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  • One of those women, one called Mura (ph), was -- her father was killed by the Janjaweed, but the Sudanese backed militia and she needed money to support her family.

    CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2005 2005

  • In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.

    Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922

  • In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • Here's another theory, which the writer David Mura told me: You have to become the person you need to be in order to write your book.

    Junot Diaz discusses his first two books, Drown and the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2010

  • Lowry works closely with fellow teacher Mura Kennedy and teaching assistant Christine Glasgow to help teachers.

    Outstanding team: 'they will influence policy' June Caldwell 2010

  • "We now have ex-pupils studying for PhDs at university, but we still have a lot of work to do to ensure that physical disability is no longer a barrier," says the team coordinator, Mura Kennedy.

    Outstanding team: 'they will influence policy' June Caldwell 2010

  • Meanwhile, the claim of the Beta Israel and Falash Mura to Jewish identity—120,000 of whom have fled Ethiopia's wars since the late 1970s to live in Israel—has been undermined because many lack those DNA snippets.

    The Genetic Outlier Charles C. Mann 2012

  • This architectural wonder was recreated in the Meiji Mura museum.

    Carole Mallory: Pan Am Memories of My Adventures to Tokyo and Kyoto Carole Mallory 2012

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