One instance cited by Thurlbeck concerns the case of a drug-dealer who he discovered had been supplying PCP, nicknamed angel dust. |
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In 1948, disgruntled southern Democrats, nicknamed Dixiecrats, launched the States' Rights party. |
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It was nicknamed the Marines Walk because, when the ship was anchored, an armed Royal Marine would be stationed on the gangboard. |
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Sheehy, nicknamed Dusty since his schooldays, believes the bookies are underestimating his horse, whom he rates a good each-way chance. |
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Fourteen of his other victims could not stand the brutal mauling by the fighter nicknamed the Slashing Tiger. |
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John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland. |
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Frequently used items can be nicknamed and grouped, and marked as favorites. |
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From what I have read, Chicago is nicknamed the windy city for different reasons. |
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Miss Wilcox had worn the cap almost every day since buying it a year ago and was nicknamed Ted and Edward because of the brand name. |
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The new entertainment centre has such a distinctive shape the young people around town have nicknamed it already. |
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He was nicknamed Starlight because his character changed so much once the stars appeared. |
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You can answer almost any question people ask, and have thus been nicknamed Jeeves. |
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She has been nicknamed the lioness of the African radio waves as she tears into politicians with her no-holds-barred approach. |
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Skipjack tuna, or skippies, as they are nicknamed, can be seen flashing their silver just under the surface. |
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And being nicknamed the Toffeemen isn't harming Everton, currently fourth in the Premiership. |
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Epidemiologists there have confirmed 14 cases of the viral illness, which is spread by mosquitoes and nicknamed breakbone fever. |
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Initially nicknamed Robin Redbreasts, on account of their scarlet waistcoats, the constables came to be known as the Bow Street Runners. |
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The Rockpile, as Mount Washington is unromantically nicknamed, towers 6,288 feet above sea level. |
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A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island. |
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Mr Harris revealed that, despite the ban, he had been part of a group that continued tunnelling through an undiscovered route nicknamed George. |
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By the age of 48 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, nicknamed asbestos cancer, and died five years later at his home in Lanhill View. |
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Originally nicknamed the catbear, the red panda became known as the bearcat. |
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The lucky new resident, nicknamed Tama-chan, was given residency because he has been seen of late frolicking in and basking along a local river. |
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For several years, a manta nicknamed Molly used to be the star attraction here. |
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The dog, nicknamed John, appeared on the grass verge by the side of the road in the main street through the village. |
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The coin landed tails, the outback was their destination and the pair set off in a T model Ford, nicknamed Henrietta. |
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He is so nicknamed because he never stops talking of Crime and Punishment, guilt and atonement. |
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It was nicknamed the Everest of canals because its 91 locks lifted boats 600 ft. |
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One of them fetched Manuel, nicknamed Barba, who was, of course, clean shaven. |
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Cyprus is nicknamed the Isle of Love because it is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite. |
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So, was it a coincidence you were Captain Hammer on Dr. Horrible and nicknamed Captain Tightpants on firefly? |
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Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure. |
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His wishful forecasts on economic growth were nicknamed Rosy Scenario by his colleagues, but now the Congressional Budget Office has matched his rosiness. |
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A member of the Nightshade family, the tomato originated in Central America and was brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors, who nicknamed it the love apple. |
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The sniper nicknamed Big Ears arrived at the base not just alive, but unharmed. |
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Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire. |
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The fastest man in table tennis, so sharp that the Chinese had nicknamed him The Brain, looked like he was wearing stone sneakers. |
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They sat on their civilised behinds and laughed as the frightened face of the woman they'd nicknamed The Pig stared from their screens like a rabbit caught in headlights. |
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Her care for children led to her being nicknamed Auntie Joan. |
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We nicknamed her Skippy cos she skips around when she dances! |
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He had two motorbikes, which he nicknamed Jessie James and Valerie James. |
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Hospital chaplains have even nicknamed the ducklings the 12 disciples. |
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On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths. |
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What she wanted to be was out in the field, but since organizing the special police unit nicknamed the Chasers, she had been firmly stuck behind a desk. |
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The Shawclough Primary pupil, nicknamed The Rhino by his pals, will be told after his sixth round of treatment in December whether the tumour is operable. |
