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Men and trees
Sharkey has taken complete control of the Shire using corrupt Men, and begins felling trees in a gratuitous program of industrialization ( which actually produces nothing except destruction and misery for the locals ).
However, in A Lion Among Men, the family trees confirm that Frex is indeed Nessie's father.
Men were stretched out everywhere beneath the trees.
Men earned a living by cutting down the trees and selling the logs for firewood and timber to build houses and boats.

Men and houses
Distributist ideas were put into practice by The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, a group of artists and craftsmen who established a community in Ditchling, Sussex, England, in 1920, with the motto ' Men rich in virtue studying beautifulness living in peace in their houses '.
Men did most of the fishing and hunting, and constructed the houses, canoes, and tools.
During this discussion, Huor prophesied to Turgon that out of Gondolin the hope of Elves and Men would come, and that from both their houses a new star would arise, a reference to Eärendil the Mariner.
The newly created Dreier Building houses the offices of Admissions, Alumni, Campus Reconstruction, Development, the Dean of Faculty, the Dean of Women and Men, the Enrollment Center, the Executive Vice-President, Legal Counsel, Human Resources, and six classrooms.
In Middle-earth, Taliska, when first devised, was the language spoken by Men of the houses of Bëor and Hador.
Today, little remains of its original architecture, there were some old houses, the museum and the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, built by the slaves in 1820 and attended the season for them.
Men divide their time among several different houses, built at various times for themselves and for their wives.
Men built the houses and canoes and carved a wide range of wooden objects for domestic use, such as stools, paddles, winnowing trays, cooking utensils, and combs.
Men and women commonly reside in separate houses made of mud or cement-men occupying round houses and women in rectangular ones.
Men often wore borrowed suits and chose to pose with luxury items, such as cars and houses, that they did not actually own.
In 1998, Let's Go Bowling was the opening act for both The Reverend Horton Heat and for the reunion tour of Men at Work, playing to packed houses all around the U. S. In August 1998, Lincoln Barr left the band to pursue other efforts closer to home.
The houses are Allen-a-Dale or AD ( Red ), Robin Hood RH ( Green ), Friar Tuck FT ( Blue ) and Little John LJ ( Yellow ), named after Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
: The Pinakothek houses works of artists like John Baldessari ( Man running / Men carrying box, 1988-1990 ), Bruce Nauman ( World Peace ( projected ), 1996 ), Pipilotti Rist ( Himalaya Goldsteins Stube, 1998 / 1999 ), Hiroshi Sugimoto ( World Trade Center, Minoru Yamazaki, 1997 ), Bill Viola ( Tiny Death, 1993 ), Sam Taylor-Wood ( Soliloquy III, 1998 ) and Jeff Wall with his back-lit boxes ( Eviction Struggle, 1988 ; A villager from Aricaköyu arriving in Mahmutbey, Istanbul September 1997 ).

