Epitomizing the moment are Zurbarán's darkling portrayals of saints and monks in ecstatic prayer.
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He picked up 10 crickets, 10 waxworms, 13 tobacco hornworms and 15 darkling beetle larvae, known as superworms.
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Yep, no chicken, beef or pork bits and pieces in here, just the larval form of a darkling beetle.
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Think of Wordsworth, The world is too much with us, Or Arnold: And we are here as on a darkling plain.
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"So Alive" was instrumental in making many a lil' darkling who was maybe outside the dominant notions of what was considered attractive feel sexy.
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There he finished his first novel, "On a Darkling Plain," a coming-of-age story with a questing, alienated protagonist much like the author.
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Arriving at a cool Corot nude in a darkling landscape or a crisp Picasso nude combing her hair was like gulping fresh air in a miasma.
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She closed the gaps between her surface strokes with underlying colors in the darkling "Stars and Their Display" (1972) and in the shimmering "Arboretum Presents White Dogwood" (1972).
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If you're looking for something that's a bit more of a throwback to the days of classic science fiction, you should check out James L. Cambias's novel A Darkling Sea.
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Here is a novel of bewitching ingenuity, one whose darkling, melodic mind conceives a world of ruin and awe, a sensibility cast in sepia or else in a pall of vying grays.
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The book reads like a detective novel in which the operative McGuffin would be the Russian affinity for deviousness and pliés, but I tend to think that the history of any institution probably sports a similar darkling underbelly.
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According to other reports on mealworms, the larvae of the darkling beetle, they can be quite tasty: flash-fried mealworms at the Boston Chinese eatery Mei Mei Kitchen taste "like pork rinds coated in Doritos cheese spice," according to one Boston Magazine writer.
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Cryptochile, the Namaqua darkling beetles, is a genus of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.
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Cephalostenus is a genus of darkling beetles in the subfamily Tenebrioninae.
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Asbolus is a genus of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Lagriinae is a subfamily of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Cossyphus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Mesostena is a genus of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.
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The Darkling kills the stag and places the antler necklace on Alina, making her his absolute slave, unable to disobey him in the slightest. They quickly return south to the major crossing point of the Unsea. The Darkling forces Alina to protect the ship during the crossing. Near the other side, the Darkling extends the Unsea, causing great death and destruction.
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Pimelia angulata is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.
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Nalassus is a genus of darkling beetles belonging to the subfamily Tenebrioninae.
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This is a list of species in the darkling beetle genus Eleodes.
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Trachyscelis aphodioides is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Opatrini is a tribe of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in the subfamily Tenebrioninae.
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Phaleria rotundata is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Adelina plana is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Blapstinus histricus is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Gonocephalum assimile is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Strongylium tenuicolle is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Neatus tenebrioides is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Opatroides punctulatus is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Pentaphyllus testaceus is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Platydema subcostatum is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Osphya varians is a species of false darkling beetle in the family Melandryidae.
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Accanthopus is a genus of darkling beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae subfamily Tenebrioninae.
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Gonocephalum cf. assimile Gonocephalum is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.
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These 163 species belong to Stenomorpha, a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.
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Mesostena puncticollis, the opossum beetle, is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.
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The Darkling Demiurge ::16.The Debauched Devilgoat ::17.The Demonlord ::18.The Diabolic Dybbuk ::19.
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These 308 species are among more than 700 that belong to the genus Strongylium, darkling beetles.
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This species is present in most of Europe.Fauna europaea These darkling beetles live in sandy beaches.
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Cephalostenus elegans is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Tenebrioninae. It is found in Greece.
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Helops is a genus of darkling beetles (insects belonging to the family Tenebrionidae) in the subfamily Tenebrioninae.
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Cryptochile elegans is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae. It is found in Kenya.
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Homotrysis is a genus of darkling beetles, described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1866. Species include Homotrysis macleayi.
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The first volume, Mortal Engines, won the 2002 Smarties Prize. A Darkling Plain won the 2006 Guardian prize.
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Stenocara is a genus of darkling beetles which is native to southern Africa. Several species are endemic to Namibia.
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The book ends with Mal and Alina taking passage across the True Sea, escaping from Ravka and the Darkling.
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Colposcelis elegans is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae. It has a palaearctic distribution in Asia.
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Prothalpia holmbergi is a species of false darkling beetle in the family Melandryidae. It is found in North America.
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Emmesa labiata is a species of false darkling beetle in the family Melandryidae. It is found in North America.
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Pentaphyllus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about six described species in Pentaphyllus.
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Landing on the window sill, the darkling prepares to take over Aurielle's body, but then gets seen and the fire birds question whether it is really Aubrey. The darkling flies up a few more floors to an abandoned level and prepares to wait another day before getting a new body. On this floor Gwyneth appears, she's still furious at Petunia and Primrose for their incompetence, sees the darkling then manages to capture it. She takes the Creator, and knows it is from a dragon.
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She feels a strong attraction to the Darkling, which he seems to reciprocate. During two encounters they kiss, and Alina is confused by her reactions to the kisses. After demonstrating her power to the King and his court, Alina is told by her tutor Baghra that she must flee, that the Darkling is using her, that the Darkling created the Unsea, and that he intends to enslave her and use her Grisha power to conquer the world. Baghra also reveals that she is the Darkling’s mother.
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Coelocnemis is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are more than 20 described species in Coelocnemis.
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As of 2008, the band has reformed by founder Kristján. In 2010, Changer released their third full-length entitled Darkling.
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Trachyscelis is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least two described species in Trachyscelis.
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Zilora is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are about seven described species in Zilora.
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The similarly titled, "As on a Darkling Plain", by Ben Bova in 1972 also takes its title from this poem.
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Emmesa is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are about five described species in Emmesa.
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Chromatia is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There is one described species in Chromatia, C. amoena.
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Epantius is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There is one described species in Epantius, E. obscurus.
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Oenopion is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three described species in Oenopion.
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Neatus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least four described species in Neatus.
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Opatroides is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three described species in Opatroides.
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Orchesia is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are about 19 described species in Orchesia.
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Osphya is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are about seven described species in Osphya.
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Colposcelis is a genus of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae. Species have a palaearctic distribution in Asia and in Taiwan.
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Prothalpia is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are at least four described species in Prothalpia.
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Eleodes suturalis, or the red-backed darkling beetle is a species of darkling beetle in the genus Eleodes. Their known range extends from South Dakota to Texas, and are not known to exist west of the Rocky Mountains. They can be easily identified by the distinctive red stripe which goes down the center of their decently flat elytra.
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Tritoma tenebrosa, the darkling tritoma, is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae. It is found in North America.
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Abdera hoffeinsorum is an extinct species of false darkling beetle in the genus Abdera. It was discovered in Baltic amber in 2014.
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Merinus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There is at least one described species in Merinus, M. laevis.
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Tenebrionini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about six genera and eight described species in Tenebrionini.
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The semi-Darkling which began the fire is still alive. He was planning on inverting Grace's tear to create dark fire. Pieter, Sophie's fiancé, tries to kill it, but it kills him instead. David then distracts the Darkling with the dark fire he already has, captures it and sends it back to the IX with a warning to leave the Pennykettle dragons alone.
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Phaleriini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least two genera and about six described species in Phaleriini.
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Palorus subdepressus, the depressed flour beetle, is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It is found in Europe and North America.
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Dark Circle comics started a new run in December 2017 featuring the new Shield (Victoria Adams) , Steel Sterling, Firefly, Darkling, The Comet, and Jaguar.
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Pseudocistela is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 18 described species in Pseudocistela, one of which is extinct.
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The seaweed darkling beetle (Chaerodes trachyscelides), also known by its Māori name pāpapa, is a flightless, nocturnal beetle found on sandy beaches in New Zealand.
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Orchesiini is a tribe of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are at least three genera and about seven described species in Orchesiini.
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Signed handwritten draft of "The Darkling Thrush" with original title "The Darkling Thrush" is a poem by Thomas Hardy. Originally titled "By the Century's Deathbed", it was first published on 29 December 1900 in The Graphic. The poem was later published in London Times on 1 January, 1901. A deleted '1899' on the poem's manuscript suggests that it may have been written in that year.
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The most effective enemies of the larvae in Europe are the carabid (ground beetle) Scarites buparius and the tenebrionid (darkling beetles), Erodius siculus and Pimelia bipunctata.
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Chalcopteroides is a genus of darkling beetle, defined by Embrik Strand in 1935, and replacing the older name Chalcopterus which was preoccupied. The type species is Chalcopterus iridicolor.
