| Volunteering at work meant offering to make tea or organize the Secret Santa round of mystery gifts at Christmas. |
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| I've just had a note to say that the gift I ordered for Secret Santa will not be despatched in time for Christmas. |
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| She reduces the amount of shopping she does by organizing a Secret Santa exchange among adults in her family. |
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| I noticed that he wore the watch that I gave him in the Secret Santa gift game. |
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| I got my present from my secret Santa today and, being a greedy little monkey, I opened it right up. |
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| My first night in Florence, I was walking home late from dinner to my pensione in the mostly residential Santa Croce side of town. |
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| Staff have organised two trolley loads of perishable food for the hospice and Santa will be picking up the presents. |
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| On Saturday, December 10, they will be bringing Santa to O'Connell Street in Sligo in a motorcycle sidecar. |
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| But 2004 conjured up several memorable turns, including the likes of Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa and Tom Cruise in Collateral. |
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| To the south, Kiowas, Comanches, and Cheyennes threatened the commerce with Santa Fe and raided deep into Texas. |
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| Then, when something goes amiss on Christmas Eve, he gets an opportunity to rescue Santa and save the holiday. |
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| The kids can romp, listen to homespun Santa tales, and decorate a sweet country Christmas tree. |
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| Tarlow, a four-year-old daughter of Stormin Fever, has not raced since her victory by a nose in the Santa Margarita on March 12 at Santa Anita. |
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| Prior to that effort, he beat his stablemate by a nose in the San Carlos Handicap at Santa Anita. |
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| The cool, moist ocean breezes replaced the hotter and drier Santa Ana wind that had whipped fires into raging infernos at the weekend. |
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| It's only for the children who attend the playschool and Santa is to put in an appearance there also. |
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| A degree in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz led her to graduate studies in library science at UC Berkeley. |
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| I went to a steak restaurant up in the Santa Barbara area, and it was so big that I had a doggy bag and it gave me two more meals out of it. |
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| Firefighters are taking advantage of a break from the powerful Santa Ana winds that have fanned the flames with gusts up to 70 miles an hour. |
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| The sediments were laid down in the late Pleistocene as broad alluvial fans derived from the nearby Santa Monica Mountains. |
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| Alice went to the Santa Fe State University and majored in communication and minored in Spanish. |
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| Booking has begun for the Northwest region all-weather Santatown and Santa Village Grotto at the Sligo Folk Park, Riverstown. |
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| Perhaps to children, Santa is still a jolly old man who bestows gifts upon them and performs magic that can make reindeer fly. |
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| Mattie Dowd will be there with his camera to capture the magic moment when the children meet Santa and afterwards there will be a disco. |
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| The school was transformed into a magical wonderland where the children met Santa and two of his elves. |
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| Afterwards, fuelled by chocolate Santa heads, I would sit in a nest of crumpled, torn wrapping paper, impatient for the new year to move quickly. |
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| In the battle of imaginary bad men, the hostilities between Satan and Santa are more or less an anagrammatical draw. |
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| Among the many highlights of the Craft Fair will be the arrival of Santa by boat no less. |
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| Samis are often stereotyped as the comical helpers of Santa Claus or, even more negatively, as drunken fools or jesters. |
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| This afternoon in Santa Monica, or off the coast of Santa Monica, a waterspout formed over the Pacific Ocean. |
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| In 1952 he settled permanently in Santa Fe in New Mexico and spent the rest of his life painting landscapes and scenes from New Mexico. |
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| Leading Australians jumped on the bandwagon as the Santa ban spread, with radio talk-back shows abuzz with festive fury. |
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| A California quail and a Bewick's wren are among four bird subspecies found only on Santa Catalina. |
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| Thousands of Swindon youngsters will be eagerly waiting up for Santa to drop down the chimney tonight. |
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| Finally, Josh, a 17-year-old grocery bagger at a health food store in downtown Santa Cruz expressed his frustration about the job market. |
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| He said police then followed spoors into the Santa informal settlement and saw the cattle with an unidentified man. |
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| And then Santa arrived with his bag of Christmas gifts for everyone, courtesy of the Abbeyleix Goose Club draw. |
