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    • BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18:  People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve. From Getty Images.

      BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.

    • Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by Reuters.

      Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.

    • A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.

    • BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30:  A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. From Getty Images.

      BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.

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    • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, second right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, right, pose before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are in Istanbul for talks aimed at boosting cooperation between the neighbors. Afghanistan has in the past accused Pakistan of failing to take action against, or even colluding with, Taliban militants. From AP Photo by Murad Sezer.

      Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, second right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, right, pose before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are in Istanbul for talks aimed at boosting cooperation between the neighbors. Afghanistan has in the past accused Pakistan of failing to take action against, or even colluding with, Taliban militants.

    • Islamic demonstrators shout anti-Israel slogans during a protest against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip in Amman December 5, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      Islamic demonstrators shout anti-Israel slogans during a protest against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip in Amman December 5, 2008.

    • NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04:  Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City. From Getty Images.

      NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City.

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    • A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93.

    • A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.

      A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008.

    • Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.

      Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009.

    • People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march.

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...Ford. A skull featured prominently in the film where "Mike" Mitchell-Hedges is mentioned twice. Science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke used it as the logo of his Mysterious World TV series in the 1980s. It was last valued in the 1970s at $500,000 (£336,000)....
...Arthur C. Clarke’s 1972 novel, Rendezvous with Rama, a huge cylindrical alien space ark is detected entering the solar system. At first astronomers simply catalog it as a comet from deep space. Then they realized it doesn’t vary in brightness as it rotates,...
... OK, lets just start with Chris Rock. But we can not  fail to mention Mrs. Peel in that classic Avengers episode, snake around her shoulders, spiky collar around her neck, us around her little finger... Was I born too late?  This is the most basic exercise...
...Any comments on his latest interview on Salon? http://www.salon.com/env/atoms_eden/2008/11/19/stuart_kauffman/ Was it Arthur C. Clarke who famously said that, in a sufficiently technologically advanced society, it was impossible to distinguish between technology...
... Sorry Ian, I might be being pedantic but: "… in the current geological location of Iraq." I'm sure you meant "in the current geographic location of Iraq." Thanks for stating the obvious. If this IRAS observation foudn an infrared object which could be th...
...To the cosmos in an electric train for the newspaper Pravda. Science fiction writer, inventor and futurologist Sir Arthur C. Clarke developed the idea in his book The Fountains of Paradise (1979) and in a paper entitled The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment'...
...framework there is no limitation to what the mind can do (I call this thinkism) given enough time. We know for certain, as Arthur C Clarke stated, that  if we say some technology is impossible we are likely to be wrong. But at the same time, the universe...
...ago, I was only joking," he said in 2000. "I didn't see myself as a predictive kind of science fiction writer, like Arthur C. Clarke who more or less single-handedly invented the communications satellite... But it turns out that I, inadvertently, had a terribly...
...the truly unfilmable classics of science-fiction (along with titles like Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama). The likes of Ridley Scott (with Tom Cruise attached) have tried to adapt the novel, a complex thriller...
...movies, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic "2001: A Space Odyssey", is based on a script Kubrick wrote with another legend, Arthur C. Clarke. "2001: A Space Odyssey" introduced to the world the perennial rabid robot - a soft spoken sociopathic machine named Hal...

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