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Mons Jovis, to the city called Cant Guic, and to the western Tumulus, that is, to Cruc Occident.
History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) fl. 796 Nennius 1846
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Then I thought I would try some ancient history, and brought her a little further east (and back into Flanders) to the Tumulus of Pepin the Elder, a Frankish magnate of the early 7th century who was, if I calculate correctly, Charlemagne's great-great-great-grandfather (and therefore probably your ancestor too).
Dental development nwhyte 2010
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It was a far cry from the little stone house they had in the Tumulus District of Laikan.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010
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Barely two miles in, the field will take a brief circular detour around the Tumulus of Marathon, where the ashes of the 192 casualties of Marathon are buried.
USATODAY.com - Marathon route a testament to the old, monument to the new 2004
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For a full hour after we had done, the children were throwing more sand on the great Tumulus now before us, while we moved as many of our things as we could to another cavern, smaller, less convenient, and darker.
Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton
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The first cut represents a Danish Tumulus, or burial mound, of this Age.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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Vendelles, and marched to our preliminary assembly position in some trenches near "Red Wood," about half-a-mile North-West of that well-known landmark "The Tumulus," a high chalk mound from which an excellent view could be obtained, but where it was not wise to pause to admire the scenery.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman
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'Megapodius Tumulus' is also worthy of mention, on account of the surprising structure of its nest.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The day previous their larder had been recruited by three iguanas 'eggs, a brush turkey (' Megapodius Tumulus '), and nine turkeys' eggs.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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The contents of these numbers are: -- Fragments from a Tumulus at Caenby, Lincolnshire; Fibula from
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