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| In Santa Rosa, this family-run operation bears the distinctive stamp of its Old World owner, Joe Matos. |
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| This narrow, mile-long byway in northeast Santa Fe is rich in traditional adobe-style and Territorial homes. |
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| He had been Santa for nephews and nieces at family dos, and I thought he was very good. |
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| Two parties, the Federalist and the Centralists, quickly appeared, and in 1833 the liberal federalist Santa Anna emerged as President. |
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| But when Santa leaves him an extra present by accident Julian realises he will have to give it back. |
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| When Allison Wright and Andy Kaplan purchased their Santa Monica home, the windows all along the side of their house faced a barren alley. |
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| The Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala is a well-endowed hostel and infirmary in Siena. |
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| Many other counties, including Sonoma, Alameda, and Santa Barbara, are organizing to pass similar measures. |
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| The little plane descends over the Santa Barbara Channel and lands on the runway above Bechers Bay. |
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| Deep-sea cores taken from Santa Barbara Basin provide some of the highest-resolution marine climate records in the world. |
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| Melissa L. Block, MEd, is a freelance writer on health and nutrition who lives in Santa Barbara, California. |
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| In fact they are the godparents of my son, born in Santa Cruz some twenty years ago. |
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| For this is what has allowed the government to appear in the guise of Santa Claus. |
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| Time seemed to pass slowly as they wound their way from the base to Santa Barbara. |
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| Actually it wasn't too much colder than Santa Fe, but the extra wetness and windiness made it feel much colder. |
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| It's a tradition to see Santa every year, tell him what you'd like for Christmas, and get a candy cane. |
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| The main cause for the decline of foxes on Santa Catalina Island is the rapid spread of canine distemper, which is transmitted by dogs. |
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| The pioneer aerialist and outspoken activist is now aligned with the Santa Cruz program. |
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| I would wear hairpieces to school, and for Christmas I wore my Santa elf costume with thigh-high red boots. |
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| The breeds selected to form the genetic pool were Hereford, Angus, Afrikander and Santa Gertirudis. |
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| Ten days later, Sam Houston's army caught up with Santa Anna and whomped him at the Battle of San Jacinto. |
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| I'd love to sign up for the Secret Santa thing this year, too, but I got stiffed last year, so it sort of left a bad taste in my mouth. |
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| As you drive north on State 68 from Santa Fe to Taos, the road climbs up out of a box canyon and enters a sweeping horseshoe curve. |
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| Beginning with the first reintroductions in 1992, 13 condors have been reintroduced into the wild in Santa Barbara County. |
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| They are both wearing Santa Claus hats, and they are out of their heads on Malibu. |
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| They must need a lot of Dutch courage to fight an eight-foot Santa Claus because it must be a scary battle. |
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| No one is ever quite sure how the Sami people of Lapland managed to lay such undisputed claim to the fact that Santa Claus abides among them. |
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| The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance. |
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| And as with many social forces in Santa Monica, the roots of this debate can be traced to rent control. |
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| The three appeared in court on January 1 when a judge ordered their committal to Puerto De Santa Maria II prison, near Cadiz. |
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| Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto. |
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| If Santa has brought you your dreamphone, what are you going to do to dispose of any old mobiles you might have? |
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| They both run the large amusement manufacturing plant in town, and have just received a huge order from Santa for animatronic wooden soldiers. |
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| As far as the actual game goes, I have acquired a new personal hero who goes by the name of Roque Santa Cruz. |
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| At Santa Clara, Slaton is majoring in psychobiology, the study of mental functioning and behavior in relation to other biological processes. |
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| The Santa Barbara spill, say environmentalists, turned California against offshore drilling. |
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| At least with Santa Claus, we know there really was a Saint Nicholas on whom all the later wild stories are based. |
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| When I ask to visit, I'm told to look for the yellow Santa Fe Railway boxcar, which is set atilt on uneven ground and easily seen from the road. |
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| We didn't have to wait too long before we got in and I must say that Santa was very good. |
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| At the Santa Maria Courthouse is the wind-blown Ted Rowlands, CNN correspondent covering the Jackson trial. |
