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Their duty is to administer their own provinces, collect taxes, send annual tributes to the capital, and manage the defenses of their borders.

Their language, customs, traditions, religion, social system, costumes, music, and other features are factors that make Lanao peculiar and distinct from other Philippine provinces.

Their grave, ascetic manners and pleasing and persuasive eloquence secured many followers in Constantinople, and also in Thrace, Bithynia, and the Hellespontine provinces.

Their forces capture the city of Jalalabad, together with important areas in Nangarhar and Laghman provinces.

Their motto was " Take one province by force, and inspire the other provinces to rise up ".

Their allies, the Austrians, were also clamouring for a naval presence in the Mediterranean to assist them in achieving their own primary ambitions – the capture of Spain's provinces in Italy.

Their precise route has been difficult for historians to determine, but they apparently traveled across present-day Texas, perhaps into New Mexico and Arizona, and through Mexico's northern provinces.

Their true realm was the Anjou fiefdoms across France: they held uncontestably the provinces of Provence and Anjou, and also at times Bar, Maine, Touraine and Valois.

Their eastern limits are in eastern Quebec and the Atlantic Maritime provinces, and their western limits are the southern Yukon and Mackenzie valleys.

Their main motivation was to prevent the separation of the two provinces.

At 2: 00 a. m. on March 20, 1990 Stephen Blumberg was arrested for stealing more than 23, 600 rare, valuable and assorted other books from 268 or more universities and museums in 45 states, 2 Canadian provinces along with Washington, D. C. Their value was placed at about $ 20 million, but was later changed to $ 5. 3 million, the largest book theft in US history.

Their Lordships do not conceive it to be the duty of this Board — it is certainly not their desire — to cut down the provisions of the Act by a narrow and technical construction, but rather to give it a large and liberal interpretation so that the Dominion to a great extent, but within certain fixed limits, may be mistress in her own house, as the provinces to a great extent, but within certain fixed limits, are mistresses in theirs.

Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

Their biggest hit was a cover of the country song, " Jackson ".

Their temperature control mechanism relies on action by the bird, which uses its wings to cover the naked skin of the upper legs and flanks to conserve heat, or leaves these areas bare to release heat.

Their primary function was to act as skirmishers – javelin-throwers who would engage the enemy early in order either to harass them or to cover the movement of troops behind them.

Their second album Go 2, released later in 1978, featured a typewriter-text cover ( designed by Hipgnosis ) and early pressings were accompanied by a bonus disc Go +, a collection of dub mixes of songs from the album.

Their best known songs to date are " Brain Collapses ", " Unveiling the Secret ", " Eternal ", " Misery ", " Tears ", " Sanctuary ", " Gods and Monsters ", " 15 Minutes ", and a remake of the famous Q Lazzarus song " Goodbye Horses " made popular by the movie The Silence of the Lambs ; as well as their cover version of Soft Cell's " Sex Dwarf ".

Their work was immediately influential to album cover art, and indeed all of the aforementioned artists also created album covers.

Their venomous spines are on both dorsal fins, the pectoral fins, pelvic fins, anal fins, and several on the gill cover.

Their next LP was Bark, which was issued in September 1971 with cover art depicting a dead fish wrapped in an A & P-style grocery bag.

Their name is likely a portmanteau of space and the slang term for testicles, as the Spaceballs cover their nether regions with their hands ( as if Dark Helmet was threatening any one of them ) repeatedly during the film.

* Viking metal band Falkenbach used Heine's painting of " Wodan's Wild Hunt " as the cover of their 1996 album, ... En Their Medh Riki Fara ....

* The album cover image is a parody of The Rolling Stones album " Their Satanic Majesties Request "

Their 1999 album produced the lead-off single, which was a cover of the N ' SYNC pop hit called " God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You " which provided harmony vocals by N ' SYNC.

Their debut album, Deep Sea Skiving ( UK No. 7, US No. 63 ) ( 1983 ) contained several hit singles — " He Was Really Sayin ' Somethin '" ( UK No. 5 ) and " Shy Boy " ( UK No. 4 ) — and included a cover version of " Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye " ( UK No. 5 ).

Their attack was a catastrophic failure — they were first decimated by Imperial artillery and infantry fire and then ridden over by Imperial cavalry charging from behind the cover of their own infantry.

Their B Sides & Rarities compilation includes cover songs from favorite artists, ranging from metal, hard rock ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) and post-hardcore ( Helmet and Jawbox ), to gothic rock, art rock and new wave ( Duran Duran, Cocteau Twins and The Cure ), R & B ( Sade Adu ) and hip hop ( a collaboration with B-Real of Cypress Hill ).

Their collections cover much of the region's geologic, Indian, and pioneer history.

Their 1977 textbook Principles of Compiler Design had a green dragon on the front cover and became known as " the green dragon book.

Their first hit was a cover version of Eddie Cochran's " Summertime Blues " from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum ( 1968 ).

Their last Rascals album was Search and Nearness (# 198 U. S .), which featured Brigati's lead vocals on the Cornish-penned " You Don't Know " and a cover of The Box Tops ' hit " The Letter ", and drummer Danelli's composition " Fortunes ".

Their second single was a cover of Hotlegs ' " Neanderthal Man " backed by another Idle Race original number " Victim Of Circumstance ".

Their cover of Otis Redding's " Hard to Handle " and their acoustic ballad " She Talks to Angels " both achieved top 30 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991.

Their live performances featured many cover versions: among those, a medley consisting of " Sister Ray " ( by Velvet Underground ), " Ghostrider " ( by Suicide ) and " Louie Louie " ( by Richard Berry ) became a live staple.

Their world turned black.

Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world, an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies.

Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

Their first step into the design world was a series of advertisements featuring work from currently popular designers.

Their standard of living is reflected in the country's " very high " Human Development Index, and Cyprus is ranked 23rd in the world in terms of the Quality-of-life Index.

Their moral doctrine was based on the belief that the material world including the flesh was intrinsically evil as stemming from the evil principle or god.

Their still predominantly-African descendants spread to populate the world.

Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world.

Their decision was rendered moot, though, as by the time they reached Genosha reality altered around the heroes-changing into the world ruled by the " House of M ".

Their group behaviour in hunting is exceptional in the reptile world.

Their following studio album Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

Their spring 1984 announcement generated excitement in the PDP-10 world.

Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.

Their influence leading to the French revolution has been enormous in the development of modern democracy throughout the world.

Their apparent duality is conditioned by the structure of our consciousness, which separates perception and thinking, but these two faculties give us two complementary views of the same world ; neither has primacy and the two together are necessary and sufficient to arrive at a complete understanding of the world.

Their new plan: having developed nuclear weapons and new V-3 rockets to carry them, they plan to get a stranglehold on the world with the threat of Armageddon.

Their representatives said that existing socialist countries were revisionist, and claimed to be the vanguard of the world communist movement.

Their efforts were directed to the investigation of the ultimate basis and essential nature of the external world.

Their conclusion is that such a determination involves value judgements, and will vary among different regions of the world.

Their theory is that an international regulatory body is needed to protect environmental integrity and the global commons on the two-thirds of the world ’ s surface that is outside national jurisdictions.

Their importance for trade with the Slavic world however was limited to the coastal regions and their hinterlands.

Their region lay on the periphery of the Greek world and was far from peaceful ; for many centuries, it remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples to the north.