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:"... the church on this site was described early in the 18th century as being still venerated by local people although it had been abandoned at the Reformation in favour of a more central parish church ... ... from the sandy spit, which has formed between the mainland and the isle, gales have carried sand and this, together with the accretion of a graveyard in use until c. 1850, buried the church remains and all knowledge of its exact location had vanished from living memory ... At the occasion of the first Viking Congress in 1951 Dr W. Douglas Simpson suggested a search might prove rewarding and this was undertaken in 1955 by a party of my students under my direction.
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:"... the results of countless computations can be kept " on file " and taken out again.
:"... if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be the most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.
:"... 27 January 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where a combined total of up to 1. 5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians and prisoners of various other nationalities, and homosexuals, were murdered, is not only a major occasion for European citizens to remember and condemn the enormous horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, but also for addressing the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism, and especially anti-Semitic incidents, in Europe, and for learning anew the wider lessons about the dangers of victimising people on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, social classification, politics or sexual orientation ...."
Motley did not get to deal explicitly with the Batavian Republic, but the way his collaborator William Elliot Griffis dismissed the Patriots speaks for itself :"... whether under the name of the ' Batavian Republic ', the Kingdom of Holland, or the provinces of the French empire, the French occupation was virtually a French conquest that had little permanent influence on Dutch history or character.
:"... Reagan who was, of course, completely unaware that they were launching a death watch on him, came in stimulated by the press of all these new people and performed splendidly.
:"... eleven garments as tithe ( on 112 garments )"
:"... the tithe of the king on barley of the town ..."
:"... a statement of how and when a project's objectives are to be achieved, by showing the major products, milestones, activities and resources required on the project.
:"... to condense in my own style in this small book the twelve volumes of Senator on the origin and deeds of the Getae Goths from olden times to the present day.
:"... from the Angles, that is, the country which is called Anglia, and which is said, from that time, to remain desert to this day, between the provinces of the Jutes and the Saxons, are descended the East Angles, the Midland Angles, Mercians, all the race of the Northumbrians, that is, of those nations that dwell on the north side of the river Humber, and the other nations of the English.
:"... machines fall short on two counts as compared to brains.
:"... and be not divided among yourselves ; and remember with gratitude Allah's favour on you ; for you were enemies and He joined your hearts in love
In his initial New Gordius address Morgan had said :"... when the last tribe shall slumber in the grass, it is to be feared that the stain of blood will be found on the escutcheon of the American republic.
:"... Kenneth Arnold ... is not so certain that the strange contraptions are made on this planet.
Pickford gave his account of that night to The Los Angeles Examiner on September 13, 1920 :"... We arrived back at the Ritz hotel at about 3 o ' clock in the morning.
:"... a soap box on which committed people can stand up and YELL.
:"... open faced, size 16 or 18, have a minimum of 17 jewels, adjusted to at least five positions, keep time accurately to within 30 seconds a week, adjusted to temps of to, have a double roller, steel escape wheel, lever set, regulator, winding stem at 12 o ' clock, and have bold black Arabic numerals on a white dial, with black hands.
:"... the forces of our national life are not brought to bear on public questions solely in proportion to the weight of numbers.
:"... investigating questionable claims, answering inquiries about products and services, advising quackery victims, distributing reliable publications, debunking pseudoscientific claims, reporting illegal marketing, improving the quality of health information on the internet, assisting or generating consumer-protection lawsuits, and attacking misleading advertising on the internet.
:"... The young men in the eastern Cape belong to the Xhosa ethnic group for whom circumcision is considered part of the passage into manhood ... A law was recently introduced requiring initiation schools to be licensed and only allowing circumcisions to be performed on youths aged 18 and older.
:"... record the authorship and significance of the haka Ka Mate to Ngāti Toa and ... work with Ngāti Toa to address their concerns with the haka ... does not expect that redress will result in royalties for the use of Ka Mate or provide Ngāti Toa with a veto on the performance of Ka Mate ...".
:"... when the cycle renews and the ' season of Nisan ' ( i. e. vernal equinox ) falls in Saturn, on the evening of Tuesday going into Wednesday.
:"... I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
:"... and was
:"... all was uproar and confusion.
:"... the Devil himself ,... called serpent by Moses, the Devil by Job and Zachariah, and was addressed as Satanas by Jesus.
This same account is substantially taken up about three centuries later by the author of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia but with an interesting variation :"... there was conflict between the nobles and the common people for an extended period.
:"... and therein was set as a crown the Gorgon, grim of aspect, glaring terribly, and about her were Terror and Rout.
:"... the Salvation Army, which was started by a gentleman named William Booth was vigorously practising direct action in the maintenance of the freedom of its members to speak, assemble, and pray.
:"... there was no significant difference in pain relief provided by five different treatment regimens.
:"... a virtuoso was, originally, a highly accomplished musician, but by the nineteenth century the term had become restricted to performers, both vocal and instrumental, whose technical accomplishments were so pronounced as to dazzle the public.
An extract was translated :"... which we bring for him: oxen ... and all the young vegetables ; and we shall give praise to Wenofer ... Khaf ... the statue made for Atum-Hor-em-Akhet.
:"... what I ’ m trying to describe that what has happened to our schools was inherent in the original design for a planned economy and a planned society laid down so proudly at the end of the nineteenth century.
:"... consisted largely in a series of increasingly desperate gimmicks by which artists sought to give their work an immediately recognizable individual trademark, a succession of manifestos of despair ... or of gestures reducing the sort of art which was primarily bought for investment and its collectors ad absurdum, as by adding an individual's name to piles of brick or soil (' minimal art ') or by preventing it from becoming such a commodity through making it too short-lived to be permanent (' performance art ').
:"... so Justice Moynihan's decision that Mabo wasn't the rightful heir was irrelevant because the decision that came out was that native title existed and it was up to the Aboriginal or Islander people to determine who owned what land.
:"... we had air-raid warnings every day ... but there was never more than a single aircraft circling over the forest, and no bombs were dropped.
:"... from a purely business standpoint, Mrs. Manley felt that Branch Rickey was obligated to compensate her for my contract.
:"... the skeletons did all the shouting and we had only the opportunity of blessing them by showing unruffled love in answer to the disturbance in our proceedings "...." The skeleton flag was out with its coffin, skull and cross-bones as well as the whole Skeleton force, uniformed, beating a drum, playing flutes, whirling rattles and screaming through trumpets.
:"... somewhere deep in my mind, was the thought that it made no difference if you were this energy-being and not the original Jesus.
:"... The word has been a source of great embarrassment to me over the years because, you know, Tallulah Bankhead's press agent, many years ago, got a story in the papers which went ...' Oh, hello, you're Norman Mailer ,' said Tallulah Bankhead allegedly, ' You're the young man that doesn't know how to spell ...' You know, the four-letter word was indicated with all sorts of asterisks ...
:"... the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal ( near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface )..."
:"... Old Hall was pulled down by an ignorant boor who became possessed of it by some mischance, to make way for shops and houses.
:"... these hardy pioneers were at that period so exposed to the incursions of the Indians, then inhabiting the vicinity of their residence, that it was found necessary to erect a palisade work around his house, for the security of himself and his neighbours.
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