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  • "at the vernal equinox, the Indians probably discovered their mistake, in giving about 60 years to a degree; that they ought to give 50" to a year, about 72 years to a degree, and about 2160 years to a sign; and that the Luni-Solar cycle, called the Neros, did not require 608 years, but 600 years only, to complete its period.

    The God-Idea of the Ancients 1897

  • Set in a future where fundamentalist Christians are considered terrorists, these books follow the exploits of a group of supernaturally cyber-enhanced resistance fighters using nonlethal weapons in an attempt to protect members of the underground church from the "Neros" or agents of the government seeking to crush the resistance and "re-educate" their members.

    The Lost Genre Guild 2009

  • By the way, they have a coffee house chain called "Neros".

    La Shawn Barber's Corner 2008

  • What do you think our little Neros in Washington fiddle at while Rome burns?

    Obama-Ryan Plan: A Progress Report Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • Urbano Pinot Nero, $60 There aren't many Italian Pinot Neros Pinot Noir of note, but Hofstätter's single-vineyard wine from Alto Adige has always been one.

    Enjoying Good Wines With a Violin Great Lettie Teague 2011

  • January 22nd, 2010 at 2: 26 pm tombaker says: the little Neros make quite the racket with their little fiddles. all the while pointing to a fictional fire and calling it the real threat. strange people.

    Think Progress » After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming. 2010

  • The firefight on the bridge of Neros ship had the same sounds from the firefight when Queen Amidala and security forces took back the thrown room in Phantom Menace.

    22-Minute Behind-the-Scenes Featurette on Creating Avatar’s World | /Film 2010

  • And when he begins to shout now, it is not without the eerie trace of intelligence and humor, the unexpected awareness in his voice of the grade-B movie tyrants he is playing, the Capones and Neros stripped of all but fury.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • And when he begins to shout now, it is not without the eerie trace of intelligence and humor, the unexpected awareness in his voice of the grade-B movie tyrants he is playing, the Capones and Neros stripped of all but fury.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • As our planet continues its dangerous trajectory towards a steady boil, many of our politicians, like latter-day Neros, choose to fiddle around with short sighted politics as our planet burns.

    Gillian Caldwell: Climate debate heads into "Murky" waters 2010

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