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Cloud's Rider

It is the second of a series of two novels written by Cherryh and is set in the author's Finisterre universe.


2010 Amstel Gold Race

Several riders who planned to compete in the race were unable to make it to Maastricht because of the colossal ash cloud formed by the eruption of the Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which grounded flights throughout Europe.

49th Royal Tank Regiment

The operation was carried out under 'artificial moonlight' (searchlights shining onto the cloud cover) and during the assault on Rees by the 51st (Highland) Division the Grants both illuminated the crossing and engaged the enemy on the far bank with their 75mm guns.

Airways Airsports

(2011) Judy Leden takes BBC Breakfast Weather reporter Carol Kirkwood flying in a hang glider to see a cloud close up and weight it, for BBC's The Great British Weather Show.

Alexander Edward

He was then to travel to Paris and the low countries, visiting Versailles, Marly and St Cloud.

Amentotaxus formosana

Amentotaxus formosana is found only in Taiwan where it only occurs in four localities of cloud forest in the Hengchun Peninsula, in the extreme south of the island.

Andrija Mohorovičić

His observations of clouds formed the basis of his doctoral thesis On the Observation of Clouds, the Daily and Annual Cloud Period in Bakar presented to the University of Zagreb and which earned him his degree as doctor of philosophy in 1893.

Aotearoa

The Land of the Long White Cloud "Aotearoa" is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.

Bill Goodacre

Goodacre married Mary Etta Cloud and served on the town council for Smithers, British Columbia.

BioSLAX

Their aim was to effectively create a "BioSLAX CLOUD" where students and staff may instantiate any number BioSLAX servers dynamically for research and education (conduct bioinformatics practical labs by having students connect to the servers via suitable X Window clients such as X-Win32, VNC, Exceed and NoMachine NX) or deployed in such a manner which when used in conjunction with the UD Grid mpagent may be used to form a cluster for processing large jobs.

Bruce Wilkinson

Wilkinson has been criticized by Christian Fundamentalist missionary and writer David Cloud because of his ecumenical involvements with Roman Catholics and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Camlin Hotel

In the ensuing years, the Cloud Room hosted numerous famous faces, among them Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, and Elvis Costello.

Château de Beauregard, La Celle-Saint-Cloud

The château was built on a top of a hill between La Celle-Saint-Cloud and Le Chesnay.

Cloud Connected

"Cloud Connected" is the first single by the Swedish heavy metal band In Flames taken from the album Reroute to Remain, released by Nuclear Blast in 2002.

Cloud County, Kansas

Cloud County has also been listed as one of the locations for Smallville in the Superman story line.

Data Processing Iran Co.

The company also offers a series of Cloud services,Internet-related services, namely dedicated servers; colocation services; Web hosting services, such as shared hosting, shared mail, DNS recording, and domain registration services; and managed services, including network services, security solutions, managed application services, storage and backup solutions, monitoring and reporting, and professional services.

Desert greening

Another novel technique is cloud seeding, either by artificial means or through the action of cloud-seeding bacteria that live on vegetation (e.g. Pseudomonas syringae).

Doug Cloud

In addition to his frequent campaigns for a seat in the United States Congress, Cloud sought appointment to the Washington House of Representatives in 2013 to fill a vacancy created by the election of Jan Angel to the Washington Senate.

Ecstasy. A Study of Happiness

In a letter to L.J. Veen he wrote: I think of a large star with a single line of a cloud to the upper left and the title should be positioned at the bottom right. Do you happen to know anyone who could make a drawing like that? L.J. Veen thought that Jan Veth could be the right artist to make the book cover but his concept-drawing was rejected by Couperus.

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Ignace Pivert de Senancour (Paris, 16 November 1770 – Saint-Cloud, 10 January 1846), was a French essayist and philosopher, remembered primarily for his epistolary novel Obermann.

Fred Federspiel

Federspiel currently serves on the board of directors of BiosGroup, and is developing technology to help individuals construct a personal layer of security around data stored in the cloud.

Great Teacher Onizuka

In The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy noted the use of computer cloud and water effects in the anime adaption.

History of St. Cloud Hospital

The history of St. Cloud Hospital is the succession of events and hospitals that led to the creation of the current St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States.

House of the Tiger King

He put together an expedition and set out into Peru’s Madre de Dios jungle, the densest cloud forest on earth.

