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About a hundred years after Paul's time, Lucian – a native of Samosata, in the former kingdom of Commagene, which had been absorbed by the Roman Empire and made part of the province of Syria – used the term " barbarian " to describe himself.
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About two hundred people from many countries attended.
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About a hundred copies of the Varo Edition were printed and distributed within the Navy.
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About a hundred " honest and frugal " German and Austrian-American families lived in Sheet Nine of the City of Breslau as early as the 1880s.
About a hundred men would come into Grafton for the winter logging season, and leave driving the logs downstream with the spring snowmelt in March or April.
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