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With glowing valves and copious amounts of paper tape the Met Office finally embraced the computer age in 1959 and purchased a Ferranti Mercury, which was nicknamed Meteor. |
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Jacquelyn nicknamed him Spike, in recognition of his petulant, fiery nature, which his four younger siblings apparently found considerably irksome. |
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As a child growing up in Moray, Caledonian Thistle's manager was nicknamed Pele because of the precocious talent which saw him signed by Manchester United as a 15-year-old. |
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It is the longest in Britain and is nicknamed the Goliath of all limos. |
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In 1979, the 1st XV of St Paul's, nicknamed the 'Invincibles' went twelve matches undefeated. |
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Protestantism also spread from the German lands into France, where the Protestants were nicknamed Huguenots. |
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It is nicknamed diamondback for the five rows of bony plates, or scutes along its back. |
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Unusually the resting buds become covered in a white waxy coating nicknamed polar caps. |
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The town of Valognes was, until the French Revolution, a provincial social resort for the aristocracy, nicknamed the Versailles of Normandy. |
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The endoscope, nicknamed ''Mermaid,'' is capable of taking two shots per second, while its driving gear is powered by an electromagnet. |
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Walkers have been left baffled by the quivering, translucent mass, nicknamed Star Jelly because it reputedly fell to Earth from meteors. |
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They are nicknamed The Wee Hoops and play at Donegal Celtic Park on Suffolk Road in Belfast. |
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It is sometimes nicknamed the Parochial and Journal for its local news focus. |
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The design may have been influenced by the Jeep and the prototype, later nicknamed Centre Steer, was built on a Jeep chassis and axles. |
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At 150 meters beneath the ocean's surface, there is a region of the sea nicknamed the twilight zone. |
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A GIRL nicknamed Jaws by bullies who taunted her because of her underbite is embracing her new post-surgery life. |
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The 21ft northern bottlenose whale, nicknamed Gilbert, is thought to have drowned after it got tangled in fishing nets. |
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The soldiers were nicknamed Marius' Mules because of the amount of gear they had to carry themselves. |
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It was the year that sportswriter Frank Grimm of the old New York Sun nicknamed them the Gashouse Gang. |
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Her mother, father and little brother were killed and Joana, mum to four-year-old Osvaldo, nicknamed Geronimo, was kidnapped and jailed. |
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Supporters of the strike nicknamed the BBC the BFC for British Falsehood Company. |
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In July 1968 Clapton gave George Harrison a 1957 'goldtop' Gibson Les Paul that been refinished with a red colour, nicknamed Lucy. |
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Mr Date, nicknamed the Knight Guider, charged 14 ghost hunters PS12 each for the spooky tour at the Halfway Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. |
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When she peered out she spotted the terrified ferret, nicknamed Dobby by his rescuers, being attacked by a 20 to 30 crows. |
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When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday. |
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Dhaka, the nation's biggest city, is nicknamed the Rickshaw Capital of the World. |
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This opened in 1890 with electric locomotives that hauled carriages with small opaque windows, nicknamed padded cells. |
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One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia. |
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Sally Boazman, BBC Radio 2's traffic reporter and CB radio users nicknamed it the Little House on the Prairie. |
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The German ones were nicknamed Big Berthas, even though the namesake was not a railway gun. |
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They were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed Albertopolis, alongside the Imperial Institute. |
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One of the first known hominins, it was nicknamed 'handy man' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools. |
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Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery. |
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The final pandemic originated in 1961 in Indonesia and is marked by the emergence of a new strain, nicknamed El Tor, which still persists today. |
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A dolphin nicknamed Freddie was a frequent visitor to the marina, attracting much local publicity. |
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The yeet began, culturally, with a Vine of a kid affectionately nicknamed Lil Meatball doing the dance on his school's track. |
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Millions of people around the world now communicate in a speedy and shortened version of English, nicknamed Weblish. |
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The 22,000-tonne aircraft carrier, nicknamed the Lusty Lady of the seas, had to postpone her visit yest erday. |
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Eddie said he had been nicknamed 'the randiest man at the Beeb' for his exploits and revelled in his reputation despite having a family. |
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Nash, nicknamed 'Nasty' also has the honour of being knighted by His Majesty King Leo 1st of Redonda in the West Indies. |
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But he defended their decision to keep the python, which they nicknamed Hisser, in the family home. |
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A SHAMELESS mum nicknamed Tarty Tara was jailed for two years for setting her house ablaze while her girl of three slept upstairs. |
