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  • Mazamitla saw further military action during the illfated French intervention in the middle of the nineteenth century but lost its early archives (burnt during the fighting) in the process.

    Mazamitla: its scenery, kitchens and customs 2008

  • Obviously, those illfated Clintons supporters don't care about the economy!

    McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008

  • Mazamitla saw further military action during the illfated French intervention in the middle of the nineteenth century but lost its early archives (burnt during the fighting) in the process.

    Mazamitla: its scenery, kitchens and customs 2008

  • Belva "Belle" Brown in her cabaret-performing days before an illfated marriage to William Gaertner in 1917.

    The Real-Life Murderesses' Row 2010

  • Hell no, Fox needs their licence revoked for lying to the American public and being the speaker of an illfated policy of criminals and deluded subjects.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: December 29, 2006 2006

  • If James Baker of the illfated ISG and their 79 useless recommendations for succes in Iraq had bothered to come to Fallujah, perhaps they might have come up with some realistic recommendations.

    Bill Roggio: Embedded with Marines and Iraqi Army in Fallujah membrain 2006

  • If James Baker of the illfated ISG and their 79 useless recommendations for succes in Iraq had bothered to come to Fallujah, perhaps they might have come up with some realistic recommendations.

    Archive 2006-12-01 membrain 2006

  • Upon raising the body of my faithful, but illfated follower, I found that he was beyond all human aid; he had been shot through the left breast with a ball, the last convulsions of death were upon him, and he expired almost immediately after our arrival.

    Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

  • And seated in the midst of all—occupying her massive throne (which had evidently been transported into the ballroom for this occasion)—was the hostess herself, Mrs. Henrietta Nicodemus, elaborately coiffed, costumed, and made up to resemble a (somewhat overfed) facsimile of the beauteous, if illfated, French queen Marie Antoinette.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • While planning the illfated 1970 raid on the Son Tay prison camp in Vietnam, photo analysts spotted a possible K, a 55 and an SAR, for Search and Rescue.

    Serex, Henry M. 1990

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