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Most notorious were the Diggers, who advocated the abolition of private property and an end to government.
Remembrance Day should be a day of ceremony and mateship for the Diggers who've earned the right to remember war as they see fit.
It begins with one of your formulaic openings as an empathetic reporter gazes into the harrowed souls of old Diggers revisiting the Kokoda trail.
With the world rushing towards the Great Depression many old Diggers found themselves out of work, out of luck and out on the wallaby track.
We learn how the ideas of the Ranters, Levellers and the Diggers filtered into the common-sense of this labouring class.
Artilleryman, medics, pioneers and mortarmen, were all needed and eager Diggers stepped forward to fill the ranks.
Diggers moved in to shift tons of earth, trees were felled, a house next to the course was demolished and two electricity pylons were moved.
His chosen forebears were Diggers and Ranters and Fifth-Monarchy Men.
In 1868, he visited Brown's Flat near Yosemite's Merced River, where he encountered a group of Indians denigrated as Diggers whom he found dirty and unclean.
The Levellers and Diggers had already been under keen scrutiny before and during the Second World War, but they received fresh and more critical attention.
Using a mixture of readings and commentary, he ranges from More's Utopia through the English Civil War period with its Levellers, Ranters and Diggers.
He would clearly have marched with the Diggers and the Levellers, almost as much the enemies of Cromwell's authoritarianism as of Charles' belief in the divine right of kings.
After suffering their heaviest defeat in more than a decade losing 54-0 to Diggers, fourth-placed Roan should be in revengeful mood against Ndola Wanderers.
Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king.
The Diggers put their beliefs into practice by manuring fields and sowing crops on wastelands in Surrey until they were driven away by local landowners.
According to the Diggers the right to vote should be extended to all and everybody had the right to an adequate standard of living.
This was strongly opposed by Oliver Cromwell's government, who also persecuted the moderate reformist group the Fifth Monarchy Men and the radical utopian group the Diggers.
In contrast the Diggers, a smaller revolutionary group led by Gerard Winstanley, focused on the rights of the rural poor who worked on landed property.
We live in a looser, less uptight America thanks to the antics of San Francisco's Diggers, New York's Fugs, and every anonymous longhair in between.
Mr Perham said traffic would come to a standstill as The Last Post was played in memory of the diggers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are Baptists, Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Quakers, Fifth Monarchists, and Muggletonians.
The two clam diggers watched him curiously, but made no attempt to go to his assistance.
In other words, diggers swarmed to the spot, with no idea of law but digger's law.
As this was done in the way usually practised by diggers, we shall describe it.
At the end of spring the diggers flock back out of the Desert and exchange chaff and flews in the gorgeous verandahs.
I sent word that the roads for which I was paying money to the diggers were being made for the feet of strangers and enemies.
I was witness, too, of an encounter between two large parties of diggers.
Indeed, this might have been said of most of the diggers around them.
Where were the canvas tents of the diggers, and the claims, and all?
But by the light of the moon, they are giant rats, hangmen, redneck axe murderers, grave diggers, crazy cat ladies and psycho clowns.
Skilled diggers might yet make a fortune in the churchyards of the Vale, by carefully washing the dust of the consumers of Angel's gingerbread.
Those are to help him dig, for all the marmot family are great diggers.
Turns were taken in directing the efforts of the diggers, and an occasional inspection was made of the shafts.
He learned that the place had several times been visited by experienced money diggers who had heard Black Sam's story, though none of them had met with success.
That is what she was called, anyway, by all the diggers on the Newanga.
I was tolerably successful with the diggers working at their claims.
Shovels are furnished by the diggers themselves in Chicago, Ill.
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