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Now, even the name of the TUC general secretary would be known only by those with a close interest, on a par with the president of the Acupuncturist Association or Leyton Orients goalkeeper.
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients 81 (1997), pp. Chidascheli, Seh.,
Joane Petrizi Iremadze, Tengiz 2006
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And Raj as Raja means "king," and it goes back to the old days of when the Orients first came into India in the middle of the second millennium BC.
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"Can't you ... tell," Pointsman offering Mexico one of his Kypri-nos Orients, which he guards in secret fag fobs sewn inside all his lab coats, "from your map here, which places would be safest to go into, safest from attack?"
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Orients_, for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he, Nicolai, and others, falsely attributed to the Templars.
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_Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des alten Orients_ (1904);
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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F.H. Weissbach, _Das Stadtbild von Babylon_ (1904); F. H.mmel, _Grundriss der Geographie und Geschichte des alten Orients_ (1904).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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A. Jeremias, _Das A.te Testament im Lichte des alten Orients_, p. 278, adopts Marquart's view that the "River" (_nahar_) is the so-called "River"
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Verfassung der Kirchen des Orients (Ratisbon, 1865); KOEHLER, Die katholischen der Kirchen des Morganlandes (Darmstadt, 1906) 'WERNER,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Together with Count Reviczky he founded the "Fundgruben des Orients"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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