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  • Most of the people of Callao, known as Chalacos - from the indigenous Quechua word Chala, meaning seashore region people - are used to live in extreme poverty with little hope for that to change.

    www.blogalaxia.com Directorio y Buscador de Blogs Latinos 2008

  • Chalonitis seems to have taken its name from a capital city called Chala, which lay on the great route connecting Babylon with the southern Ecbatana, and in later times was known as Holwan.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • One of them has a female character, "Chala", as his main character.

    BLOG Assignment #6 Jennica 2010

  • After meeting and learning about "who" is behind the characters, I found that "Chala" is a man in real life.

    BLOG Assignment #6 Jennica 2010

  • "Yuhi Chala Chal" (from the movie Swades, score by A.R. Rahman) 4.

    7 Songs Meme kateelliott 2008

  • And rupee for rupee, the third movie of the wildly successful and original Munnabhi series (due for release this year) may be the first homegrown Bollywood film to strike it big in the West; tellingly, the name is Munnabhi Chala America (Munnabhi goes to the U.S.)

    Scoring Big in Hollywood 2009

  • The Chala Project : murder in the Grand Canyon / Ann Livesay — Hounto Chala, a leader with the United Nations Environment Programme, has proposed a deeply radical idea-that the killing of any wild animal become a worldwide capital offense-making him the target of outraged gunmen.

    5/27: New at the library this week 2006

  • The Chala Project : murder in the Grand Canyon / Ann Livesay — Hounto Chala, a leader with the United Nations Environment Programme, has proposed a deeply radical idea-that the killing of any wild animal become a worldwide capital offense-making him the target of outraged gunmen.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • I mean, you heard Buthana saying that she hopes, in Chala (ph) they always say, that in the future this violence stop and things will get better.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2005 2005

  • By evening we were drinking beer in Chala, a small fishing village that once sent runners into the mountains to Cuzco to deliver fresh fish for the table of the Inca.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

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