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Many of the prisoners had prize-money to come from their own country ; many others made their own in their hammocks at night, even forging Bank of England and local bank notes, which they passed off in the great daily market held in the prison.
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Many specialized FBI functions are located at facilities in Quantico, Virginia, as well as a " data campus " in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where 96 million sets of fingerprints " from across the United States are stored, along with others collected by American authorities from prisoners in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many of these are Unitarian Universalists in other countries, members of the military, prisoners or non-mobile elderly.
Many prisoners, in utter despair at the horrible deaths of their families and unwilling to go on living, committed suicide by hanging themselves in the sleeping barracks with their belts.
Many of the prisoners will serve in the Roman legions and settle in vacant lands in the Danubian provinces.
Many of these prisoners were women and came from a wider range of social backgrounds than the upper-class Calvinists detained under Louis XIV ; historian Monique Cottret argues that the decline of the Bastille's social " mystique " originates from this phase of detentions.
Many prisoners still continued to come from the upper classes, particularly in those cases termed " déordres des familles ", or disorders of the family.
Many prisoners at Norman Cross made artefacts such as toys, model ships and dominoes sets from carved wood or animal bone, and straw marquetry.
Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center.
Many prisoners were taken, of whom Pilate put to death the principal leaders and those who were most influential.
Many groups have expressed outrage at the practice of shipping prisoners across the country into a rural Appalachian community, most notably the Thousand Kites project.
Many European prisoners were slaughtered or sold as slaves ; the minnesinger Michael Beheim wrote a song based on the story of one Hans Mergest who spent 16 years in Ottoman captivity after the battle.
Many magistrates fled ; the remnant, headed by the intrepid Molé, returned to the Palais Royal, where Anne of Austria was induced to release the prisoners.
Many modern prisons offer schooling or job training to prisoners as a chance to learn a vocation and thereby earn a legitimate living when they are returned to society.
Many human rights groups, however, doubted the efficacy of the proposed reforms, saying that the new laws would only help minor criminals and not help political prisoners, and that the reforms would not actually abolish the re-education through labor system.
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Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
Many of them had once been members of a church or at least had been given instruction in Christianity but for one or another reason had allowed the connexion to lapse.
Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.
Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.
Many Athenians prominent earlier in the century would have lost citizenship, had this law applied to them: Cleisthenes, the founder of democracy, had a non-Athenian mother, and the mothers of Cimon and Themistocles were not Greek at all, but Thracian.
Many were in common use, but had become unacceptable in normal discourse before the end of the twentieth century.
Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening.
Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton.
Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.
Many scholars debate over what happened on the threshing floor ; yet it seems unlikely Boaz and Ruth had sexual relations based on the narrative's portrayal of their character ( esp.
Many original members of the future Social Democratic Party had been members of the Manifesto Group within the Labour Party.
Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.
Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.
Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.
Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.
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