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Hillary is not a racist, she is worse – she is driving a wedge between people in the hoopes that she will get the nomination.
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AZTLAN E-Journal www. cc.ukans.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/
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AZTLAN E-Journal www. cc.ukans.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/
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Their women haue their necks, armes and eares decked with rings of siluer, copper, tinne, and with round hoopes made of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After whose departure wee shaped our course toward Cape Sacre, and in the way thither wee tooke at seuerall times of ships, barkes, and Carauels well neere an hundred, laden with hoopes, gally-oares, pipe-staues, and other prouisions of the king of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The women weare great store of siluer hoopes about their neckes and armes, and their legs are ringed with siluer and copper, and rings made of elephants teeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Legorno to Castilla de la mar, which is but 16 milesfrom Naples, and the ready way to Candia, you may lade hoopes, which will cost carolins of Naples 27 and a halfe the thousand, which is ducats two and a halfe of Spaine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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What quantitie of caske, and what sort of caske, and what number of hoopes and twigges, and how much thereof to be staued for the traine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also the women goe bare footed, their armes laden with hoopes of golde and Iewels: And their fingers full of precious rings, with their haire rolled vp about their heads.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iron spikes, nailes, yron hoopes, horse-shooes, and other like necessaries bound for the West Indies we fired in like maner.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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