Even though no worker ever got sick, the colony still lost at least half its normal numbers of daughter queens and drones. |
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The English and French monarchs were kings and queens of the land and not the people. |
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Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women. |
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Of course, this in no way undermines the contributions of other historical British queens and queen consorts. |
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Zapatero is now pushing a proposal that would allow Spanish princesses to become queens if they are the firstborn. |
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His tolerance to other religions perhaps came from his many queens including his principle wife who was a Hindu. |
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The lifelong rivalry of cosmetics queens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein makes for riveting reading. |
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Former classical fashion queens such as Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy had a faithful following in the city. |
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In the studio the Eastenders cast will get makeovers from fashion queens Trinny and Susannah as part of a What Not To Wear special. |
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Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself. |
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A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street. |
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All significant events where I grew up involve people carted around town by tractor, including the carnival queens and carol singers. |
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Prospective carnival queens can either fill out an application form on the night of the competition or ring this number for one in advance. |
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In the afternoon before the procession, carnival queens from all over the county will take part in a contest to choose the Queen of Queens. |
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On move 20, the two players liquidated their queens and after swapping pieces in the next 10 moves, they were almost in a balanced position. |
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After the queens came off on move 40, Korchnoi was left with 6 pawns to Galliamova's knight and 2 soldiers. |
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Both players sacrificed their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts. |
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A Kirby is often used when a player has many trumps, or cards above the value of queens. |
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Note that all the queens, including diamonds, also carry their normal 3 points, which cannot be annulled. |
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The object is to take tricks containing aces, 10s, kings, queens and jacks. |
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In this game kings, queens and jacks are worth half a point each, and the numeral cards are worth their face value. |
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You should generally try to avoid playing aces, kings, queens and jacks except when capturing or building with them. |
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The deck is prepared by first removing the kings, queens, and jacks, and then separating the colors, leaving you with two 20-card decks. |
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However, clear evidence of nepotism in the rearing of queens in social insects is limited and controversial. |
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We present data on reproductive partitioning among queens in the ant Leptothorax rugatulus with special emphasis on relatedness and body size. |
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Eusocial insect colonies are frequently headed by multiple reproductive queens. |
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Nevertheless, these queens also compete for reproductive shares within a colony of limited resources. |
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But in an unusual role reversal, paper wasp queens beg their young for a meal. |
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Colonies of this species typically contain multiple queens, and most reproductive individuals mate within their parental nest without dispersing. |
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Among a species known as the little fire ant, both queens and males reproduce asexually, a new study has found. |
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A major distinction in the social organization of ant societies is the number of queens that inhabit a colony. |
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In scene one, Edie, the make-believe cheerleader, queens it over bashful high-school boy Tom. |
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Our scientists surmised that the bulk of any emotional consideration was left to the queens, who ruled the Zylon like a queen bee does her hive. |
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Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities. |
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They had been introduced to most of the guests at the ball, the counts and countesses, princes and princesses, kings and queens. |
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The most mystical of shades, purple has been preferred by kings, queens and emperors throughout history. |
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Whether forced or voluntary, Roman emperors, kings and queens, hereditary princes and grand dukes and, yes, even popes have abdicated. |
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He showed me how to move the various kings, queens, and pawns across the exquisite little board. |
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The official guest list named at least 70 kings, queens, grand dukes, princes, counts and lesser nobles. |
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These days they want to know about the history of people who were not kings or queens, but weavers and miners, felling hands and lamplighters. |
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The game of chess with sword-wielding pawns and deadly queens is both dramatic and mightily beautiful. |
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Drag queens and drag kings decked out in tulle and rented tuxedos drank wine coolers for historical accuracy. |
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You are likely to see queens, princesses, leprechauns, angels, devils and a mixture of all sorts. |
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It was traditionally worn by kings, queens and other great figures of state during ceremonial events and functions. |
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Whatever route they take, whether rebels or homecoming queens, Libras, Gemini and Aquarians need to be part of it. |
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Beginning in the 10th century, they were ruled by a line of sacred kings and queens called the Tu'i Tonga. |
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Both of the beauty queens are from Varna and are madly in love with the natural beauty of the place. |
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Even though the queens got hosed off pretty early in this game, the players still managed to make a meal of it. |
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Like Teds, Mods, Rockabillies, Punks, Ravers and Goths, gay male fetish queens do not change much over the years. |
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The queens have more abdominal tegumentary glands than the workers, which apparently are the source of the new cuticular compounds. |
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That means style queens are going to feel a lot more comfortable in New Town's urbane outposts than the boozy, backslapping pubs of Old Town. |
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Take a pack of playing cards and remove the jokers, tens, jacks and queens. |
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And on this day, kings, queens and chiefs from those clans gather to honor a Thembu son with their symbol of bravery. |
