The main course included confit of barbary duck leg and roasted loin of beef. |
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The black-caped lion of Cabin Boy to Barbary stands over the body of Delacroix, his kit and illustrated notebooks scattered in the rampage. |
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For example, you absolutely must take a tour to the Upper Rock to see the famous Barbary apes, which live there in a semi-wild state. |
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Also known as Barbary sheep, aoudads are horned sheep that exist primarily in the mountains of Africa. |
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At some time near the Algerian coast Barbary pirates boarded the ship and its good officers and men walked the plank. |
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The ban on planting Barbary has been lifted in many communities where wheat production is not a livelihood. |
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The research vessel, a century-old 60-foot gaff-rigged ketch, looks more like it belongs to Barbary pirates than to contemporary scientists. |
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Distinct from other species of wild sheep, the Barbary sheep has a mane of long, soft hair on the throat, chest and upper forelegs. |
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We have gallantly crossed swords with Barbary pirates along the shores of Tripoli. |
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Commercially grown and wild populations of Barbary sheep are legally hunted in New Mexico and Texas. |
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But his real favorite was Gibraltar, where he mixed with his own kind, the Barbary apes. |
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Foolishly, I opted for breast of Barbary duck with fondant potatoes, wilted spinach and a light lentil and butter sauce. |
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Love them or hate them, you simply have to take a tour to the Upper Rock to see the famous Barbary apes who live in a semi-wild state. |
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Galen had worked mainly on Barbary apes, considered closest to the human race. |
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Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided. |
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The Aoudad, also known as the Barbary Sheep, is a goat-antelope found in the rocky mountains of North Africa. |
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On July 14, 2006, staggering paresis of the hind legs, incoordination, and intermittent opisthotonos developed in a female barbary macaque. |
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My great treat was to be able to spend a whole day on the Rock of Gibraltar, inside the barbary Ape colony. |
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Arabian species include scimitar-horned oryx, addax, Arabian oryx, dama gazelle, Nubian ibex, wild goat, barbary sheep and Asiatic onager. |
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Chris travels to Gibraltar to encounter the only free-living primates in Europe, Barbary apes, and joins a research boat to go dolphin watching around the bay. |
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The chestnut groves are carpeted with drifts of western peony, pink, blue and yellow lupins, Spanish bluebell and Barbary nut iris, while rocky outcrops harbour man orchids. |
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A lone cheetah, a lone tiger and an African lion and a couple of lionesses are no more exciting than small herds of kangaroo, deer, giraffe or Barbary sheep. |
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There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes. |
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Officers had the blue coat by 1909, now worn with a cloth belt, plus the 1839 sixteen-button mess jacket and 1825 Mameluke sword from the Barbary Wars. |
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Most pilgrims prefer barbary sheep, a larger breed that costs only about SR500 per animal. |
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Other animals include scimitar-horned oryx, addax, Arabian oryx, dama gazelle, Nubian ibex, wild goats, barbary sheep and Asiatic onager. |
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After losing in this period of formal hostilities with European and American powers, the Barbary states went into decline. |
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The term has also been used to refer to people from Barbary, a region encompassing most of North Africa. |
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In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attack by the Barbary pirates. |
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The Barbary lion, hunted to extinction in the wild, was a subspieces native to Morocco and is a national emblem. |
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The other two primary predators of northern Africa, the Atlas bear and Barbary leopard, are now extinct and critically endangered, respectively. |
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The Barbary pirates continued to capture slaves from Europe and, to an extent, North America, from the 16th to 19th centuries. |
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The English term was introduced in the 19th century, replacing the earlier Barbary. |
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In 1816, the Royal Navy, with assistance from the Dutch, destroyed the Barbary fleet in the port of Algiers. |
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Galicia also suffered occasional slave raids by Barbary pirates, but not as frequently as the Mediterranean coastal areas. |
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Barbary pirates frequently attacked the Balearic islands, resulting in many coastal watchtowers and fortified churches being erected. |
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The Barbary falcon's shoulder and pelvis bones are stout by comparison with the peregrine, and its feet are smaller. |
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Barbary falcons breed at different times of year than neighboring peregrine falcon subspecies, but they are capable of interbreeding. |
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They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary. |
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We fought our first foreign war in Algiers to defeat the Barbary pirates. |
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We spent four hours on the site, near Canterbury in Kent, and saw all kinds of creatures from a grizzled leaf monkey to Barbary lions. |
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High on The Rock of Gibraltar, Benny the Barbary ape and six of his tail-less, furryfaced friends scampered up and held out leathery paws. |
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Not by the Raffles kind of gentlemen jewel thief, once played by Anthony Valentine, but by the Barbary apes that live on the Rock of Gibraltar. |
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Only if the tiny island include a couple of their famous Barbary Apes in defence. |
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The Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford, Oxfordshire, said the Barbary Dove, a smaller, African pigeon, was now happily hatching their eggs. |
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The research, carried out among Barbary macaque monkeys, revealed that baby's presence immediately breaks down barriers. |
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Retrospective serosurveillance showed that only 1 Barbary macaque was seropositive at the start of the outbreak. |
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Co-author Julia Fischer said that when a Barbary macaque male encounters another male with an infant, a 'bizarre ritual' takes place. |
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Many animals at the zoo have salt licks including camels, tapirs, Barbary sheep and reindeer. |
