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The term originates from the Latin word "antiquus" which means "old" or
Antiquties 2009
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Antique is from the Latin antiquus, meaning "former" or "ancient" so our meaning of the word is consistent with that etymology.
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Michael Drew says: antiquus — yes, of course we should ‘interrogate’ bank robbers or anyone else in perpetuity about matters they may have information about that are either actually committed or potential crimes or crimes in the planning.
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Sarcastro says: antiquus: crude oil is part of the environment.
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It is highly likely that our people all trained using similar data sources (e.g., wikipedia, Prentice-Hall and lexusnexus), so the problem itself is recursive.antiquus(Quote)
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The indult upon which SP is built was for the sake of those attached to the ordo antiquus.
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A few alleged hornbill fossils have been reported from Eocene and Miocene Germany and France (Geiseloceros robustus, Cryptornis antiquus and Homalopus picoides) but Olson (1985) showed that none of them are really hornbills.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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A few alleged hornbill fossils have been reported from Eocene and Miocene Germany and France (Geiseloceros robustus, Cryptornis antiquus and Homalopus picoides) but Olson (1985) showed that none of them are really hornbills.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata.
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That knowledge has come partly from spectacular discoveries like the eighteenth-century village of Ozette, our own mud-encased Pompeii on Washington's Pacific coast, preserving thousands of artifacts made of wood and other perishable material, and Olsen-Chubbuck on the eastern Colorado Plains, where 10,000 years ago Paleoindian hunters stampeded nearly 200 Bison antiquus (the larger but now extinct ancestor of the modern buffalo) into a cramped arroyo and slaughtered them.
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