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What Spanish and French cannon balls, and German 15in shells failed to accomplish, the pens of London's bean counters may achieve - scuppering the Royal Navy and sending its finest vessels to the breaker's yards.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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What Spanish and French cannon balls, and German 15in shells failed to accomplish, the pens of London's bean counters may achieve - scuppering the Royal Navy and sending its finest vessels to the breaker's yards.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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What Spanish and French cannon balls, and German 15in shells failed to accomplish, the pens of London's bean counters may achieve - scuppering the Royal Navy and sending its finest vessels to the breaker's yards.
Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY Eric Margolis 2010
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The coconut breaker's tale is one of more than 10,000 stories the nonprofit museum has collected since 1991.
At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story 2009
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To the uneducated, a breaker's movement is almost indecipherable: head-spins blur into pretzel-twists, a human pyramid forms out of thin air, and suddenly someone starts seizuring.
HuffPost Coverage: Planet B-Boy: Bringing Breaking Mainstream 2008
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Scorsese's films vibrate with the tensions of codes that are broken at the breaker's peril.
This Fall's A Ball 2008
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The dew breaker's final victim, the preacher, encourages his followers to ask, "What will we do with our beast?" — seemingly referring all at once to the government, the devil, and evil itself.
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I thought the character of Anne, the dew breaker's wife, was an interesting contrast to the dew breaker himself, in the sense that she's almost saintly.
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That scene is meant to be the dew breaker's mother's way of telling him that it's time to change.
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The dew breaker's mother was a gardener and had such knowledge of plants, so it seemed like a good way for her to communicate with him.
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