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  • Tessera sold that project, called Calico Solar, to developer K Road Power, which redesigned the project to use primarily solar panels to generate electricity, but also included a portion that would use Stirling's technology.

    Solar-Gear Maker Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protection Cassandra Sweet 2011

  • During his first attack he used a bucket to stand behind the horse, called Calico, but was caught after leaving his underwear at the scene.

    Man jailed for sex with horse. FIDO The Dog 2008

  • During his first attack he used a bucket to stand behind the horse, called Calico, but was caught after leaving his underwear at the scene.

    Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • [Illustration: American Golden Plover.] "The Turnstone is very trim and pretty when seen close at hand, and from the pattern of the feathers is often called Calico-bird.

    Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

  • That includes the Sierra Club, which last week filed what senior attorney Gloria Smith says is its first suit against a solar plant, a giant 664-megawatt project called Calico that is slated to go up in the desert near Barstow, California.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • The group is particularly angered by the so-called Calico roundup north of Reno, which they say had devastating effects on the horses.

    Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories By Sandi Hoover LVN News Service 2010

  • While I would urge including this book in any study of the French and Indian War, I especially urge its inclusion in any teaching unit that includes materials on people captured by Indians, such as Calico Captive.

    Winter People 2007

  • "Calico" is supposedly based on one of the Hog Farmers.

    The Annotated "Cosmic Charley" Robert Hunter 2005

  • From there, he’d driven them out to the helipad in a spot he’d called Calico Hill that was maybe a mile away.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • It was mild and transient as compared with the hot and incessant pursuit of "Calico," which was the name of another game to which many of us were addicted.

    In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947

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