- The Infinitive of Go
orphan date August 2010 Plot date September 2009 Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Infinitive of Go title orig translator image Image Infinitive of Go.jpg 150px image caption Mass market paperback cover author John Brunner novelist John Brunner illustrator cover artist Darrell K. Sweet country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Science fiction novel publisher Ballantine Books Ballantine Del Rey Books Del Rey imprint release date 1980 media type Print Paperback pages 154 pp isbn 0 345 28497 6 oclc 6083220 preceded by followed by The Infinitive of Go is a 1980 science fiction novel by John Brunner novelist John Brunner . Plot introduction The novel revolves around a teleportation technology which is being developed. It works by making the space at the destination congruent with the space at the departure point. Any object in the departure space automatically appears at the destination. The name Posting has been coined for the technique. It has worked well with inanimate objects. The novel makes frequent reference to the transfinite number s of mathematician Georg Cantor , as well as catastrophe theory , popularized in the 1970s. Plot summary For the first significant test using a live person, a diplomatic agent is Posted to a foreign embassy from the USA. The test is an abject failure, with the agent demanding a countersign upon arriving at his destination, and then shooting himself and triggering a destructive failsafe in the package of documents he was carrying. It is assumed that the Posting affected the agent s sanity. Faced with termination of the project, Dr. Justin Williams, the inventor of the technology, arranges to have himself Posted from the same embassy back to his research laboratory. He finds himself in a world which is subtly different from his own. For one thing, Cinnamon Wright, his beautiful but cold African American collaborator, is suddenly an ardent lover. Eventually s ... more details
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- The Guilty Office
listing Track listing all writing The Bats Robert Scott title1 Countersign length1 4 19 title2 Crimson ... more details
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- Constitution of Sweden
, and after report of the councillor responsible for the matter in question. The councillor had to countersign ... more details
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- Sabazios
is a countersign of the mysteries of Sabazius to the adepts . Clement reports This is a snake ... more details
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- Prime Minister of Ukraine
. ref name YanichoosesPM The Prime Minister can also countersign decrees and laws passed by the President ... more details
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- Constantine Hangerli
to agree to countersign it ref Caragea, p.84 Ionescu, p.247 248 ref so as to avoid a rebellion against ... more details
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- Congress Poland
the councils decisions other than that, his decisions had to be Countersign legal countersign ed ... more details
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- Uniform Code of Military Justice
center 101 Improper use of Countersign military countersign USCSec 10 902 style text align center ... more details
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- Capital punishment by the United States military
compelling Surrender military surrender 101 Improper use of countersign military countersign ... more details
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- Beiyang Government
. The relevant ministers had to countersign legal countersign executive decrees for them to be binding ... more details
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- Bill Stone
papers, but his father refused to countersign them. ref name GuardianObit cite news url http www.guardian.co.uk ... more details
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- Constitution of Thailand
, sustain a royal veto. The chairman of the Supreme State Council had to countersign any royal ..., rather than the Prime Minister, would countersign all laws. The King s veto was strengthened .... The monarch would appoint a Senate with the countersign of the Privy Council President. The royal veto ..., the Premier, rather than the Privy Council President, was allowed to countersign the Royal Declaration ... more details
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- Croatian security and intelligence system
has refused to countersign the appointments. Additional problems were caused by a lack of coordination ... more details
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- Constitution of the Netherlands
and Royal Decrees have to be countersign legal countersign ed by the Prime Minister and the responsible minister s or secretaries of state Article 47 . The countersign has been mandatory since the revision ... more details
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- Daniel Libeskind
promoting tolerance and social justice. Bibliography Daniel Libeskind Countersign 1992 ISBN 0 8478 ... more details
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- Battle of Stoney Creek
and when challenged, came close to the sentry s ear as if to whisper the countersign. But with bayonet ... more details
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- Cable 243
it up, so I went along with it just like you countersign a voucher. ref name j316 Marine General ... more details
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- Central Pacific Railroad
Clerk, Wilhelm Loewy, each refused to countersign the Bonds. It took legal actions to force them to do ... more details
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- Vigenère cipher
the tabula recta of Trithemius, but added a repeating countersign a Key cryptography key to switch ... more details
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- Cross of Honor of the German Mother
of Chancellor Reichskanzlar Adolf Hitler and facsimile Countersign legal countersignature of the Minister ... more details
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- List of English words of French origin
Split apart date March 2012 File Origins of English PieChart.svg thumb right 250px The percentage of modern English words derived from each language group are as follows br French 29 br Latin including words used only in scientific medical legal contexts 29 br Germanic 26 br Others 16 A great number of words of French language French origin have entered the English language to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language. According to Foreign language influences in English different sources , nearly 30 of all English words have a French origin. ref cite book last Finkenstaedt first Thomas coauthors Dieter Wolff title Ordered profusion studies in dictionaries and the English lexicon publisher C. Winter year 1973 isbn 3 533 02253 6 ref This fact suggests that 80,000 words should appear in this list. However, this list does not include derivatives formed in English, but only the ones imported as such directly from French for instance Wiktionary joy joy and Wiktionary joyous joyous , but not Wiktionary joyful joyful , Wiktionary joyfulness joyfulness , nor Wiktionary partisanship partisanship , Wiktionary parenthood parenthood , . It does not include either combinations of words of French origin with words of origin other than French e.g. Wiktionary icecream icecream , Wiktionary sunray sunray , Wiktionary jellyfish jellyfish , Wiktionary killjoy killjoy , Wiktionary lifeguard lifeguard , Wiktionary passageway passageway . It also excludes English made combinations of words of French origin e.g. Wiktionary grapefruit grapefruit is made of Wiktionary grape grape Wiktionary fruit fruit but has been coined in English, Wiktionary layperson layperson Wiktionary lay lay Wiktionary person person , consider also Wiktionary mailorder mailorder , Wiktionary magpie magpie , Wiktionary marketplace marketplace , Wiktionary petticoat petticoat , Wiktionary straitjacket straitjacket . This list does not include words that come from French but were introduced into ... more details
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- Charles X of France
ten years old. At first, the Duke of Angoul me refused to countersign the document by which he was made ... more details
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- François Guizot
to draw up and countersign such an order. The marshal, who was present, undertook the task, saying ... more details
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- President of Croatia
, even if no state of war is declared, provided that such an order is Countersign legal countersigned ... more details
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- Judicial system of Iran
in Iran of a representative of that European s home country, who would countersign the decision ... more details
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