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  • I mean shoot, how many of you wondered how and why all the jedis were slained, not to mention why Anakin became Darth Vader.

    George Lucas Talks STAR WARS with Jon Stewart on THE DAILY SHOW – Collider.com 2010

  • Please check Bush head he needs help, he stop playing golf for slained Armys and now this ... was he drunk this time. and Bible said make peace with enemy.

    Blitzer: Bush injects himself into Democratic politics 2008

  • Forces yesterday crushed several LTTE ground assaults and rescued Twenty Two Bodies of the slained LTTE Cadres who were killed during the fighting according to the Defense Ministry.

    Sri Lankan Forces Captured The North Of The No War Zone 2009

  • Her clients include Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former chief executive of oil conglomerate Yukos; Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion turned opposition leader, dissident Aleksandr Litvinenko, who was slained in London in 2006; and the relatives of slain journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was murdered in October 1994.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • Her clients include Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former chief executive of oil conglomerate Yukos; Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion turned opposition leader, dissident Aleksandr Litvinenko, who was slained in London in 2006; and the relatives of slain journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who was murdered in October 1994.

    Politkovskaya family lawyer ill, possibly poisoned Jan 2008

  • The widows of two slained civic leaders, Rose Magudulela and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Doe you think that the ffrench will come up here when the greatest part of you is slained by your owne fault?

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • We weare to persuade them to the contrary, but checked soundly, saying we weare worse then Ennemyes by perswading them to goe and be slained.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • We told them that we weare almost att the gates of the ffrench habitation, & bid [them] therefore have courage, & that our lives weare in as great danger as theirs, & if we weare taken we should never escape because they knewed us, & I because I runned away from their country having slained some of their brethren, & my brother that long since was the man that furnished their enemy with arms.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • Will you have your brethren destroyed that loves you, being slained?

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

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