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| Do you think Santa flew all the way here and left these presents so you can sleep in like lazy bums? |
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| As thousands of children across the borough count down the final days to Christmas, Santa will be preparing for his busiest day of the year. |
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| At 7.49 am, a backpack bomb tore through their train as it entered Santa Eugenia station, nine miles from Atocha. |
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| At its southern end, the terrain drops down to the Santa Rosa Plateau, a 2,000-foot-high tableland with canyons, mesas, and low hills. |
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| His adopted hometown of Santa Barbara actually welcomed back its favorite son with a parade this afternoon. |
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| Another possibility is to patch up the current Santa and build an extra platform on the other side of the tower with blow-up elves and reindeer. |
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| The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads. |
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| After just over an hour of paddling, we straggled onto a beach called Santa Barbara, our first night's campsite. |
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| With a successful business sector and a rapidly growing population, Santa Clarita is a notable example of a boomburb. |
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| In the flesh, we've gotten far closer to the jollification with which Santa is frequently associated. |
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| Riders will learn about trains, can sing Christmas carols in the piano bar and may have a glimpse of Santa on the train. |
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| Local schoolchildren led a rousing rendition of some popular Christmas carols and Santa Claus was on hand. |
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| Nonetheless, Santa is one of those convenient lies everyone benefits from and, therefore, upholds. |
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| Peter Pesic is a tutor and musician-in-residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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| The animals will be penned so that people can pat them and speak to Santa before a final high street parade at 1.45 pm. |
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| I just spent all weekend, back in my Santa Fe kitchen, making rose macarons. |
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| There was a lot of guessing as to who Santa was but we can say he is a well-known local entertainer. |
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| Five years after his retirement from the tour, Tanner ran a senior tennis event in Santa Barbara, California. |
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| The idea, I suppose, is that while Santa was fiddling the lock his reindeer would hover over the driveway. |
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| She scored a tamagotchi from Santa and it has been training us to keep it happy for the last couple of days. |
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| And a guy who reportedly cut in line at a Florida Wal-Mart may want to ask Santa for an ice pack. |
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| I am in San Jose today for a moot court at Santa Clara Law School to prepare for the argument. |
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| You can also visit Santa Monica Place, a tri-level skylit galleria housing 570,000 square feet with 120 shops and eateries. |
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| I was swimming in Santa Clara where the only guy is, and it was really hot that day, so all of the women were wearing two-pieces. |
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| The big moment arrived, as Santa was heralded into the room and conducted a sing-along with all the expectant wide-eyed crowd. |
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| It was all good clean fun and a day many of the little people will cherish long after their Santa days. |
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| In our house Santa delivers stockings to the bedrooms, in which everything, even a satsuma, is individually wrapped, with lots of Sellotape. |
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| In Christmas news, I'd like to thank my Secret Santa for their excellent taste. |
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| With his gold-rimmed aviator glasses, gray hair, trim beard and friendly face, he almost looked like Santa Claus. |
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| If you're a fan of Santa, speed, bobsleighs or really annoying banjo music, Speedy Santa is the game for you. |
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| The jagged skyline of the Santa Catalina Mountains seemed to rise just beyond the traffic. |
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| On the main road that heads up towards Santa Croce from the river, this lively osteria attracts a young, local crowd. |
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| California Governor Gray Davis is stumping in Santa Monica, faced with new evidence that he may indeed be voted out of office next week. |
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| In 1598 Santa Isabel enjoyed the beneficence of Ana Paredes Aldrete who left the convent a rent worth 1000 maravedis a year. |
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| Now is a time for cynics to drop their superior sneers, swap their sarcasm for a sleigh and listen to the Santa in their soul. |
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| Local residents pulled out all the stops to make Santa feel welcome, with balloons and decorations. |
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| Last week, I wrote to Santa asking him to send us a White Christmas so that I could take my grandchildren sledging. |
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| We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit. |