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Jackie is soon captured by Victor in an iron maiden and loses consciousness from blood loss. Again, he wakes in the ward, but the janitor, revealed to be his Darkling, explains that the asylum is a trap for Jackie to keep him alive and away from Jenny. Jackie awakens to find that Victor has successfully drained the Darkness from him. The Darkling helps Jackie escape and retake a small portion of the Darkness.
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Accessed June 25, 2019. "Stefan Weisman, 41, developed his love for music playing violin in the orchestra at East Brunswick High School and spent summers studying at the American String Teachers Association workshop in Glassboro." His opera Darkling, with a libretto by Anna Rabinowitz was commissioned, developed and produced in 2006 by American Opera Projects. Elements of composer Lee Hoiby’s song “The Darkling Thrush” were used as source material for the opera's music.
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David Kesterton (born 1948) is a Canadian novelist. His first book, The Darkling was published in 1982 by Arkham House. A corrected, authorized edition was published in 2011 by Necrominster Press.
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Eleodes osculans, the wooly darkling beetle, is a common nocturnal insect in coastal southern California. As a stink beetle of genus Eleodes, its easily observed defensive posture is to raise its hind end and secrete an unpleasant odor. This is one of the few Tenebrionid beetle species in North America to be covered in visible fuzz. E. osculans is the only known darkling beetle species which has brightly colored reddish brown hair covering most of its black exoskeleton.
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Darkling beetle is the common name of the large family of beetles Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution.
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Cheirodes is a genus of darkling beetles in the Melanimini tribe. It was formerly known as Anemia until 1973, when T. J. Spilman determined Anemia to be a synonym of Cheirodes Géné, 1839.
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Tenebrio is a genus of darkling beetles. Adults are long and can live for 1–2 years. The larvae are minor pests, but they are also widely reared and sold as pet food.
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The Demon Arms can rip out the heart of fallen enemies and devour them for health, pick up enemies for execution, or throw them. The player is guided by a Darkling, a goblin-like creature that assists in combat and gathers weapons and ammo. At several points, the player can directly control the Darkling, allowing them to squeeze into tight spaces that Jackie cannot enter and execute enemies from behind. When exposed to light, Jackie's health regeneration and Darkness abilities are disabled.
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Questor, meanwhile, manages to shrink himself and act as a stopper in the Darkling's bottle, cutting off the source of its power. The Darkling is destroyed, Nightshade flees, and order is restored to Landover.
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Darkling was included in the Guggenheim Museum's "Works & Process" series, and premiered at the East 13th Street Theater. In a New York Times review, Anthony Tommasini described Weisman's music as "personal, moody and skillfully wrought." Darkling was released internationally by Albany Records in 2011. Of the CD, Gramophone Magazine wrote: “Weisman unfolds his emotional tapestry with confident strokes…resulting in something resembling a high-art radio drama.” Weisman's opera Fade, with a libretto by David Cote, was commissioned and produced in 2008 by Second Movement Opera.
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They move to the central dais where there is a carving of a winged man and they manage to get the creator to show itself, appearing as a talon (like the one in Fire Star, The Fire Eternal and Dark Fire). The group then decide to come back down the hill to go back to the settlement, where Harlan tells everyone what happened up on the hill. He shows everyone the Creator, and then a darkling shows up and demands the Creator from Harlan, who at first denies it, but when he begins to fight it, Harlan drops it accidentally, and the darkling takes it off of him, and flies back to Co:pern:ica Central. Harlan reveals that he wrote Isenfire on the sheet of paper that LeFarr gave him and believes that it is what brought the darkling upon them.
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Pimelia is a genus of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.Pons, J., et al. (2002). Evolutionary dynamics of satellite DNA family PIM357 in species of the genus Pimelia (Tenebrionidae, Coleoptera). Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(8) 1329–40.
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Bothrotes canaliculatus is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
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Numerous living beings use water made accessible by condensation. A few examples of these are the Australian thorny devil, the darkling beetles of the Namibian coast, and the coast redwoods of the West Coast of the United States.
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Production began in October 2019 with Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov, Ben Barnes as General Kirigan (The Darkling), Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Sujaya Dasgupta as Zoya Nazyalensky, Daisy Head as Genya Safin, and Simon Sears as Ivan.
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The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. It is a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research.
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Darkling Ship is the third adventure in the Border Prowler series, following Amycus Probe and Rogue Moon of Spinstorme, and concerns the search for and discovery of a 25 million-ton generation ship by the crew of the commando transport, Hrunta.
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By profession, he was an engineer. The couple moved to Toronto. From 1944 to 1949, Outram attended high school in Leaside, which was then still on the outskirts of the city.Through Darkling Air: The Poetry of Richard Outram, Peter Sanger.
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King of Ravka Nikolai Lantsov attempts to rebuild get his country after the Ravkan Civil War and get it in order to fend off threats from neighboring nations Shu Han and Fjerda while dealing with the demons the Darkling infested him with. Zoya Nazyalensky, his friend and a powerful Squaller, is desperate to help him. They also run into the Cult of the Starless Saint, who worship and claim loyalty to the Darkling. Meanwhile, Nina Zenik is disguised as a woman named Mila Jandersdat as she, Leoni, and Adrik help Grisha flee Fjerda, where Grisha are oppressed and even hunted.
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Palorus ratzeburgii, the small-eyed flour beetle, is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys 728: 1-455.
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Palorus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 4 described species in Palorus.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America".
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Bothrotes is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 2 described species in Bothrotes.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America".
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A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series, written by British author Philip Reeve. The novel won the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.
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Homotrysis macleayi is a species of darkling beetles native to Australia. It is an established exotic in New Zealand.Thorpe, S.E. 2014: Evidence for the continued presence in New Zealand of Homotrysis macleayi (Borchmann, 1909) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae). Biodiversity data journal, 2: e1054.
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Nalassus dryadophilus is a species of darkling beetles belonging to the subfamily Tenebrioninae. They are mainly present in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Greece, and Romania. The adults grow up to long and can mostly be encountered under the bark of old trees.
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Triboliini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 8 genera and 18 described species in Triboliini.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America".
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Epitragini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 10 genera and 13 described species in Epitragini.Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America".
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Among other notable pieces were his poem 'Well-beloved', on the transient succession of a man's love-ideal;T. and F. Hardy, Thomas Hardy (London 2007) p. 294 and "The Darkling Thrush", the humorous piece "The Ruined Maid", and the dour sequence "In Tenebris".I. Ousby ed.
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Barabbas earned her a gold medal from the Book Club of California. Her second collection of poetry, Darkling Plain, was published in 1936. Following the death of his wife, Wood married Field in 1938. Wood died in 1944 and in 1955, Field moved near her daughter in Berkeley.
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Joe Crookston is an American folk singer from Randolph, Ohio. As of June 2014, he has released four albums on the Milagrito Records label: 2004's Fall Down as the Rain, 2008's Able Baker Charlie & Dog, 2011's Darkling & the BlueBird Jubilee, and 2014's Georgia I'm Here.
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The book was first published in 1971 and in an English translation first as The Satanic Mill from 1972 to 1991, then republished in 2000 as The Curse of the Darkling Mill, in 2011 as Krabat and in 2014NYRB Children's Collection publication page as Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill.
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One critic saw the "darkling plain" with which the poem ends as comparable to the "naked shingles of the world".Culler, 1966, p. 40. "Shingles" here means flat beach cobbles, characteristic of some wave-swept coasts. Another found the poem "emotionally convincing" even if its logic may be questionable.
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However, as Zanna discovers through an email Bella sent Lucy, Gawaine was betrayed and one of her children murdered by a sibyl disguised as a red-haired maiden, and when she sees Lucy, she attacks. Grockle fails to defend Lucy, but, as Lucy is Gawaine's kin, the flames do not harm her, and Gawine is distracted for long enough that David can arrive to help. Meanwhile, the last surviving semi- Darkling ingests Lucy's auma from the tears she left at Glissington Cairn. It uses the power in the tears to renew itself, and call the Ix towards it, and a full Darkling is born, with the ability to self-replicate, which it does until there are four Darklings.
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Pinacate beetles, also known as stink beetles, are darkling beetles of the genus Eleodes endemic to the Sonoran Desert and adjacent regions of the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, usually the species Eleodes obscurus. The name is also loosely applied to a number of closely related species of Eleodes, of Western Mexico and the Western United States (including the Great Basin), which, aside from the wooly darkling beetle, are not easily distinguished from each other. The name pinacate is Mexican Spanish, derived from the Nahuatl (Aztec) name for the insect, pinacatl, which translates as "black beetle". The pinacate beetle is noted for its defensive tactic of standing on its head and squirting a noxious spray.
