, Biden won every county in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan, an astonishing feat that underscored the chasm separating him from Sanders.
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And it is likely to be one of the closest proxy battles ever, a particularly astonishing feat considering holders of nearly two billion common shares voted.
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This robot isn't quite as fast, but it's ability to quickly solve a Rubik's Cube using just one three-fingered hand is an astonishing feat of artificial agility.
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In seasons six through 11, its average viewership surpassed 18 million people per episode once some time-shifted viewership was accounted for — an astonishing feat for the 2010s.
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Considering that President Trump's own party controls both the House and the Senate, the possibility of a basic inability to keep the government running seems like an astonishing feat.
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He may not have realized it then, but four decades after he took his first step on that wire, Petit's astonishing feat has become both solemn homage and poignant epitaph to the towers' memory.
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Campaigning as an independent for votes on the left and the right, Mr Macron has pulled off the astonishing feat of hauling himself up from rank outsider to joint second place in the polls.
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Doctor Who has been around for 55 years, which is an astonishing feat for any television series, and its longevity means that it has literal generations of fans who have grown up with the show.
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Angela Merkel will most likely win her fourth term as German chancellor, an astonishing feat after 11 years in power, and following the migrant crisis, which witnessed Germany taking in 1.1 million asylum-seekers and refugees.
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Resolving new trade pacts with any of these partners — much less all three — would be welcomed by investors and would also be an astonishing feat, not least because tweaking such agreements normally takes years to complete.
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When Republicans hold a presidential primary in Florida on March 15th, two of the four candidates will be Cuban-American senators, an astonishing feat for a community of about 2m people, or 0.6% of the national population.
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This is an astonishing feat for New Jersey given that the Supreme Court only hears about 26 percent of all cases appealed to it each year and the acting Solicitor General told the Court not to accept the case.
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There's also Singh's most astonishing feat of paper engineering: With the flip of a die-cut page, a vertical stack of three mustachioed men ("Few") joins 15 other acrobats to create a paper-doll-chain-like human scaffold ("Many").
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Monkeys resembling today's capuchins accomplished the astonishing feat of crossing at least 100 miles (160 km) of open ocean 21 million years ago to get from South America to North America eons before the two continents joined together.
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"I'll be celebrating in a way that I hope is respectful of the scale of the event, that does justice to the astonishing feat that Britain has accomplished, but also is mindful of everybody's feelings about what we are doing," Johnson said.
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"I'll be celebrating in a way that I hope is respectful of the scale of the event, that does justice to the astonishing feat that Britain has accomplished, but also is mindful of everybody's feelings about what we are doing," Johnson said.
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"Along with this astonishing feat, we are baffled as to what a humpback whale is doing on the north coast of Brazil during February because this is a very unusual occurrence," Emin added, noting that the calf likely was separated from its mother while migrating south.
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If Mr. Guaidó's gambit succeeds, he and allied opposition leaders will have pulled off an astonishing feat: presiding over a peaceful transition to democracy that they hope will put Venezuela on a path toward recovery following years of economic collapse, widespread graft and iron-fisted rule.
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In a sport where men typically peak in their early or mid-twenties the fact that the 34-year-old Gatlin, who won a gold medal in the 100 meters at the 2004 Athens Games and a bronze in 4003 in London, is logging record times is an astonishing feat.
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Gomes' astonishing feat from the prelims was not enough to put her through to the semifinals, sharing a tie with Albania's Rovena Marku for the fifty-eighth overall position.
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The album's first three singles achieved 26 weeks at the top of the "Hot Latin Tracks" of Billboard in 1997, an astonishing feat that hasn't been matched yet by any other artist.
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The first Quake Done Quick of the game, carrying over one level's finishing statistics to the next. The run ended up finishing the entire game on Nightmare difficulty in 0:19:49;Quake Done Quick: QdQr an astonishing feat at that time.
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Ruel Foster, a professor at West Virginia University, noted in 1968 that the book had good sales in its first year. At the time, he wrote, sales for the book had gone up in each successive year, an astonishing feat for any book. The book has remained continuously in print for more than 50 years.
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It was later found again and became quite famous.) This was an astonishing feat for that day and age, and McClure was knighted and promoted in rank. (He was made rear-admiral in 1867.) Both he and his crew also shared £10,000 awarded them by the British Parliament. In July 2010 Canadian archaeologists found his ship, HMS Investigator, fairly intact but sunk about below the surface.
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Corporal Mills then performed an astonishing feat of bravery. He turned back and engaged the group in a fire-fight, delaying the attackers long enough to allow the rest of his patrol to cross the clearing. While doing this brave act, Corporal Mills shot the leader of the group, with the rest scattering into the woods. Due to that action he returned to his patrol safely, who were giving covering fire.
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Hay was a fullback and gained 23 international caps for Scotland and also represented the British Lions on both their 1977 and 1980 tours, and the Barbarians. He started his rugby career at junior club Liberton RFC, a team he captained at the age of 18, and while there represented Edinburgh, this was an astonishing feat for a junior club player and his tough tackling reputation was sealed. He then moved to Boroughmuir in 1972 where he went on to gain international recognition.
