Clan wrestlers could not overcome the strength behind the reigning champion, Brock University. |
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Clan and lineage systems are patrilineal and form the basis of Kanak social units for private land ownership. |
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The next speaker, Audrey Shenandoah, is a Clan Mother of the Eel Clan, Onondaga Nation. |
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The hawks' heads erased Gules reflect the arms of the Chief of Clan MacNeacail. |
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Clan Royal, whose jockey had lost his whip, was passed on a dramatic run-in where he veered off course. |
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However the Clan has shown flashes of brilliance this season, and a strong finish is not out of their reach. |
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Charleton was named to the All-Rookie team after an outstanding rookie year with the Clan. |
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In 1989 there were only three armigers in the Clan, one of whom was an active claimant to the Chiefship. |
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Other musical events will include crossroads dancing and a concert by the very popular balladeers Celtic Clan. |
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Trotman, a leader for the Clan all season, potted the championship winning goal. |
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Clan Kids is a summer camp that's organised through the umbrella group SFU Summer Camps. |
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Also back to bolster the Clan attack are team captains Joseph Marrello and Kevin Todd. |
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The win was in dramatic fashion as the Clan overcame a deficit and scored 21 fourth-quarter points. |
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The Clan men's team is the three-time defending champs while the women's team are two-time defending champs. |
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Despite a six-point lead at half time, the Clan narrowly escaped defeat with a final score of 76-72 in the exhibition game. |
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The important kin groups are patrilineal and matrilineal lineages and clans, Clan members do not necessarily live on clan land. |
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The Clan put it in cruise control in the second half for a 79-43 win. |
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According to the tenets, as passed on in prison yards and Wu Tang Clan songs, humanity is divided into categories. |
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The Clan came out firing on all cylinders in the first game. |
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There has not been too much news from the Killoran Clan gatherings of late, but all that has now changed as another re-union is billed for October of this year. |
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Because of injuries the Clan may be without the all-Americans. |
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Goalkeeper Michele Gademans also played an important role, making four solid saves to shutout the other team and ensure the Clan a spot at the National Championships. |
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The team joins the men's Clan on the road as they prepare for their games against the University of Saskatchewan as they make a mad dash for the playoffs. |
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The Clan attack was keyed by Jessica Kaczowka and Teresa Kleindienst. |
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Sathe Clan Lords and their retinues had been arriving in Mainport for the past week and the town was buzzing as merchants made the most of the sudden boom in trade. |
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Clan chiefs are now largely figureheads who can choose the level of involvement they have with a clan society and defer duties and titles to others. |
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The design of the coat of arms as granted, is the gyronny differenced by a silver globe at centre point, to emphasize the worldwide spread of our Clan. |
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Dressed in Clan sweaters, red and blue scarves, funny hats, and gobs of face paint, they come in droves to show UBC who's boss and assert SFU dominance. |
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A Mohawk and member of the Wolf Clan, he dances with the Young Spirit Dancers, a Native American company that tours the northeastern U.S. each year. |
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The McIntoshes were the traditional chiefs of Clan Chattan, the McGillivrays the most important of several septs that affiliated themselves with the McIntoshes. |
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There is a purported unicorn horn in the castle of the chief of the Clan MacLeod in Scotland, which has been identified as that of an eland. |
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Bruce ordered similar harryings in Argyle and Kintyre, in the territories of Clan MacDougall. |
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In later years the Clan Comyn would remain staunch supporters of the Balliol claim to the throne. |
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In 1406, the Mackays defeated the Clan MacLeod of Lewis at the Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach on the north bank near the mouth of the Tutim Burn. |
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Clan membership goes through the surname, except when a married woman takes that of her husband's surname, and then on to her children. |
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His grandmother was a member of the Caribou Clan, who travelled with the reindeer as a means to survive. |
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The Clan Macpherson is thought to have won, but only twelve men survived from the original sixty. |
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Jean Watson, President of Clan Lamont, petitioned provincial legislatures to recognize April 6 as Tartan Day. |
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Clan badges are another means of showing one's allegiance to a Scottish clan. |
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Clan Munro defeated Clan Mackintosh in 1454 at the Battle of Clachnaharry just west of the city. |
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This would also account for the fact that Clan MacKinnon is amongst the ancient clans of Scotland. |
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There is a document from 1703 summoning the clan of the Laird of Grant, Clan Grant. |
