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It's part of the phenomenon I called "spontaneous self-organization," where, like in ant colonies, little decisions made on the micro level actually have a big impact on the macro level.
If you take a closer look at a root system, you will find there are many, many, many diverse microbial colonies.
If so, mycobacterium tuberculosis will reproduce inside those macrophages, and form colonies in the surrounding lung tissue.
Rum made from sugar harvested in European colonies in the Caribbean became a staple for sailors and was traded to North America.
These colonies have peacefully coexisted so far, but once workers appear, a phenomenon known as brood-raiding begins.
Six hundred million years ago, geometric colonies appeared, sucking microbes from the water.
The penicillium mold constantly produces penicillin in order to defend itself from threats, such as nearby bacterial colonies that might consume its resources.
After World War II, Europe was devastated, but still held large overseas colonies: French West Africa, British East Africa, South Asia, and so forth.
Colonies were once conquered.
Here we have large-scale self-sustaining colonies of malaria mosquitoes that we rear in these facilities.
And my colleagues have demonstrated that if you just put two or three positions where mosquitoes can go pick up these lethal substances, we can crush these colonies in just three months.
Here, you can see where Punta Tombo is, and they breed in incredibly dense colonies.
we got a text from Dan saying that, now, the first blue colonies existed.
Everybody's trying to protect the bird colonies there.
There's no working for each other across the colonies.
Set in the mid 1800's when the British is clearing New Zealand outback wilderness to establish colonies.
Jean Dujardin embodies perfectly this stupid-arrogant-macho-selfish french spy, lost in a country he understands only in terms of folklore and inferiority.Yes, that's it, just the way the occident uses to consider its colonies back then (and, oh no, I won't say it has anything to do with what happens nowadays in the very same area...ah ah)...He just looks like an unfrozen Lino Ventura, with something like 40 pounds less, which is perfect for the role.The other members of the cast fit perfectly as well, with all you can dream of Russian spies, Egyptian independantists and former Nazis.And of course, the women, as there has to be "femmes fatales" in any good spy-movies...
The plot is good (maybe not brilliant but really good enough...), taking place between actual historical facts, and remembering us in a funny way how France (and the others) treated its colonies back in those days.
The outcry from Swift's satire caused the coins to be sent to another mistreated British territory, the American colonies.
Do you really think the French or the Brits were that much nicer in their colonies?
Caprica is set in the twelve colonies some 58 years prior to the events of Battlestar Galactica.
To the most part, this first episode revolves around the popular topic of "Virtual" life and (as is expected) early life of the colonies, and the birth of the Cylons.
The story is typical Gundam fare, in the future Earth's populations grows to the extent where we create space colonies in order to expand.
It is the year After Colony 195 and the corrupt Earth government, known as the Earth Sphere Alliance, is violently taking over the free colonies.
To combat the Alliance control and the even greater threat that is to come (an evil militaristic organization hiding within the Alliance known as OZ, which later takes control of Earth and the colonies), select members of the colonies send 5 super powerful mechs to Earth to try and save the colonies from the threat that is to soon come.
The first "side-story" in the universal century Gundam universe presents a refreshing new look at the war between earth and the space colonies.
In the colonies we're not all that familiar with Arthur Askey, so I nearly skipped this film (which had its TCM preview recently) on account of the negative comments here on his appearance in "Ghost Train" -- which I expected to be thoroughly annoying.
Things take an unexpected turn, though, when Charity reveals some of these experiences to a friend who take her claims that the 13 colonies will breach from England as a sign of bewitchment, added to the fact that she was spared death from the fever (not so common in 1700).
The plot is related of how the young army officers took the power in Portugal in 1974, to finally defeat the fascist government of Caetano and to also finalize the wars in the colonies, i.e.
The Twelve colonies of Man have been fighting the Cylons for over a millenia.
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