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  • Posted in Regular Blogger, The F Word, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Will the last trans person to leave feminist Blogdonia please turn off the lights?

    Trans rights abuses in Turkey 2008

  • So if Regular is going to hit $4, does that mean that Premium is going to be $5?

    Think Progress » Gas Prices Spike to Second-Highest Level Ever, Analyst Predicts $4/Gallon This Summer 2006

  • "Read Regular" is a typeface designed to be legible to people with dyslexia.

    Boing Boing: October 12, 2003 - October 18, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The FAF generic version is known as the National FAF: the generic FFS is called the Regular FFS.

    BRIGHT IDEAS Donna Sammons Carpenter 1992

  • The FAF generic version is known as the National FAF: the generic FFS is called the Regular FFS.

    BRIGHT IDEAS Donna Sammons Carpenter 1992

  • The FAF generic version is known as the National FAF: the generic FFS is called the Regular FFS.

    BRIGHT IDEAS Donna Sammons Carpenter 1992

  • It will tell of the heroism of the plain American Regular, who, without hope of preferment or possibility of reward, boldly undertook to confute the erroneous theories of military compilers, who, without originality or reason, have unblushingly cribbed the labored efforts of foreign officers, and foisted these compilations of second-hand opinions upon the American Army as military text-books of authority and weight.

    History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

  • In my opinion Sir Henry Smith ought to have the means in Regular Troops and Light Equipments of ordnance to form two bodies of troops, each capable of acting independently in the field, each of which should give countenance and support to the detachments of Boers, Hottentots, and loyal Caffres, by which the rebel and insurgent Caffres should be attacked and driven out of the country.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • They are commonly called Regular and Irregular, and are thus defined:

    Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Charles Winslow 1861

  • The punctillious soul of the old "Regular" -- for such the Major was swelled up instantly, and he answered:

    Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887

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