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Among Hoiby's other operatic works are the one-act opera buffa Something New for the Zoo (1979), the musical monologue The Italian Lesson (1981, text by Ruth Draper) which was produced off-Broadway in 1989 with Jean Stapleton, The Tempest (1986), and a one-act chamber opera, This Is the Rill Speaking (1992), text by Lanford Wilson. He contributed the song, "The Darkling Thrush," with text by Thomas Hardy, to a 2006 multimedia opera, Darkling. Elements of this song were used as source material for the opera's remaining solo and ensemble music, written by composer Stefan Weisman. Hoiby's last opera was a setting of Romeo and Juliet (2004), which awaits its world premiere.
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However, Gwillana's mother was killed before this happened. Darkling – An anti-dragon made from obsidian. Its heart is made from dark fire instead of icefire like the Pennykettle dragons are made from, or white fire like natural dragons are made from. It is shaped more like a gargoyle than a dragon.
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Henrique Manuel Gallante, a drug-addicted mutant with powers allowing him to access the Darkforce dimension, takes the name Darkling. Driven mad by his abilities, he attacks New York. Several superheroes are able to convince Gallante to stop, and Gallante disappears into the Darkforce dimension. He later returns to Earth through Asylum's mask.
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Darkling Plain English "The bureaucrats who have produced most of our > dismal official English will, at first, be instructed to fix it. They will > try, but nihil ex nihilo. That English is the mess it is because they did it > in the first place and they'll never be able to fix it." > 13\.
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Critics have questioned the unity of the poem, noting that the sea of the opening stanza does not appear in the final stanza, while the "darkling plain" of the final line is not apparent in the opening.Culler, 1966, p. 40; Pratt, 2000, pp. 79–80. Various solutions to this problem have been proffered.
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" The play is called "Ghost Brothers of Darkling County," about > two brothers who hate each other. If you could imagine Tennessee Williams > meets Stephen King. King and Mellencamp sought a regional theater to stage the show and chose Atlanta. "We wanted a place that was cosmopolitan but not out of touch with country roots.
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Avicularia purpurea is primarily an arboreal spider. This climbing species builds its nests primarily in hollows in the trees, sometimes in the vicinity of epiphytic plants. These spiders eat mostly crickets, cockroaches, meal worms, waxworms and darkling beetles, but they also can catch small rodents. During mating the females become very aggressive towards the males.
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Some beetle larvae resemble hardened worms with dark head capsules and minute legs. These are elateriform larvae, and are found in the click beetle (Elateridae) and darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) families. Some elateriform larvae of click beetles are known as wireworms. Beetles in the Scarabaeoidea have short, thick larvae described as scarabaeiform, more commonly known as grubs.
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Adaline Glasheen was a passionate letter writer. Two volumes of her correspondence have been published. A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The "Finnegans Wake" Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen, ed. Edward M. Burns with Joshua A. Gaylord (University College Dublin Press, 2001) and A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, ed.
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Mealworms (larvae of Tenebrio molitor) illustrated by Des Helmore Mealworms are the larval form of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species of darkling beetle. Like all holometabolic insects, they go through four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Larvae typically measure about 2.5 cm or more, whereas adults are generally between 1.25 and 1.8 cm in length.
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The seaweed darkling beetle is about 7mm long with a rotund body. It has 3 pairs of legs that are modified to help it burrow into sand. Although the underside of adult beetles is a pale whitish yellow in colour, its hardened forewings (elytra) are polymorphic. The colour of an individual matches that of the sand where it lives.
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Alina can summon light. The leader of the Grisha, the Darkling, immediately rushes Alina to the capital of Os Alta, saying her power is unique and valuable and makes her an assassination target by enemies of Ravka. While there she meets other Grisha. She struggles to fit in and to believe in her abilities, and begins rigorous training.
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If Alina kills the stag and makes a necklace of his antlers, her powers will be greatly amplified. After much time and effort they find the stag, just as they realize how much they love each other. Alina refuses to kill the stag, and the stag acknowledges this. At that moment the Darkling and his minions appear.
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His last successful Broadway stage play was 1954's The Bad Seed, Anderson's adaption of the William March novel. He was hired by Alfred Hitchcock to write the screenplay for Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1957). Hitchcock also contracted with Anderson to write the screenplay for what became Vertigo (1958), but Hitchcock rejected his screenplay Darkling, I Listen.
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Voices from Sandover, WorldCat, 2004. Her American films include Music Box, Running on Empty, Eduardo Machado's Exiles In New York and Putney Swope. Czyżewska's television appearances include the American Playhouse drama Misplaced on PBS. Her most recent theater roles were in Martha Clarke's Vienna Lusthaus, Hedda Gabler at the New Theatre Workshop in 2004 and Darkling in 2006.
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Several important creatures come from the Netherworld. They are intensely magical beings, of great power far surpassing anything in the normal world. Bright Ones are inhabitants of the Netherworld and are much mightier and wiser than mortal men. Glories are angelic beings of light, air, and fire that occasionally fight alongside humans, whereas Darkling Glories are Glories that serve destruction and evil.
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Set 100 years after the events in The Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy. The three novels are loosely connected, stand-alone novels, described as the setup for the conclusion of the entire Shannara saga. The trilogy consists of The High Druid's Blade (published July 15, 2014), The Darkling Child (published June 9, 2015), and The Sorcerer's Daughter (published May 24, 2016).
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Orcas cooperatively corral large schools of fish to the surface and stun them by hitting them with their tails. Since this requires that the fish have no way to escape, it requires the cooperation of many orcas. Author James Cambias describes a solution to the game as the basis for an extraterrestrial civilization in his 2014 science fiction book A Darkling Sea.
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Christodoulos Makris, Gabriel Georgiou, Kevin Austin and Emma Small Additions to our knowledge of the ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) fauna of Cyprus Zoology in the Middle East 43, 2008: 91–98. ISSN 0939-7140 With Flaminio Baudi di Selve he had previously edited Studi Entomologici, Stamperia degli Artisti Tipografi, Torino, Italy. He identified the species of darkling beetles Iphthiminus italicus (Truqui 1857).
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Polystyrene is generally considered to be non-biodegradable. However, certain organisms are able to degrade it, albeit very slowly. In 2015, researchers discovered that mealworms, the larvae form of the darkling beetle Tenebrio molitor, could digest and subsist healthily on a diet of EPS. About 100 mealworms could consume between 34 and 39 milligrams of this white foam in a day.
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Dendarus coarcticollis is a species of darkling beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae subfamily Tenebrioninae. These beetles are mainly present in France and Italy. The adults grow up to long. The front legs in males are larger than in females, sexual dimorphism that allows males of these terrestrial and often dirty and slippery beetles to better hold on to the back of females.
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However, recent literary criticism has labelled this claim as sexist and an unfortunate marginalization of the traumatic rape of Philomela. Sidney argues that the rape was an "excess of love" and less severe than being deprived of love as attested by the line, "Since wanting is more woe than too much having."Addison, Catherine. "'Darkling I Listen': The Nightingale's Song In and Out of Poetry".
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Tam follows but before she enters she notices Bernard's eyes are black. Back home at the Crescent, Alexa is putting icefire on David's four dragons and they enter the portal in the fairy door. Liz goes in and Gwillanna, stuck in the form of a raven, talks to Alexa. At Farlowe, Lucy is forced to create a Darkling but it has a flaw – it has no heart.
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The Ix (the flip side of the fain that killed David) there are upset that the Darkling had an extra piece which looks like a knife and is the heart. So, the Ix invade Lucy. Lucy goes home and her mother greets her, but Lucy cuts her with the heart-knife and knocks Liz out. Gwillian sees and cries his fire tear, which is later recovered.
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If disturbed, it is capable of a defensive bite considered to be more painful than a bee sting. It is also known to spit venom that can cause temporary blindness in humans. Prey typically consists of cockroaches, crickets, flies, darkling beetles and caterpillars. It was thought that they breed both sexually and through parthenogenesis, this however has recently been proved to not be true.
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The Darkling is a fantasy novel by author David Kesterton. It was published by Arkham House in 1982 in an edition of 3,126 copies. It was the author's first book. The author complained of editorial interference with his prose which led to poor reviews, and with the aid of Anne McCaffrey and the Science Fiction Writers of America had Arkham House lawyers relinquish rights to the author.
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The confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), a type of darkling beetle known as a flour beetle, is a common pest insect known for attacking and infesting stored flour and grain. They are one of the most common and most destructive insect pests for grain and other food products stored in silos, warehouses, grocery stores, and homes.Lyon WF. Confused and ref flour beetles. Ohio State Fact Sheets.
