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  • But two weeks before the 1994 season, the Waterloo Diamonds could seal the deal on a stadium lease, and bolted to the conveniently open Lamphier Park, and became known as the Sultans of Springfield.

    Mets Guy in Michigan 2009

  • When Scott and I got married one of the gifts we received was a gift certificate to a restaurant on 17th Avenue called The Sultans Tent.

    Ernest Hemingway Sara 2006

  • When Scott and I got married one of the gifts we received was a gift certificate to a restaurant on 17th Avenue called The Sultans Tent.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Sara 2006

  • At present, with the exception of the Sinaitic peninsula and about 200 miles of the coast south of the Gulf of Akaba which is under Anglo-Egyptian rule, Hijaz, Yemen, Hasa and Irak are Turkish provinces, the other three being ruled by independent Arab rulers, called Sultans, Ameers, or Imams, who to-day as of old are constantly fighting among themselves for control.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • The lineage of Melaka Sultans are Indians, not Malays.

    mental jog 2008

  • It implicitly rejects Byron's depiction of the Lake poets as worshippers of the Sultan's eunuchs, whilst seeking to provide a more stable (and ostensibly native) model of masculine power than that provided by the "Sultans" George IV and Byron himself.

    Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape 2001

  • For the second solo section in "Sultans," Trey stepped aside to let his horn section take the lead, and they nailed pretty much every one of Mark Knopfler's memorable notes and worked the crowd into a frenzy.

    Live Music Blog.com whitperson 2010

  • How a team can find a new home and create a new identity in under two weeks is a mystery to me, and "Sultans" is pretty exotic for a place like Springfield.

    Mets Guy in Michigan 2009

  • Could the tattooed proprietor of La Maison de Bang Bang, Mr Goldsmith's home in Ibiza, be trusted, for instance, to mingle responsibly with guests including the Sultans of Bahrain and Oman?

    Look what you're marrying into, Kate | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Ironically (or intentionally) the Sultans imitated the Roman-Byzantine emperors who held Constantinople before them.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: An Egyptian Gaza? 2009

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