How To Use Columbian In A Sentence
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The change of attitude towards alternating current was certainly helped by the Westinghouse exhibit at the Columbian Exposition that year.
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CAPT EDWARD PICON, COLUMBIAN NAVY (through translator): They risk losing their families.
CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009
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Guano coming from these parts is often known as Columbian guano, or according to the name of the State in which it is found.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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Elephant for the mammoth Cheetah for the New World cheetah Przewalski's horse for the tarpan In one proposal to "rewild" North America, Asian and African elephants would play the ecological role of the now-extinct Columbian mammoth.
Pleistocene Park: Where the Auroxen Roam
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`The fancy term for pre-Columbian travel to and from other continents is diffusionism.
INCA GOLD
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Columbian rebels FARC release fouth hostage, but fail to free two others, angering the government.
Colombia Suspends Hostage-Release Program
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The museum's collection of pre-Columbian earthenware is outstanding and the museum is not so huge as to overwhelm the casual visitor.
Guadalajara and the Iztepete archeological site
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A pair of deep, flat-bottomed holes have been chiseled out of the red clay of eastern Georgia in the U.S., like twin sports arenas from the pre-Columbian era.
Southern Co's Nuclear Gambit
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At uni my Spanish teacher once brought in Columbian Sesame Street (her family sent it to her for her children) which was my first exposure to another version of the show.
Smoke and Sesame
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No one was ever allowed to view his pre-Columbian artifacts.
INCA GOLD
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Pre-Columbian ancestor worship finds expression in prayers to the saints.
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Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
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They printed a broadside in two colors on an early nineteenth-century Columbian handpress in an edition sufficient for all participants in the workshops to have one.
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After escaping a gang of double-crossing Columbians and a chainsaw, Tony's raw and determined spirit wins Frank's respect and employ.
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Furthermore, the importance of Pre-Columbian art even to Gauguin has been obscured in favor of Oceanic and, in particular, African art.
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As for the other religious terms, 2 are Nahuatl: teocalli ` temple 'and teopan ` temple grounds'; 2 are Quechua: huaca or guaca ` an ancient Peruvian sacred object, such as a mountain, animal, shrine, or artifact, inhabited by a god or spirit 'and huaco or guaco ` a pre-Columbian relic of Peru,' as an object discovered in a tomb; and one is Mayan: cenote ` a natural well or sinkhole into which sacrificial offerings were thrown during ceremonies. '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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There is a species of huckleberry common to the piny lands from the commencement of the Columbian valley to the seacoast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet. is a simple branching some what defuse stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric and of a dark brown, while the colateral branches are green smooth, squar, and put forth a number of alternate branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only. the fruit is a small deep perple berry which the natives inform us is very good. the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accutely at the apex than near the insertion of the footstalk which is at the base; veined, nearly entire, serrate but so slightly so that it is scarcely perceptible; footstalk short and there position with rispect to each other is alternate and two ranked, proceeding from the horizontal sides of the bough only.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Of course the letters form our club name, and it has the word Columbian in it, but that is all we are ever to tell.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
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Commencement of the Columbian Vally to the Sea coast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet, is a Simple branching, Somewhat defused Stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric branches are green Smothe squar, and put foth a number of alternet branches of the Same Colour and form from the two horizontal Sides only. the frute is a small deep purple berry which the nativs inform us is very good, the leaf is thin of a pale green and Small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accoutely at the apax, than near the insersion of the footstalk which is at the base vened nearly entire; footstalks Short and their position in respect to each other is alternate and too ranked, proceeding from the horizontal Side of the bough only.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Yet while the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was marked by the extraordinary Columbian Exposition in Chicago, its 500th anniversary was observed with a kind of shamefaced silence.
A Forgotten Explorateur
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This story was London's only appearance in Columbian Magazine.
“Some day, all the fools will be dead....”
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As the brainchild of a Columbian attorney, a German scientist, and an American policy wonk, the project has a pretty interesting background.
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Thus Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd -- an obscure North Walian princeling whose only factual claim to bardic fame had been his nautical bent and eventual disappearance at sea -- was euhemerized by Tudor propagandists into the pre-Columbian discoverer of America.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
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The figures are modeled as big hand-built pots, like early pre-Columbian figurines.