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The fourth book is set in the 1950s, in Britain during the Cold War. Jamie succeeds in returning Anna to her own time, along with twenty years of time in which to live. Both Darkling Midnight and Jamie arrive at the end of this time interval to meet the now-adult Anna who has no recollection of the Runners, and the book ends on a cliffhanger.
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There has been an increase in the mountain lion population in the San Francisco Bay Area. Smaller wildlife would include the darkling beetle, Eurypelma californicum (tarantula), black widow, and Pacific tree frog. Two species of lizards that are native to the park are southern alligator lizard and western fence lizard. Native fish that can be found in Penetencia Creek are the California roach and riffle sculpin.
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Eulabini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three genera and about five described species in Eulabini. In 1973, some genera in the Tenebrionidae tribe Scaurini was proposed to be moved into two new tribes, Eulabini and Cerenopini. The proposal was not universally accepted, and the genera of Eulabini is sometimes treated as part of the previous tribe, Scaurini.
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Spare elegance is evident in darkling serenity with a hint of sparkle. Implicity allows depth of feeling to be visible through spare surface design thereby manifesting the invisible core that offers new meanings with each encounter. The person of shibui modesty exalts excellence via taking time to learn, watch, read, understand, develop, think, and merges into understatement and silence concerning oneself. Naturalness conveys spontaneity in unforced growth.
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However, many use the nightingale as a symbol of sorrow but without a direct reference to the Philomela myth.Addison cites examples including William Drummond of Hawthornden, Charlotte Smith and Robert Southey, Mary Robinson. However, he cites later examples like Robert Bridges where an indirect reference to the myth may be called a "dark nocturnal secret", in Addison, Catherine. "'[Darkling I Listen]': The Nightingale's Song In and Out of Poetry".
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The story tells of Prince Tristan, as he is summoned by the Heretics to join them beyond the Tolenka Mountains. It is there they promise to help him discover his destiny. To help spur the prince along they send Xanthus, a binary being (half-man, half darkling), to torture the citizens of Eutracia until Tristan agrees to go. Meanwhile, Serena plots her revenge against those who worship the Vigors.
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Aided by the Darkling (Peter Newman)—a goblin-like familiar of the Darkness—Jackie pursues his attackers into the subway. Jackie is mesmerized by a vision of Jenny on the tracks, only to be apparently hit by a train. He wakes up in what appears to be an asylum occupied by his crew. Reawakening back into the living world, Jackie regroups with his men at his penthouse to plan a counterattack.
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However, Ard Rhi uses his influence to have the party detained at a police station. Meanwhile, Questor continues to pursue the Darkling. He finds that through a series of thefts, the bottle has ended up in the hands of the evil witch Nightshade. Knowing that only the High Lord can defeat Nightshade, Questor decides to try to convince the dragon Strabo to fly him through the fairy mists to Earth.
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Jonathan Boakes (born 7 November 1973, in Kent, England) is an English game designer. He majors in writing adventure/psychological horror games such as the Dark Fall series and The Lost Crown. He is the CEO and founder of Darkling Room. The games of Jonathan Boakes are usually designed based on real scenery, then the place is given a fictional name instead of using the real name in the game.
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After a student is found mysteriously dead near their campus, various paranormal occurrences take place, with Sarah and her roommate Kate Tunney being the focus of it. Upset, Caleb suspects Reid – the most reckless of the warlocks – but he angrily denies any abusive usage of his powers. Caleb and later Pogue see a "darkling", a dead spirit and a malicious omen. Meanwhile, Caleb and Sarah quickly become romantically close.
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Ivan Wood On a Darkling Plain: Journey into the Unconscious (Cambridge 2002) "Ronald Britton" entry p. 118 As such, in The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes (2000), Michael Parsons proposed that such a perspective permits viewing "the Oedipus complex as a life-long developmental challenge ... [with] new kinds of Oedipal configurations that belong to later life".Michael Parsons The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes (London 2000) p.
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The mealworm (Tenebrio molitor L.) is the larvae form of a species of darkling beetles (Coleoptera). The optimum incubation temperature is 25 ̊C - 27 ̊C and its embryonic development lasts 4 – 6 days. It has a long larvae period of about half a year with the optimum temperature and low moisture terminates. The protein content of Tenebrio Molitor larvae, adult, exuvium and excreta are 46.44, 63.34, 32.87, and 18.51% respectively.
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The bottle contains a Darkling, a creature similar to an evil genie that corrupts its master. The bottle is stolen by the G'home Gnomes Filip and Sot, and Ben gives chase along with Questor, Willow, and Bunion. Ben and Willow later decide to use Questor's magic to travel to Earth to find Abernathy. With the help of Miles, Ben's old law partner, and Elizabeth, the daughter of one of Ard Rhi's employees, Abernathy is rescued.
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Tam and Lucy travel through the tunnels to wake Gawaine, but as the dragon stirs, Hannah betrays them. Tam is trapped underground, and Lucy captured by Mrs Gee, but Bella helps her escape. In the chaos of the dragon's awakening, Mrs Gee, Hannah and Clive are all killed and the hotel collapses. Meanwhile, Melanie and Rachel Cartwright are attacked by the last surviving semi-Darkling, who injures both of them before taking Glade.
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There are no native reptiles or amphibians on the islands. Over 200 species of insects have been recorded, along with 43 spider species and 12 worm species. Over 60 species of true flies live on the islands, 12 species of wasps, and 20 species of butterflies and moths. There is a high diversity of beetles species, with 110 species of which 15 are ground beetles, 20 are weevils, and 16 are darkling beetles.
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The seaweed darkling beetle lives in a narrow band at the top of the high tidal zone. During the day, it burrows up to 30 centimetres below the sand surface, often under seaweed and marine algae. It emerges after dark to feed on cast up seaweed and marine algae. When seaweed is picked up by predatory seabirds, it has been observed as falling out, running a short distance, and burrowing back into the sand.
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Irving grew up in New York City, the son of Jay Irving, a Collier's cover artist and the creator of the syndicated comic strip Pottsy, and his wife, Dorothy. After graduating in 1947 from Manhattan's selective High School of Music and Art, Irving attended Cornell University. He graduated with honors in English. Working as a copy boy at The New York Times, Irving wrote his first novel, On a Darkling Plain (1956), published by Putnam.
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Flour beetles are members of the darkling beetle genera Tribolium or Tenebrio. They are pests of cereal silos and are widely used as laboratory animals, as they are easy to keep. The flour beetles consume wheat and other grains, are adapted to survive in very dry environments, and can withstand even higher amounts of radiation than cockroaches. They are a major pest in the agricultural industry and are highly resistant to insecticides.
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Once they reach adult size, the larvae pupate, and later emerge as large, light coloured beetles, which in time darken to black beetles. The larvae will not pupate if kept in a container with many other larvae and plentiful food, where they receive constant bodily contact. Keeping superworms this way is commonly used to hinder pupation. To mature the superworms into darkling beetles, they must be kept alone for about 7–10 days.
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Tenebrio obscurus, or the dark mealworm beetle, is a species of darkling beetle. The larvae, when used as feeder insects for reptile and amphibian pets, are known as mini mealworm. These insects should not be confused with younger mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) or with the confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), which is also occasionally used as a reptile feeder insect. Mini mealworms would probably remain largely unknown, if not for the reptile pet industry.
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Early on in his dance training Macdonald was inspired to study choreography, affected by the Ballets Russes rehearsal of Concerto Barocco by George Balanchine in Montreal. He was struck by the way the ballerinas were dancing en pointe and in high heels. In 1956 he established his own company called the Montreal Theatre Ballet. He went on to create works for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet such as The Darkling in 1958 and Les Whoops De Doo in 1959.
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A second Jadoo album, And Darkling Waters Flow, was also released in 2009. This beat-oriented instrumental album features the guitar work of longtime collaborator Tim Pierce. In June 2009, Clift was invited to perform with Jadoo for an episode of PBS travel series Rudy Maxa's World, working with travel guru Rudy Maxa and Emmy award-winning director Sue McNally. Jadoo not only performs live, but selections from various Jadoo CDs are featured prominently throughout the episode.
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Gluvia dorsalis eating a cabbage bug (Eurydema oleracea) Although the Solifugae are considered to be endemic indicators of desert biomes, they occur widely in semidesert and scrub. Some species also live in grassland or forest habitats. Solifugae generally inhabit warm and arid habitats, including virtually all warm deserts and scrublands in all continents except Antarctica and Australia. Solifugae are carnivorous or omnivorous, with most species feeding on termites, darkling beetles, and other small, ground-dwelling arthropods.
