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  • Three others turned it down for more or less the same reason, including T.S. Eliot at Faber and Faber, who had the distinction of also rejecting Down and Out in Pans and London.

    Orwell: The Authorized Biography (review) 1992

  • For some inexplicable reason, when we read that Botswana's Makgadikgadi Salt Pans is “one of Africa's major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt” and that its water, which is supplied by “rivers draining from as far away as central Angola, more than 1000 kilometers (621 miles) away,” is there “evaporated to produce the soda ash and salt — a process for which the semiarid climate of Botswana is ideal” — in fact, when we read the whole source article from Earth Observatory, we thought that someone had finally appropriated industrially scaled salt evaporation ponds as a garden.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • For some inexplicable reason, when we read that Botswana's Makgadikgadi Salt Pans is “one of Africa's major producers of soda ash (sodium carbonate) and salt” and that its water, which is supplied by “rivers draining from as far away as central Angola, more than 1000 kilometers (621 miles) away,” is there “evaporated to produce the soda ash and salt — a process for which the semiarid climate of Botswana is ideal” — in fact, when we read the whole source article from Earth Observatory, we thought that someone had finally appropriated industrially scaled salt evaporation ponds as a garden.

    Salt Ponds 2007

  • Pans from the short set or not, Jackman says he has been having the time of his life.

    News 2011

  • "Pans" makes much better sense for the gold diggin 'implications.

    The WELL: Here Comes Sunshine Robert Hunter 2007

  • Peter, who led the file, sprang just in time to save himself, as the treacherous crust above some yawning chasm between two heavy "Pans" crumbled under his feet; and once he fell headlong, clutching at a friendly spur, just in time to escape tumbling among a lot of jagged and flinty shards of young "crushed ice."

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Movies such as Pans’s Labyrinth fall within the “Fantasie/Sci-Fi” genre which has nothing to do with horror.

    Horrors Times | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Today's Peter Pans need to "grow-up," she asserts, or face the consequences.

    MAN, OVERBOARD Steve Garbarino 2011

  • Mauviel Cooper Pots and Pans, From €110 for a 12-cm sauce pan This French manufacturer www.mauviel.com has been creating professional-standard pots and pans for more than 180 years and has recently introduced the Heritage collection—pans with stainless steel linings instead of the usual tin.

    Lasting Gifts for the Connoisseur's Kitchen Bruce Palling 2011

  • In the first shot where the jack in the box says "New Toys" there is a small Lego man in front who looks the same as the one from this animation, "Nice Pans" www. youtube.com/watch?

    Toy Story 3 Trailer Easter Eggs Revealed | /Film 2010

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