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The homeowner listed in the folder does have a home, however, on N. Tonti.
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The homeowner listed in the folder does have a home, however, on N. Tonti.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Andrea Tonti (Ita), Carmiooro-A Style, at 0: 37 67.
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The Age also quotes Tonti-Filippini: But medical ethicist Nick Tonti-Filippini warns there can be grave outcomes for people such as Alex.
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You should hear him on Tonti, the ass that started tontines.
The Wrong Box 2004
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Thus I might begin this tale with a biography of Tonti — birthplace, parentage, genius probably inherited from his mother, remarkable instance of precocity, etc — and a complete treatise on the system to which he bequeathed his name.
The Wrong Box 2004
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Tonti is dead, and I never saw anyone who even pretended to regret him; and, as for the tontine system, a word will suffice for all the purposes of this unvarnished narrative.
The Wrong Box 2004
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Arkansas River -- reached by Tonti, 4; 112; 113; 153-154
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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But the British were preparing to capture this trade as early as 1694, when Tonti warned Villermont that Carolinians were already established on a branch of the
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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In 1686 Tonti again visited them, and in 1690 he made their villages the starting-point for his expedition to the west in search of La Salle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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