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Originally a seat of the Clan Stewart of Menteith it passed to the Boyd family in the 15th century. |
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A brick carving at the Guangzhou Folk Art Museum, housed in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. |
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The Scottish Clan Stewart and the royal House of Stuart have Breton origins. |
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Argyll Mausoleum was built in 1790 on a site which has been the final resting place of the chiefs of the Clan Campbell since the 15th century. |
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The game was delayed for 45 minutes due to a faulty ice plant but Clan went straight on the offensive and took a 2-0 lead. |
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The Mystery of Chess Boxing by the Wu-tang Clan Which musician do you most admire, and why? |
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Red Rum and Clan Royal are joint-third on 150, with other prominent members being Hedgehunter, The Pilgarlic, Irish Raptor and Corbiere. |
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Clan chiefs in the northern and western parts of Scotland continued to support Gaelic bards who remained a central feature of court life there. |
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Forces of Cameronians as well as Clan Campbell Highlanders led by the Earl of Argyll had come to bolster William's support. |
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Most bizarrely, Polar Red was the next shortest in running behind the winner and Clan Royal. |
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It was purchased in 1967 by Major Bernard Cayzer, a member of the family that made its fortune through the Clan shipping line. |
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European groups inspired by gothic rock also proliferated, including Clan of Xymox. |
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McCain's Amberleigh House came home first, ridden by Graham Lee, overtaking Clan Royal on the final straight. |
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In the aftermath of the 'Fifteen', the Disarming Act and the Clan Act made some attempts to subdue the Scottish Highlands. |
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Clan leaders would designate which young people should emigrate, where to, and in which order. |
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A thousand years later, the progenitors of Clan Sutherland, equally impressed, adopted the wildcat on their family crest. |
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Additionally, the Scots pine is the plant badge of Clan Gregor and has been proposed as the national tree of Scotland. |
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Clan support for Charles I was also more to do with being against the Covenanting movement than that of supporting an absentee monarch. |
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It was the last Scottish clan battle fought on Skye, in which the Clan MacDonald of Sleat defeated the Clan MacLeod after a bitter feud. |
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Clan support for the royal house of Stuart was based mainly on the political values of clanship. |
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Key attractions include Dunvegan Castle, the Clan Donald Visitor Centre, and The Aros Experience arts and exhibition centre in Portree. |
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Wolf heads are common in Scottish heraldry, particularly in the coats of Clan Robertson and Skene. |
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Caisteal Maol, built in the late 15th century near Kyleakin and once a seat of Clan MacKinnon, is another ruin. |
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Clan MacNeacail also have a long association with Trotternish, and in the 16th century many of the MacInnes clan moved to Sleat. |
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Other chiefs, such as the chief of the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, allowed contingents of their clan to take part in the rising while they themselves stayed at home. |
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One Clan still owns a remnant of a set of bagpipes said to have been carried at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, though the veracity of this claim is debated. |
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Local tradition says that the citizens fought off the Clan Donald in 1340 at the Battle of Blairnacoi on Drumderfit Hill, north of Inverness across the Beauly Firth. |
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The Clan Munro and Clan Fraser of Lovat took the castle for her. |
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Under the Clan Act of 1715, the clan system was weakened as the British government rewarded clansmen who followed the government rather than their disloyal chief. |
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Most notably, the Clan Campbell and the Clan Mackenzie were prepared to play off territorial disputes within and among clans to expand their own land and influence. |
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The island has been occupied since the Mesolithic period, and its history includes a time of Norse rule and a long period of domination by Clan MacLeod and Clan Donald. |
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Viking heritage is claimed by Clan MacLeod and Norse tradition is celebrated in the winter fire festival at Dunvegan, during which a replica Viking long boat is set alight. |
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Dun Ringill is a ruined Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle Ages and may have become the seat of Clan MacKinnon. |
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Customary laws, such as the Law of Clan MacDuff, came under attack from the Stewart Dynasty which consequently extended the reach of Scots common law. |
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Some clans, such as the Clan MacFarlane and the Clan Farquharson, offered the Lowlanders protection against such raids, on terms not dissimilar to blackmail. |
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This attracted about 1,200 men, mostly of Clan MacDonald of Clan Ranald, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, and Clan Cameron. |
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In Poland and Lithuania, Alans where also part of powerful Clan of Ostoja. |
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The first Neopagan groups to publicly appear, during the 1950s and 60s, were Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven and Roy Bowers' Clan of Tubal Cain. |
