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A mountain is being renamed in honour of a Welsh princess who spent most of her life confined in a monastry.
Phonetic spelling 2009
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A mountain is being renamed in honour of a Welsh princess who spent most of her life confined in a monastry.
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A mountain is being renamed in honour of a Welsh princess who spent most of her life confined in a monastry.
Phonetic spelling 2009
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We drove to Mont Saint Michel, a monastry on the north coast of France that is on a tiny island.
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It is just down the road really, there is a monastry to visit but the cake shop at the bottom of the hill is a vital visit.
pasteis de nata 2007
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Getting On His Wick: Monk Gets Candle Stuck In Penis | Anorak News: “HE did a very stupid and shameful thing,” says a Romanian “monastry source” to the Daily Sport.
Archive 2007-11-11 Bill Crider 2007
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Getting On His Wick: Monk Gets Candle Stuck In Penis | Anorak News: “HE did a very stupid and shameful thing,” says a Romanian “monastry source” to the Daily Sport.
News Story of the Day Bill Crider 2007
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As Ned, she infiltrated traditional male bastions such as the bowling alley, strip clubs, a male only therapy group and a monastry.
Norah the Gender Spy Sharon Bakar 2006
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If outsiders attend, they should no more expect to join in the singing uninvited than they would if visiting a monastry at Compline.
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By page 300 you can add fratricide, murder, escape from the monastry, more demonic doings and the Holy Inquisition.
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