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  • But then one day some Belgian guy called Wies turned up in the office and learnt proper hardcore Icelandic in about a week and all of a sudden everybody lost interest in me.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • "The city approached the task with dignity, care and respect, and as a result, thousands of human remains and personal items were located," Peter Wies, deputy chief of the New York City Law Department's World Trade Center unit, told Bloomberg News.

    9/11 Families 'Shocked' After Supreme Court Rejects Burial Appeal Clay Chiles 2010

  • "The city approached the task with dignity, care and respect, and as a result, thousands of human remains and personal items were located," Peter Wies, deputy chief of the New York City Law Department's World Trade Center unit, told Bloomberg News.

    9/11 Families 'Shocked' After Supreme Court Rejects Burial Appeal Clay Chiles 2010

  • "The city approached the task with dignity, care and respect, and as a result, thousands of human remains and personal items were located," Peter Wies, deputy chief of the New York City Law Department's World Trade Center unit, told Bloomberg News.

    9/11 Families 'Shocked' After Supreme Court Rejects Burial Appeal Clay Chiles 2010

  • "The city approached the task with dignity, care and respect, and as a result, thousands of human remains and personal items were located," Peter Wies, deputy chief of the New York City Law Department's World Trade Center unit, told Bloomberg News.

    9/11 Families 'Shocked' After Supreme Court Rejects Burial Appeal Clay Chiles 2010

  • A letter in 1804 reports that Goethe rejected the difference between the romantic and the classic because “everything excellent is eo ipso classic” (Letter by Heinrich Voss, Jr., to L.R. Abeken, 26 January 1804, in Goethe's Gespräche, ed. von Biedermann, Wies - baden [1949], p. 163).

    CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Ordinarily there were two such prefects; but from A.D. 51 to 62, one distinguished general -- Burrus Aframus, who had been Nero's tutor -- held that office; and as our historian speaks of "the captain," as if there were but one, it is thought that this fixes the apostle's arrival at Rome to be not later than the year 62 [Wies].

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • -- His deliverance must have been during the fourth watch (three to six A.M.); else he must have been missed by the keepers at the change of the watch [Wies].

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Whether Paul's broken health had anything to do with this arrangement for having "the beloved physician" with him [Wies], can never be known with certainty; but that he would deem himself honored in taking care of so precious a life, there can be no doubt.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Jordan Wies, 19, who lives near the San Onofre plant, says he didn't think much about it before the events in Japan, but now he wants to know more about its operations.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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