Sentences with phrase «called tsetse»

A second alternative - energy system, called Tsetse (named after the mythological African goddess of lightning), uses massive lightning - containment capacitors composed of dielectric glass and conductive metals from waste.

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Gambian sleeping sickness, or Gambian human African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, carried by tsetse flies in Central and West Africa.

He meets the father (Falk) of his son - in - law - to - be, who tells hilarious dinner - table stories about the horrors of life in the Guatemalan bush country, where tsetse flies the size of eagles carry off small children; this fellow also mumbles something about working for the government, hoodwinking Kornpett into accompanying him on an ostensible mission against fiscal guerrillas hiding out on a Caribbean isle called Tijada.