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  • Settlers from the East (should I say “wise men from the East?”) settled the land, set up churches and “seminaries,” which evolved into four-year colleges.

    Is this funny? « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Ah, Settlers is a nice game – but as TheKeck, I have played it to death.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Catan coming to XBLA today! 2007

  • Settlers from the Irish petty kingdom of Dál Riata were beginning to establishing themselves in what would later be called Scotland.

    Scotland's Irish Origins 2001

  • Over a German board game called Settlers of Catan, Messrs. Hoffman and Lilly and two other players garnered points by using cards representing bricks and other resources to build cities and roads.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2009

  • Over a German board game called Settlers of Catan, Messrs. Hoffman and Lilly and two other players garnered points by using cards representing bricks and other resources to build cities and roads.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2009

  • The Settlers are the old-fashioned small-c conservatives who “look after number one” and value their security, sameness, tradition etc and are opposed to change and nonconformity.

    The post-Rennard era Alix Mortimer 2009

  • The Settlers were the descendants of those who stayed behind on Earth.

    Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996

  • "The road to Cape Town's airport is called Settlers Way and a small town outside Pretoria is called Settlers."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • They knew of nobody in Holland that corresponded with my description, but the Third Secretary discovered a small village or hamlet called Settlers about sixty miles north of Pretoria, in the Transvaal, in South Africa.

    The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955

  • On the other side of the divide, players not previously wowed by strategy games are unlikely to be converted by this, as The Settlers is a hardcore and at times inaccessible experience to beginners.

    Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon 2009

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