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.... Why do the Bible call it Ur Kasdim? Abraham's family are described as pastoral nomads. Wandering shepherds rarely pitch their tents, proverbial... ...the comprachicos thus: "The comprachicos (child buyers) were strange and hideous nomads in the 17th century. They made children into sideshow fre...
...followed an ancient caravan route, asking for help. They lived with Gabra nomads—borrowing a white camel, a day or two. Father says “she was a real ...
...ized societies; is simply because when humans stopped moving as small bands as nomads, their excrement accumulated and stank and rotted: it became un... ...cial structure mirrored, and matched, and reflected a pyramidal pile-up. As nomads, we revered and worshipped everything outside of us, meaning our... ...ding new plants, new resources. Rather than continuing to live adaptively as nomads and changing how we lived along with our environment, we stayed... ... farming of wheat in North Africa: created the North African Desert. The nomads of Central Asia created the Gobi Desert over 45,000 years earlie... ...l: should we sit in one spot and become a settled people, or should we become nomads, always walking, always on the move?: this was the first two qu... ...ives were meaningful and had a purpose. But once we left Africa: and became nomads: we hunted the European Bison, and the Wooly Mammoth, and the M... ...ccumulated. As long as humans lived from hand-to- mouth, as long as they were nomads: the amount they could accumulate was strictly limited to how m... ...f tool technology that was responsible for this total shift in lifestyle from nomads to squatters. The unique nature of our time-awareness is the ... ...change and adapt experientially to new environments, they would have remained nomads. But, time awareness was also a curse:: because it gave them a ...
... Black Ghost himself had given him a Clan name; however, when they became Nomads, his title became Junkman. Black Ghost told him never to use his b... ...of being a Nomad, which differed from Clansmen. The majority of the time, Nomads wandered alone or in pairs like him and David had done. Pausing a m... ...he truck passed a dirt road, one of many still accessible and familiar to Nomads. According to scouts, sent out from the complex every six months, s...
...Still, there are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and intellectu...
...tretches of steppe turn green after summer rains. Lured by their lushness, nomads would move along rolling steppes in search of grass to nourish thei...
...ve as beating and incest. There are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Eu...
...tines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millions of urban unemployed, nomads, and dislocated peasants turned brigands - from Syria to ...
...g and incest. There are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe, and int...
... years ago in search of pasture to graze their cattle; they came to beg like nomads. These Aryans started Hinduism and divided the people into four... ...rlal) Nehru mentions this in a letter to his daughter. That is, the lambadis (nomads) who came here seeking green pastures fought with us, enslaved ...
...ledged allegiance and subservience to local lords in return for protection against nomads and marauders. Trading was confined to fortified medieval... ...g and incest. There are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe, and int... ...hips." Still, there are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe, and int...
...hips." Still, there are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe, and int...
...Some think that we were space travellers roaming though the galaxies like nomads until we found somewhere to live. Then when we came across Bloonlan...
...is was absolutely hopeless. Except amongst pathless deserts or bar- barous nomads, it was impossible to find even a transient *The fact is, that the e...
...ter. It was too much for the great mass of those unwilling and incompetent nomads to realise that an age had ended, that the old help and guidance exi...
...owing frequency and facility; to Sir Thomas More we should seem a breed of nomads. That old fixity was of necessity and not of choice, it was a mere p...
... epithet applicable to numer- ous tribes, since the oldest of the Samatian nomads made their mares’ milk one of their chief articles of diet. The epit...
...icture as if he wanted to feel the houses and the loose habiliments of the nomads. “Read what it says,” he asked. Mrs. Carey in her even voice read th...
...o express his admiration of the planets. A merchant from Aphaka amazed the nomads with his description of the marvels in the temple of Hierapolis; and... ... downward, so that her chin touched the floor; and her whole audience,—the nomads, accustomed to a life of privation and abstinence, the Roman soldier...
... perfumes, aromatics, slaves, and silphium, for you are in league with the nomads on the Cyrenian frontier! But the guilty shall be punished! He read ... ...six thou- sand men? If the enemy bent towards the east they would join the nomads and intercept the commerce of the desert. If they fell back to the w... ...des among the baggage and the abandoned beasts of burden. The wives of the nomads had square, tawny robes of dromedary’s hair swinging at their heels;... ...the regions immediately subject to Carthage extended the allies roamed the Nomads, who might be let loose upon them. By this system the crops were alw... ... the Libyans in the east con- cert with the Numidians in the west, and the Nomads come from the south, and the Romans from the north”—a cry of horror ... ...aged Gisco, and the other Carthaginians detained like him. The Libyans and Nomads composing the army under Autaritus knew scarcely anything of these M... ...l; then came the loose rabble com- manded by Autaritus—Gauls, Libyans, and Nomads; while the Eaters of Uncleanness might be recognised among them by t... ...marked a troop of three hundred men apart from the rest in the camp of the nomads. These were the rich who had been kept prisoners since the beginning... ...the Latins were grieved that they could not collect the ashes in urns; the Nomads regretted the heat of the sands in which bodies were mummified, and ...
.... The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life. But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a ma... ...s still fight out the old battle, in the nation and in the individual. The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly,... ... rainy season and to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions. The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month. In America and Eur...
... graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface, I see the shaded part on one side where the slee... ...ved the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads, Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Bal... ...on, What vast built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes and nomads, What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others, ...