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The idea of an art exhibition on the theme of beauty pageants might seem odd at first, but in Venezuela beauty queens are a national obsession. |
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In addition to being good performers and entertainers, drag queens have to be funny, and throwing shade is a huge part of that. |
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Department managers, once kings and queens of their own domains, would serve at the mayor 's pleasure as his cabinet. |
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The presence of the legendary tinsel queens has been palpable from day one. |
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By using different, elite genetic lines of queens sequentially, bee breeders can avoid inbred colonies. |
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Was this crucial mid-Atlantic tie worthy of a mention en route amid tales of kings and queens? |
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The writer of this diatribe is obviously ignorant of the differences between drag queens, transvestites and transsexuals. |
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Colonies of the monogyne type are headed by a single egg-laying queen, whereas those of the polygyne type contain multiple queens. |
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It is a bleak, formally furnished room, with large gold-framed photographs of kings and queens on the walls. |
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The bees raise the virgin queens until mature at which time the beekeeper transfers them into a small hive called a nucleus. |
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Both were mighty queens in the underworld where they cast light upon the dead in their darkness. |
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The findings were as disturbing as they were unsurprising, pointing up old stereotypes of circuit queens. |
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In years gone by it was gays in the military or welfare queens or draft dodgers or bra burners or whatever. |
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The British named most of them after British kings and queens and viceroys. |
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Connelly decides to seek out emotional truth in her role, and leaves the hysterics and butchy resolve to lesser scream queens. |
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Ants are divided into castes, with reproductive queens and kings, and sterile workers. |
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His stock-in-trade, however, was high school yearbook photos, portraits of college campus queens and locals in their Sunday best. |
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A pair of Sophomores who had just joined the group that year, were playing cat's cradle on one of the queens. |
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I'm kissed and hugged and pinched by the studs, the bartenders, the drag queens, but that's it. |
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They are themselves dying, succumbing to the diseases that once afflicted only overindulgent kings and queens. |
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As the swarms subside, mated new queens break off their wings and seek underground cavities in which to begin new colonies while the males die. |
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When the colonies reproduce through swarming, workers rear a number of new queens, only a few of which will ultimately head a colony. |
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Native to North America, the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus lives in colonies of one or two queens, and usually fewer than a hundred workers. |
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It will also include events in villages across Lancashire from rose queens, town crier competitions to plant sales and antique fairs. |
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Shakespeare's magical tale of fairies and Amazon queens has been transported to a sort of New France of the imagination. |
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That, incidentally, was one of the subjects the aspiring beauty queens were asked to speak about. |
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A double combination is one that contains two copies of each card and a double pinochle is two spade queens and two diamond jacks. |
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Where there were kings, queens, palaces there ought to be intrigues, conspiracies and secret tunnels. |
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This result conforms to previous findings in other polygyne wasps, where nestmate queens were usually significantly related. |
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Beauty queens and film stars may be good crowd-pullers but people are no longer gullible to vote for them. |
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There are the kings and queens, princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, and barons. |
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The homecoming queens looked like trashy wannabes, in tight, revealing gowns and these God-awful clunky shoes. |
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In both years, the brood and the queens were frozen when the brood had pupated. |
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Kings, queens, and emperors were slow to learn the lesson that money is for using, not hoarding. |
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The most mystical of shades, purple, has been preferred by kings, queens and emperors throughout history. |
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There was plenty of down-home cooking, performances by drag queens, and awards given to various members. |
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My childhood experiences have never allowed me to afford much respect to the drama queens who fuss over their physical appearance. |
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Africanized queens are free to mate with European drones, and perhaps this has resulted in a dilution of the Africanized gene pool. |
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This result suggests that Africanization could have started prior to 1993 through matings of migrant drones with resident European queens. |
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You also have the drone bee that doesn't do anything except fertilise the young queens. |
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Far from debasing his models, Newton places them at the heart of a deep and complex drama where they rule like errant queens. |
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Similarly, even if you pick up two kings or queens your quatorze is likely to be beaten by a quatorze of Aces. |
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Soong has said he never embezzled money, and his campaign has argued that Lien has much in common with Marcos, because both married beauty queens. |
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He kept pictures of Oliver Cromwell among his collection of images of the kings and queens of England, and yet late in life was accused of Popery and Jacobitism. |
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Small testes and large accessory glands characterize species with singly mated queens, whereas the opposite is found in species with multiply mated queens. |
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Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe and Darlene, a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. |
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This was once the place of royal summer retreat, and there is a wealth of stories about the kings, queens, princes and princesses who spent time here. |
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Children also took part in period dances including the lively farandole from Provence and the slower pavan, both dating back to the time of Tudor kings and queens. |
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Visitors to Windsor Castle are to be given a glimpse of the drawings, books and documents collected by the Stuart kings and queens during their 100-year reign. |
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The broadcaster's new 24-part series on television series on kings and queens, Monarchy, begins tomorrow night on Channel Four and will continue for the next four years. |
