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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.
He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

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Although bacteriophages were first described in 1927, it was only in 1959 that Sinshemer working with phage Phi X 174 showed that they could possess single stranded DNA genomes.
The production of electricity in 2009 was 20, 053TWh, which was 11 % of the solar energy the earth receives in one hour ( 174, 000TWh ).
The population was 18, 174 at the 2010 census.
The castle was later rebuilt at a cost of £ 2, 174 between 1307 and 1312 by Edward I and later completed by Edward II, including the great keep.
The population density was 3, 174. 9 per square mile ( 1, 226. 3 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >).
In 2008 it was equal to 174 inhabitants per km < sup > 2 </ sup >, compared to a national figure of about 200.
The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid death rate was 174 per 100, 000 people.
In 2003 a faster method was shown to assemble the 5386-base genome of the bacteriophage Phi X 174 in 2 weeks.
This was later expanded to 1, 174 theaters and the film grossed a total of $ 92. 8 million in North America, well above its $ 16 million budget.
He was also able to increase the faculty from 112 to 174, most of whom he selected himself on the basis of their records as outstanding teachers.
* The world ’ s technological capacity to receive information through one-way broadcast networks was 0. 432 zettabytes of ( optimally compressed ) information in 1986, 0. 715 in 1993, 1. 2 in 2000, and 1. 9 ( optimally compressed ) zettabytes in 2007 ( this is the informational equivalent to every person on earth receiving 174 newspapers per day ).
In Edinburgh, Scotland, eight 47, XYY boys born 1967 – 1972 and identified in a newborn screening program had an average height of 188. 1 cm ( 6 ' 2 ") at age 18 — their father's average height was 174. 1 cm ( 5 ' 8½ "), their mother's average height was 162. 8 cm ( 5 ' 4 ").
In one case LSD was administered to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days.
Pope Saint Soter ( died 174 ) was the Bishop of Rome during the latter half of the 2nd Century with his pontificate, according to the Annuario Pontificio, beginning between 162 and 168 then ending between 170 and 177.
Year 174 ( CLXXIV ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.
The population density was 174 people per square mile ( 67 / km² ).
Pope Saint Eleuterus, or Eleutherius, ( Greek: Ελευθέριος ) was Bishop of Rome from about 174 to 189 ( the Vatican cites 171 or 177 to 185 or 193 ).
His contemporary Hegesippus wrote that he was a deacon of the Roman Church under Pope Anicetus ( c. 154 – 164 ), and remained so under Pope Soter, whom he succeeded in about 174.
Year 174 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
William Thomas Cosgrave, W. T., or Liam as he was generally known, was born at 174 James's Street, Dublin in 1880.

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The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.
It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.
Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.
According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.
According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.
Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.
An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.
The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.
From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.
The Hittites smelted rather brittle iron from the 15th century BC and the new metal was introduced in Greece.
During the 20th century BC the Indo-European Hittites entered the region and gradually established a great empire which was destroyed by invaders in the 12th century.
The Kingdom of Pontus was independent from the 3rd century BC, until the middle of the 1st century BC.
The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).
Originating from Nesa, they conquered Hattusa in the 18th century BC, imposing themselves over Hattian and Hurrian speaking populations ( Hurrian was a Language Isolate and Hattian a Northwest Caucasian language ).
Beginning with the Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Ionian Greeks, usurping the related but earlier Mycenaean Greeks.
Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.
By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.
April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.
It became the fourth month of the calendar year ( the year when twelve months are displayed in order ) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC, when it also was given 29 days.
This month was originally named Sextilis in Latin, because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar under Romulus in 753 BC, when March was the first month of the year.

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