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Top Maoist leader arrested in West Bengal police tonight arrested top Maoist leader Venkateswar Reddy, the suspected mastermind of the attack that killed 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles BERHAMPUR: A hard core Maoist, Jayob Majhi alias Bulu surrendered before police at Paralakhemundi in Gajapati district on Wednesday.
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Bulu-bulu kedua kucing itu beterbangan, berhamburan, lumayan mblederi.
mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2006
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Some were to go out and teach; some were to carry Testaments and tracts written in Bulu to others; some were to help about the mission station so that there might be a better place in which to teach the ones who came.
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(Bulu); both tribes live by fishing and are dying out from alcoholism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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An adventurous general by the name of Bulu made himself master of the Assyrian throne.
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913
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After death the souls of the departed were believed to set out for Bulu or Bulotu, there to dwell with the great serpent-shaped god Ndengei.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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For several years past there have been rumors of a race of Pygmies in the interior of the Cameroons, but these reports were not verified until the year 1898, when the Bulu expedition of the German military force succeeded, with much difficulty, in seeing several individuals of this race, secured through the aid of a native chief.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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Though raised as a highly westernised Muslim, Bulu has a strong affinity with the culture of adivasi villages, partly explained by the many visits he paid to such villages as a young man, during tiger hunts.
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So it is a pleasure to learn that Bulu Imam - a man no one has heard of - has been proposed for the Gandhi Peace Prize, awarded annually by the Indian government in memory of Mahatma Gandhi, and whose previous recipients include Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel.
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Today Bulu, his family and his friends in the tribal villages that still survive find themselves under siege from three different directions.
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