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Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!
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Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!
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Serge, un Français avec les Allemands, ça ne vas pas non!! les allmands dan le pub "britannia"??? zut alors!!!!!
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Guardian | Lebanon, North Korea, Russia... here is the world's new multipolar disorder A questão das ordens mundiais tem muito que se lhe diga, da pax romana ao rule britannia, sem esquecer a guerra fria e a famosa new world order proclamada pelo pai do agora presidente norte-americano.
Leituras Artur 2006
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So again, today ` s "Entertainment Weekly" Oscar quiz -- Oscar statuettes were first made of bronze before the Academy switched to which of these gold-plated alloys, adamantium, britannia metal, cupronickel or brass?
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It touched up the cruet-stand and the britannia metal in the little dining-room at the Green Man and an emaciated ray even found its way to the rows of bottles in the bar and to the anvil at Copse Forge.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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Also, as a new or improved manufacture, a waiter or salver of britannia metal, having a metallic strengthening-ring and cap molding combined and arranged with its body in manner as specified.
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"I wanted to get away from that awful mob," she explained, pushing back her veil as they seated themselves at a table with red-and-white napkins and a britannia sugar bowl.
The Refugees 1919
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Whenever he had to work at night, she used to make him a cup of tea in an old britannia metal teapot, which had been his mother's and he used to call this beverage his "Ethiopian nectar."
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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"We are calling this artists 'alliance - The Good Crude Britannia (riff on the good ship britannia/the good crew britannia and of course Rude Britannia - current Tate show, etc)."
chained_bear commented on the word britannia
Royal Mint Reveals New Coin Designs, and everyone hates them because there's no Britannia.
I'm not British so my opinion doesn't count, but I think the new coins are gorgeous.
April 8, 2008