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| North west of Oristano at Santa Cristina, disconcertingly close to the superstrada, are reminders of Sardinian life 3,500 years ago. |
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| It had a little yellow slicker and hat for rainy days, Halloween stuff in October, Santa clothes for Christmas. |
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| In the 1870s, it took mailmen two days to travel the road from Santa Clara to Felton, a distance of 30 miles. |
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| I live in an unimposing neighborhood on the skirts of Silicon Valley backed against the Santa Cruz Mountains. |
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| The shortened, Latinised version of his name became Sancte Claus, which led to the obvious name of Santa Claus. |
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| Santa's national secretariat is embroiled in several disputes with other Santa hospitals throughout the country. |
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| At each stop, children visit with Santa Claus in the caboose before touring two more cars full of holiday displays. |
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| The elements brought to it by the Arrernte at Santa Teresa infused the rite with an unfamiliar vitality. |
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| They ran to the Santa Cruz cemetery where they planned to pay homage to a young boy killed in the weeks of violent purges. |
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| Underwater seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Monica Bay have deposited tar over area beaches. |
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| After a US victory at the town of San Antonio in 1836, Santa Anna's forces moved north in strength to retake it. |
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| More recently San Lorenzo itself and the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella have begun charging entrance fees. |
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| You might be interested to know that Off-Season Santa is located in the same strip mall as Fashion Bug, my old employer! |
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| Legend has it that a group of early chaologists in Santa Cruz would sit in cafes looking for strange attractors through the window. |
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| Birds and chipmunks feel right at home in this miniature oasis amid the dry chaparral of the Santa Cruz Mountains. |
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| The common stars of cool-weather climates are Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and the Santa Cruz Mountains do them proud. |
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| Today, the Santa Ynez Valley produces a diverse range of superb varietal wines, including Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah. |
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| Around her neck and from each ear hung a little Santa Claus and a bracelet held charms of snowmen, reindeer, and candy canes. |
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| Leaving the house this morning I saw a guy dressed in a Santa suit, sans hat, walking along the road and drinking from a hip flask. |
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| He attempted to enter the ship by the funnel but nearly went up in a puff of smoke due to the non fire retardant Santa suit. |
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| The Service published a final rule on September 21 listing the Santa Barbara County population of the California tiger salamander as endangered. |
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| And a suite of modern dances was performed by Santa Clara University students. |
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| Little animatronic angels danced as a small tired-looking animatronic Santa gestured below the tree. |
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| He served as Chef de Mission for the Belgian delegation to The First World Games 1981 in Santa Clara. |
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| War Chant punched his ticket to the Kentucky Derby when he won the San Rafael Stakes and was second in the Santa Anita Derby. |
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| Sure, they did a season of summer stock out in Santa Barbara in the thirties. |
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| It takes much more than cherubic cheeks, a bright red suit and a weight problem to be Santa these days. |
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| Inevitable Hollywood ending aside, Bad Santa doesn't stray too far from its black comedy roots. |
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| During wagering on Wednesday and Thursday at Santa Anita, the pick six handle total was larger than it had been on the same days last year. |
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| Yoga enthusiasts can perform sun salutations on the beach at Bacara Resort, located 10 minutes from the Santa Barbara airport. |
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| There's no harm in asking Santa to give me my hair back, rid me of dark circles, and transform me into Brad Pitt. |
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| Their language was apparently largely related to the Chumash spoken by the Indians on the mainland of Santa Barbara country. |
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| Most books mark the route's end where Santa Monica Boulevard intersects Ocean Avenue, on the palisades above Santa Monica State Beach. |
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| The singer surrendered to authorities in Santa Barbara, California, this past week. |
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| For much of the past two centuries, the Chumash of Santa Ynez lived in anonymity and abject poverty. |
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| Then our big sisters said it was time to go and see Santa when I was still throwing snowballs. |
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| At Christmastime thirteen Santa Claus figures called Christmas Men are said to visit every home in the land. |
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| Homes are decorated with greens but Christmas trees, stockings, special lights, Santa Claus, and mistletoe are missing. |
