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In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
The campaign continued in a similar vein, lasting for a total of ninety days.
Pagan Publishing has released a series of supplements in a similar vein, by the name Delta Green, that is set in the 1990s ( although later supplements add support for playing closer to the present day ).
The third book continues along a similar vein, condemning cosmetics on the grounds that it is our souls, not our bodies, that we should seek to beautify.
Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.
In 1997, Tom Vanderbilt wrote in a similar vein in The Baffler magazine:
In a similar vein, CBS-backed iWon. com gave away $ 10 million to a lucky contestant on an April 15, 2000 half-hour primetime special that was broadcast on CBS.
In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".
* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.
Another example of Gothic parody in a similar vein is The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett ( 1813 ).
In a similar vein, a " hack " may refer to a math hack, that is, a clever solution to a mathematical problem.
Finnish born nationalist and linguist Kaarle Akseli Gottlund ( 1796 – 1875 ) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to The Iliad, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland.
In a similar vein, there are many similar unique innovations in Germanic, Baltic and Slavic that are far more likely to be areal features than traceable to a common proto-language.
" In a similar vein, C. L ' Estrange Ewen, a specialist in the witch trials, referred to them in 1938 as simple " fancies " that were nothing but " vapid balderdash.
An ancestor to the easy listening format is Beautiful Music, a now-rare format ( though XM features one channel of it, called Sunny ) focusing mostly on smooth jazz or classical arrangements of pop music and original compositions in a similar vein.
In 1970, the act evolved into the Pink Fairies, which carried on in a similar vein.
In a similar vein, all prime numbers bigger than 5, written in the usual decimal system, end in 1, 3, 7, or 9, since even numbers are multiples of 2 and numbers ending in 0 or 5 are multiples of 5.
" Purple Party " is also used as an academic hypothetical of an undefined party, as a centralist party in the United States ( because purple is created from mixing the main parties ' colours of red and blue ) and as a highly idealistic " peace and love " party -- in a similar vein to a Green Party, perhaps.
In a similar vein, some real-life organizations recognize that technical people may be very valuable for their skills but poor managers, and so provide parallel career paths allowing a good technical person to acquire pay and status reserved for management in most organizations.
Curry & Chips set out to satirize racist attitudes in Britain in a similar vein to Speight's earlier creation, the hugely successful Till Death Us Do Part, with Milligan ' blacking up ' to play Kevin O ' Grady, a half-Pakistani / half-Irish factory worker.
In a similar vein, Colts defensive end Bubba Smith would later refuse to wear his Super Bowl V ring because of the " sloppy " play.
In a similar vein, Kofi Annan, at the time United Nations Secretary-General, stated that it is " time to set aside debates on so-called ' state terrorism '.
In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.
Foreign Affairs ( 1977 ) was musically in a similar vein to Small Change, but showed further artistic refinement and exploration into jazz and blues styles.

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For the low-temperature measurements the sample was cooled by a cold nitrogen gas flow method similar to that of Andrew and Eades.
A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.
The hypothesis that Japanese might be related to Korean has had some supporters due to some apparent overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller.
In this regard he followed his hero Andrew Jackson, who had vetoed the Maysville Road Bill in 1830 on similar grounds.
Seymour proposed a Reconstruction policy to emphasize peaceful reconciliation with the South, similar to that advocated by Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.
Ethnographers collected fairy tales over the world, finding similar tales in Africa, the Americas, and Australia ; Andrew Lang was able to draw on not only the written tales of Europe and Asia, but those collected by ethnographers, to fill his " coloured " fairy books series.
In 2009, Defence of the Realm, the authorised history of MI5 by Christopher Andrew, held that while MI5 kept a file on Wilson from 1945, when he became an MP – because communist civil servants claimed that he had similar political sympathies – there was no bugging of his home or office, and no conspiracy against him.
According to historian Eric Foner, Andrew Johnson's conservative view of Reconstruction did not include blacks or former slaves involvement in government and he refused to heed Northern concerns when southern state legislatures implemented Black Codes that lowered the status of the freedmen similar to slavery.
Andrew Devine, aged 22 at the time of the disaster, suffered similar injuries to Tony Bland and was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, but in March 1997 – a month before the eighth anniversary of the disaster – it was reported he had emerged from the condition and was able to communicate using a touch-sensitive pad.
Thus Andrew Lloyd Webber created two popular musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which filled traditional biblical stories with modern-day sensibilities ; and on a similar note, Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story shows a field of maize-corn in a Nazareth farming scene.
Supporters of the mixed economy, including R. H. Tawney, Anthony Crosland and Andrew Shonfield were mostly associated with the British Labour Party, although similar views were expressed by Conservatives including Harold Macmillan.
In A Man on the Moon, published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968, similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.
The show received less critical acclaim than the similar BBC family sitcom 2point4 children, also written by Andrew Marshall.
The rsync utility uses an algorithm invented by the Australian computer programmer Andrew Tridgell for efficiently transmitting a structure ( such as a file ) across a communications link when the receiving computer already has a similar, but not identical, version of the same structure.
Andrew and Jonathan then flee to Mexico to avoid a similar fate.
* Hunter, a novel with similar themes also written by Pierce under the nom de plume " Andrew Macdonald ".
This type of constitutional controversy is similar to one that occurred under President Andrew Johnson with the Tenure of Office Act ( 1867 ).
Arriving in London on 21 September, he therefore spent some time at the Australian High Commission composing his own letter to his Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, in a similar vein to the Ashmead-Bartlett letter, and particularly critical of the British general and administrative staff:
The supporters were: dexter a unicorn of Scotland imperially crowned, supporting a tilting lance flying a banner Azure a saltire Argent ( Cross of Saint Andrew ) and sinister the crowned lion of England supporting a similar lance flying a banner Argent a cross Gules ( Cross of Saint George ).
Visual comparison of Floyd with Hurricane Andrew while at similar positions and nearly identical intensities
The documentary ends with Andrew Verdecchio implying a similar rejection of belief in God, and Kerr, after rejoining the band, explained on the Five Iron Frenzy site that he remains an atheist.
In reaching this decision, it also expressly found the Tenure of Office Act, which had imposed a similar requirement on other Presidential appointees and played a key role in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, to have been invalid ; it had been repealed by Congress some years before this decision.
This is a role similar to that for which he was believed to be a candidate at his former employers the Rugby Football Union ( Rob Andrew was eventually appointed to the position ).
Cruce himself escaped impeachment in the Oklahoma House of Representatives by a single vote, similar to U. S. President Andrew Johnson.

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