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They are warriors, hunters and foragers ; Nac Mac Feegle foraging consists of taking anything that is not nailed down ( if it is nailed down, they will prise it loose and take the nails as well ), up to and including quite large cows if enough foragers can be gathered to do the lifting.
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They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
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They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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They and warriors
They had asked for his help, says Dio, but instead he colonized their country, changed their place names and executed their warriors under a pretext of coming to their aid.
They took cover in difficult forested terrain, allowing the warriors time and space to mass without detection.
They believed that permanent wives were inappropriate for warriors, so their marital relations were loose.
They are believed to have been one of several well-armed bands of horse-and camel-borne warriors who sold their vagility to the Meroitic Population for protection ; eventually they intermarried and established themselves among the Meroitic people as a military aristocracy.
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They were long redoutable both as warriors and as armourers, but by the end of the fourteenth century they seem to have come thoroughly under the Tartar rule ; for they fought on the side of Toctamish Khan of Sarai against the great Timur.
They developed a new chariot design that had lighter wheels, with four spokes rather than eight, and that held three rather than two warriors.
They were farmers and warriors, and gradually displaced the earlier pastoral people from their lands.
They issued edicts ordering the foreigners to be protected, but the Kansu warriors ignored it, and fought against Bannermen who tried to force them away from the legations.
They soon meet a party of Kukuana warriors who are about to kill them when Captain Good nervously fidgets with his false teeth, making the Kukuanas recoil in fear.
They show a young nobleman and his retinue wading through the waters and being approached by warriors.
They were soon overcome by mounted Lakota and Cheyenne warriors who counterattacked en masse against Reno's exposed left flank, forcing Reno and his men to take cover in the trees along the river.
" The town contains 128 houses, or lodges, which are generally about sixty feet long and twenty-five feet wide ... They are commodious and quite comfortable ...." The Kaw " are governed by a chief and the influence of the oldest and most distinguished warriors.
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They had embarked on mapping the Missouri River for the United States government and were confronted by Niitsitapi warriors.
They are frequently compared to other jam band " road warriors " such as the Grateful Dead and Phish.
They summoned the leaders from their kingdoms ; and when they had assembled the kings directed them to gather warriors.
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