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If we consider that pre-Columbian lapidaries used stone, bone, wooden, and possibly copper tools with abrasive sand to carve stone, crystal skulls are much too perfectly carved and highly polished to be believed.
Legend of the Crystal Skulls
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The pre-Columbian Amerindian civilizations in particular produced a variety of vessel flutes, compound pipes and wind instruments.
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Gordon then sent photos of his discovery to famed ethnologist and archeologist Matthew Williams Stirling, who had described spheres beautifully worked by pre-Columbian natives of Costa Rica.
Las Piedras Bola: the great stone balls of Ahualulco
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That explains the bullyboy tactics and the arbitrary, unilateral narrowing of just what can be reconciled and what can't, as defined by the scandalously leading and biased questions on which British Columbians were asked to vote.
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A life free of oppression which all of us on this Veterans days should bow our heads to those who have fallen to preserve it and repledge to uphold it just as Leroy taught me to do forty three years ago at Columbian school.
Undefined
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Eliecer and his family are an example of a typical Columbian coffee family.
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Basing his screenplay on a tribal tale, Curtis sought to document the pre-Columbian culture of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest.
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Some pieces of jade, two pre-Columbian figures she had been fond of, and a magnificent Persian rug.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Columbian mathematician and philosopher Fernando Zalamea's work on transient ecologies in a context of Latin American socio-politics, is looking at triadic logic proposed by logician Charles Pierce.
Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing
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The largest of the caves contains some 590 drawings, considered by scholars to be among the finest Precolumbian rupestral works in the Caribbean.
Taino Cave Art Under Siege
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It would be a shame to let one of the few real legal and democratic options available to British Columbians today slip by unrealised.
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Another time everything was going fine in America until he got into a fight with a Columbian man and once more was deported.
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The object has onyx handles with cylindrical finger grips echoing post-classical pre-Columbian motifs.
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What credibility, if any, could be ascribed to pre-Columbian and early Spanish sources, to the codices, the chronicles, and the calendar stones that were being dug up in Mexico?
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Unable to obtain the exact figures denoting the number of exhibitors of the Columbian Exposition from any authentical source of information, I introduced into the above table the number of 50,000, mentioned in a newspaper, and therefore not absolutely reliable.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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Once it was hers, she began buying books about pre-Columbian gold.
A Collector's Journey of a Lifetime
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Congress by the Act of June 11, 1878 … in naming a part of the Seat of Government “the Federal Capital,” which it constituted by the Consolidation of ancient Georgetown with the city of Washington under the latter name, has left the people who reside in the portion of the seat of government, outside of that city, mere District of Columbians ….
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why “Washington, DC”?
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One place we have found our visitors to enjoy very much is Huachimontones, which is a pre-Columbian archeological site near the town of Teuchitlan, about 40 minutes west of Guadalajara (on the map you would go west toward Tequila and then left toward Ameca).
Side trips out of Guadalajara
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Note 82: For information on Bellamy, see his obituary in Columbian Sentinel, March 28, 1835, Finch,
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
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The cochineal is a parasite of cacti of the genus opuntia, from which it has been harvested in South America since pre-Columbian times.
MAKE Magazine
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But this merely makes her wonder why she has this unhealthy fascination with pre-Columbian civilisation.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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In former epistolary scribblements, I gave you the concatenation of concomitant circumstances initiatory to my transmigration to this remote section of the occidental portions of our columbian republican coadunation," Seneker wrote, graciously supplying alternate, more familiar words, in an opposite column to help the reader along.
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Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
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Machu Picchu ("Old Peak") is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, near Cusco.
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And you can be called a Columbian or a United Statesian, and there've been debates ever since and, of course, people from pe -- places like Canada or
America In So Many Words
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The Phillips is not only smaller, but it also has a very narrow focus; namely, a devotion to modern art rarely seen in larger museums where one might see Egyptian, European and pre-Columbian art, all under one roof.
Fire-Damaged Museum Reopens in Time for 90th Birthday
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Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America's greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.
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Sabre-toothed cats hunt camels and Columbian mammoths do battle with their enormous tusks.
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In tropical and subtropical areas, Oe. columbianum and Oe. radiatum, in sheep and cattle respectively, are especially important.
