All you feel is a slight irritation in your eye, and your nose is running and you have the occasional cough. No big deal right? Well it isn't until pints of blood are gushing through your nose. Your lateral spine turns into a crescent moon. Your shaking uncontrollably and you just bit off your tongue. All your problems flow into your hands that start clawing at your skull. You look into the mirror and you notice that your skull is exposed. This is your last glimpse of life. Soon your body is a mere crater with your skin folded back in a Y and all your organs are gone. This is the affect of the Cobra virus.
Kate felt alright. She didn't want to miss school. She thought she only had a little touch of the common cold. So she went to school. While she was sitting in art class he nose started to bleed profusely and she began having uncontrollable seizures. Soon Kate was dead. Days before a homeless person known as "Harmonica Man" had the same sudden strike while on the subway. Then an antique dealer dies of yet the same illness.
Curiosity, and fear, strikes the local New York Health department official. He calls his friend at the Center For Disease Control (C.D.C). He sends a young agent by the name of Dr. Alice Austen to New York to investigate. Mean while in Iraq U.N weapons inspectors become suspicious of an out of the way building. Upon investigation they find everything to be normal except for a Curious Door. Upon entering the door weapons inspector Mark Littleberry finds a lab in the back of a truck. The truck takes and Littleberry fights against the guards and gets a sample of a crystalline structure in what appears to be a bioreactor used for growing viruses. The scene shifts back to New York Where Austen and Dr. Nathanson, who requested C.D.C help are performing an autopsy of Kate. Upon the ending of the autopsy Austen concludes that Kate has died of some strange unknown illness, and she had symptoms of a common cold.
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She becomes pregnant with his baby and then comically throws the event into his parole officer's face that has been trying to have a baby with his wife for nearly a year. ... The husband obviously is a Cobra, which is the type of abuser who has been this way throughout their respective lives. Cobras also always apologize for the abuse and beatings and often beg their wives for forgiveness saying they will never do it again. ... Most Cobras are also "Psychopaths" and lack a conscience as well as being incapable of feeling remorse or feeling a list of emotions. The Cobras also have a hi...
His work on the "cobra event" outlines the terror that's in biological weaponry and terrorism. ... This book brings a whole new meaning to the word virus, it is a science fiction based on real life events and since is so related to our own world, readers are able to for example, feel the terror and grossness of the little girls death as if u were one of her class mates during art class. ...
The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt proved to be one of the most important events in their vast history. ... The vulture, Nehkbet, and the cobra, Wahdjet, are symbols of the Nile and the two lands. ... The two are often found on the crowns of Egyptian pharaohs and double cobras are used for the Nubian crown. ...
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Anheuser Busch did not enter the malt liquor segment until 1984 when they introduced their King Cobra brand. ... Sporting events are used to establish experiential associations and symbolic associations as well. ... Special events, concerts, and sporting events are sponsored by Anheuser Busch to secure that only their beer products will be sold. This is done in the hopes that people who have a good time at these events will associate the fun time with the experience of drinking certain brand of beer. ...
Anheuser Busch did not enter the malt liquor segment until 1984 when they introduced their King Cobra brand. ... Sporting events are used to establish experiential associations and symbolic associations as well. ... Special events, concerts, and sporting events are sponsored by Anheuser Busch to secure that only their beer products will be sold. This is done in the hopes that people who have a good time at these events will associate the fun time with the experience of drinking certain brand of beer. ...
He was born around 563 B.C. in present day Nepal and although concrete details of events in his life have been blurred as his story has been told and retold over the millenniums and often submerged in myth, his general message of enlightenment unearthed through the spiritual awakening that he experienced is as clear and concise as the moment he gave his first sermon, relaying the truth that he had found. ... This event is referred in the Buddhist tradition as 'going forth.' ... During this period, a thunder storm loomed overhead and a naga, or "serpent deity", rose above him shieldin...