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| Hew home was so cosy and so artistically decorated for Christmas with decorations, lights, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. |
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| So why have Santa Fe woodcutters been unable to develop a more appropriate knowledge system to inform their woodcutting practices? |
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| She also cited a 2001 Utah case in which a man legally changed his name to Santa Claus. |
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| I saw a concert in Santa Barbara in 2002 and it was just an ocean of black pompadoured hair. |
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| Children in all kinds of outfits vied with each other to receive gifts from radio jockey Ajai, who was dressed as the paunchy Santa Claus for the event. |
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| The figure of Santa Claus first begins to show up among the Pennsylvania Dutch in the mid 1820s in the form of Kris Kringle, or as he was also known, Belsnickle. |
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| Enriqueta Romero put a skeleton on the sidewalk, and helped give us Santa Muerte. |
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| Bohac vowed to that when he came back next year there would be no confusion about any Christmas tree or Santa aprons. |
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| She appeared in a Santa Ana courtroom on Thursday wearing a dark blue prison jumpsuit with her hair tied up in a bun. |
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| He is a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo, one of the 22 tribes in New Mexico. |
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| Yes, the future lawmaker built up a full-service Santa business with a sleigh pulled by real reindeer. |
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| She also pointedly noted that some of the Santa Barbara victims were stabbed, not shot. |
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| For a week prior to Easter Sunday, Seville's famed Semana Santa processions trail evocatively, and sometimes not a little eerily, through the streets. |
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| That should knock the snark out of the precocious six-year old who wonders exactly how Santa knows all. |
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| Yet another massacre occurred last night at an institution of learning, this time the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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| Walkslikeaduck had recently returned to training at Santa Anita Park after suffering a pastern injury, but will not race again, the trainer Paddy told Daily Racing Form. |
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| I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache. |
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| What happens when faux psychic detective Shawn Spencer is busted for having lied to the Santa Barbara Police for eight years? |
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| In 2012 San Francisco had a significantly lower share of STEM jobs per capita than Santa Clara County. |
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| While speaking at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara, Castro tripped while leaving the stage. |
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| Residents there proclaimed in 1927 that Santa could never live in the North Pole because his reindeer would never survive. |
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| Actually the Santa myth goes back to a Lapp man in folk history who used to cut firewood and give it to the poor during the winters, who also carved wooden toys for children. |
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| I bought it at an auction and outbid a man who looked like Santa Claus. |
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| We were driven by Santo Piccione, a watch-repairer and fine deacon from the Santa Elisabetta church who takes one day off each week to do his diaconal duties. |
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| Because Benetton's land is well fenced in other areas and Santa Rosa was known among Mapuche to be unoccupied, the family believed the plot was available. |
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| A skinny mall Santa who may also be a security guard watches me watch him. |
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| Similarly, Maria Turregano reserved 20,000 maravedis of her legitimas for herself, specifying that the sum would go to her convent, Santa Catalina, upon her death. |
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| And she is focused on her so-far-unsuccessful quest to get a puppy from her mothers or Santa Claus or anyone who will listen. |
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| This was, after, a little girl who stopped believing in Santa Claus when she was six. |
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| Since 2000, CrossFit has grown from a single gym in Santa Cruz to around 10,000 worldwide. |
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| He loved to read, and had a degree in music with a minor in jazz from the University of Santa Cruz. |
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| In 2008, the group donated it all to the University of California at Santa Cruz. |
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| Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried. |
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| Both sides have taken out full-page ads in the Los Angeles Times' local insert, and both sides have sent out mailers to most of Santa Monica's 93,000 residents. |
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| Her career as a sculptress began in Italy through work with master sculptors in the artistic centre of Bottega Versiliese, in Pietra Santa where she still had a studio. |
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| It has been determined that a trespasser riding the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train closed the air brake valves between the railcars and opened the coupler. |
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| This Santa and his helpers ride Harley hogs rather than a sleigh. |
