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A device based on a 100-PW laser could be at least 10 times shorter and cheaper than the roughly $10 billion machine now envisaged, says Stuart Mangles, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2018

Bouncer ended up moving to the country with the Mangles, but not before he fathered a litter of puppies in Anson's Corner.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2015

Around Soof we found none of the druidical-looking remains mentioned by Irby and Mangles, but some romantic landscape and vineyards all over the hills.

From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James

But it is said that such a trophy may give offence to Mahommedans; and Mr. Mangles tells us, that the Mohommedan population sympathize strongly with the Affghans, and revere the memory of Mahmoud.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

In the year, 1817, Belzoni, in company with Captain Irby and Captain Mangles, began to clear away the sand.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous