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The RNC has organized a four-day fundraising effort around the New Orleans conference titled "Pachyderms on the Pontchartrain," according to a donor invitation obtained by Politico on Wednesday.
Palin tells RNC to remove her name from fundraising invite 2010
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Pachyderms to pronghorns can be handled with a .375 but I would rather have a choice.
If you could only own one caliber rifle for all big game hunting, what would it be? 2009
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Pachyderms to pronghorns can be handled with a .375 but I would rather have a choice.
If you could only own one caliber rifle for all big game hunting, what would it be? 2009
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He was a member of a Yale group called the Pierson Pachyderms, named after Yale's Pierson College.
Peter Sleight, USDA Employee Post 2010
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The Jackasses and Pachyderms along with the Libertarians and Greens are all going along with a de facto open borders mentality.
Are Republicans Trying to slide an AMNESTY bill by the American people? 2007
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On the coast of Florida there is an animal of very massive, clumsy build, long considered to be a Cetacean, but now recognized, by some naturalists at least, as belonging to the order of Pachyderms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Of course, the complete specimens are rare; but the fragments of such skeletons occur in abundance, showing that these old-world Pachyderms, resembling the Tapirs more than any other living representatives of the family, were very numerous in the lower
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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It would seem, then, that the Manatee makes one in this series of Dinotherium, Mastodon, and Elephant, and represents the aquatic Pachyderms, occupying the same relation to the terrestrial
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Carnivora and Ruminants, then with all the smaller Mammalia, then with the Pachyderms; and here, for the first time, he began to find some resemblance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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It would seem that the family of Pachyderms was largely represented among the early Mammalia; for, since Cuvier named these species, a number of closely allied forms have been found in deposits belonging to the same epoch.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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