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| Taste the good life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, filled with art galleries, adobe hotels and flavorful restaurants. |
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| We drove back to L.A. through the Santa Monica Mountains on the Mulholland Highway, portions of which curve along steep drop-offs. |
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| Greengrass told the quartet they had the parts at Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica. |
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| There was more drama on the run-in as the horse did well to avoid someone dressed as Santa who made a dash across the track in the closing stages. |
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| As we shall see, the antiphonaries and graduals of Santa Maria del Fiore include illuminations that are clearly Medicean in their iconographic details. |
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| Yellowish pyromorphite in crystals to 1.5 cm associated with wulfenite and mimetite is reported from the Los Galemes and Santa Rosa mines, Mazapil, Zacatecas. |
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| This Santa is as fat and jolly as he needs to be, and really is a good guy, but he also has a regiment of armed-to-the-teeth elves to defend his high-tech Polar home. |
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| Give your wallet a break and mark your calendar for Glow, the dusk-to-dawn biannual art event on Santa Monica Beach. |
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| What, I suspect, we really want from Santa is peace at home for the holidays. |
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| More than 90 children were treated to a festive lunch as Santa strolled in, handing out gifts to the kids, assisted by Rotarians, an event enjoyed by all who took part. |
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| The Venetian police force is headquartered in the former convent, Santa Zaccaria, another site that has seen more exciting days. |
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| The 19-year-old Jou, an aspiring doctor, often tutored and volunteered at charities around her rancho Santa Margarita home. |
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| Jesse Jackson could not restrain himself from winging to Santa Maria. |
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| If you're lucky, you'll see Santa fly through the night sky. |
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| De Yong took note of these changes, and in September 1926 he moved to the California vaquero country near Santa Barbara to study bronze casting with western artist Ed Borein. |
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| The sister city relationship between Dingle and Santa Barbara will help strengthen mutual understanding and promote friendly relations between both towns. |
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| Ocado's style is so much the opposite of the hard sell that, bar a single Santa Coca-Cola advert, its site has still not sprouted so much as a sprig of holly. |
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| And so on April 29, as the jury handed down acquittals, Tur was in his hangar at the Santa Monica airport, ready to go. |
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| Again, each child was welcomed by a smiling elf who brought them to the cubicle where a warm, friendly Santa tried every trick in the book to charm my youngster. |
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| In the catacombs of the Capuchin crypt beneath Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, the bones of 4000 monks are arranged in Baroque patterns on the ceilings. |
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| In preparation, she asked Santa for new cowgirl boots and a cowgirl hat this year. |
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| The various groups that make up this community have organized to challenge development, protect the riparian region of the Santa Cruz River, and promote bird watching. |
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| Before these famous cartoons went viral, Santa was depicted either as a tall, thin, and less than jolly fellow or an elfin man. |
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| In 1566 Pope Pius V requested that Danti use his architect's skills to design Santa Croce, the church of the Dominican monastery at Bosco Marengo near Alessandria. |
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| Greg moseyed out of the trailer and ambled over to his bike, taking comfort in the knowledge that the police would be looking for a guy in a Santa suit. |
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| This subplot narrates the story of a book written in Latin by Hernando de Rivas, a Nahuatl, during his stay in the convent of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco. |
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| The company rumours about your stumbling antics with the nubile, young secretary have subsided, and Santa Claus once again brought you those lovely silk boxer shorts. |
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| Per Santa Muerte tradition, devotees offer apples, cigarettes, and bottles of tequila. |
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| The roles of the kindly professor and Santa Claus were tailor-made for Liam Murphy, whose avuncular presence must have been very reassuring for the children at the outset. |
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| The launch of the play club was a family affair with carols galore and of course Santa cutting the ribbon and having a quiet word with the younger guests. |
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| It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest. |
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| It's not until they are carrying me away, not until I can feel the cold metal of the handcuffs biting into my wrists, that it sinks in I just shot Santa Claus. |
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| Another day, head down to the border to explore Santa Elena Canyon, which sits on the rio grande. |
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| It's a lot better gift than giving out a Santa tie or argyle socks again. |
