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Single conductor circuits probably do not work well in arrid, dry conditions, one conductor would need to be insulated from the other for a lethal voltage to exist.
Snake Skeleton 2006
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Going across this arrid region, I witnessed the droughts that are now destroying a centuries-old way of life, that of semi-nomadic herders.
Louis Belanger: Slideshow: Somaliland's Nomadic Lifestyle at Risk 2009
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Back in '84 Paul Simon escaped from the tedium of working in the family business which was a surprisingly lucrative albeit nomadic existance selling gently-used goods and services to the dirt-poor inhabitants who lived hand-to-mouth in the rural farming communities of his native arrid country.
Gracelandlubbers Fathorse 2009
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Going across this arrid region, I witnessed the droughts that are now destroying a centuries-old way of life, that of semi-nomadic herders.
Louis Belanger: Slideshow: Somaliland's Nomadic Lifestyle at Risk 2009
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Going across this arrid region, I witnessed the droughts that are now destroying a centuries-old way of life, that of semi-nomadic herders.
Louis Belanger: Slideshow: Somaliland's Nomadic Lifestyle at Risk 2009
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Another sunny and hot day in the middle of Oz. Though the area is not officially a desert, it is "semi-arrid".
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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This capatilistic rape is slowing coming to an end. .pimp my government .. put it in a car crush make some juicy human fertilizer out of them to replenish the arrid land.
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First of all, journalism has to leave the arrid and repetitive environment of Washington insider and New York City's collegiate biases and coverups.
CJR 2009
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Understand if it was the arrid parts of Oz. February 5th, 2009 at 1: 22 pm
Kiwiblog 2009
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I say they're deadly evil and vindictive not content to loiter in the chair by the fire warming a palsied limb like an arrid tree resolved for burning but bent with the word through the sapless lip like a spark from the crusted wood to blast the forest of us not more in bloom.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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