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This is harsh country, but I hunted aoudad, also called Barbary sheep, in Chad, on the southern fringe of the Sahara. |
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The zoo also received savannah and desert monitors, Brandt's hedgehogs, black swans, jackals, sika deers and Barbary sheep. |
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Ringneck doves are also commonly called Barbary doves, turtle doves, and some people even refer to them as pigeons. |
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A tranquiliser gun was first used, but failed, so keepers decided to shoot the tailless barbary macaque on Tuesday after fearing it might get lost in the 82-acre parkland. |
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines five meanings of the noun barbarian, including an obsolete Barbary usage. |
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The islands appear to have been raided frequently by Barbary pirates to enslave residents to support the Barbary slave trade. |
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Trade and diplomatic relations developed between England and the Barbary states during the rule of Elizabeth. |
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In 1390 Genoa initiated a crusade against the Barbary pirates with help from the French and laid siege to Mahdia. |
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Piracy off the Barbary coast was often assisted by competition among European powers in the 17th century. |
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Migrating birds are very common and Gibraltar is home to the only Barbary partridges found on the European continent. |
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Pirates from several countries, including the Barbary Coast, raided Iceland's coastal settlements and abducted people into slavery. |
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From 1360 the threat came from the south, from North Africa to Maghreb, mainly to Barbary pirates and corsairs of Barbary Coast. |
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In 1618 the Barbary pirates attacked Lanzarote and La Gomera taking 1000 captives to be sold as slaves. |
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The earliest naval trawler, xebec and windward ships were employed by the Barbary pirates from the 16th century. |
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More than 1 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries. |
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This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. |
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The Barbary pirates had long attacked English and other European shipping along the North Coast of Africa. |
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The English became familiar with captivity narratives written by Barbary pirates' prisoners and ransomed captives, as so many people were taken. |
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Barbary corsairs often attacked the Balearic Islands, and in response many coastal watchtowers and fortified churches were erected. |
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During the first half of the 17th century, Barbary raiding was at its peak. |
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A 2016 study found that Barbary corsairs were less militarily powerful after 1675 than they were at the start of the seventeenth century. |
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While the United States did secure peace treaties with the Barbary states, it was obliged to pay tribute for protection from attack. |
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While Barbary corsairs looted the cargo of ships they captured, their primary goal was to capture people for sale as slaves or for ransom. |
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Not many Barbary slaves could depend on being ransomed by their communities. |
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Rossini's opera L'Italiana in Algeri is based on the capture of several slaves by Barbary corsairs led by the bey of Algiers. |
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Villagers along the south coast of England petitioned the king to protect them from abduction by Barbary pirates. |
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The First Barbary War in 1801 and the Second Barbary War in 1815 led to more favorable peace terms ending the payment of tribute. |
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The Barbary Coast increased in influence in the 15th century, when the Ottoman Empire took over as rulers of the area. |
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A new study of the copulation habits of Barbary macaques may shed some light on the nature of your romantic Valentine's evening tryst. |
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Think of all the baboons and the geladas and the vervets and the patas monkeys and the Barbary apes and the Hanuman langurs. |
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In 1558 Barbary corsairs captured the town of Ciutadella, destroyed it, slaughtered the inhabitants and carried off 3,000 survivors to Istanbul as slaves. |
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From 1609 to 1616, England lost 466 merchant ships to Barbary pirates. |
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From 1442 to 1448, Alvise undertook various trips on Venetian galleys to the Barbary Coast and Crete, as a commercial agent of his cousin, Andrea Barbarigo. |
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Ceuta had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market. |
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The Moors, starting in the 8th century, also raided coastal areas around the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean, and became known as the Barbary pirates. |
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Following a successful slave revolt in Haiti, Britain and France stepped up the battle against the Barbary pirates and succeeded in stopping their enslavement of Europeans. |
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The slave trade ceased on the Barbary coast in the 19th and 20th centuries or when European governments passed laws granting emancipation to slaves. |
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Barbary slaves could hope to be freed through payment of a ransom. |
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However, growing English naval power and increasingly persistent operations against the corsairs proved increasingly costly for the Barbary States. |
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However, by the second half of the 17th century the greater European naval powers began to initiate reprisals to intimidate the Barbary States into making peace with them. |
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Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. |
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The Barbary pirates were also able to successfully defeat and capture many European ships, largely due to advances in sailing technology by the Barbary states. |
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In the 16th century, the Barbary states of North Africa rose to power, becoming a dominant naval power in the Mediterranean Sea due to the Barbary pirates. |
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During this period, prostitution was also very prominent in the Barbary Coast, San Francisco as the population was mainly men, due to the influx from the Gold rush. |
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Until the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, British treaties with the North African states protected American ships from the Barbary corsairs. |
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And cable car rides to enjoy magnificent views, boat trips to see dolphins and the chance to be entertained by Barbary apes on the rampage make for the icing on the cake. |
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None of the remaining 10 Barbary apes had serologic reactions. |
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