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  • The keynote event on the Clinton trip, spanning six-days, will be a meeting in Qatar next Thursday of the Forum for the Future, a joint project of the G-8 industrial countries and Arab states aimed at strengthening civil society in the region.

    Clinton Heads for Gulf Talks Focusing on Iran, Iraq 2011

  • The keynote event on the Clinton trip, spanning six-days, will be a meeting in Qatar next Thursday of the Forum for the Future, a joint project of the G-8 industrial countries and Arab states aimed at strengthening civil society in the region.

    Clinton Heads for Gulf Talks Focusing on Iran, Iraq 2011

  • According to Wikipedia, as of 2006, 484,562 Israeli settlers were occupying territory conquered during the six-days war … what could Palestinians have to complain about?

    Matthew Yglesias » On Analogies 2009

  • In an effort to break up their two left-handed starters, Scott Olsen will pitch on normal rest tonight and Stammen will start Saturday night on six-days rest.

    Nationals shuffle starters 2010

  • Then the game-time was not announced until six-days prior to game day, rather than six days earlier, giving even interested fans less time to figure out their plans for the day.

    Maryland attendance and the television issue in ACC football Eric Prisbell 2010

  • Modern six-days last less than 12 hours a day and the madison is now only a featured part, so staying on the track throughout is more feasible.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • In the “six-days” story of Genesis 1, first the earth formed animals, and then God formed men and women.

    Happy 150th of the origin of The Origin!! - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • And that begins with the eternal creator God, and the fact that He created us in His image in six-days about 6,000 years ago, contrary to the widespread, unsubstantiated, cultural myth that we evolved by natural processes over millions of years.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The six-days itself is a metaphore for simply breaking the act of creation into digestible stages, and actually mirrors an ancient Mesopotamian myth regarding the creation of the universe, which also had six stages, each with a god-goddess pair.

    Your Creation Museum Report « Whatever 2007

  • When a child gets lost in the city, the fat old town crier (if he is paid for it) "takes his time" and his bell, and crawls through the street, whining out sleepily, "C-h-i-l-d l-o-s-t;" and the city folks pay about as much attention to it, as if you told them that a six-days 'kitten had presumptuously stepped into a wash-tub.

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

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