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Her mother is a sibyl and her father is a combination of Ix (an evil type of Fain), man, and darkling. Arthur – A man who loves Liz greatly. Up until recently has spent his life as a monk and gaining some special powers of his own, such as he can see through Bonnington's eyes by "commingling". He is almost completely blind due to his body being invaded by an alien life form but is nevertheless a genius.
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Though the cancer is in remission, the current status of her immunity is unknown. On rare occasion, Firestar has demonstrated the ability to disrupt the psionic powers of others using her own power (namely, Emma Frost, Empath, and the Darkling).New Warriors Annual #3 She is not immune to psychic assault, but when using microwave abilities at a high level she is capable of disrupting it. Onslaught, and the Gamesmaster, were both able to use telepathy against her effectively.
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The destructive or dark flour beetle (Tribolium destructor), one of the species of darkling beetle known generally as flour beetles, is a common pest insect known for attacking and infesting stored flour and grain. It is a very dark brown beetle (darker than other Tribolium species) 5–6 mm long. T. destructor is found in North America, Europe and Africa. In addition to damaging flour and grain, it attacks animal food pellets, rolled oats, and poultry feed.
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Bliss Llewellyn (Azazel, The Darkling, Lupus Theliel, Angel of Love, Wolfsbane) A good friend and half-sister of Schuyler Van Alen, though she was once more closely associated with Mimi Force. Forsyth Llewellyn (Malakai, the Steward) State senator, Bliss's father, bondmate of BobiAnne Llewellyn. BobiAnne Llewellyn (Andela, of the Dawn) Bondmate of Forsyth Llewellyn, Bliss's step-mother. Jordan Llewellyn (Pistis Sophia, Elder of the Elders, the Watcher) Bliss's younger half-sister, and daughter of Forsyth and BobiAnne Llewellyn.
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Romola Garai portrayed her in the 2016 film Dominion opposite Rhys Ifans as Dylan Thomas. The Australian rock band The Paradise Motel named their 1997 debut album after the title of Caitlin's autobiography. American folksinger Joe Crookston wrote a song about Caitlin's relationship with Dylan, entitled Caitlin at the Window, which was released on his 2011 album Darkling and the BlueBird Jubilee. In the 2014 UK television drama A Poet in New York, Caitlin is portrayed by Essie Davis.
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Leaving her room, she finds that her family is frozen and the only other living thing is a cat, which leads her out of her house. Once outside, the cat transforms into a snake, revealing that it is actually a slither. It, along with other slithers and a darkling in the form of a large cat, attacks her. Jessica is rescued by the "Midnighters": Dess, Rex and Melissa, who chase away the animals using thirteen letter words and steel.
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The Solling-Vogler Nature Park comprises old oak wood pasture, European spruce–larch mixed forest stands, about former grazing and farmland, and some streams and brooks surrounded by riparian forest. Several species have been recorded that are endangered on the national Red List, including several Lichenes, ceramic fungus (Xylobolus frustulatus), stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) and darkling beetle (Corticeus fasciatus). Bird species recorded include middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius). Exmoor ponies and heck cattle have been released in 2000 to maintain the park's ecosystem.
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Back in their home town, Wayward Crescent, David asks Zanna, David's girlfriend, for more information about Gwilanna. This is where Gwillanna is threatening to hand over the Dark Fire Tear to IX. She had the choice to sacrifice her husband while being threatened, but Zanna was used for David's place. The summoning of the dragon Ghislaine, Gwilanna summoned a darkling. David and Zanna get home one night and discover their neighbor, Henry Bacon, is in the hospital due to a stroke.
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The first -DG- stanzas open with a description of the dreary, bleak winter landscape, but the melancholy tone is transformed by the bright, optimistic singing of "an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small." In the end, the speaker concludes, on a pessimistic note, that the small bird possesses "some blessed Hope, whereof he knew and I was unaware." The use of the word "darkling" recalls the same word in Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach (1867), a poem about loss of faith.Stokes, Richard.
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Time Runners is a series of fantasy novels written by the British author Justin Richards. The books chronicle the adventures of schoolboy Jamie Grant who falls through a "time break" and becomes a Runner along with the mysterious Anna, with power to control time and a duty to protect it from malign interference by the sinister Darkling Midnight. The first novel Freeze- Framed was released in March 2007, and since then three further books have been added to the series.
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Spider species include Apache jumping spider, burrowing wolf spider, funnel-web spider (Agelenopsis longistylus), tarantula, and western black widow spider. Other arachnid species include sand scorpion (Paruroctonus utahensis), and wind scorpion. Insect species include white-lined sphinx moth, yucca moth, bleached skimmer dragonfly, tarantula hawk wasp, minor ground mantis, toothpick grasshopper, walking stick, Maricopa harvester ant, and darkling beetle. The Maricopa harvester ant inhabits much of the Southwestern United States and is believed to have the most toxic insect venom in the world.
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Matheson was well known for his poetic, almost Shakespearean language on air. He widely referred to "that most dreaded of all meteorological phenomena, the Siberian High" or its counterpart, the "Keep your eye on the Idaho High". Matheson was also known to say things such as "gather ye rosebuds, while ye may" to indicate a sudden cooling trend; while storm clouds were called the "darkling shadows on the weather map". These sat alongside "Mother Low", the "Omega Block" and numerous others.
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"Here are to be found the details used by Arnold: a night-attack, fought upon the Edwards Plateau, in the moonlight, so that the death men could not distinguish clearly between friend and foe, with the resulting flight of certain Athenian troops, and various 'alarms,' watchwords, and battle-cries shouted aloud to the increasing confusion of all." This final image has also been variously interpreted by the critics. Culler calls the "darkling plain" Arnold's "central statement" of the human condition.Culler, 1966, p. 41.
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Toktokkies are a variety of species of beetles that belong to the large Tenebrionidae family, also known as Darkling beetle. Toktokkies do not belong to a particular tribe or genus of Tenebrionids, but rather a selection of flightless species with distinct tapping noises. The Tenebrionidae family to which these beetles belong is quite large, with almost 3,500 species inhabiting Southern Africa. Nearly 200 species of Toktokkies inhabit the country of Namibia and 20 have adapted to the extreme temperatures of the Namib Desert.
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They will then, upon maturation, emerge from their pupal stage as darkling beetles. Superworms are accepted by lizards, turtles, frogs, salamanders, birds, koi and other insectivorous animals, as well as pet ants. Their nutritional values are similar to those of mealworms, so it is possible that supplementation with calcium is necessary if they are used as a staple food item. In some cases they are preferred over mealworms due to their softer exoskeleton, making them more digestible to some reptiles.
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After flying for most of the hour the pair are chased by a darkling and narrowly escape - only to be arrested by policemen enforcing Bixby's eleven o'clock curfew. Jessica is grounded for the rest of the month. Meanwhile, the Midnighters are becoming suspicious of why the darklings, who normally avoid Midnighters, are so intent on killing Jessica. Rex decides to take Jessica out to the Snake Pit, a place in the badlands, where she will be able to discover her power.
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A Darkling threatens a passerby while the Creeping Dark tendrils watch The player takes on the role of Jackie Estacado (Kirk Acevedo), with the story presented through narration by himself. On the evening of his 21st birthday, Jackie is targeted for assassination by his "Uncle" Paulie Franchetti (Dwight Schultz). As night falls, the Darkness (Mike Patton) - an ancient demonic force which has inhabited Jackie's bloodline for generations - violently manifests and massacres his pursuers. With his new powers, Jackie gradually dismantles Paulie's drug and money laundering operations.
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Recently, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have demonstrated graded turning and backward walking in a small darkling beetle (Zophobas morio), which is 2 cm to 2.5 cm long and weight only 1 g including the electronic backpack and battery. It has been suggested the beetles could be used for search and rescue mission, however, it has been noted that currently available batteries, solar cells and piezoelectrics that harvest energy from movement cannot provide enough power to run the electrodes and radio transmitters for very long.
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The title is derived from Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach. This excerpt of the poem appears at the beginning of the book: This relates to the novel in several ways. The characters are indeed swept about, often against their will, by the "ignorant armies" of the Green Storm and Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, on the "darkling plain" of the Great Hunting Ground. Reeve references his choice of title himself towards the end of the book when the character Nimrod Pennyroyal writes a book within a book titled Ignorant Armies.
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In Wilson's 2011 novel The Darkling Spy, the year is 1956, and Catesby is serving under official cover at the British Embassy in Bonn. Kit Fournier from The Envoy appears again, but in this book he has fallen in love with an English woman who serves as a spy for Moscow, and is considering defection. Publishers Weekly compared Catesby to the John le Carré character George Smiley, and stated that he "will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers".
