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...chés idiomatic, construction, regional, archaic ideas / thoughts rãzleþe, Thoughts short templates language, zicãturi, afurisenii - mostly taken from folklore, others extracted from various readings. Order: no order!...

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... electronics engineers, on behalf her official Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., who write shorthand IEEE (American scholar in folklore)....

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...nd stories told me by the crew of the USS Rapidan, a Navy oiler that served in World War II. Bear with me as I attempt to describe a kaleidoscope of folklore and stories presented as a narrative over time, with side trips expanding on communities related by the name Rapidan. ...

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...nuts, berries and roots. The men hunted deer, wild turkeys, birds and woodland buffalo and got fish using trap lines and plant poisons. Local folklore says that the nearby community of Buena had a population of Native Americans who may have come from Wolftown. [Emma (Beeler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...doxism and various interviews show you bet on the first part of this book. Bet on the second part, you will find news paradoxism bet on contemporary folklore. Namely: - Deviations ridiculous proverbs, humor today făcȃnd the man's trouble rȃnd: Whether pȃinea how bad someone steals it all. You book, you have nothing to wipe your ass. Leave for tomorrow what you can do...

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...eight years of her life, the book about the Kumulipo was her last publication. It was the crown of over forty-five years of intensive research in the folklore of many parts of the world, but particularly of the Hawaiian Islands where she had grown up. The preparation of the book occupied most of her time after her retirement from Vassar College in 1938. There she had spent...

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...e. She was often found in the schoolroom teaching the children Spanish, or relating the wonderful folklore of her country and Helen recalled her own...

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... To them, it symbolized strength, grace, and protection. There were stories amongst their folklore of a magi- cal lion, named Amsara who had once sav...

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...This third series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostly the result of S. N. Haleole’s resear...

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.... S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, first published in 1920. Rich in allusions to Shakespeare, Dante, Baudelaire, the Bible, Marvell, Buddha, and the folklore of the Holy Grail, among other sources, the poem emphasizes the fundamental fragmentation and lack of connection that characterizes modern life and relationships. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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... different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he paints an evocative picture of a beautiful brush with the supernatural. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 12, 2006. (Summary by Fox in the Stars)...

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...his book, subtitled How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore, is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)...

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...and five tension-racked, emotionally shattering court cases. All for my efforts on behalf of the humble hare, a creature hailed in Irish legend and folklore, a proud part of my country’s wildlife heritage, but that Irish law permits to be abused in a cruel game of chance called hare coursing…one of the world’s most barbaric blood sports ...