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The cattle chief collected tribute in livestock, and the land chief collected tribute in produce.
Using rumors collected by Drew Pearson, one Nevada publisher wrote in 1952 that both McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, were homosexuals.
In detail, the work relates how the king of Egypt, presumably Ptolemy II Philadephus, is urged by his chief librarian Demetrios of Phaleron to translate the Hebrew Law into Greek, and so add the knowledge of the Hebrews to the vast collection of books the empire had already collected.
According to UFODOS chief Yaroslav Sochka, the materials were collected from various sources, basically, Hydrometeorological Center of Ukraine Air Force and public ufological organizations.
The L. A. Weekly printed that Dreier had had a romantic relationship with his longtime chief of staff, Brad W. Smith, who at the time collected a $ 156, 600 government salary.
And the king collected his chief men, made ready a feast, and took her as his wife amid great joy and mirth.
As chief naturalist, he collected and preserved various specimens of natural history, many of which he packed and shipped back to the museum.
This bamboo pole was only erected after the tribe chief had collected a certain number of human heads ( Schnitger, 1938, p. 41 ).
The Kings Cross detectives received payments akin to a " rent " from individuals like Bill Bayeh, Stave Hardas and " Fat " George ; the payments totalled thousands of dollars per week, collected by Sergeant Trevor Haken and shared amongst the six detective sergeants and the chief detective (" Chook " Fowler ).
Upon reaching the final day, both the elderly villages and the chief will seek for good foirtune by breaking eggs collected from the village.
In 1893 the chief librarian of Bradford Library held a meeting suggesting that relics, letters and documents relating to the Brontes should be collected and preserved for posterity.
As ES members, Éclair and Lumière report directly to the chief of GOTT, Eclipse, a strict and collected woman whose orders they cannot disobey.
The analytical unit in Washington, supervised by Leon Estabrook, deputy chief of USDA's Bureau of Agricultural Economics, compiled publications based on reports from the USDA's overseas staff, U. S. consuls abroad, and data collected by the Rome-based International Institute of Agriculture.
He controlled all of the mints ( each led by a Procurator ), was in chief of a long list of officials ( more Procurators, rationales, Praepositi ) who collected senatorial taxes, custom duties and some land taxes, was also responsible for the yields of the mines, provided budgets for the civil service and armies and supplied all uniforms.
His demands on the Jews in the way of taxes were enormous ; he had them collected by Joshua ben Hamoshet, a rich Jew, to whom he was under obligations for various services and whom he appointed chief over the Jews.
The chief sources of information for the extent and development of knight-service are the returns ( cartae ) of the barons ( i. e. the tenants-in-chief ) in 1166, informing the king, at his request, of the names of their tenants by knight-service with the number of fees they held, supplemented by the payments for scutage recorded on the pipe rolls, by the later returns printed in the Book of Fees, and by the still later ones collected in Feudal Aids.
Francis O ' Neill was a Chicago police chief who collected the single largest collection of Irish traditional music ever published.
His chief work for many years was in naming the fossils collected during the progress of the Geological Survey, and in supplying the lists that were appended to numerous official memoirs.
The city was of Siculian origin, and its foundation is related by Diodorus, who informs us that in 403 BCE the inhabitants of Herbita ( a Siculian city ), having concluded peace with Dionysius I of Syracuse, their ruler or chief magistrate Archonides determined to quit the city and found a new colony, which he settled partly with citizens of Herbita, and partly with mercenaries and other strangers who collected around him through enmity towards Dionysius.

chief and tribute
Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.
The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.
In late November, Khabarov's people undertook a three-day campaign against the local chief Zhakshur ( Жакшур ) ( whose name is also known in a more Russian version, Zaksor ( Заксор )), collecting a large amount of tribute and announcing that the locals were now subjects of the Russian Czar.
Described by Gamasutra as " a warped, confused tribute to American culture, designed by people who've only experienced the country through books and movies " the quirky humor of the game is one of the chief reasons for its popularity.
The service included the funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church officiated by Archbishop Yurij, Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, and Adrienne Clarkson, by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to one of her predecessors via video, as she and her husband were en route to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed in the Persian Gulf.
He came to view the Ottoman Empire as his chief enemy in the 1470s, and in 1474 he refused to pay tribute.
It may be in reference to its appearance, as it often has a gray cloud, or lock of gray mist upon his head, or in tribute to a legendary Native American chief, Gray Lock.
The latter collection was Germany's chief tribute of sympathy to the Greeks in their struggle against the Turkish yoke, a theme which inspired many poets of the time.
A tribute to his powers as an original thinker by his chief at the Colonial Office, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is printed with a notice of his career which his brother contributed to the Transactions ( 1884 ) of the Devonshire Association.
Tagore was the chief guest on the occasion of birth centenary celebration of Ramakrishna by the Ramakrishna Mission and paid rich tribute to Ramakrishna.
When Alfred Sharpe toured the major posts in the Lake Mweru region including Rhodesia ( Puta post ) and Kaputa, he found that Abdullah bin Suleiman, ( known by locals as Selemani ) a Swahili chief who lived 60 miles from Kalungwishi, had driven out the people there and was demanding salt tribute from other villages.
" According to the saga, Freyr " erected a great temple at Uppsala and made his chief residence there, directing it to all tribute due to him, both lands and chattels.
Each of the tribes within this organization had its own weroance ( chief ), but all paid tribute to Chief Powhatan.
While the chief victims were the inhabitants of the coasts of Sicily, Naples and Spain, all traders of nations which did not pay tribute for immunity or force the Barbary States to leave them alone were liable to be taken at sea.
At this time, the Nga Marama chief Kiwi Tamaki held the pa and used its strategic placement to exact tribute from travellers passing from Northland to the rest of the North Island through the rich isthmus.
" Inhabitants of this type of village are docile and run from the player and when the chief of the village is approached, the game will inform the player that " We may take what we want as tribute!
# Changseu: This is a tribute paid to the chief out of reverence and loyalty.
In 943 they were defeated again when the chief of the local Dalcassian clan joined with Ceallachán, king of Munster and the Limerick Vikings were forced to pay tribute to the clans.
Retired Renault styling chief Patrick le Quément made no secret of his admiration for the R16 — and incorporated a subtle tribute to its " bird-beak " grille in the corporate look he devised for models such as the Laguna, Mégane and Scénic that the company launched in the 1990s.

chief and from
A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The integrity of the office not merely requires that the Secretary General shall be, as the Charter puts it, `` the chief administrative officer of the Organization '', but that neither he nor his staff shall seek or receive instructions from any government or any other authority `` external to the Organization ''.
She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.
The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his 1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that he could take his other car to work.
Finney himself, while opposed to slavery, placed his chief emphasis on evangelism, but from his converts issued much of the leadership of the anti-slavery campaign.
Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
" Yamamoto nurtured Kurosawa's talent, promoting him directly from third assistant director to chief assistant director after a year.
The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.
The valleys of the Debet and Akstafa rivers form the chief routes into Armenia from the north as they pass through the mountains.
An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.
Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton ( arkhi -, chief + tekton, builder ), i. e. chief builder.
Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.
Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
The chief threat seemed to be coming from the northeastern mountaineers.
As a result of this, eight chief deities of the Anunnaki pantheon were supposed to have come together and withdrawn their support from Akkad.
The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred.

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