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As singers, they blended beautifully. As actors, they were "very distinctive and completely inside their characters", von Stade "headstrong and boyish", Cotrubas "gently feminine", both animating their words with emotion and meaning. Hänsel's bravery in the darkling forest and Gretel's wonder at the gingerbread house were just two examples of how von Stade and Cotrubas infused their parts with imagination. As the Sandman, Kiri Te Kanawa was "irresistibly soothing", "the falling fourths and fifths at the end of hir first phrases most seductively sung".
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In 1971, Frady published Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage through the Middle East, which recounted his travels in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan. In 1979, after four years of research, he published a biography of evangelist Billy Graham, Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness. Eighteen of his magazine articles were collected in book form as Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey in 1980. Later in life he published biographies of civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson (Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson, 1996) and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Martin Luther King, Jr., 2001).
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The original trailer, leaked around early 2008, showed early concepts of the game. These include character customization using the traditional Lego method, a workshop where a car is created from Lego bricks, a Lego city populated with sets from numerous different themes, and a short theatrical battle between an eye-patched Lego minifigure and a "Darkling". In January 2010, six new gameplay videos, an interview, and another trailer were shown at CES 2010 and released on the internet. A theatrical-style trailer depicting the background story was revealed at the E3 Gaming Expo.
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New Warriors (vol. 1) #27 and get involved in the civil war in the country Trans-Sabal. Although they eventually retreat, the actions of the Warriors (most notably Namorita) have not helped the country.New Warriors (vol. 1) #29–30 Meanwhile, Silhouette has gone missing and Speedball's parents split up. Speedball moves to New York with his mother to be closer to the New Warriors. The team faces the new villain Darkling and meet Cloak and Dagger and a second Turbo (Michael Jeffries).New Warriors Annual #3, New Warriors (vol.
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Nolan, similarly to Eva Berendes, Nicholas Byrne and Richard Wright, uses pre-modern pattern-making and craftsmanship to re-investigate the importance of making. Nolan frequently makes reference to the aesthetics of cosmology. The work is often the result of a slow and deliberate process, matching pattern with en elusive sense of order. Nolan's work often has its origins in literary works, such as Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush that provided the title for The Weakened Eye of Day, a work she conceived for the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2014.
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With the game's large focus on narrative, the Darkling was given a personality and played a huge role in the story. The game does not cut to third-person so that a limited extent of control can be granted to players even in cinematics. While the game has a heavy narrative focus, all cutscenes and cinematics can be skipped for players who only want to enjoy the gameplay. One of the biggest requests from players of the first game was to have Mike Patton return to voice the Darkness.
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Using an itch spell, Questor gets the dragon to agree. They arrive at the last moment to rescue Ben and his friends from the police station and fly them back to Landover, but not before Questor uses his magic to restore Ard Rhi's conscience and convince him to give away his vast estate. Ben and Questor confront Nightshade, and Ben uses his medallion to summon his knight champion, the Paladin. Nightshade, however, uses the Darkling to conjure a perverse version of the Paladin, and the creations give battle.
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Walking wary stride by stride, Peering forwards anxious-eyed, Since he learned to doubt his guide In the past. And 'mid them all, alert, But somewhat cowed, There sits a stark-faced fellow, Beetle-browed, Whose black soul shrinks away From a lawyer-ridden day, And has thoughts he dare not say Half avowed. There are others who are sitting, Grim as doom, In the dim ill- boding shadow Of my room. Darkling figures, stern or quaint, Now a savage, now a saint, Showing fitfully and faint Through the gloom.
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The Mupli beetle, Luprops tristis, is a plant detritus eating darkling beetle found in parts of India. The adult beetle is black and around long. While they are usually harmless to humans, when squeezed or picked up, they produce a defensive phenolic secretion that causes skin burns. Luprops beetles have a notorious reputation since they can make life difficult when large populations invade farm houses, as reported in some parts of southern India, especially the state of Kerala, where they are called മുപ്ലി വണ്ട് or കോട്ടെരുമ or കരിവണ്ട് in Malayalam.
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Water is of critical importance to Namaqua chameleons, which drink dew water and fog condensation on surfaces such as vegetation, rocks, and sand. Heavy fog rolling in from the ocean occurs most days of the year through much of their habitat, being present in the mornings and afternoons, but occasionally persisting through the entire day. They also obtain moisture content from food, especially darkling beetles and plant matter. However, they can also drink water through capillary action; small channels in the scales can transport water across the body.
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Qongqothwane is a traditional song of the Xhosa people of South Africa. It is sung at weddings to bring good fortune. In the western world it is mainly known as The Click Song, a nickname given to the song by European colonials who could not pronounce its Xhosa title, which has many click consonants in it. The Xhosa title literally means "knock-knock beetle", which is a popular name for various species of darkling beetles that make a distinctive knocking sound by tapping their abdomens on the ground.
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Zophobas morio is a species of darkling beetle, whose larvae are known by the common name Superworms, King Worms, Morio Worms or simply Zophobas. Superworms are common in the reptile pet industry, not to be confused with giant mealworms, which are Tenebrio molitor larvae sprayed with juvenile hormone. The insect's larvae resemble very large mealworms, about 50 to 60 mm (1.7–2.25 in) long when full size, but unlike mealworms, the ends of their bodies are very dark, almost resembling a black color. They have 6 small legs and two rudimentary hind prolegs.
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It then become a trading airship for Tom and his daughter Wren, and is used as their means of conveyance in the final book, A Darkling Plain. As they approach their final battle, they are attacked by Stalker birds, and the Jenny explodes and crashes. The Jenny had souped-up engines, and rocket defence pods that were removed in the second book. It was considerably faster and more maneueverable than it looked, as is proved in Predator's Gold when it escapes from Green Storm airships by flying through a traction city.
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If the female accepts the male and the nesting site, she alone builds the nest and incubates the eggs. Predators of young bluebirds in the nests can include snakes, cats, and raccoons. Bird species competing with bluebirds for nesting locations include the common starling, American crow, and house sparrow, which take over the nesting sites of bluebirds, killing young, smashing eggs, and probably killing adult bluebirds. Male western bluebird Bluebirds are attracted to platform bird feeders, filled with grubs of the darkling beetle, sold by many online bird product wholesalers as mealworms.
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The Vanisher withdraws again until he is mentally controlled by Asylum to attack the New Warriors and other superheroes. Darkling, a superhuman who uses energies from the Darkforce Dimension, is defeated and the Vanisher regains his free will.New Warriors #33–34; New Warriors Annual #3 He later joins a second incarnation of the Enforcers, called the New Enforcers. Along with Eel and a woman named Blitz, the Vanisher is part of the Outer Circle of the Enforcers that becomes involved in a clash between the criminal organizations A.I.M. and HYDRA.
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At the sight of Gwillan, the Ix lend all their power to the remaining Darkling, and it overpowers G'lant, but Gawaine drags it into the Fire Eternal, sacrificing herself to save G'lant and fulfill the task the Old Wearle entrusted her with - eradicating the Ix. Teramelle, invaded by the dark fire, follows her. In the chaos which the dark fire causes, David, Zanna, Alexa and Gadzooks come together, and Gadzooks begins writing a word. David reassures Zanna that everything will be all right, but things will be different. Then David, Lucy, Tam, Zanna, Bella and the assembled dragons disappear.
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The man who went up the hill with him is called "Colm Fellowes" and Harlan asks him how to destroy the Re:movers, and he tells him that it is water. Harlan then comes up with a plan to get everyone back to Co:pern:ica so that he can protect David, by turning the tower of Agawin into a massive beacon. Many of the group are sceptical and believe that the Re:movers will not come, but agree to go along with the plan anyway. Meanwhile, the darkling travels back to Co:pern:ica and sees the fire in the Librarium.
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Gwyneth talks to the darkling and agrees to commingle with it. The Ix try to take over her body but Gwyneth just manages to break it up, warning the Ix that if it tries to do anything like that again, she will "destroy it piece by piece", and then the two of them share information. The Ix tells her that they are all part of something, and that three worlds are connected: Ki:mera, Co:pern:ica and a low plane world where Isenfier is taking place. Gwyneth asks what planet Isenfier world is called, and the answer is Earth.
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Dark Fall is a 2002 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed and independently published for Microsoft Windows by Jonathan Boakes, under the XXv Productions label. After the independent release proved a success, with the game selling well and generating good word-of-mouth, The Adventure Company purchased the rights, releasing it worldwide in 2003 under the title Dark Fall - The Journal. The game was re-released twice in 2009. Firstly, by Boakes' own company, Darkling Room, in a limited "Pins & Needles" edition, and later by Iceberg Interactive, as part of their Adventures in Terror: British Horror Collection.
