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  • There are a group of indigenous people who have lived on the island for thousands of years called the kuma people, we saw a few scattered people all over Panama City, as they come across to sell things they have made in the city to make money.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • There are lots of things I can compare about, other than the fact that they are bears and they end their speech with 'kuma'.

    Anime Nano! 2008

  • In the past, these scripts were more widely used, and so today there are many words in Japanese that have no kanji assigned to them, or for which the characters are little-used:  熊 '' kuma '' 'bear' is more often written in '' hiragana '' or '' katakana '' as くま or クマ, for example.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Swan steamed edamame with thai basil-lime oil from kuma inn.

    PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Robert Sietsema” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

  • Of course, when the teacher told her “sika kuma ti nangabak,” the candidate would only feel sorry for herself – instead of accepting defeat and being encouraged to do better in the future.

    WHEN A BEAUTY CONTEST RESULT IS QUESTIONED ��� Oh no, not again! 2008

  • Terauchi Masatake (1852–1919) succeeded kuma Shigenobu (1838–1922) as prime minister, with a slight minority in the lower house of the diet.

    1916, July 3 2001

  • Monetary, banking, and taxation systems were established by 1873, primarily the work of kuma Shigenobu (1838–1922) and It Hirobumi.

    1872 2001

  • Individual negotiations were subsequently carried on by Inoue's successor, kuma Shigenobu.

    1885, April 18 2001

  • The organization of political parties was supported in opposition to the bureaucracy controlled by Satsuma and Chsh: the Jiyt (Liberal Party) of Itagaki Taisuke and the Kaishint (Progressive Party) of kuma Shigenobu.

    1877, Jan.-Sept 2001

  • Through the bloody necklet he whispered two syllables: “kuma.”

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

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