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| If you buy a picture book of that poem, the illustrations are usually of the full-size, jolly, red and white Santa Claus. |
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| Just two days later, a tipster called in with information that led them to the Santa Monica hotel. |
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| The California Horse Racing Board has increased security on backstretches throughout the state since four sponging incidents at Santa Anita in October. |
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| I was interning at MTV in Santa Monica and they sent me down to the lobby to escort DJ AM up the elevator to my boss' office. |
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| Duhaut-Cilly traveled the coast in the late 1820s and reported shell lime being made for the construction of the new mission church at Santa Barbara. |
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| The plants growing about the Picachos de Santa Clara are more robust and less surculose than those in the Sierra Vizcaino proper and resemble A. gigantensis. |
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| It was originally believed he was on one of his fact finding missions making sure all the kids were behaving themselves but this Santa was on a different crusade. |
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| His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover. |
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| Santa Fe has been a lodestone for the study, idealization, and romanticization of the American Indian since the completion of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. |
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| A year later, the press speculated that Bubbles died when a fire tore through Jackson's Santa Barbara menagerie. |
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| A homeless-looking Santa wandered around carrying booze in a brown paper bag. |
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| I remember being heartbroken when I found out Santa Claus did not exist. |
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| More likely it was a case of misplaced scorn for the saccharine melodies that overwhelmed the odes to left-coast burgs Santa Cruz, Big Sur and Hollywood. |
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| I am therefore surprised to arrive at Hotel Galapagos on Santa Cruz, an hour or so later, to find one draped across my doorstep like a novelty draft excluder. |
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| I blame it on the spoils of a childhood surrounded by Gravenstein apple trees, Santa Rosa plums, and tangles of blackberries growing wild on my parents' acre of land. |
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| Much later a friend who was a capuchin friar held for Marlantes an effective healing Mass for the Dead at Old Mission Santa Inez. |
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| He resided in Santa Barbara, Calif., with his golden retriever dogs and surfed in his spare time. |
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| The lady is a St Vincent de Paul volunteer, or Vincentian, and each Christmas she cooks dinner for the children and brings them Santa presents at 9pm. |
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| In 1969, an anthropologist working in Santa Fe de la Laguna decried the uncontrolled woodcutting and timber raiding that was finishing off the forests there. |
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| Soon thereafter, Bentivolio was asked to play Santa in downtown Milford and became a professional. |
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| The point of the Santa Claus myth is to compel children to play nice, finish their greens, and go to bed early. |
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| They were also bored, with most their friends living in Santa Monica, where the Colony kids had to be bused to schools. |
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| The dude ranch, 35 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, offers a full children's program, including horseback riding, a petting zoo and lakeside activities. |
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| Besides, Santa doesn't tattletale on anyone, not even reindeers. |
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| He is currently a fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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| The precious little darlings soon become ungrateful little brats when they discover that Santa was on a budget and couldn't afford the most expensive toy in the universe. |
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| Perhaps La Santa Muerte gives them the confidence to practice some black magic of their own. |
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| Vasari's biography confirms that Leonardo began to draw the cartoon in the Sala del Papa of the monumental Dominican building complex of Santa Maria Novella. |
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| The area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. |
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| Huxley also occasionally lectured at the Hollywood and Santa Barbara Vedanta temples. |
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| They were married in August 1940, at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara. |
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| On 31 December 2008, Oldman married English singer and actress Alexandra Edenborough in Santa Barbara, California. |
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| That year he also received the Modern Master Award, the highest honor presented by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. |
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| Another famous 'capture' was that of the Spanish frigates Thetis and Santa Brigada which were loaded with gold specie. |
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| The plateaus in Santa Cruz province and parts of Chubut usually have snow cover through the winter, and often experience very cold temperatures. |
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| To mark the announcement at their T Wrexham headquarters a Santa plunged from a giant crane on a bungee rope. |