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He spent 15 minutes reeling in the mighty mirror carp, nicknamed the Big Girl, which tipped the scales at a whopping 60lbs 6ozs. |
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He spent 15 minutes reeling in this mirror carp, nicknamed the Big Girl, which weighed in at 60lb 6oz. |
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Algal biofuel, sometimes nicknamed oilgae by environmentalists, is a promising technology. |
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The 27-year-old sledger, nicknamed Curly Wurly because of her frizzy hair, scored a stunning victory in Vancouver. |
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As a child her brothers nicknamed her Tin Lizzie, after a character from the comic Dandy, and she has lived up to the name ever since. |
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At this time it was possible for anyone to purchase a Tommy Gun, as it was soon nicknamed, over the counter. |
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Futures trader John, nicknamed Chinkie John by colleagues, panicked when investing heavily in German bonds. |
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And the harmless snake, nicknamed Spooner, is now being looked after at a rehoming centre while staff try to find his owner. |
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Indeed, Atlanta has been nicknamed the Silicon peach due to its burgeoning technology sector. |
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This bird, nicknamed 'Albert', proved a major attraction to birdwatchers. |
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The island has a long history of producing a variety of noted cuisines and wines, to the extent that Sicily is sometimes nicknamed God's Kitchen because of this. |
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It appears the positioning of the office block nicknamed the Walkie Talkie and its flat windows somehow created a curve and a powerful beam of light. |
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During his marriage to Amy Catherine, whom he nicknamed Jane, he drew a considerable number of pictures, many of them being overt comments on their marriage. |
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The British military built a series of specialised tanks, nicknamed Hobart's Funnies, to deal with conditions expected during the Normandy campaign. |
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Aptly nicknamed the blue earth, this sand contains high levels of a mineral known as glauconite, a silicate that is responsible for its unusual blue-green color. |
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Edna Broom was nicknamed Edna the Pedaller after she cycled to 30 castles in three days in 1984, sponsored at 1p a castle by school pupils across the North East. |
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Which bird was nicknamed gooney or goony after a slang term for fool? |
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Prosecutors will tell a court this week that he received handouts after stating he couldn't work because he had chromic fatigue syndrome, nicknamed Yuppie Flu. |
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In 1933, the player nicknamed the crocodile founded a sports clothing company producing a tennis shirt with an alligator-type figure embroidered on the chest. |
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Or the king of neighbouring Leon, who was nicknamed Alfonso the Slobberer. |
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Newport County, originally nicknamed The Ironsides due to Newport being home to Lysaght's Orb Works steel works, started out in the Southern League in 1912 at Somerton Park. |
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A new student accommodation tower, nicknamed 'The Blade', has started construction on the site of the old Victoria swimming baths, on the edge of Victoria Park. |
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The power cars are powered by an English Electric 4SRKT engine, nicknamed 'Thumpers' due to their characteristic sound, and have two English Electric 538 traction motors. |
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A Namibia, nicknamed the Welwitschias or Biltongboere, made their World Cup bow in 1999 and are now competing in their fourth successive tournament. |
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They said he was a member of the organized crime group nicknamed as Djin. |
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A ROGUE City trader nicknamed Chinkie John lost nearly pounds 7million and put 50 people out of work in an investment bungle, it was revealed last night. |
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As a result of this stroke of luck, he was nicknamed the Fortunate. |
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He was nicknamed Moonie, because he was such a daydreamer in school. |
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But some residents, who nicknamed it Stalag Luft after the notorious German prisoner-of-war camps, want it moved, saying it is an eyesore which blocks light. |
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The base was nicknamed after the western diamondback rattlesnake because of their massive presence during the construction of the Peyote Army Airfield. |
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Taylor was nicknamed the Worcester Whirlwind by the local papers. |
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Watching Lewis, affectionally nicknamed The Beast by the Corbett Sports Stadium faithful, give his all on the pitch makes me think back to a younger Lee Hunt. |
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Around 1993, a number of reports were made of a large black cat around Bodmin Moor, nicknamed the 'Beast of Bodmin', with at least two videos made. |
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Who designed the giant flying boat nicknamed the Spruce Goose? |
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The young men became crazy-wild because a straight guy nicknamed Pretty Boy had to sniff some dude-navel and triangular manhair between a frat guy's toned legs. |
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Montserrat is nicknamed The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. |
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With the highest Yes vote for any local authority in Scotland, some in the Yes Scotland campaign nicknamed Dundee the 'Yes City', including former First Minister Alex Salmond. |
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Philip then raised the issue of his other sister, Alys, Countess of Vexin, and her delayed betrothal to Henry's son Richard I of England, nicknamed Richard the Lionheart. |
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Supplied through Disposables UK distributor Wilson Washrooms, the range will be also used at the SSE Hydro arena and The Clyde Auditorium, nicknamed The Armadillo. |
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