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"God in America" (WETA and MPT at 9), a documentary about the history of the relationship between religion and democracy in America since the 1600s, is previewed by Hank Stuever.
TV highlights Post 2010
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It became extinct in the mid - to late-1600s from a combination of human hunting, habitat destruction, and predation by introduced animals, including rats, cats, pigs, and dogs.
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The word coffee, which first came to be used in the 1600s, comes from the Italian caffe.
unknown title 2009
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It’s been done for countless centuries and they used it to persecute innocent people, such as women who were demonized as witches whether it would be in 1600s and 1700s Europe or ancient Greece and Rome.
Think Progress » Chinese state press highlights China’s first public same-sex ‘marriage.’ 2010
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The Benedictine monk Dom Perignon, when drinking the first Champagne in the late 1600s, is reputed to have exclaimed, “It’s like drinking the stars!”
Over the Barrel 2005
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Why not also argue for "pease" as the singular form of those "spherical, typically green seeds of the plant Pisum sativum" in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary and abandon the error, dating to the 1600s, that is "pea"?
Strange and Twisted Tongues Erin McKean 2011
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I look forward to reading it; a romance set in the 1600s will be a refreshing change of pace.
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I look forward to reading it; a romance set in the 1600s will be a refreshing change of pace.
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Russelet, a noun that entered English in the 1600s from the French rousselet, refers to any variety of pear with a russet reddish-brown skin.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2012
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This vast region had been all but depopulated during the 1600s, owing to epidemics and a series of wars launched by the Iroquois League against any nations that did not bow to its will.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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