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About 1759, Pascal Paoli, who often came to Balagne, decided to equip Corsica with a port in the north west of the island to try to cut the sea traffic between Genoa and Calvi.
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About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??
About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.
About 15 % of the population is foreign, most of them immigrants from Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia who have arrived in the previous 10 years.
About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.
About half of the refugees were SPLA soldiers with more than 5000 weapons, who allegedly occupied towns as far as 200 km into the C. A. R.
About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.
About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.
About 70 % of migrants from England who came between 1630-1660 were indentured servants.
About the same time, George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss was published, introducing Maggie Tulliver " who is explicitly compared with Hamlet " though " with a reputation for sanity ".
About the year 1337, hesychasm attracted the attention of a learned member of the Orthodox Church, Barlaam, a Calabrian monk who at that time held the office of abbot in the Monastery of St Saviour in Constantinople and who visited Mount Athos.
About the same time he was sent for by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, to be minister of the French church at Berlin ; the electoral summons found Abbadie at Paris, and it was conveyed through the Count d ' Espense, who had been commissioned by his master to make the selection.
About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
About 100 men and women received the award, the most famous being newspaperman Ernie Pyle, who was awarded a posthumous Army Purple Heart after being killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945.
About the same time, a British blues scene developed, initially led by purist blues followers such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies who were directly inspired by American musicians such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf.
About 2, 900 of these deaths occur among people who have never smoked.
About 1, 196 of these former American slaves ( who were mainly from Virginia and South Carolina originally ) sailed in 15 ships and arrived in St. George Bay between February 26-March 9.
About 60, 000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra Leone from Great Britain, North America and slave ships captured on the high seas.
About 400 women who answered the ad went to Dance Works studios.
It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.
About 1866 Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood, who also was marrying for a second time.
About 20 percent of those who cohabited before getting engaged had since suggested splitting-compared with only 12 percent of those who only moved in together after getting engaged and 10 percent who did not cohabit prior to marriage.
About. com was acquired by The New York Times Company in February 2005, who later announced plans to sell the site to IAC, owners of Ask. com and the Reference. com network, for $ 300 million.
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Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.
About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.
About 1 % of the world's population is afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis, women three times more often than men.
Other enduring features have been " Goings on About Town ", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and " The Talk of the Town ", a miscellany of brief pieces — frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York — written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary.
The Latin title, literally Commentaries about the Gallic War, is often retained in English translations of the book, and the title is also translated to About the Gallic War, Of the Gallic War, On the Gallic War, The Conquest of Gaul, and The Gallic War.
In the Season One episode " The Carriers ," one of the villains reads a book whose title is the ( incorrect ) Russian Na Voina ( About War ); police vehicles are often labelled as such with words such as " poliiçia ", and " poIiia ", and a gas line or tank would be labelled " Gaz " which is a Romanian translation.
About 5 % of all people are diagnosed only when they develop fulminant acute liver failure, often in the context of a hemolytic anemia ( anemia due to the destruction of red blood cells ).
About the Brahmans, Zhou had little to say, except that they were often employed as high officials.
" He concluded that the film " is often a delight " and " is about transformation: About two men who learn how to value something more important than money, and about two women who always knew.
About 80-90 % of fetuses or newborn infants with spina bifida — often associated with meningocele or myelomeningocele — develop hydrocephalus.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
About 70 small family businesses year-round boil, cut, dry and smoke the pungent fish, often sending a unique odor of steam, smoke and fish scent across the downtown area and out to sea.
About 1835-1840 ( often miscalled as ' 1640 '), the Earl of Camperdown ’ s head forester, David Taylor, discovered a mutant contorted branch growing along the ground in the forest at Camperdown House, in Dundee, Scotland.
About one-third of lingual and mucosal tumors metastasize before diagnosis ( these are often related to tobacco and alcohol use )
About the Transition and during the Decorated Gothic period, the different faces above the angle shafts often finish with gablets.
Slower, less-danceable soul records were often played, such as Barbara Mills ' " Queen Of Fools " ( popular in 1972 at the Golden Torch ) and The Mob ’ s " I Dig Everything About You ".
About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.
About 650 BC, it evolved from the Lusatian culture, often associated with the Nordic Bronze Age, and subsequently expanded southward.
About half of the songs released were cover versions, often of 1960s and 1970s psychedelic and folk acts.
About 500, 000 of them are present in the classic area of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, often in groups, with each bay invariably aligned in a northwest-southeast direction.
About their films, Les Charlots have often said that their only criteria were the glamorous locations, warm weather and good food.
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About 2 million people in southern parts of Tongzhou, Haimen and Qidong speak the Wu dialect, which is often referred to as " Qi-hai Hua " (), meaning Qidong-Haimen speech.
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