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Whilst their political enemies the Clan Campbell have claimed as their progenitor Diarmaid the Boar, who was rooted in the Fingalian or Fenian Cycle. |
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Clan support, their remoteness from authority and the ready mobilisation of the clan hosts made the Highlands the starting point for the Jacobite Risings. |
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Piping clans included the Clan Henderson, MacArthurs, MacDonalds, McKays and, especially, the MacCrimmon, who were hereditary pipers to the Clan MacLeod. |
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Dunvegan Castle has been the seat of Clan MacLeod since the 13th century. |
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Many clan chiefs, such as those of the Clan Mackenzie and the Clan Macdonald of Sleat, did not take part in the Jacobite rising of 1745 because of the threat of forfeiture. |
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Clan na Gael, led by John Devoy organised Irish veterans of the American Civil War to attack Canada, with the intention of demanding a British withdrawal from Ireland. |
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Dundee CCS Stars playercoach Jeff Hutchins could make his comeback tonight as the Tayside team look to maintain their supremacy over Scottish rivals Braehead Clan. |
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Then the kill is cut up and divided among members of the boat clan, as well as the sail-makers and boatbuilders. |
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Their unpredictable disposition-timid, yet also quick-tempered and dangerous-was sometimes characteristic of bear clan members. |
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As a result the clan stalwart and laird was tried by a jury of Campbells and, not surprisingly, was convicted as an accessory to the murder. |
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The shipowners often draw up contracts with local officials, clan elders or regional warlords. |
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But I came from a clan of travelers, mountaineers and wanderers, and the idea of escape occurred naturally to me. |
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Two men of mine have left to bring forth a fresh kill to the clan. |
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The Kardashian clan helms from Karakale, a village situated in Eastern Turkey close to the Armenian border. |
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The most popular plant worn as a clan emblem was the red whortleberry. |
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Stewart and Campbell were men of status, who knew each other well, and for a time enjoyed friendly relations in spite of their clan and political differences. |
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For 40 episodes, House Lannister has been the clan that Game of Thrones fans love to hate. |
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But he said that the Qawasmeh clan has had a long history of working closely with Hamas leadership. |
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My name is Romulous, I lead the Dark Angels or xDAx a clan primarily based out of Warhammer. |
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We all know that spending time with your extended clan over the holidays can be aggravating. |
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The real-life clan emigrated here in 1950, bringing an Austrian love of cross-country skiing with them. |
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The clan system of the Manchus in Aigun was obliterated by the despoliation of the area at the hands of the Russian invaders. |
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After cremation the Khasi take the ashes of their dead to the clan cinerarium. |
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The Buffalo clan may not skin any cloven-footed animal nor look at these animals while they are dying. |
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In MEROPS, MA clan members are grouped into the MA and MA subclans, commonly termed as gluzincins and metzincins, respectively. |
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In 1540, James V had toured the Hebrides, forcing the clan chiefs to accompany him. |
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Argyll sailed to Scotland and, on arriving there, raised recruits mainly from his own clan, the Campbells. |
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For a time a powerful local clan dominated a region on the border between England and Scotland. |
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An exception to her independence was the right to choose a marriage partner, as marriages were normally arranged by the clan. |
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Gaelic society traditionally centered around the clan, each with its own territory and chieftain, elected through tanistry. |
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The Palace of the Olowo, ruler of the Yoruba Owo clan of Nigeria, is acknowledged to be the largest palace in all of Africa. |
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Several clan leaders, angry at the lack of action, pressured Charles to issue the order to charge. |
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Individual clan tartans were largely designated in this period and they became a major symbol of Scottish identity. |
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In the wake of the rebellion, the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates. |
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Control of the islands was then held by clan chiefs, principal of whom were the MacLeods, MacDonalds, Mackenzies and MacNeils. |
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In 1540 James V himself conducted a royal tour, forcing the clan chiefs to accompany him. |
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Contemporary Gaelic loans are mainly for geographical and cultural features, such as ceilidh, loch and clan. |
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Foremost among these are the clan tents and vendors of Scottish related goods. |
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Visitors can find out information about the Scottish roots and can become active in their own clan society if they wish. |
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In 1590, this land was granted to the Kakizaki clan, who took the name Matsumae from then on. |
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The royal family is politically divided by factions based on clan loyalties, personal ambitions and ideological differences. |
