Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the prehistoric burial-mounds in Russia, found from the Carpathians eastward into Siberia.
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- proper noun
city inSiberia ,Russia , administrative centre of Kurganoblast . Originally called Tsaryovo Gorodishche (Царёво Городище - Tsarjóvo Gorodíšče n.) (1662 - 1782).
Etymologies
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Examples
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So while many online like to be one-minute experts and call the Kurgan Hypothesis "widely accepted", it is in fact the most received only by those who know the least about Proto-Indo-European or what absurd contradictions the Kurgan Hypothesis implies.
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So while many online like to be one-minute experts and call the Kurgan Hypothesis "widely accepted", it is in fact the most received only by those who know the least about Proto-Indo-European or what absurd contradictions the Kurgan Hypothesis implies.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The Kurgan is a little different in that he ultimately knows that what he's doing is wrong in the eyes of the world, but he simply rejects the notion of that sort of judgment.
Comic Book Resources 2009
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I swear, the Kurgan is the funniest psycho I’ve seen since I attended 9th grade at the Menninger Clinic.
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In place of that padded skull-cap with chin-strap, Petr Cech might at least consider adopting a fearsome Highlander style Kurgan skull-helmet, while for all we know, the increasingly effete flower Fernando Torres could be just one left-up toilet seat from hitting the richest vein of scoring of his career.
Premier League stars need to woman down before they man up | Barry Glendenning 2011
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Savage, voiced by Clancy Brown, who played The Kurgan in Highlander, is a curious guy.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Unleashes a New Villain: Savage Opress 2011
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None other than the Kurgan himself provides the voice of arch villain Lex Luthor.
SUPERMAN: The Complete Animated Series DVD Review – Collider.com 2010
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My favorite fantasy movie villain would have to be The Kurgan from Highlander, with Magneto from the X-Men films a very close second.
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Two of the panelists, Adam Greenfield, founder and managing partner of Urbanscale, a New York consulting firm focused on designing user-centered services for cities; and Laura Kurgan, director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University, sounded the alarm about the rush to harvest oceans of data from monitoring the human activities and infrastructure of cities.
Steve Hamm: The (Avoidable) Downside of Big Data Steve Hamm 2011
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As Paul Kurgan then noticed, FERC DID have the authority to regulate what games Enron was playing in the electric markets across the entire West, but absolutely refused to do so.
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