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Woolly and Columbian mammoths, two species of elephant that once lived in North America, may have interbred.
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Colours (ochre, sand and white) are taken from pre-Columbian and colonial houses, and are intended to respond to the endless layers of dry dun dust that blow up and down the coast.
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
NYT > Home Page
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Despite the divine origins, thunderstones are not uncommon in Haiti; Westerners think of them as pre-Columbian axe heads and attribute their origins to the Arawakan Indians.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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CACIQUE Term is still used in Haiti to refer to the pre-Columbian Amerindian rulers and divisions of the country.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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The egg carton explained that this egg came from the Columbian Blacktail hen, whose life inside a henhouse with ‘natural bedding and scratching materials encourage preening and dust bathing’.
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It had lakes and lush vegetation that was home to a menagerie of strange beasts including the Columbian mammoth and other huge herbivores such as ground sloths, bison and camels.
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Varo collected pre-Columbian art, studied eastern religions and was fascinated by the occult and alchemy, in particular.
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Mary Evans/Everett Collection A chromolithograph depicting people from Portugal with a sewing machine was used as an advertisement card from the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892.
Singer Postcard Ads
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The pre-Columbian ruins of an entire city were essentially forgotten, perched on a mountain saddle 8,400 ft above sea level.
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Thick-shelled turtle species lived with world's biggest snake, reveals fossil found in Columbian coal mine: Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki takes its genus name from Cerrejon, and emys -- Greek for turtle.
Archive 2010-04-04
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The Taser is poor defense weapon for the Political Correct 90 lb person, whom has passed the written tests, and has yet to master some Martial arts, when so many of the 250 lb layabouts be enjoying the best of Columbian brew, [leaves not the coffee nuts,] or someone enjoying L. s.d [rotting rye, not the former coin of the realm].
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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It offers a wide variety of paintings and fine art prints, original production animation art and cels, pre-Columbian pottery, antique porcelain, art glass, bronze and marble sculpture and estate jewelry.
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Known since pre-Columbian times for its yellow latex and laxative properties, P. tomentellus is grown ornamentally and in herbarium collections.
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The last of the Columbian from the french press is still good cold.
Archive 2007-03-01
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There is a species of huckkleberry common to the piney lands from the commencement of the Columbian Vally to the sea coast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet, is a simple branching, somewhat defused stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric branches are green smothe squar, and put forth a number of alternet branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only. the frute is a small deep purple berry which the nativs inform us is very good, the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminating more accoutely at the apex, than near the insersion of the footstalk which is at the base vened nearly entire; footstalks short and their position in respect to each other is alternate and too ranked, proceeding from the horizontal side of the bough only.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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He was originally a pneumatic toolmaker and had received a medal for his exhibition at the Columbian Exposition in 1893.
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The disjunct distribution of the infection in Pacific islands and the Amazon basin has been used as medical evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Polynesians and South Americans.
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Machu Picchu or Old Peak is the name given to the stone ruins of a pre-Columbian Incan city perched high atop the Andean peaks of Peru.
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
NYT > Home Page
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Chan Chan is the Pre-Columbian city of mud-brick built by the Chimú culture in the 9th Century and located in the La Libertad region, 5 km west of the city of Trujillo in Northern Peru.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Preservation Efforts in the Chan Chan Archaeological Site
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Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
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They met in Mexico City, where she was the daughter of a prominent expatriate American banker and he was a hotshot archaeologist working on pre-Columbian Aztec digs.
What Makes Us Happy?
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In tropical and subtropical areas, Oe. columbianum and Oe. radiatum, in sheep and cattle respectively, are especially important.
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For Western readers, the architecture of the ancient world, of the Orient, and of the pre-Columbian Americas may be divided into two groups: indigenous architecture and classical architecture.
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The first and most important book owned by him was called the Columbian Orator.
Frederick Douglass
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See Peter C. Marzio, The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19 th-Century America: Chromolithography, 1840-1900, pp.201-205, for a discussion of chromolithographs of the World's Columbian Exposition, and also pp.313, 343.
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Florida coquina clams normally are not exploited as a food resource by humans today; however, archaeological sites in northeastern Florida attest to the fact that preColumbian people consumed vast quantities of coquina clams.
