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  • America has a long historyof deep racial troubles.

    Specter praises pick of first Latina justice 2009

  • In some ways if Islignton council had a historyof pragmatic indifference to "racism" and other PC totems I would let it go but they have a history of maniacal thought control directed at anyone who doesnot agree.

    No Blacks Allowed.....(?) Newmania 2007

  • Even the traditional historyof them being suffocated in their beds in the Tower and buried beneath a stairis filled with contradictions.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • Even the traditional historyof them being suffocated in their beds in the Tower and buried beneath a stairis filled with contradictions.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • Even the traditional historyof them being suffocated in their beds in the Tower and buried beneath a stairis filled with contradictions.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • Having conducted a separate investigation of the Stillaguamish watershed for the purpose of investing in a commercial shellfish tideland, I also founda historyof logging induced sediment wasting; I don't know if Lewis County will suffer a similar fate, but in this case it has left an enduring legacylasting the better part of a century.

    Are WDNR Commissioner Candidates Accountable? 2008

  • Even feminist historians 'labelling of women's remembrances as "hidden" or oppositional (as implied in the term counternarrative) obscures what anthropologist Ruth Behar once described as women's "subjective mapping of experience, the working out of a culture and social system" and, I would add, historyof their own.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • These films have secured Larkin a place in the historyof animated filmmaking and his work has influenced a whole generation of animators.

    Obituary: Canadian Animator Ryan Larkin » Fanboy.com 2007

  • But it was thanks to these valiant armies that the historyof the Convention was transformed into an apotheosis which affected several generations with a religious respect which even to-day is hardly extinct.

    The Psychology of Revolution 1913

  • Giovanni Casanova (1424), G. Freancesco Fara (1591), author of the first (but very innaccurate) historyof Sardinia; Serafino Esquirro, a learned theologian, who had been General of the Servites (1677).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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