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A durable silvery metal; very light and extremely strong. Mithril means "grey gleam", but is translated as "true silver". It is mined in native form in Moria. It can also be worked into other forms with unusual properties such as reflecting only the light of the Moon. The fictional metal has appeared in other fantasy universes, games, and books.
The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Film. Starwoids was a fandom name promoted by the 2001 documentary Starwoids [328] [84] STAYC. Swith. Music group. Pronounced as "Sweet", the name is a combination of the first letter of STAYC and "With", meaning "Together with STAYC" or "I'll be by STAYC's side." [329] Stargate.
Agency Info Source Source type Black Priests: Kzin: Larry Niven's Known Space series: Book Blue Rose: Top secret joint task force of the U. S. military and Federal Bureau of Investigation that investigates cases of a paranormal nature, including doppelgangers, mysterious disappearances and the Black and White Lodges.
Leonard of Quirm ( Discworld) – super-intelligent clockpunk engineer. Col John "Renny" Renwick ( Doc Savage) – civil engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Maj Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts ( Doc Savage) – electrical engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., a.k.a. Doc Savage ( Doc Savage) – surgeon, scientist, adventurer ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee Working ...