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In 1864, Randegger published in Trieste a translation of the book of Joshua, with the title Prima traduzione israelitica italiana del libro di Giosué (First Italian Translation of the Book of Joshua by a Jewish Author).
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NatMags' mid-market monthly title Prima also fell, dropping 7.1% on the period to 268,421, a 6.9% fall year on year.
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Tom Clavin's "That Old Black Magic" concentrates intensely on this period in Prima and Smith's lives, tracking them almost day-by-day from 1954, when they first opened in Vegas, to their divorce in 1961.
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This land he called Prima vista, that is to say, First seene, because as I suppose it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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There is a person we shall refer to as Prima Donna.
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There is a person we shall refer to as Prima Donna.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Romulus himself, and that she bore two children to him, a daughter, by reason of primogeniture called Prima, and one only son, whom, from the great concourse of citizens to him at that time, he called
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Some say that Hersilia married Hostilius, one of the noblest Romans, others that she married Romulus himself, and that he had children by her; one daughter, called Prima from her being the first-born, and one son, whom his father originally named Aollius, because of the assembling of the citizens, but whom they afterwards named Avillius.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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The Anglos had a thing called Prima Notte where Edward I, AKA Longshanks, had the first right of refusal on British brides.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local JElwaysu 2010
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The Anglos had a thing called Prima Notte where Edward I, AKA Longshanks, had the first right of refusal on British brides.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local JElwaysu 2010
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