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  • Two weeks ago we finished recording the Colonial features, which consisted of small clusters of charcoal and burned llama and sheep dung, called taquia, that represent the remains of cooking fires.

    Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Pumapunku Temple Update 2 2002

  • Two stones set a little apart formed the fire-place, in which the shepherd, when he makes a fire to cook with, makes it out of dry dung (_taquia_).

    The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

  • Both strayed off upon the plain to gather the _taquia_, or ordure of the cattle, though no cattle were in sight.

    The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

  • Both strayed off upon the plain to gather the _taquia_, or ordure of the cattle, though no cattle were in sight.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • They should also swear that they will not use the islamic doctrine of taquia (lie to the infidels for the sake of promoting Islam) at any time, denounce all of the evils and abuse that go on in islamic countries including bombing, beheading, stoning, clit cutting, throat cutting, stabbing, maybe it would be better just to not allow them to use any sharp objects unless they change their religion.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic.

    The Seattle Times 2009

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