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  • Hillary have all these big high power Generals and grus from the White House to help back up her lies so this is what we are facing.

    Poll shows dead heat in Indiana 2008

  • Jerusalem: 1975; A grus fun der alter heym/Un bonjour du pays natal, bilingual Yiddish-French, edited and introduction by Natalia Krynicka, poems translated into French by Batia Baum.

    Miryam Ulinover. 2009

  • (Introduction to) A grus fun der alter heym/Un bonjour du pays natal.

    Miryam Ulinover. 2009

  • The woodlands constitute important wintering enclaves for thousands of cranes (Grus grus), and also breeding areas for hundreds of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and the endangered black stork (Ciconia nigra).

    Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests 2008

  • Some of the migratory birds of international conservation importance that pass through in sizable numbers include the globally threatened eastern imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca), the black stork (Ciconia nigra) and the crane (Grus grus).

    Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests 2008

  • November 19, 2008 at 3:40 pm dan grus to say wif LCB around:

    Mak it like dis. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The woodlands constitute important wintering enclaves for thousands of cranes (Grus grus), and also breeding areas for hundreds of white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and the endangered black stork (Ciconia nigra).

    Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008

  • A migration flyway used by cranes (Grus grus, Anthropoides virgo) and flamingos (Phoenicopterus spp.) on their way to the Rann of Kutch further south crosses this ecoregion.

    Thar desert 2008

  • Positive intention leads to joyful perseverance (brtson-grus) in obtaining the desired object or attaining the desired goal.

    Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006

  • Every night I stripped to my bikini and ran around the deck singing the ELO song "Don't Bring Me Down-grus!"

    September 29, 2005 2005

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  • "GRUS, the Crane, in astronomy, one of the new constellations in the southern hemisphere; containing, according to Mr. Sharp's catalogue, 13 stars."

    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 172

    October 14, 2008