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  • This is despite information culled from contacts to the effect that the situation on this road in Huntingdonshire (that thousand-year old entity so callously and carelessly expunged from the map by Ted Heath in the 1970s) is dire.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • But whether a hundred-year long counterattack in the middle of a thousand-year long aggression requires forgiveness depends on how one views the thousand-year long attack.

    June 21st, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • The book ends with Galt escaping captivity and torture and leading his community of producers back into the world, to presumably inaugurate a thousand-year paradise of no taxes, no unions, no minimum wage, no socialism, no tripartite government, and no Jesus.

    Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011

  • This is despite information culled from contacts to the effect that the situation on this road in Huntingdonshire (that thousand-year old entity so callously and carelessly expunged from the map by Ted Heath in the 1970s) is dire.

    Another Fine Mess 2009

  • The book ends with Galt escaping captivity and torture and leading his community of producers back into the world, to presumably inaugurate a thousand-year paradise of no taxes, no unions, no minimum wage, no socialism, no tripartite government, and no Jesus.

    Ellis Weiner: Rapture And Rand: Peas In A Pod Ellis Weiner 2011

  • The motley cast of talented misfits is trying to bring down a thousand-year empire (try to avoid thinking “reich”), but the heroes discover to their dismay that, bad as the empire was, it was holding back something even worse.

    A “Golden Age” of Fantasy? 2009

  • It's not only his destiny, it's the thousand-year destiny of his branch of the royal family to reunite the lost kingdom of Arnor and restore the royal rule to Gondor.

    Chosen ones 2009

  • So, food and shelter are necessary, but the main thing is our culture, our own thousand-year old spirit.

    Transcript: VOA's Interview With The Dalai Lama 2011

  • The motley cast of talented misfits is trying to bring down a thousand-year empire (try to avoid thinking “reich”), but the heroes discover to their dismay that, bad as the empire was, it was holding back something even worse.

    Books 2010

  • As DeSmogBlog reports: Wegman, who was chair of the National Academy of Sciences '(NAS) Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, was tapped in' 06 by Republican representatives Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield to assemble a so-called "expert panel" to critique the famous hockey stick, a graph illustrating a thousand-year temperature record as reconstructed by climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes.

    Miles Grant: Virginia AG Fine With Fraud If It Backs His Political Views Miles Grant 2010

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