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Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  • The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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  • Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned
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Bag of holding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • capable of containing objects larger than its own size
  • magical item
  • opens into a nondimensional space (similar to a magic satchel) or a pocket dimension, making the space larger inside than it is outside
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  • always weighs the same amount
  • always weighs five pounds and is always the size of a normal backpack
  • any item placed inside will be "handy"
  • located on top when intentionally sought
  • handy haversack
  • putting a bag of holding inside a portable hole will result in a rift to be opened to the Astral Plane, and both items will be lost forever
  • If a portable hole is placed within a bag of holding, it instead opens a gate to the Astral Plane, sucking in every creature in a ten foot radius, and destroying both the bag and hole
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Portable hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a circular cloth which is placed on a surface to create a hole
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Red herring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a clue which is intentionally or unintentionally misleading or distracting from the actual issue
  • a clue or lead that turns out not to be relevant to the solution of the mystery would also be a red herring
  • with a strong enough brine, turns its flesh red
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Elvish languages (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú) or circumflex accent (â, ê, î, ô, û, Å·) marks long vowels in the Elvish languages
  • The diaeresis (ä, ë, ö) is normally used to show that a short vowel is to be separately pronounced
  • Primitive Quendian The tongue of all Elves at Cuiviénen
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  • Avarin Avari, those Elves who stayed at Cuiviénen and from there spread across Middle-earth
  • Common Eldarin The tongue of the Elves during the March
  • Quenya Vanyar and Noldor
  • Nandorin Elves of Ossiriand
  • Sindarin Elves of the Third Clan in Beleriand
  • Telerin Teleri in Aman
  • Silvan[12] The Wood-elves of the Vale of Anduin
  • There is a tradition of philological study of Elvish languages
  • Elven philologists are referred to by the Quenya term Lambengolmor
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Astrological symbols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • crescent moon
  • Mind or evolving human spirit
  • Venus's hand mirror
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  • Mars's shield and spear
  • Neptune's trident
  • Sagittarius Archer Arrow of the centaur
  • Gemini Twins Companion
  • Aquarius Waterbearer Ripples of water; sometimes modernly viewed as bolts of lightning, waves of aether, or electrically-charged water
  • Conjunction
  • Trine
  • Ascendant
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Robert A. Heinlein bibliography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Double Star, 1956—Hugo Award
  • "The Roads Must Roll", 1940
  • The Green Hills of Earth, 1951
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  • "—All You Zombies—", 1959
  • Double Star
  • The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
  • Double Star (1956)
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List of literary genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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