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Having been found in a military raft in the middle of the ocean, I stick out like a sore thumb on a three-thousand pound gorilla wearing a pink ballet tutu.
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There were probably two- to three-thousand people out there braving the cold weather, watching Endeavour roll out for the last time.
Space shuttle Endeavour rolls out to launch pad for the last time 2011
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The story that brought us Ajax, Achilles, Menalaus, The Trojan Horse, Odysseus, and a thousand other root concepts, memes, stories, and characters that have influenced and altered the very fabric of storytelling for almost three-thousand years.
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Perhaps no one shouldered the weight of this burden more than three people: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, and a passionate Lakers fan some three-thousand miles away, William Fredrick Cooper.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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If we are only able to witness up to three-thousand stars on a clear night's evening when knowingly there are billions of stars and galaxies surrounding those stars, then what can we possibly really know who or what else is out there also surrounding us like the dead?
Alexandra Holzer: It's Thanksgiving! Let's Toast to the "Ghost Roast" Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Perhaps no one shouldered the weight of this burden more than three people: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, and a passionate Lakers fan some three-thousand miles away, William Fredrick Cooper.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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If we are only able to witness up to three-thousand stars on a clear night's evening when knowingly there are billions of stars and galaxies surrounding those stars, then what can we possibly really know who or what else is out there also surrounding us like the dead?
Alexandra Holzer: It's Thanksgiving! Let's Toast to the "Ghost Roast" Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Over the next three days, three-thousand miles of Alaska's coastline were coated with somewhere between 11 and 38 m ...
J.S. McDougall: The Oil Still Polluting Alaska, 20 Years After Exxon Valdez (VIDEO) 2009
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Over the next three days, three-thousand miles of Alaska's coastline were coated with somewhere between 11 and 38 m ...
J.S. McDougall: The Oil Still Polluting Alaska, 20 Years After Exxon Valdez (VIDEO) 2009
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Over the next three days, three-thousand miles of Alaska's coastline were coated with somewhere between 11 and 38 million gallons of crude oil.
J.S. McDougall: The Oil Still Polluting Alaska, 20 Years After Exxon Valdez (VIDEO) 2009
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