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They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
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They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.
They went into the sun together and paraded grandly in their war clothes, painting their faces with the sacred attis dug far off in the cave of skeletons.
They dug four large reservoirs in Shandong to regulate water levels, which allowed them to avoid pumping water from local sources and water tables.
They lived on the lowest slopes of the Misty Mountains and lived in holes, or Smials, dug into the hillsides.
They later discovered that the peasants dug up the bones and then smashed them into many pieces, greatly reducing their scientific value, to maximise their payments.
They dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the original Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them.
They are called wetering (" drainage waterway ") and are amalgamations of natural streams gradually channelised from the 18th century onwards and specifically dug canals
They endured a severe winter by living in temporary shelters dug into the south side of the hill on which the Manti Temple now stands.
They believe that the alabaster shell-shaped lamps dug up in Sumerian sites dating 2, 600 BC were imitations of real shell-lamps that were used for a long time.
They are omnivorous, foraging in foliage, on tree trunks and limbs, and on the ground, taking insects and larvae ( often dug out from under the bark of trees ), fruit, and the nestlings of other birds.
They inhabit burrows, typically using either abandoned fox or porcupine burrows, or enlarging those dug by gerbils or other rodents.
In one incident 300 fencers arrived at the roadline near Pungarehu, dug up the road, sowed it in wheat and constructed a fence, with a newspaper reporting: " They looked like an immense swarm of bees or an army of locusts, moving with a steady and uninterrupted movement across the face of the earth.
They were known to use traps, trolling, gillnets, spears, rakes, dip nets, and holes dug in the beach.
They dug roughly so the Messerschmitt company could build an assembly plant to produce the Messerschmitt Me 262 and V-2 rockets.
They concentrated on areas directly in line with the Tower pillars, and in two of the three major pits they dug, found columns of discoloration, about 35 cm in diameter, which appeared to indicate the former presence of substantial wooden posts about 4 metres out from the tower walls, possibly supports for a wooden roof.
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They comprise a great variety of scene and interest: grim episodes of war, idyllic interludes, superb canvases of world-shaking events, and delightfully humorous sketches of odd characters.
They will help provide the skilled manpower necessary to carry out the development projects planned by the host governments, acting at a working level and serving at great personal sacrifice.
They would attempt to bring supplies from St. Louis or Prairie Du Chien at `` great expense as well as danger ''.
They all mean well, have great promises to make when they are about to go home, but drinking is their sickness.
`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.
They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.
They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").
They are known for their alarm signal: when startled or frightened, a swimming beaver will rapidly dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail, audible over great distances above and below water.
They include the Indigenous Australians, the Melanesians ( now divided into Austronesian-speaking populations and Papuans, and including the great genetic diversity of New Guinea ), the Semang people of the Malay peninsula, and indigenous first nation Fijians.
They are of great importance for the light which they throw upon the method of instruction usual of that age, as well as upon the liturgical practises of the period, of which they give the fullest account extant.
They have been described as ' a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature '... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica.
They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).
They require virtuosic runs and great leaps to the highest registers of the instrument, even into the realm of harmonics.
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