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In combination with the VT proximity fuze, this system accomplished the astonishing feat of shooting down V-1 cruise missiles with less than 100 shells per plane (thousands were typical in earlier AA systems).Baxter, "Scientists Against Time"Bennett, "A History of Control Engineering" This system was instrumental in the defense of London and Antwerp against the V-1. Although listed in Land based fire control section anti-aircraft fire control systems can also be found on naval and aircraft systems.
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Dwyer & Cole, p. 31. They also made many concert and festival appearances in response to the song's popularity. Clayson writes of other benefits to ISKCON's cause: "there were many new converts and an even bigger increase of sympathisers who no longer regarded a line of Hare Krishna chanters down [London's] Oxford Street with sidelong scepticism …"Clayson, pp. 268–69. Author Peter Lavezzoli has described the success of "Hare Krishna Mantra" as "an astonishing feat" and an indication of the extent of the Beatles' cultural influence.
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Javert arrives to serve as chief of the local police. He thinks he recognizes Madeleine and notes his use of the Toulon manufacturing method. Madeleine rescues the beggar Fantine, who recounts her history in a few sentences, when Javert is about to punish her, and Javert witnesses Madeleine rescue a man trapped beneath a cart, another astonishing feat of strength. Javert denounces Madeleine to his superiors, but before they can confirm Madeleine is actually Valjean, another man is arrested and charged in Arras with being the escaped convict Valjean.
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By 1884, the railroad had extended along the North Branch of the Potomac River to the North Fork of the Blackwater River at the newly formed town of Thomas. In 1888, Davis decided to continue expanding this line southward from Thomas through the rugged Blackwater Canyon to Hendricks. This astonishing feat, accomplished over the course of a year, required excavating road cuts sometimes hundreds of feet high into Backbone Mountain. To allow the rail to traverse several deep ravines and rushing tributaries, a number of gigantic stone archways and culverts were constructed.
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In limited release and playing in only seven theaters in Los Angeles and New York City, Juno grossed $420,113 over its debut weekend, averaging $60,016 per screen. When Juno became Fox Searchlight's first film to surpass $100 million at the box office, the company's president Peter Rice issued the statement: "This is an astonishing feat for us and the film has surpassed all our expectations. We knew this film had crossover potential and it has resonated with audiences all across the country." The film has grossed $143,495,265 in the United States and $87,916,319 in other territories for a total worldwide gross of $231,411,584.
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The peculiar fact regarding his position as the top general in the Granada army was that he was a Jew. That a Jew would command the Muslim army, which he did for 17 years, having them under his authority, was an astonishing feat. Other leading Jews, including Joseph ibn Migash, in the generation that succeeded Samuel ha-Nagid, lent their support to Bulukkin and were forced to flee for their safety. As a Jew, Samuel ha-Nagid actively sought to assert an independence from the Babylonian geonim by writing independently on Jewish law for the Spanish community.
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In late summer silvereyes gather into flocks and many Australian birds migrate, making their way north along the coast and ranges, foraging busily during the day with much calling and quick movement through the shrubbery, then flying long distances through the night. Most of the Tasmanian population crosses the Bass Strait (an astonishing feat for 12 cm birds weighing only a few grams) and disperses into Victoria, New South Wales, and south-eastern Queensland. The populations of these areas tend to head further north; while the northernmost birds remain resident all year round. In western Australia they have been recorded moving between the mainland and offshore islands.
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" Writing for Paste, Austin Jones stated that the EP, "sounds like a collection of essentials for a soon-to-be prolific artist." Variety called the EP "arguably [her] best work to date". NME gave the EP the perfect score and said "Conceptually, La Vita Nuova is an astonishing feat – but even better than that, it also oozes an intensity of feeling that punches right in the gut." They also complimented the video's allusions to the original La Vita Nuova painting. Reviewing the album for DIY Magazine, James Bentley proclaimed that while "Confined to merely six tracks, the ‘La vita nuova’ EP feels like it ends too soon - and that’s entirely symptomatic of how strong the songwriting is.
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It is not too much to say that this work is the most astonishing feat of imaginative precocity on record; it is marked by no great faults of immaturity, and possesses constructive merits of a very high order. Two years later the child wrote another and still more ambitious poem, Constantia and Philetus, being sent about the same time to Westminster School. Here he displayed extraordinary mental precocity and versatility, and wrote in his thirteenth year the Elegy on the Death of Dudley, Lord Carlton. These three poems of considerable size, and some smaller ones, were collected in 1633, and published in a volume entitled Poetical Blossoms, dedicated to Lambert Osbaldeston, the head master of the school, and prefaced by many laudatory verses by schoolfellows.
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One of the most notable characteristics of Moss's music is the broad spectrum of its eclecticism, encompassing indie pop, folk, shoegazing, electronica, post-punk, alternative country, psychedelia, baroque pop, rock, disco and rhythm and blues which resulted in the Daily Mirror stating in their July 2013 article regarding debut album What Eludes You Moves You and his having been compared to forty separate music artists by media sources alone, "That one artist can be concurrently compared to so many is an astonishing feat". Furthermore, US Indie music website My Old Kentucky Blog concluded that "The young Irishman seems to have a strange effect on UK critics, as I can't recall ever seeing an artist receive so many seemingly disparate comparisons" in their review of "You Love Silent Films", a track which features on the Reekus Records double-disc retrospective compilation album Too Late To Stop Now.
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