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The most powerful clan faction is known as the 'Sudairi Seven', comprising the late King Fahd and his full brothers and their descendants. |
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The government is dominated by the Somali Issa Dir clan, who enjoy the support of the Somali clans, especially the Gadabuursi Dir clan. |
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The designation of individual clan tartans was largely defined in this period and they became a major symbol of Scottish identity. |
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Most of the followers of the clan were tenants, who supplied labour to the clan heads and sometimes act as soldiers. |
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In the early modern era they would take the clan name as their surname, turning the clan into a massive, if often fictive, kin group. |
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If someone slays a foreigner, he shall not be banished and have to flee to his clan. |
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In October 1496 the Royal Council ordered that the clan chiefs in the region would be held responsible by the king for crimes of the islanders. |
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This brought wealth and land ownership within the clan, although the Highlands continued to be overpopulated and poor. |
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After this rebellion the clan system was broken up and Skye became a series of landed estates. |
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Following a dispute over ownership, a deal was cut for the property to be gifted in return for repairs to the clan castle. |
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Control of the islands was then held by various clan chiefs, principally the MacLeans, MacLeods and MacDonalds. |
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In the wake of the rebellion the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates. |
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In 1746, the Act of Proscription stopped all clan gatherings, but following its repeal in 1782, the old enthusiasms for such events returned. |
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The wildcat is considered an icon of the Scottish wilderness, and has been used in clan heraldry since the 13th century. |
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Most Scottish Americans had commercial ties with the old country or clan allegiances and stayed true to the Crown. |
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The clan held Barra until 1838, when it was sold to Colonel Gordon of Cluny. |
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However, the loss of the clan chief's power and patronage and widespread emigration did contribute to its decline. |
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Cretan society is well known for notorious family and clan vendettas which persist on the island to date. |
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The setts painted all differ from one another and very few of those painted show any resemblance to today's clan tartans. |
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In some cases, following such recognition from the clan chief, the clan tartan is recorded and registered by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. |
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In addition to clan tartans, many tartan patterns have been developed for individuals, families, districts, institutions, and corporations. |
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Also, the Lord Lyon states that a clan tartan should only be worn by those who profess allegiance to that clan's chief. |
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A chief of a clan is the only person who is entitled to bear the undifferenced arms of the ancestral founder of the clan. |
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Under Scots law, the chief is recognised as the head of the clan and serves as the lawful representative of the clan community. |
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Historically, a clan was made up of everyone who lived on the chief's territory, or on territory of those who owed allegiance to the said chief. |
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Often, those living on a chief's lands would, over time, adopt the clan surname. |
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Today, anyone who has the chief's surname is automatically considered to be a member of the chief's clan. |
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Septs are surnames, families or clans that historically, currently or for whatever reason the chief chooses, are associated with that clan. |
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There is no official list of clan septs, and the decision of what septs a clan has is left up to the clan itself. |
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In such cases, these arms are differenced from the chief's, much like a clan armiger. |
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This concept was where all clansmen recognised the personal authority of the chiefs and leading gentry as trustees for their clan. |
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The marriage alliance reinforced links with neighboring clans as well as with families within the territory of the clan. |
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Rents, known as calps, from those living within the clan estate were collected by the tacksmen. |
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It is therefore quite correct to talk of the MacDonald family or the Stirling clan. |
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While some lists and clan maps confine their area to the Highlands, others also show Lowland clans or families. |
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A sign of allegiance to a certain clan chief is the wearing of a crest badge. |
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According to popular lore, clan badges were used by Scottish clans as a form of identification in battle. |
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However, the badges attributed to clans today can be completely unsuitable for even modern clan gatherings. |
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Strabo says the Volcae Tectosages came originally from the region near modern Toulouse and were a sept or clan of the Volcae. |
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The fundamental unit of Gallic politics was the clan, which itself consisted of one or more of what Caesar called pagi. |
