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I hope that some of those people who read these forums will understand that a hurricane such as Isadore or Kenna is more than an inconvenience for vacationers.
Real Photos from Diario de Yucatan re Hurricane Isidoro 2002
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Ethiopian-born Kenna - real name Kenna Zemedkun - recently revealed he came up with the idea to bring awareness to an issue close to his heart.
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This family being evidently possessed of a large estate, and head of a considerable tribe or clan, began to be called Kenna - dies, from the Galic or Celtic word, Kean-na-ty, which signifies head of the house, or chief of the clan; and in that country the word Kennady is called Kennaty to this djy.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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His absence, however, now that they had time to reflect on it, produced unusual alarm, not only on account of M'Kenna's bad character, but from the apprehension of Owen being lost in the mountains.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Mike, perfectly aware of young M'Kenna's character, immediately went towards Lisrum, for so the village where Peggy Gartland lived was called.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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M'Kenna's family consisted of himself, his wife, two daughters, and two sons.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Reillaghan, are still spoken of by the fathers of the neighboring villages, and even by some who were present at the search for his body, it was also doubly remarkable on account of a case of spectral illusion which it produced, and which was ascribed to the effect of M'Kenna's supernatural appearance at the time.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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The assembly, on reaching M'Kenna's, might, therefore, be numbered at thirty, including the females of Reillaghan's immediate family, who had been strung by the energy of despair to a capability of bearing any fatigue, or rather to an utter insensibility of all bodily suffering.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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From M'Kenna's the crowd, at the head of which was Darby
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"Give me, too, a light," said M'Kenna's father; "my son must get fair play, anyway: must be a witness myself to it, an 'will, too."
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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