One of many brands of water thief (a synthetic rubber fitting that attaches to an unthreaded faucet on one end and a common garden hose on the other) commonly available The term "water thief" refers to three devices – one ancient and two modern. # A water thief is a synthetic rubber fitting that attaches to an unthreaded faucet on one end and a common garden hose on the other. It is commonly used to fill fresh water tanks in recreational vehicles when a threaded hose bib is not available. # A water thief allows firefighters to break down one larger line into several smaller ones, each with independent control of water flow at the valve.
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A sequel for the Companion's Quartet called Water Thief was published in 2011. It follows the youngest universal companion, George, and his best friend Malvin, a very rude Goblin. Together, they have to help the Society stop an environmental disaster. His first mission for the Society is on Zanzibar island where he has to investigate disappearing water sprites.
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The word "clepsydra" comes from the Greek meaning "water thief". The Greeks considerably advanced the water clock by tackling the problem of the diminishing flow. They introduced several types of the inflow clepsydra, one of which included the earliest feedback control system. Ctesibius invented an indicator system typical for later clocks such as the dial and pointer.
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Ctesibius's clepsydra from the 3rd century. Clepsydra, literally water thief, is the Greek word for water clock. Water clocks, or clepsydrae, were commonly used in ancient Greece following their introduction by Plato, who also invented a water-based alarm clock. One account of Plato's alarm clock describes it as depending on the nightly overflow of a vessel containing lead balls, which floated in a columnar vat.
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But afraid of the storm caused by the emergence from the lake Toolpar, Haoban looked around and all animals disappeared into the lake again. The action of the other legend «Kungyr buga» occurs by the lake Shulgan. In this lake Batyr (hero) Minei finds the missing daughter of the old man and old women. She was stolen by a water thief in this town ( the owner of the lake).
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Thief River Falls is located at the confluence of the Red Lake River and the Thief River. U.S. Highway 59 and Minnesota State Highways 1 and 32 are the three main routes in the community. Thief River Falls is located approximately south of the Canada–United States border and northeast from Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the Northwest region of Minnesota.
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Beyond the Aquila Rift is a 2016 collection of science fiction short stories and novellas by British author Alastair Reynolds, published by Gollancz, and edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer. It contains works previously published in other venues. The collection features several stories connected to Reynolds's previous stories and novels. "Great Wall of Mars", "Weather", Last Log of the Lachrymosa, and Diamond Dogs take place in the Revelation Space universe, Thousandth Night takes place in the same universe as House of Suns, and "The Water Thief" takes place in the Poseidon's Children universe.
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Daniela Gesundheit has been a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for "Outstanding Sound Design/Composition." She has also created soundtrack compositions for The Water Thief by Sean Frey and Amy Siegel, Al Purdy was Here by Brian Johnson (TIFF), NPR's Radiolab, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Tribeca Film Festival), and The National Parks Project. She also performed with Michael Ondaatje for Jason Collett's Basement Review (2012) and with members of the Aberta Ballet in 2013 at the Banff Centre. Daniela performed with celebrated acoustic Biologist Katy Payne.
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Before the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1923, the city of Zahedan was known as Dozz-aap. That name was in turn derived from the Persian Dozd-aab, literally meaning "water thief". This is the name given to a sandy land formation that quickly swallows up any water that falls on it, be it rain or irrigation water. The name was changed to Zahedan by the Iranian Academy of Culture (the Farhangistan), set up during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in the 1930s, which changed a myriad of toponyms in Iran.
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His other inventions include the hydraulis, a water organ that is considered the precursor of the modern pipe organ, and improved the water clock or clepsydra ("water thief"). For more than 1,800 years the clepsydra was the most accurate clock ever constructed, until the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens' invention of the pendulum clock in 1656. Ctesibius described one of the first force pumps for producing a jet of water, or for lifting water from wells. Examples have been found at various Roman sites, such as at Silchester in Britain.
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