Joe Goode

First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum).

Jules Sandeau

Sandeau had been made conservateur of the Mazarin library in 1853, elected to the Académie française in 1858, and appointed librarian of St Cloud in 1859.

La Celle-Saint-Cloud

French actress and model Ludivine Sagnier (of Mesrine: Part 2's fame) is also a native of La Celle-Saint-Cloud.

Louis Napoleon George Filon

He born at Saint-Cloud, near Paris, the only child of Augustin Filon, the French littérateur who was appointed as the official tutor to the Prince Imperial.

Mal Peet

-->Cloud Tea Monkeys (1999), a children's picture book written by Peet and his wife, illustrated by Alan Marks, is set in the Himalayas and based on a Chinese folktale.

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes.

Northern Cheyenne Exodus

Dull Knife agreed to fight no more if the great father in Washington would let his people live on Pine Ridge that now held Red Cloud and his tribe.

Prix Jean de Chaudenay

It was run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it was scheduled to take place each year in May or June.

Prix Perth

It is run at Saint-Cloud over a distance of 1,600 metres (about 1 mile), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October or early November.

Rackspace Cloud

The change will come a new control panel as well as add-on cloud services offering databases, server monitoring, block storage, and virtual networking.

Solgenia

Products are promoted to integrate business process and collaboration technologies, marketed with acronyms such as ERP / BI / CRM / DMS – for networking, unified communications and services and platforms for cloud computing mode.

SourceLair

It supports several programming languages (Python, Ruby, Lua, C/C++ etc) for single file programs.Through sourceLair, developers are able to develop professionally their HTML5 and Django projects on the cloud.

Super Morph

The game's plot is of a child who is given a temporary ability to change between states of solid, liquid, gas coming in the forms of a cannonball, a rubber ball, a water droplet, and a cloud.

Tempestarii

Agobard of Lyons also referenced a related belief amongst his parishioners--a belief that tempestarii were in league with a mythical race of cloud-dwellers who came from a land named 'Magonia' ("Land of Magic", "Land of Thieves").

The Amtrak Wars

In 2008-09 Patrick Tilley wrote a draft of the first script, entitled like the book, Cloud Warrior, and the production company continued pursuing the project in 2010, showing the script and tentative production artwork to several companies at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Asiatic Society

Some masterpieces, like Joshua Reynolds’ Cupid asleep on Cloud , Guido Cagnacci's Cleopatra, Thomas Daniell's A Ghat at Benares and Peter Paul Rubens’ Infant Christ are also in the possession of this museum.

The Cloud, Auckland

An evaluation report by Nielsen for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise said showcases at the Cloud on Queens Wharf changed international visitors' impressions of the country, convincing them that New Zealand could be innovative.

The Ninth Cloud

The Ninth Cloud is an upcoming feature length comedy-drama film set in contemporary London starring Michael Madsen, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Leo Gregory, Meredith Ostrom, Megan Maczko, Joshua Feinman, Wendy Thomas and a strong supporting cast of up-and-coming British and Foreign talent.

The Storm Warriors

Tiffany Tang as Chu Chu, the daughter of Kirin Arm who accompanied Cloud on his nomadic journey.

The War Cloud

The War Cloud is a 2010 cyber-thriller by New York Times bestselling novelist Thomas Greanias.

Trevor Peters

Trevor Deshawn Peters (born 19 March 1990) is an international footballer for the British Virgin Islands who plays as a striker for Virgin Gorda Ballstars and Cloud County Community College in Kansas.

Ukigumo

Ukigumo (novel) aka The Drifting Cloud, 1887 novel by Futabatei Shimei

Under a Cloud

Under a Cloud is a 1937 British drama film directed by George King and starring Betty Ann Davies, Edward Rigby, Bernard Clifton, Brian Buchel and Peter Gawthorne.

Venus series

Amtor is a verdant world shielded from the heat of the sun by a (nearly) perpetual cloud cover.

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

The Orgonon, Reich's last home and lab near Rangeley, Maine, USA, is seen with brief shots of the interior and exterior, including a cloud buster.

White Cloud, Kansas

White Cloud is featured in episode 4 of the 2008 television documentary Stephen Fry in America.

Zack Fair

Director Yoshinori Kitase was surprised by the revelation of Cloud's and Zack's connection, as until the later stages of development, even he did not know about Zack.


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