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a `` Double-Figure '', which went to the Chicago Art Institute, and is considered by him the most successful of his abstracts ; ;
nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.
For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.
In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.
For example, even the most successful executive lives in a two-room apartment while ordinary people rent space in the stairwells of office buildings in which to sleep at night ; ;
That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.
A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.
My heart was not in it, but, oddly enough, it remains the most financially successful picture of my career.
Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.
The Thrift Shop, with Mrs. Bernhard S. Blumenthal as president, is one of the city's most successful fund-raisers for the Federation of Jewish Agencies.
Highly successful in England before its transfer to New York, most of `` Roots '' is as relentlessly dour as the trappings of the small new theater are gaudy.
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.
Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.
The most successful of these patent anchors, the Trotman Anchor, introduced a pivot where the arms join the shank, allowing the " idle " arm to fold against the shank.
The experimental community was never successful, partly because most of the land was not arable.
In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.
From an artistic point of view, he was most successful in portrait-statues and groups of children, where he was obliged to follow nature most closely.
Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.
Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.
Future suicide hijackers most likely will encounter greater resistance from passengers and flight crews, making another successful hijacking more unlikely.
The most successful Zeppelin was the Graf Zeppelin.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

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Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.
Under early English rule Jamaica became a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan.
: I have been so constantly under the necessity of watching the movements of the most unprincipled set of pirates I have ever known, that all my time has been occupied in defense, in putting evidence into something like legal shape that I am the inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph !!
The governors appointed by the Proprietors usually made a show of suppressing the pirates, but most were often accused of dealing with the pirates.
When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, it seemed at first that most of the pirates in Nassau would accept.
Rogers ' arrival in Nassau was welcomed by the remaining population, about 200 settlers and 500 to 700 pirates who want to receive pardons, most prominently Benjamin Hornigold.
The most widely known and far reaching pirates in medieval Europe were the Vikings, warriors and looters from Scandinavia who raided mainly between the 8th and 12th centuries, during the Viking Age in the Early Middle Ages.
In the Late Middle Ages, the Frisian pirates led by respectively Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijerd Jelckama, fought against the troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Empire with some success, capturing as many as 28 ships in one battle earning Donia the title " Cross of the Dutchman " and making him one of the most famous and iconic pirates of the era.
The period during which pirates were most successful was from 1700 until the 1730s.
Among the most famous Caribbean pirates are Edward Teach or Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham, Henry Morgan and Bartholomew Roberts.
On average, a pirate could expect the equivalent of a year's wages as his share from each ship captured while the crew of the most successful pirates would often each receive a share valued at around £ 1, 000 ($ 1. 17 million ) at least once in their career.
Buccaneers ' reputation as cruel pirates grew until most victims would surrender, hoping they would not be killed.
The Cretan War begins between Philips ' Macedonians, the Aetolian League, several Cretan cities ( of which Olous and Hierapytna are the most important ) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later Attalus I of Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Athens and Knossos.
Like most Cycladic settlements, it was built inland on a readily defensible hill as protection against pirates
The most notorious of these happened in June 1517, when Medemblik was attacked from mainland Frisia by about 4000 pirates known as the Arumer Zwarte Hoop, led by Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijard Jelckama.
Barrie's play and novel, most of the adventures in the stories take place in the Neverwood, where the Lost Boys hunt and fight the pirates and redskins, and build the Wendy house.
The distinguishing feature is that these on-line pirates will usually not pay music copyright fees, like most of their AM / FM pirate cousins.
* Unlicensed operation — Particularly associated with amateur radio and licensed personal communication services such as GMRS, this refers to use of radio equipment on a section of spectrum for which the equipment is designed but on which the user is not licensed to operate ( most such operators are informally known as " bubble pack pirates " from the sealed plastic retail packaging common to such walkie-talkies ).
Although willing to change sides at any time in the interests of his own survival, Silver has compensating virtues: he is wise enough to pay attention to money management, in contrast to the spendthrift ways of most pirates, and is physically courageous despite his disability ; for instance, when Flint's cache is found to be empty, he coolly stands his ground against five grown men despite having only Hawkins to back him.
While the Overboard crew carries cutlasses and makes raids, most often their treasure is stolen by disgruntled shipmates or by more able pirates.
Despite its prominence in popular culture, plain black flags were often employed by most pirates in the 17th-18th century.

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