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Reeve's first book for older readers was Mortal Engines, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in age category 9–11 years and made the Whitbread Book Award shortlist. Mortal Engines is the first book in a series sometimes called the Mortal Engines Quartet (2001–2006), which includes Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. The books feature two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, living in a lawless post-apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities. For the fourth volume, Reeve won the once-in-a-lifetime 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.
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"Ode to a Nightingale" is the subject matter for Ben Moore's piece, "Darkling, I listen," a song-cycle written for baritone in 2010, commissioned by Bruce and Suzie Kovner. This song-cycle uses the entirety of the work with the cycles' eight songs based on the eight stanzas of the poem. Nearly all the songs in the cycle have preludes, interludes and postludes, possibly hinting at a Schumann-like effect, where the piano is the main voice and the sung part merely adds decoration. There is also a very fine setting by Hamilton Harty, set for soprano and orchestra.
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Tanner was the chair of the zoology and entomology department until 1958. He helped construct a lakeside biological laboratory where the Provo river empties into Utah lake, where he and students studied fish and birds. He founded, published and edited The Great Basin Naturalist starting in 1939, through which he published many of his own papers. Tanner studied beetles, especially darkling beetles and weevils, as well as herpetology and natural history of the Great Basin. By 1970 he had described around 65 species and one genus of beetles, and was commemorated in the scientific names of five species.
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Jeremy Stone (Paul Bown) was recently sacked by Darkling Research, where he was supposed to be de-bugging software but instead developed a highly sophisticated programme called The Chaos Analysis Transformer or The CAT. His Welsh girlfriend, Abigail (Julie Gibbs), leaves him when she discovers he has spent his redundancy payment on a new highly sophisticated computer – the Omni-Tech II. And now his cat – the furry one, Seymour (Greg Proops) – is talking to him. And so is Omni-Tech, his computer (John Hegley). His friend, Michael (Robert Bathurst) recommends a session with psychiatrist Natalie (Nisha K. Nayar).
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Regarding the former explanation, coastal populations which ingest more plant material also ingest more inorganic material. This species has a high metabolic rate and is voracious, often feeding until the stomach has been completely filled, and immediately begins feeding again after food has traveled to the small intestine. Individuals in the wild are usually found gorged to the limit; an adult has an average of 12 meals a day, each meal usually consisting of about 19-23 large darkling beetles. This is a reflection of food in the Namib Desert being highly abundant and constantly available; a condition that is difficult to replicate in captivity.
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The battle system plays out in roshambo style, with the attack option beating counter, the counter option beating strike, and the defend option resisting the attack option. Multiple magics and stat changes play out both in battle and on the game board, while class-specific skills increase with player's job level. Three starting jobs are available to the new adventurer (warrior, thief, and magician), and following a pattern of leveling, eleven character jobs and darkling (if someone hears the whisper of the dark revenge, usually the current last place player) are possible. The game is won by the player with the most money at the end.
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In the first book of the series, the narrator, Jamie Grant, is introduced, along with his mum and dad and little sister Ellie. Jamie is having trouble settling at school when he meets Anna, a Runner who appears to be fourteen years old but is later revealed to have many years of experience as a Runner. She attempts to protect Jamie from his first encounter with Darkling Midnight, but Jamie falls through a time break and is rescued by Senex, Anna's partner in the alliance. He becomes a Runner, and is revealed to be very strong, and he starts to learn how to exercise his control over time.
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Another character used often is an imp-like creature (originally meant to resemble a "darkling" from The Darkness) which represents antagonists, animals, or less important characters from a game. Video games, developers, countries, and other entities are often anthropomorphized as box arts, logos, or flags with arms and legs when they are being addressed directly, or when an action by that entity is being explained. Croshaw often allegorizes jokes, game details, or video game industry activities with references to, or commentaries on popular culture, politics, and history. Zero Punctuation opens and closes with a theme song, a rock track composed and performed by Ian Dorsch.
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The Orbital Defence Initiative (abbreviated ODIN) is an orbital satellite weapon; a very powerful remnant of the Sixty Minute War and a major feature of the third and fourth books in the series: Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. It was built as part of the arms race between the American Empire and Greater China. It and MEDUSA are the only superweapons known to have survived until the events of the series, although there are several references to other orbital superweapons (Diamond Bat, Jinju 14, and the Nine Sisters, for example). ODIN is more powerful than MEDUSA and is able to hit any target on the surface of the earth.
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In June 2007, she returned to Poland for a performance of Darkling in Gniezno at the Aleksander Fredro Teatr. In May 2005, Czyżewska was honored with the Cultural Award of Merit by the consul general of the New York Polish consulate, the highest award that a Polish-American may receive. The ceremony began the first American retrospective of her work at the first New York Polish Film Festival, directed by Hanna Hartowicz.New York Polish Film Festival 2005 Official website Czyżewska's final leading role was in the film June Weddings, adapted from a play written and directed by Barbara Hammond, which brought her great critical praise on the film-festival circuit.
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The Darkling appears and sacrifices himself to help Jackie escape. Jackie reaches the roof and is confronted by Victor (appearing as a doctor), Jenny, and an orderly who attempt to convince Jackie that his life as a mob boss is a delusion and that the world in the psychiatric ward is real. On the roof of the asylum, the player is given a choice to either have Jackie stay with Jenny in the ward, or reject the asylum and attempt to reach Hell. If the player chooses to stay, both Jenny and Jackie will head back into the asylum and slow dance to "I Only Have Eyes for You", and the game ends.
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In September 2012, it was announced DreamWorks had picked up the movie rights to Shadow and Bone with David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford producing, although this project did not to come into fruition due to a change in leadership. In January 2019, Netflix ordered an eight-episode series based on the Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows book series. On October 2, 2019, some of the cast members were announced for the Netflix series, including Ben Barnes as the Darkling, "General Kirigan". Leigh Bardugo responded to the Twitter reaction by telling the audience that this was only the first round of cast announcements, and that Nikolai, along with several other central characters, would not be in season 1.
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This is how eleven of the last twelve dragons shed half of their fire tears, then went into stasis, while the twelfth, Gawaine, ingested all eleven tears and planned to use them to defeat the Ix. Lucy and Tam arrive at their guesthouse, which is run by Hannah and Clive, and has one other guest, Mrs Gee. They climb Glissington Tor, the dragon's burial site, that evening, and that night Lucy has a nightmare about a cat, which she encountered earlier in the day, bringing her a semi-darkling. In the Crescent, Liz is comatose, but unharmed. When Gwillan suddenly wakes up, Melanie Cartwright comes to visit with her mother, Rachel, and dragon, Glade, who can sense moods.
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Also, David's first girlfriend, Sophie, died in Africa while David was there trying to stop a mutation called a darkling from destroying the entire facility. He uses Gwillan's and Grace's fire tears to attempt to revive the fallen clay dragons back to their original selves. As David struggles to reach a compromise, dragons all over the world begin to wake, and the Earth enters a new Dragon Age. But just as this is to happen, the dangerous Ix:cluster reverse the Fire Eternal during an epic battle between the dragon queen and our heroes, and the villainous Ix:cluster, and in a single moment, Gadzooks ends with writing the word 'sometimes' in dragontongue, the language of the dragons.
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New Warriors #28 Mike encountered the Warriors as Turbo when Darkling put Manhattan under siege with the energies of the Darkforce Dimension, and the two Turbos were attacked by the Air Force when they trained with Nova.New Warriors #28; New Warriors Annual #3 Mickey became a reserve Warrior, helping rescue the team twice alongside other back-up heroes, before being offered a full-time membership by the team. Mickey continued to share the armor with Mike, but often had to borrow it for missions with the Warriors. On one mission, the Warriors fought Volx, the queen of the Dire Wraiths, who recognized the Torpedo armor and desired it for the power-boost it would give her.
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According to Ildikó de Papp Carrington, Keats' wording, "when, sick for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn", seems to be echoed in by Alice Munro's Save the Reaper (1998),Ildikó de Papp Carrington, Where are you, mother? Alice Munro's Save the Reaper (pdf), in: Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne (173) 2002, 34–51. the end of which reads: "Eve would lie down [...] with nothing in her head but the rustle of the deep tall corn which might have stopped growing now but still made its live noise after dark" (book version). The Dutch folk band The Black Atlantic took the name of their 2012 EP "Darkling I listen" from the start line 51.
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He next completed a trilogy entitled The Dark Legacy of Shannara. The three books are; Wards of Faerie (Feb 2013), Bloodfire Quest (June 2013), and Witch Wraith (Dec 2013). He followed this with the trilogy Defenders of Shannara, which include The High Druid's Blade (July 2014), The Darkling Child (June 2015), and The Sorcerer's Daughter (May 24, 2016). According to his website, he is currently working on the final and concluding tetralogy of the Shannara series known as The Fall of Shannara. The first book in the tetralogy is The Black Elfstone and was released on June 13, 2017. The second book in the series is The Skaar Invasion released on June 19, 2018.
