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Historical changes in stocking rates of domestic livestock as a measure of semi-aird and arid rangeland degradation in the Cape Province, South Africa.
Nama Karoo 2008
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And in 2001 they aird a episode about the us government flying by radio control airliners into the WTC to blame it on terrorists as a pre text to go to war ...
Oil Storm 2005
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I took care to have it often opened and aird whilst I tarried in Town.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 September 1776 1963
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If it be maintained, as Thurneysen maintains, that the Irish derived their rhyming verses from the Latins, it seems necessary to account for the peculiar forms that so much of this verse assumed in Irish, for the merest glance will show that the earliest Irish verse is full of tours de force, like this "aird-runn", which cannot have been derived from Latin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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"There is the Russian," said three or four voices at once, as the tall masts aird wide spars of a corvette came in sight.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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For two days we steamed to get well out of the bay, and then stopped the engines aird depended upon canvas.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Room and that your Sheets are well aird and your Bed well cloathd, remind him of this injunction.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1792 1792
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P.T.O. - tacaíocht a thabhairt do chur chuige struchtúrtha tomhaiste an Rialtais maidir leis na saincheisteanna a fhearann ar an earnáil airgeadais i gcoitinne, arb é an bealach is fearr é chun leasanna na hearnála airgeadais agus leasanna an gheilleagair atá ag téarnamh a áirithiú agus aird ag an Rialtas ar cheanglais an
Politics.ie He3 2010
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PORTLAOISE goes from 6 to 7 willie aird is a banker to top the poll and FG are sure of 2 seats
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But, with alt his oddities, aird irregularities, Hall was a man of real genius, and much good nature.
Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont Francis Hardy 1812
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