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| We checked into adjoining rooms in a beach motel near the center of Santa Teresa... The keyboy opened the door between our two rooms. |
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| Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms. |
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| It is set in England, and Hitchcock used the north coast of Santa Cruz, California for the English coastline sequence. |
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| At Paleorrota geopark, located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the Santa Maria Formation and Caturrita Formations are exposed. |
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| Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands. |
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| And I heard that Tony Roberts of Santa Cruz Speed Wheels fame lived nearby, but was away on another sick surfboat trip somewhere in Exotica. |
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| The entire region can expect powerful Santa Ana winds and low humidities today. |
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| When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy. |
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| Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue. |
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| The bus was reportedly travelling from the Spanish city of Badajoz to the tourist destination of Santa Maria da Feira. |
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| It is as deliberate as the shooting in Santa Barbara Friday night. |
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| He was born Enrique Alejandro Prado on May 3, 1950, in Santa Clara, Cuba. |
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| Nor, later, the Massacios from the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. |
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| The sizzling apple pie at Jones on Santa Monica Boulevard was a must. |
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| Ever hear of the Santa Rosa plum, the plumcot, or the white blackberry? |
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| Back in September, Kim Kardashian suffered a wardrobe malfunction on Tuesday while promoting Midori cocktails at Fred Segal in Santa Monica. |
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| The second area is on the Highway 90 corridor that connects Cartagena, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta. |
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| You will imbibe the mint fragrance of yerba buena and the raspberry aroma of Santa Susana tarweed. |
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| The entree choices will be baked fish with dill sauce, Swiss steak or Santa Fe salad. |
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| The Local Group, an astronomy club from Santa Clarita will have telescopes set up for public viewing. |
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| The Mity Mite Broncos, a City of Santa Clarita flag football team, clinched first place with an 8-0 record. |
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| An office manager, he says, was wearing an apron with Santa on it. |
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| Sponsors of the program include the AAUW, The Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley and Soroptimist International. |
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| When they meet again on the Campo di Santa Margherita, Pinocchio is caged in a wastebin and not at first recognized. |
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| George Ancona spent a year photographing the school garden at Acequia Madre Elementary School near his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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| If the space is sunny, plant a mix of vibrant perennials such as catmint, lavender, lion's tail, penstemon, and Santa Barbara daisy. |
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| The swimmers, some in Santa hats, monkey suits and bright wigs, were cheered on by a large crowd of spectators. |
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| The Santa Anas are strongest in mountainous areas but taper off in strength by the time they reach valleys, Seto said. |
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| The Santa Anas are dry, hot winds, often laden with dust particles, that blow through Southern California each year. |
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| Santa Fe Chief of Police Kevin Kerney has traveled to Santa Barbara, California to buy quarter horses for his ranch. |
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| The most lavish examples of Medici-inspired art in the choirbooks of Santa Maria del Fiore are found in antiphonary Cod. |
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| This is a rash,'' said sheriff's detective Douglas Nale of the Santa Clarita station. |
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| A few minutes later, bombs targeted trains at small stations in El Pozo del Tio Raimundo and Santa Eugenia, both on the outskirts of Madrid. |
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| Contract Awarded for Expansion of the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California. |
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| The Santa Ana winds are troublesome as well because they kick up dust and pollen from trees and plants. |
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| The proposed Santa Clarita campus, Mission View Charter High, would be Desert Sands' 13th charter school in California. |
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| The term Christkindl evolved to Kriss Kringle, another nickname for Santa Claus. |
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| As his name is a Latinism for Santa he must have thought all his Christmases had come at once. |
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| On nearby Santa Barbara Island, the murrelets abound in the thousands, but their numbers are much smaller on Anacapa, and the difference is rats. |
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| The pair have been pictured together in the Santa Monica area of Los Angeles, lazing on the grass during a break. |
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