Men and so
Men continuously at the head of growing enterprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, complicated and trying type so that at maturation they have developed the competence and willingness to accept the personal responsibility so sorely needed now.
Men were slaughtered every day, tumbled into eternity like so many torn parcels flung down a portable chute.
Then the runes are shaved off and the shavings are mixed with mead and sent abroad so that Æsir have some, Elves have some, Vanir have some, and Men have some, these being beech runes and birth runes, ale runes, and magic runes.
Men so honoured – they wore the feathers sticking out of their hair – were known as men of ugaba ( trouble )-the implication being that if trouble arose, these men would reinstate peace and order.
Men have sex with other males so long as they are the penetrators and their partners are boys, or in some cases effeminate men.
* Scott, Grant F. "' The Many Men so Beautiful ': Gustave Doré's Illustrations to ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,'" Romanticism 16. 1 ( 2010 ): 1-24.
He relates that since Captain Robert Gray of Tiverton, Rhode Island sailed the Columbia River in 1792, the trade of the Northwest coast had been almost entirely in the hands of Boston merchants, so much so that the natives called all traders " Boston Men.
The author imagined that because of the " quick satiety with good " of Men, " the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless ... even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion ; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going round doing damage ".
Local tribes, descendants of the from the same ancient stock as the Haladin and the Dunlendings ( so are distant kin of the Dúnedain ), swore allegiance to Isildur on the Stone, but proved treacherous and were cursed by him, remaining as wraiths after their deaths and becoming known as the Dead Men of Dunharrow.
Final changes in the geography were caused by the intensification of the scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields: the distance between Osgiliath and Minas Tirith was reduced by four times ; the northern regions became guarded by " Tol Varad ( the Defended Isle )", later renamed Men Falros " place of foam-spray " and then Cair Andros ;< ref > the inhabitants of the newly introduced Drúadan Forest enabled the Rohirrim to pass freely to Minas Tirith ; and the hills of Emyn Arnen ( originally Haramon " southern hill ") justified creating a bend in Anduin so that the revelation of Aragorn and his reinforcements occurred closer to the battlefield, at the quays of Harlond ( at first Lonnath-ernin " Arnen-havens ").
They have much interaction with the Children, including the Númenóreans ( appearing later: Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings ; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate of all the later histories, is wrapped up tightly with " the Sea ".
After the destruction of Númenor, the Undying Lands were removed from Arda so that Men could not reach them and only the Elves could go there by the Straight Road and in ships capable of passing out of the Spheres of the earth.
Meanwhile Sauron was not idle in the east: he created a strong alliance between the various tribes of Easterlings, so that when he returned he was more powerful and had many Men in his service.
In the appendices it states that Éomer fulfilled the oath of Eorl by riding with Elessar to war on the plains of Harad and beyond the sea of Rhûn, so fighting would continue with at least some of the Men who had allied with Sauron in the past.
Harlow Wilcox's middle ad was edited out, and the two advertisements at the beginning and end of the show were replaced by musical numbers, so that the show on AFRS would have two numbers by Billy Mills and the Orchestra, and two by The King's Men.
For example, Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ( film ); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ( 1957 film ); it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists ; Rosie Perez continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks his World Almanac for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend ( film ).
This chapter shows a low opinion of flatterers ; Machiavelli notes that “ Men are so happily absorbed in their own affairs and indulge in such self-deception that it is difficult for them not to fall victim to this plague ; and some efforts to protect oneself from flatterers involve the risk of becoming despised .” Flatterers were seen as a great danger to a prince, because their flattery could cause him to avoid wise counsel in favor of rash action, but avoiding all advice, flattery or otherwise, was equally bad ; a middle road had to be taken.
* In Episode 1 of Season 4 of the TV series Mad Men, Don Draper's date Bethany talks about Andrew Goodman: " The world is so dark right now ".
During these years he and Joshua ( which, as Biff points out, is the original Hebrew version of the Hellenized " Jesus ", and thus in Galilee Jesus was called Joshua Bar Joseph ) travel to the East to seek the Three Wise Men ( a magician, a Buddhist, and a Hindu Yogi ) who attended Joshua's birth so that he may learn how to become the Messiah.
They appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in October 2002 ( the first Australian band to do so since Men at Work in 1983 ) with the words " Rock is Back: Meet the Vines " boldly emblazoned underneath.
During a visitation to the world of Men he disguises himself as various religious figures, including the Pope, in order to more effectively denounce Christmas ; and then impersonates the Editor of the Daily Mail newspaper so as to publish made-up headlines undermining Christmas, such as " Mince Pies cause AIDS.
Though having previously stated that some authoritarian measures would need to be put in effect in order to reorganize the United States government, Windrip goes so far as to outlaw dissent, incarcerate political enemies in concentration camps, create a paramilitary force, called the Minute Men, who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of Windrip and his " corporatist " regime.

Men and on
The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.
Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Dumont and blew it off again, and did the same in a tiny, almost airless room in a tenement in the West Forties.
I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.
Men spit on Him.
Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.
The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."
In 1957, Lerner and Leonard Bernstein, another of Lerner's college classmates, collaborated on " Lonely Men of Harvard ," a tongue-in-cheek salute to their alma mater.
Another Eartha Kitt collaboration, " My Discarded Men ," was choreographed on the episode " Top 14 Perform " of So You Think You Can Dance season 8.
William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.
When Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on War and Society in the Twentieth Century.
Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.
The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".
Devo also confirmed that they would be performing at All Tomorrow's Parties on May 6 and 8, with the May 6th performance featuring the band performing their first album, Q: Are We Not Men?
Much more detailed speculation based on these scant historical details has been interpolated by many of Galois ' biographers ( most notably by Eric Temple Bell in Men of Mathematics ), such as the frequently repeated speculation that the entire incident was stage-managed by the police and royalist factions to eliminate a political enemy.
Carol Clover, in her popular and influential book " Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film " ( Princeton University Press, 1992 ) argues that young male viewers of the Horror Genre ( young males being the primary demographic ) are quite prepared to identify with the female-in-jeopardy, a key component of Horror narrative, and to identify on an unexpectedly profound level.
Men wrote and edited most previous science fiction fanzines, which typically published articles reporting on trips to conventions, and reviews of books and other fanzines.
Nancy Friday's book, Men in Love-Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love over Rage claims that swallowing ejaculate is high on the intimacy scale.
He won directing Emmys for his work on the original 1954 CBS teleplay, Twelve Angry Men.
To incarnate the role ’ s “ intense, tragic face ”, Fellini ’ s first choice had been Humphrey Bogart but after learning of the actor ’ s lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of All the King ’ s Men ( 1949 ).
; Parallel Bars: Men perform on two bars slightly further than a shoulder's width apart and usually 1. 75m high while executing a series of swings, balances, and releases that require great strength and coordination.
The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.
Such Men Are Dangerous was based on the life Alfred Lowenstein, a Belgian captain who either jumped or fell out of his plane in 1928.

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