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For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.
The fun of toasting their own sausages over the small Oriental charcoal burners and dipping them in tasty sauces will keep your group busy -- try it and see!!
One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.
The religion, in fact, is an expression of the unity of the group, small or large.
This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.
For if the small group notion involves the implicit claim that the phenomena of sociological investigations are of atomic or subatomic proportions, the philosopher needs to know the extent to which such entities are valid.
The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.
In the small group will be the junior and senior Mrs. Walter Monroe ; ;
There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.
Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.
* Subclass Lepospondyli † ( small Paleozoic group, sometimes included in the Labyrinthodontia, which may actually be more closely related to amniotes than Lissamphibia )
A matai can represent a small family group or a great extended family that reaches across islands, and to both American Samoa and independent Samoa.
During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.
Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.
The actinophryids are small, familiar group of heliozoan protists.
Alongside these liberal and left-wing efforts, a small group of conservative institutions were born in Ann Arbor.
At family or small social gatherings, one mate may be shared by the group, with the host preparing the mate to the preference of each guest.
The Aegadian Islands ( Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, ;,, meaning the islands of goats ), are a group of small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the city of Trapani, with a total area of.
* Affinity group, small protest or activist groups of 10-30 people
Shortly thereafter, they set off with a small group of followers for Europe.
Saron, in Davis Street, Aberaman, was used for regular services by a small group of members until 2011.
A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.

small and mercenaries
In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.
Denis Sinor suggests if Balamber existed, he may have been a chief of a small faction of Huns, since Vithimiris utilized Hun mercenaries against him, which suggests a lack of unity among the Huns.
Next Marvin performed in the hit Western The Professionals ( 1966 ), in which he played the leader of a small band of skilled mercenaries ( Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode ) rescuing a kidnap victim ( Claudia Cardinale ) shortly after the Mexican Revolution.
Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward.
The 1986 comedy Three Amigos directly parodies many aspects of The Magnificent Seven, from the hiring of a team of Americans to defend a small Mexican village, to the training of the villagers by the mercenaries, to the megalomaniacal over-the-top character of the Mexican gang leader.
During the 14th-13th century BC, the Sards or Shardana, working as mercenaries for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, utilized either large or small round shields against the Hittites.
Until the time of Napoleon, European states employed relatively small armies, made up of both national soldiers and mercenaries.
Ruled by small numbers of closely allied élites, Scythians had a reputation for their archers, and many gained employment as mercenaries.
In addition, small numbers of Eastern European mercenaries have also turned up supporting the Gaddafi regime.
At the UN, the Maldives has highlighted the vulnerability of small states to various threats including terrorism, activities of mercenaries and transnational organized crime.
Timoleon, being named by an unknown voice in the popular assembly, was chosen by a unanimous vote to undertake the mission, and set sail for Sicily with a few of the leading citizens of Corinth and a small troop of Greek mercenaries.
Henry's better trained troops were his own gathered from Silesian Piast duchies, mercenaries and very small contingents of French Knights Templar and Hospitallers.
Soon after the Battle of Mohács, leader of Serbian mercenaries in Hungary, Jovan Nenad established his rule in Bačka, northern Banat and a small part of Srem ( These three regions are now parts of Vojvodina ).
According to Xavier Renou, author of a book on private military contractors, Denard foreshadowed the transition between traditional mercenaries to contemporary private military contractors, creating a small army during his stay in the Comoros in the 1980s.
Their month-long siege however, was ineffective, as a small force consisting of monks from the Jasna Gora monastery led by their Prior and supported by local volunteers, mostly from the szlachta ( Polish nobility ), fought off the numerically superior Germans mercenaries, saved their sacred icon, the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and, according to some accounts, turned the course of the war.
Although relatively ill-armed ( most were armed with farm equipment, such as scythes and pitchforks ) they flocked to Hunyadi and his small corps of seasoned mercenaries and cavalry.
The modern necktie taken up, then spread by, Western Europe traces back to the time of Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) when Croatian mercenaries from the Croatian Military Frontier in French service, wearing their traditional small, knotted neckerchiefs, aroused the interest of the Parisians.
King Stephen of England ( fighting rebel barons in the south ) had sent a small force ( largely mercenaries ), but the English army was mainly local militia and baronial retinues from Yorkshire and the north Midlands.
According to the account by Tschudi, seeing the small strength of the confederate force, the nobles were concerned that if they sent the mercenaries in front, as would have been common practice, they might not see any action at all, as the mercenaries would finish the job on their own.
A few months later in 1603, Polish forces crossed the frontier with a small force of 4, 000 Poles, Lithuanians, Russian exiles, German mercenaries and Cossacks from the Dnieper and the Don, in what marked the beginning of the Polish Commonwealth's intervention in Russia, or the Dymitriad wars.
Most notable of the mercenaries was Swedish Count Carl Gustav von Rosen who led air attacks with five Malmö MFI-9 MiniCOIN small piston-engined aircraft, armed with rocket pods and machine guns.
He had a small personal guard, mostly made of mercenaries, who were rewarded with loot and promotions.
The recruits were ill-armed ( many with only slings and scythes ) but full of enthusiasm, and they flocked to the standard of Hunyadi, the core of which consisted of a small band of seasoned mercenaries and a few banderia of noble horsemen.

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