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They grub staked miners with friend Nick Abelman, bought existing mines, and by the time the partners moved to Goldfield, Nevada and made their Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company a public corporation in 1906, Nixon and Wingfield were worth over $ 30 million
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They and staked
They have staked their claim to a musical territory that lies somewhere west of Charles Mingus and east of Bernard Hermann and made it their own.
They are classed as work lotteries, resident's lotteries or private society lotteries and do not require a licence, provided that all the money staked is paid out as prize money.
They are also resistant although not invulnerable to being staked through the heart ( they have denser sternums ), and can enter human residences undeterred.
They and miners
They met with an almost total lack of success although a tiny handful of " red " unions were formed, amongst them a miners union in Scotland and tailoring union in East London.
They could not stay to mine the gold and the area was overrun by miners by the time they returned the next year.
" They played a crucial role on the picket lines and in presenting the miners ' case to the press and public .< ref >
They were still used in the 19th century in Latin America to punish indigenous miners in many countries for rebelling against their bosses.
They suspended most of the reforms of the previous Manuel Azaña government, provoking an armed miners ' rebellion in Asturias on October 6, and an autonomist rebellion in Catalonia — both rebellions were suppressed ( Asturias rebellion by young General Francisco Franco ), being followed by mass political arrests and trials.
They were not assimilated into resident populations of miners, but instead wandered up to from the release point, moving through apparently suitable habitat occupied by other miners — at least for the first 50 days following translocation.
They were frequently dug by coal miners off official tunnels in order to procure additional, free coal for themselves, a practice that causes additional ramifications when fighting mine fires.
They are either external feeders (" exophagous ") or more usually feed internally (" endophagous "), typically as miners or tunnellers, but some feed on fungi, scavenge on dead animals, are parasitoids usually of other insects ( some Zygaenoidea ) or are detritivores, and Hyposmocoma molluscivora even feeds on live snails.
They frequently trekked through the vastness of the Sierra Nevada to reach lonely miners who otherwise would have had no Christmas celebration.
They commandeered a train and several thousands miners left toward the Victoria Palace, the headquarters of the government.
They will attempt to bribe, speak to, and even torture miners in their quest to reach the surface, where they turn into a deadly liquid form.
They go to watch the end of the play, which is a scene where the miners are bringing a body from out of the mine.
They are popular throughout the north of England, most notably in Newcastle, where it is said they gained a great deal of popularity with the local miners.
They are groups of local outcasts, criminals escaping the law, deserters fleeing their homelands, simple runaways, or even hereditary rovers born to other rovers who live in the wilds of the badlands and prey on local trade caravans, independent miners, and homesteaders.
They became Christianized and learned to speak Spanish fluently, primarily to work as miners in America.
They borrow this, free the secondary mine cage, and the Doctor goes down the shaft with Dave and two other miners.
They and with
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
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.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They bring an inextricable component of value within themselves, with attractions and repulsions native to their own quality.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.
They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
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