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  • "Pectus pectoris ut diligo est in perpetuum tener."

    Translate your personal motto into Latin Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Perpetual motion machines* the latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy "from nowhere."

    The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2005

  • "Atque in perpetuum, soror, ave atque vale" (Translation, Frank?) 3. winter photo shoots (This one comes up every week.) 4. adhesive earring card adapters (This one too!

    Thursday Thirteen Zenmomma 2008

  • "Atque in perpetuum, soror, ave atque vale" (Translation, Frank?) 3. winter photo shoots (This one comes up every week.) 4. adhesive earring card adapters (This one too!

    Archive 2008-11-01 Zenmomma 2008

  • That also held true in "Conversio," for violin and piano, a lighter and more delicate work - you were reminded of birds flying in a gusty wind - that developed into a wonderful perpetuum mobile before dissolving into fragments.

    Music review: Erkki-Sven Tuur and the New Tallinn Trio at the Phillips Collection 2011

  • Barring that, Chinese export machine became perpetuum mobile.

    Matthew Yglesias » Chinese Inflation Revisited 2010

  • ENGLISH 1. ECCLESIAE UNITATEM tueri, ut sollicite omnibus suppeditentur subsidia ad huic vocationi divinaeque gratiae consentaneis rationibus respondendum, peculiarem in modum Petri Apostoli Successoris est munus, qui perpetuum est et visibile principium fundamentumque unitatis tum Episcoporum tum fidelium1.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • ENGLISH 1. ECCLESIAE UNITATEM tueri, ut sollicite omnibus suppeditentur subsidia ad huic vocationi divinaeque gratiae consentaneis rationibus respondendum, peculiarem in modum Petri Apostoli Successoris est munus, qui perpetuum est et visibile principium fundamentumque unitatis tum Episcoporum tum fidelium1.

    RORATE CÆLI 2009

  • A modern climate model is supposed to be such a variant of a perpetuum mobile of the second kind.

    Archive 2009-03-01 EliRabett 2009

  • Next is solving the energy crisis with perpetuum mobile engines -- no fuel needed!!

    Poll: Romney Leading In Iowa ��� And Huckabee In Second Place 2009

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