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  • People streamed to Oslo Cathedral to light candles and lay flowers; outside, mourners began building a makeshift altar from dug-up cobblestones.

    Police uncover more on Norway suspect 2011

  • Though the entry gates and some signs have been replaced, not much has changed in the historic black cemetery in the year since Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that investigators had found piles of dug-up bones, old caskets and vaults dumped on trash heaps at the back of the property.

    Burr Oak Cemetery: A Year After Scandal, Little Has Changed 2010

  • Here's an old site that I dug-up while searching for Japanese papercraft sites.

    Daisenryaku Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • After a while the APOD people got back to me with the "confession" that the colors used in this image were completely made up: There simply was no way to tell what color Holy Cow (or the soil around it) really were, other than extrapolating from (dug-up) ice and soil in view of the color camera on top of the lander.

    Mars Picture: Holy Cow in Color - NASA Watch 2008

  • It is rather expensive in the mercados since the chayote plant must be dug-up to get the root.

    Mexican Soups-Your Favorites 2006

  • She was near to real earth now, the sex-grubbed dug-up self, and I felt close to her and thought I knew her finally even as she shut her eyes to hide herself.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • "I was crawling along a dug-up potato field ... they started shooting, and killed my friend," says Pisarev.

    A Tortured Legacy 2008

  • She was near to real earth now, the sex-grubbed dug-up self, and I felt close to her and thought I knew her finally even as she shut her eyes to hide herself.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • You'll know you have a mole problem if you spot visible trenches and dug-up soil in your lawn and garden.

    Pest Patrol: How to control moles in your yard 2008

  • September 26, 2008 at 4:08 pm mai nawt-sekund kitteh watchededed awl teh garden werk. we fort “ohai, hez supervizin,” but we were rong. he was makin notes of nise sawftee dug-up dirt for his next “break.”

    Go wawk da hoomin she sayz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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