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Micmacs and have
Still another explanation for the word Micmac suggested by Stansbury Hagar in " Micmac Magic and Medicine " is that the word megumawaach is from megumoowesoo, the name of the Micmacs ' legendary master magicians, from whom the earliest Micmac wizards are said to have received their power.

Micmacs and themselves
" As suggested in this paper on the customs and beliefs of the Micmacs, it would seem that megumaagee the name used by the Micmacs, or the Megumawaach, as they called themselves, for their land, is from the words megwaak, " red ", and magumegek, " on the earth ", or as Rand recorded, " red on the earth ," megakumegek, " red ground ," " red earth.

Micmacs and Red
* c. 985-1014 AD: Norsemen led by Leif Ericson, son of Erik the Red, set up outposts in North America like L ' Anse aux Meadows and encounter Eskimos, Beothuks, and Micmacs.
Norsemen, including Erik the Red and Leif Ericson, set up outposts in North America and encounter Inuit, Beothuks, and Micmacs.

Micmacs and .
In Legends of the Micmacs ( 1894 ), Silas Rand describes a Mi ' kmaq ball game people called tooadijik.
In 2009 he released Micmacs à tire-larigot.
Much of The City of Lost Children is set in a Rube Goldberg-like laboratory, and it's a prominent theme of Micmacs.
* 1498-English explorer John Cabot, making a second voyage to North America ( looking for Northwest Passage to India ), travels the coast of Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and trades furs with Micmacs.

then and must
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.
Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
So be it -- then we must embark on a crash program for 200-megaton bombs of the common or hydrogen variety, and neutron bombs, which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing.
But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.
Then came their bathroom, and then a bedroom that, judging by the photographs on the walls, must belong to Mme Cestre.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.
During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.
If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.
The interior designer, then, must first be an artist but also understand carpentry and painting and lighting and plumbing and finance.
But if no two lines of the regulus of multiple secants of **zg can intersect, then the regulus must be quadratic, or in other words, **zg must be either a Af or a Af curve on a nonsingular quadric surface.
and these costs must somehow be apportioned among the various classes and then must somehow be reapportioned among the units of service in order to report unit costs that can serve as tentative measures of reasonable rates.
Logically, then, the first principle of the plan must be that it is not rigidly oriented toward any geographical area.
All capabilities must be used to maximum advantage then.
To become an orthodontist, a man must first be licensed by his state as a dentist, then he must spend at least two years in additional training to acquire a license as a specialist.
but if we must choose between peace and keeping the Communists out of Berlin, then we must fight.
but if granting self-determination to the Algerian rebels entails sweeping that area into the Sino-Soviet orbit, then Algerian freedom must be postponed.
but if justice for Bantus entails driving the government of the Union of South Africa away from the West, then the Bantus must be prepared to carry their identification cards yet a while longer.

then and have
She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.
They couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.
Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.
This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.
`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
But these prolusions that we have surviving from the Christ's College days are only one phase of his existence then.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.
Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??
It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.
Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies within the community that you have called for in other editorials??
Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.
`` If they are here, then surely I have the right to be here '', Rousseau said.
Yet it could not have been more than a matter of seconds, and then the front of the British army came into view.
`` I'll have a drink, then, if you'll have one with me ''.
They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.
If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

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