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Daisy settled on her mission after meeting Robert Baden-Powell, the renowned former British army general who a few years earlier had founded the Boy Scouts and its off-shoot, the Girl Guides.
Saluting a Centennial Amy Finnerty 2012
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This has had another off-shoot, as well, in that it appears a number of “professional” and “semi-professional” F&SF reviewers tend to concentrate on such works, almost as if assuming that most of what is published by a large publisher is “merely commercial,” and seldom worthy of comment.
July « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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The intelligence community had not seen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemen-based al Qaeda off-shoot, as capable of striking the U.S. homeland.
Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root, problems remain Reuters 2011
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On Christmas Day 2009, a Nigerian man linked to an al Qaeda off-shoot tried unsuccessfully to light explosives sewn into his underwear on a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam.
Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root, problems remain Reuters 2011
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The intelligence community had not seen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemen-based al Qaeda off-shoot, as capable of striking the U.S. homeland.
Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root, problems remain Reuters 2011
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It came to mind for tattoo entrepreneur Franco Kossa, though, when he created the Sideshow Gathering 10 years ago as an off-shoot of his already-successful Inkin' the Valley Tattoo Convention, both running simultaneously at the Woodlands Inn & Resort in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
James Taylor: Sideshow Gathers Its Legacy James Taylor 2011
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Petty thought, probably, but I thought it was an off-shoot of the “Smile!” philosophy.
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I opened by bookstore nearly 33 years ago as an off-shoot to my collecting.
Geek With (Lots of) Books: The First Step is to Admit You Have a Problem 2009
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It came to mind for tattoo entrepreneur Franco Kossa, though, when he created the Sideshow Gathering 10 years ago as an off-shoot of his already-successful Inkin' the Valley Tattoo Convention, both running simultaneously at the Woodlands Inn & Resort in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
James Taylor: Sideshow Gathers Its Legacy James Taylor 2011
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On Christmas Day 2009, a Nigerian man linked to an al Qaeda off-shoot tried unsuccessfully to light explosives sewn into his underwear on a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam.
Post-9/11 U.S. intelligence reforms take root, problems remain Reuters 2011
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