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The rest of the article is spurius at best, wrong at worst and a pretty crap attempt to justify what is really a personal (and completely valid) decision.
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The rest of the article is spurius at best, wrong at worst and a pretty crap attempt to justify what is really a personal and completely valid decision.
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There is only one HENRICUS IRVINGUS, and he's not "_spurius_."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various
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Consolatione_, Opera, tom.i. p. 619 (Lyons, 1663), Cardan writes in reference to the action of the Milanese College of Physicians: "Medicorum collegium, suspitione obortâ, quòd (tam malè à patre tractatus) spurius essem, repellebat."
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Starling, orchard, or orchard oriole (Icterus spurius).
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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For studium they say _estudium_; for spurius, _espurius_; for sceleratus, _esceleratus_, &c.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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Perroquet 17.383 Corvus cristatus Pica glandaria, cærulea, cristata 1.15 Blue jay 5.164 Oriolus Baltimore Icterus ex aureo nigroque varius 1.48 Baltimore bird 5.318 Oriolus spurius Icterus minor 1.49 Bastard Baltimore 5.321 Gracula quiscula Monedula purpurea 1.12 Purple jackdaw.
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He alleges that the very purge of federal prosecutors that is the subject of one investigation occurred as preparation for a second wave of illegality - using the federal prosecutors 'offices to bring spurius voter fraud cases just days before Election Day, thereby manipulating the outcome of close races across the country, whether the are ultimately able to prove that voter fraud occurred or not.
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Show, wherein it was stated that a silver medal was awarded to Mr. BARR for his "_pretty collections, which included the spurius Henry
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various
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