Tim Powers
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"Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers" is an American science fiction and fantasy fiction/fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call (novel)/Last Call and Declare. His 1988 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island (series)/Monkey Island franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides/fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.

Most of Powers' novels are "secret history/secret histories": he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters.

Typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. He reads extensively on a given subject, and the plot develops as he notes inconsistencies, gaps and curious data; regarding his 2000 novel Declare, he stated,[http://www.powells.com/authors/powers.html Powells.com Interviews – Tim Powers]

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This is the hardest meet in the world and there is no room for error. It is an exciting meet, it is a fast meet and it is a fun meet.

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We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.

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It is a big score for us, no doubt about it. It takes a potential Liberal leadership candidate away from the Liberals.

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Brett did a fantastic job and I am very proud of him.

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I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

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Brett is undefeated in the 50 free on the year. There are ten guys only a tenth of a second in front of him and ten guys a tenth of a second behind him, he has as good of shot as anybody.

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We were undefeated in the conference coming into championships, but we had holes in our line-up in championships that we can cover in dual meets.

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I am very proud of the swimmers and divers, they all did a great job. We set several records and probably 80 percent of the guys had lifetime best performances. Our hats are off to UNLV, they deserved to win and they did an outstanding job.

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