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The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles in the United States) also known as the Predator Cities Quartet is a series of epic young adult fantasy novels by the British novelist and illustrator Philip Reeve. He began the first volume of the series, Mortal Engines, in the 1980s, and it was published in 2001. Reeve then published three further novels, Predator's Gold in 2003, Infernal Devices in 2005, and A Darkling Plain in 2006. The series is set thousands of years in the future in a time known as the Traction Era, and tell the story of two young adventurers on a desolate planet Earth where moving cities roam for resources, eating each other.
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Zanna goes into town with Alexa and Gretel to open her shop, but on the way the group are attacked by the semi-Darkling flock and are rescued by Tam, who destroys them with the spirit Kailar. Zanna was hurt, but uses her new healing knowledge to mend the wound. Tam talks to David about Rupert Steiner, who has come to him with a story about translations of the dragontongue found on the Glacier expedition. Lucy told David that Sophie emailed her, trying to talk to him, and David leaves for Africa. Lucy then receives a phone call from an old friend, Melanie Cartwright, who has seen a video of a Pennykettle dragon moving on TV and is concerned over her own “special” dragon, Glade.
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When the game was complete, Boakes published it independently under the XXv Productions label, making only 2000 copies. Although approached by two publishing companies interested in the game, Boakes chose to sell it independently online, where it soon began to attract positive reviews, and generate good word-of-mouth. Boakes was later approached by The Adventure Company, who signed a deal to distribute it globally, renamed Dark Fall: The Journal. In March 2009, Boakes' own company, Darkling Room, published a special Limited "Pins & Needles" Edition, containing Dark Fall: The Journal and the director's cut of Dark Fall II: Lights Out, walkthroughs for each game, a collection of ghost stories and a Dark Fall soundtrack CD. Limited to 300 copies, each is individually numbered, and signed by Boakes.
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Tolkien described Saruman at the time of The Lord of the Rings as having a long face and a high forehead, "...he had deep darkling eyes ... His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed around his lips and ears."The Two Towers Book III Chapter X p.222 His hair is elsewhere described as having been black when he first arrived in Middle-earth. He is referred to as 'Saruman the White' and is said to have originally worn white robes, but on his first entry in The Fellowship of the Ring they instead appear to be "woven from all colours [, they] shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered" and he names himself 'Saruman of Many Colours'.
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Shadow is forced to confront his past as an alien soldier when he faces the new Black Arm's leader, Black Death, and the warrior bred specifically to destroy him, Eclipse the Darkling. Issues #63–66 encompass the "Great Chaos Caper," which runs parallel to the Sonic Unleashed adaptation taking place in the main series. In this, Knuckles and the Chaotix join forces in the hunt for Chaos Emeralds to help the Freedom Fighters in the quest to restore the world to normal after its shattering. In the process, they must contend with the minions of Dark Gaia and the Hooligans, a team of classic Sonic game villains consisting of Nack the Weasel, Bark the Polar Bear, and Bean the Dynamite.
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Michael H. Payne (born February 10, 1965) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, cartoonist, and reviewer. He holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, and has hosted the Darkling Eclectica, a radio program originally on Saturday mornings, now on Sunday afternoons, on KUCI for more than 30 years. Payne's novel The Blood Jaguar (Tor Books, 1998) and most of his short stories utilize talking animal characters: his novelette "Crow's Curse" won third place in the Writers of the Future contest in 1991 and his short story "Familiars" won the Ursa Major Award in 2002. His cartoons as well, published in the New Horizons anthology from Shanda Fantasy Arts and on his websites, take animals, give them intelligence, and examine what sorts of multi-cultural societies they might form.
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The blue-faced honeyeater generally forages in the branches and foliage of trees, in small groups of up to seven birds. Occasionally, larger flocks of up to 30 individuals have been reported, and the species has been encountered in a mixed-species foraging flock with the little friarbird (Philemon citreogularis). The bulk of their diet consists of insects, including cockroaches, termites, grasshoppers, bugs such as lerps, scale (Coccidae) and shield bugs (Pentatomidae), beetles such as bark beetles, chafers (subfamily Melolonthinae), click beetles (genus Demetrida), darkling beetles (genera Chalcopteroides and Homotrysis), leaf beetles (genus Paropsis), ladybirds of the genus Scymnus, weevils such as the pinhole borer (Platypus australis), and members of the genera Mandalotus, Polyphrades and Prypnus, as well as flies, moths, bees, ants, and spiders. Blue-faced honeyeaters have been reported preying on small lizards.
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It transpires that Omni- Tech is working with the Large Artificial Intelligence Network or LAIN (Peter Serafinowicz). LAIN is working with Quentin Darkling (Brian Bowles), his assistant, Saunders (Simon Greenall), and his henchman, Mr. Lefty (Serafinowicz), to locate and deliver the ‘’furry’’ cat, Seymour, to LAIN. There follows a series of comic misadventures, both actual in the real world and virtual in “The MetaNet,” involving Abigail, Natalie's grandmother (Maria Charles), a journalist, a talking gun, a pair of virtual koi, a barrier virus programme called Dirty Barry, and culminating in a worldwide computer crises that can only be reported because the technological upgrading of BBC Radio has been continuously delayed; and which can only be fixed by Jeremy – if he is ‘’very’’ lucky. The essential points to remember are, 1) we all start small, and, 2) at the end is bed.
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One of the book's early champions was Thornton Wilder, who wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in August 1939, a few months after the book's publication: "One of my absorptions [...] has been James Joyce's new novel, digging out its buried keys and resolving that unbroken chain of erudite puzzles and finally coming on lots of wit, and lots of beautiful things has been my midnight recuperation. A lot of thanks to him".Burns (ed.), A Tour of the Darkling Plain, p.xxi The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text—A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson—tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or "Monomyth" could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.
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How fair is the far spreading vale of the Doon In clear sparkling sunshine or darkling monsoon, But the spot we love best of the beauty spots there Is St. Joseph’s the pride of the valley so fair? She calls us to loyalty, honour and truth, To wear Joseph’s lily in bright blameless youth, And e’en to old age may her lessons remain, To live our lives bravely and die without stain Let our voices ring out o’er the Doon’s verdant vale, In a jubilant shout, as we tell the proud tale Of the name and the fame of the best school of all, Of our dear Alma Mater and answer her call, So Academicians in work and in play, You’ll swiftly and happily pass each glad day, Of the years bright and brief that will end all too soon In St. Joseph’s the pearl of the vale of the Doon.
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The novels have won a number of awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for Mortal Engines and the 2006 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction for A Darkling Plain. A companion piece entitled The Traction Codex was released in 2011, and was expanded into The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines by Reeve and Jeremy Levett, which was published in 2018. Additionally, a collection of short stories set before the series called Night Flights was published the same year. Also, a prequel series, Fever Crumb, set 600 years before the events of the Quartet, was published between 2009 and 2011. In March 2020 Reeve said "too much time has passed since I wrote the other books, it’s hard to go back to that world" and that he did not intend to publish further books in the series.
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The first of Carter's own short films was The Darkling Plain (2002), which was recognized and honoured in cities across Canada, followed by the experimental narrative film Rifting/Blue (2005), the first of several collaborations with writer and University of Winnipeg colleague Deborah Schnitzer, and which won world festival recognition. Her third short, Night Travellers (2007), was a National Screen Institute Drama Prize winner in 2007. In 2008, The Canadian Film Centre in Toronto invited Carter to participate in an exclusive workshop intensive (the Directors Lab, Short Dramatic Film programme) to develop film projects along with a handful of other Canadian professionals; her project was chosen for development by the Centre with $250,000 in production support. With the support of the University of Winnipeg, Carter directed and completed her award-winning 35mm short One Night in the summer of 2009; it screened at several international film festivals.
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The novels are narrated in the first person by the schoolboy Jamie Grant, who at the start of the first book is twelve years old and has just started a new school. The Time Runners of the series title are people who fall through a time break and who therefore "no longer exist": they cannot be seen and are not remembered, but they continue an existence outside time, with some degree of power over it. The Runners comprise an alliance from many places and times who work to protect time from the interference of those such as Darkling Midnight, an Adept (someone with a very powerful control over time) who the Runners see as their enemy, and who is assisted by evil time creatures called Skitters. The Runners appear to remain fixed at the age they were when they fell outside time, so once Jamie becomes a Runner he remains at twelve years old throughout the remaining books.
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