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  1. Encounters

    Encounters is the fourth short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2004 and edited by Maxine McArthur and Donna Maree Hanson, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors.

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  1. encounters

    In military affairs, are combats or fights between two persons only. Figuratively, battles or attacks by small or large armies.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of encounters in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of encounters in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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  1. Cindy Jarrin:

    I know Maggie and I will continue to share memories until we are in our 90s or older, perhaps we will travel the world together after we retire. See what other chance encounters we may come across while waiting in airports.

  2. Martin Rees:

    We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans, if you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.

  3. Troy Miller:

    The December update shows our new border enforcement measures are working. Even as overall encounters rose because of smugglers spreading misinformation around the court-ordered lifting of the Title 42 public health order, we continued to see a sharp decline in the number of Venezuelans unlawfully crossing our southwest border, down 82 % from September 2022.

  4. Elise Stefanik:

    The Biden administration's failure to secure our southern border puts every American’s security at risk, biden’s open border policies have been a complete disaster, causing the worst border crisis we’ve seen in over 20 years. As the number of encounters continues to rise, drugs and weapons are flooding across our southern border, and Democrats have turned their backs on our Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.

  5. Montana Department of Fish:

    The bear's behavior in this incident appears to be typical of surprise close encounters, fWP will continue to monitor the area, which is well within occupied bear habitat.

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