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The Welsh church, on the Celtic plan, closely connected with clan loyalties, brooked little authoritarian influence. |
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Authorities in Italy are investigating a 'Ndrangheta mafia clan accused of trafficking and illegally dumping nuclear waste. |
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Each clan was expected to care for its own, including orphans and the elderly, from birth to death. |
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Children were named ten days after their birth in a naming ceremony, which also officially linked the child with its family and clan. |
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One of the most elaborate examples is that of the Egyptian aristocracy's largest clan, the Abaza family. |
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Sturla used the power and influence of the Sturlungar family clan to wage war against the other clans in Iceland. |
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In the eighth through 11th centuries, the muwallad clan of the Banu Qasi claimed descent from the Visigothic Count Cassius. |
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A clan is generally a descent group claiming common descent from an apical ancestor. |
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Often, the details of parentage are not important elements of the clan tradition. |
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As the Qing expanded south following their victory at Shanhai Pass, the Southern Ming were supported by the Zheng clan. |
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The Taman peninsula remained in the control of the de Ghisolfi family, but the princes of that clan now reported to the Bank. |
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The Tanegashima clan cooperated with the Hosokawa clan, one of two powers who controlled Chinese trade. |
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Previously, the Esopus, a clan of the Munsee Lenape, had much less contact with the River Indians and the Mohawks. |
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If a marriage between different clans is made, the husband continues to live with the clan of his wife without holding property rights. |
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Each clan has its own shaman in charge of all the important ceremonies in the lives of the Daur. |
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The Maoli clan worships a goddess at a shrine which women may not approach. |
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In this case, many Manchus joined the Fengtian clique, such as Xi Qia who was a member of the Qing dynasty's imperial clan. |
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He made an alliance with one clan and went downriver and burned a village of their enemies. |
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Nri and Aguleri, where the Igbo creation myth originates, are in the territory of the Umeuri clan. |
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These may be place, clan or totem names, often without any linguistically identifiable data. |
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Around 1821, the Zulu general Mzilikazi of the Khumalo clan successfully rebelled against King Shaka and created his own clan, the Ndebele. |
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The state of the Shakya clan was not a monarchy and seems to have been structured either as an oligarchy, or as a form of republic. |
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After a few decades, another family or clan may then use the land and claim usufructuary rights. |
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Marriage within the same clan is prohibited. However, levirates and sororates are prevalent among the Kurumbas. Widow marriage is permitted. |
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The chief of Arya Samaj in Haryana, Acharya Baldev, said that the image of the entire saffron clan has taken a beating due to Agnivesh's act. |
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By then, the YAF on Hadi's orders had sided with the Ahmar leaders whose clan had been divided into two rival factions. |
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Happy to be the least of her clan, she becomes greatest among them. |
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The Wagogo think that if a person kills or eats the in effects animal which is the totem of his clan, he thereby endangers his relations, but not himself. |
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The most prominent Scottish tale of the headless horseman concerns a man named Ewen decapitated in a clan battle at Glen Cainnir on the Isle of Mull. |
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More recently, Liang Zhiping theorized that law emerged initially in China, namely, as an instrument by which a single clan exercised control over rival clans. |
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Also, Confucius is the founder of one of the Korean clan, Qufu Kong clan. |
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The Maratha kingdom was founded and consolidated by Chatrapati Shivaji, a Maratha aristocrat of the Bhonsle clan who was determined to establish Hindavi Swarajya. |
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Kinship is determined through a child's lineage to a particular spiritual leader, so that a clan is based on traditional customary ties as opposed to actual biological links. |
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The technique has been around since about 1185 when the Taira clan were exiled here from Kyoto by Minamoto no Yoritomo, taking with them craftsmen and chefs from Kyoto. |
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With the paiza, there came authority that the envoy can ask for food, transport, place to stay from any city, village, or clan within the empire with no difficulties. |
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Amid the decline of Qing prestige and the chaos of the Taiping Rebellion, the Punti and Hakka waged a series of clan wars from 1855 to 1867 in which 1 million people died. |
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By about 1910, the leading role of the Kayeli clan had almost disappeared. |
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After the family, the next largest social units were the subclan and clan. |
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They quickly became the dominant Mongolic clan in Mongolia proper. |
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Rido is a Maranao term commonly used in Mindanao to refer to clan feuds. |
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The payment was typically made to the family or to the clan. |
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In Scandinavia, the Germanic clan society was still very much alive. |
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It's said that those Alans contributed to a modern Mongol clan, Asud. |
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Those in possession of the bundles were considered to have sacred powers bestowed to them by the spirits and thus were considered the leaders of the clan and tribe. |
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The influence of the Arnulfing clan of Austrasia ensured that the centre of political gravity in the kingdom gradually shifted eastwards to the Rhineland. |
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Jones also took part in a piece of musical theatre about the women of the Wagner clan and their influences on the Bayreuth Festival entitled Wagnerin. |
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Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshipped, as well as clan and household gods. |
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Among the Aedui, a clan of Gaul, the executive held the title of Vergobret, a position much like a king, but his powers were held in check by rules laid down by the council. |
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It has since been proven a forgery, but despite this, the designs are still highly regarded and they continue to serve their purpose to identify the clan in question. |
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Also, anyone who offers allegiance to a chief becomes a member of the chief's clan, unless the chief decides not to accept that person's allegiance. |
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A chief could add to his clan by adopting other families, and also had the legal right to outlaw anyone from his clan, including members of his own family. |
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According to the former Lord Lyon, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, a clan is a community that is distinguished by heraldry and recognised by the Sovereign. |
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The word clan is derived from the Gaelic word clanna, meaning children. |
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This opinion is enforced by the fact that in the Scottish clan system, the Lord Lyon states that membership to a clan technically passes through the surname. |
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One such opinion is that people not bearing a clan surname, or surname claimed as a sept of a clan, should not wear the tartan of their mother's clan. |
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Once approved by the Lord Lyon, after recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Tartan, the clan tartan is then recorded in the Lyon Court Books. |
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Contemporary portraits show that although tartan is of an early date, the pattern worn depended not on the wearer's clan, but upon his or her location, or personal taste. |
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James Logan's romanticised work The Scottish Gael, published in 1831, was one such publication which led the Scottish tartan industry to invent clan tartans. |
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Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the highland tartans were only associated with either regions or districts, rather than any specific Scottish clan. |
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These officers are employed by Scottish nobles and chiefs and perform duties relating to genealogical, heraldic, and ceremonial matters of clan members. |
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However, overall, these actions led to the destruction of the traditional clan system and of the supportive social structures, small agricultural townships, and run rigs. |
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From the late 16th century, laws required clan leaders to appear in Edinburgh regularly to provide bonds for the conduct of anyone in their territory. |
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The Clearances relied on the de jure insecurity of tenure of most tenants under the Scottish legal system whilst the de facto security of the clan system was repealed by law. |
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The combination of agnatic kinship and a feudal system of obligation has been seen as creating the highland clan system, evident in records from the 13th century. |
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The various clan societies make the Highland games one of the main focus of their seasonal activities, usually making an appearance at as many such events as possible. |
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At the time Scott wrote, Scotland was poised to move away from an era of socially divisive clan warfare to a modern world of literacy and industrial capitalism. |
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Edo was first fortified by the Edo clan, in the late twelfth century. |
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The clan gentlemen formed the front ranks of the unit and were more heavily armed than their impoverished tenants who made up the bulk of the regiment. |
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Beliefs regarding reincarnation vary widely among Heathens, although one common belief is that individuals are reborn within their family or clan. |
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For the Irish Gaels, the old clan system did not survive the incorporation of the Gaelic realms into the Kingdom of Ireland and the subsequent Flight of the Earls. |
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The term kongsi loosely referred to any association of the Chinese, ranging from a business partnership to governments in West Borneo, secret societies and clan associations. |
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In an effort to prevent further trouble in the Scottish Highlands, the government outlawed many cultural practices to destroy the warrior clan system. |
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The significance of their support for the Stuarts was that the Highlands was the only part of Britain which still maintained private armies, in the form of clan levies. |
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In Scotland, the Jacobite cause became intertwined with the clan system. |
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According to Roman sources, when the Germanic Tribes did fight pitched battles, the infantry often adopted wedge formations, each wedge being led by a clan head. |
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