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Until recently, botanists have met with similar impenetrability when asking these questions about orchids, the glamour queens of the plant kingdom. |
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Sunday was family day and the best-dressed lady was selected from the many queens of fashion that paraded the latest styles throughout the course. |
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It's one of those letter jackets with the shiny leather sleeves, the kind real athletes wear while strolling college campuses, homecoming queens on their arms. |
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And carnival queens from Tiptree, Burnham, Braintree, Witham and Wickford were given the celebrity treatment, riding in style in the back of luxury stretch limos. |
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Venezuela is known for both its socialist economic policies and its beauty queens. |
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Men like Rove are the gurus, gray eminences, cardinals and kingmakers to the modern-day queens, and wield tremendous power and influence behind the scenes. |
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Now a light rain began to fall, and the three queens began kicking up mud in their wake, splattering themselves and everyone as they sped for the finish. |
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When these queens mature into adults, they compete to head a new colony either by leaving with a secondary swarm or by becoming the queen in the established nest site. |
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Their lightning-fast delivery of three-chord tunes, and lyrical menagerie of punks, runts, brats, loudmouths, and jungle queens create the illusion of dumb simplicity. |
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Staying with the body beautiful, cosmetic dentistry, once the prerogative of American mid-west beauty queens, is set to become this year's big hitter. |
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What I will say though is that the drama queens who try to make out that they are the victims, despite being not even remotely involved, are really getting up my nose. |
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The Pharaoh followed by the main queens, Nefertari, and Istnofret, followed by the Crown Prince Merenptah then came the princesses and the remaining princes. |
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But, Thaddeus Russell says, unabashed queens have transformed life for everyone, straight and gay. |
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Although queens heading neighboring colonies are not close relatives, fixation indices show significant genetic differentiation among aggregation sites. |
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Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies. |
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The old casting-couch general no longer had the strength to appear on his own television specials, much less escort a harem of beauty queens into war zones. |
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There seems to be the implicit assumption that queens of social insects have little or no cost of reproduction because they are amply supplied with resources by their workers. |
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The position of women had remained unchanged for centuries and the time of the Tudors saw little, if any, improvement despite the fact that 1485 to 1603 saw 2 queens. |
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To alleviate this problem, some people care for wasp queens in winter. |
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Mousers left their prey, elder toms left their warm places by the fire, kittens left their meals, queens grabbed a kitten from their nest, and they all ran to the woods. |
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Drag queens dressed like Gaga herself and groups in bishops cloaks kissed and hugged on the cobbled streets. |
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There are the serious programmes, where weighty professors talk straight to camera and pronounce their conventional view of great kings and queens. |
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I started out with a pair of queens and a 9 kicker, and came in raising. |
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Daydreams of living like a prince are one thing, but living in a house that has played host to kings, queens, shahs and high-ranking dignitaries is quite another. |
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Anyone interested in joining the procession of decorated wagons, morris dancers, bands and queens will be welcome, including walkers and vintage vehicles. |
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By appointing queens, the mercantile oligarchs were attempting to capture the legitimacy the tyrant's power had generated, but to limit the use of that power. |
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This was clearly unpopular with the stars of the gallery and the drama queens of politics, so was dropped after its one, demonstrably successful, trial. |
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With their massive ballrooms, twisting galleries, ceremoniously laid out kitchens and enviable furnishings, Chateaux were also the dwellings of European Kings and queens. |
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Mainly you want to concentrate on attacking him to serve mainly as a distraction for moving your king's pawns as quickly forward as possible to attain a few more queens. |
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Interspersed between the usual mix of drag queens, topless women, bottomless men and leather-clad bears rode a fleet of white limousines carrying newly wed same-sex couples. |
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As the sole reproducer in a colony, ant queens are traditionally considered lone figures. |
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Over a decade earlier, drag queens in Los Angeles had fought back against overzealous cops arresting their friends at Cooper's Donuts. |
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For 600 years, from 936 to 1531, Aachen Cathedral was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens. |
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This tradition is applied in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, and in the case of the queens regnant of the Netherlands. |
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These struggles reached their climax in the wars between Brunhilda and Fredegund, queens respectively of Austrasia and Neustria. |
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Bumblebee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators. |
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Henry's chancellors, and those of his queens, became bishops of Durham, Hereford, London, Lincoln, Winchester and Salisbury. |
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Merovingian kings and queens used the newly forming ecclesiastical power structure to their advantage. |
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But later the Saxons and the Germans conquered it, and after one of their queens, Angela, called it Anglia. |
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Maya royal succession was patrilineal, and royal power only passed to queens when doing otherwise would result in the extinction of the dynasty. |
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Sealed cells with about to emerge queens are used for queening the divisions. |
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In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding. |
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Acropyga spp. ants show obligate trophophoresy with mealybugs, in which newly mated queens carry a mealybug with them when founding new colonies. |
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Welfare queens can't hold a candle to corporate kings in raiding the public purse. |
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And bar Ella Henderson, with all of the pop princesses eliminated this year, it's down to the male drama queens to throw some serious hissy fits. |
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Despite their regality and authority, both queens are generous, which is most evident in their gift-giving. |
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Gene expression in workers was more similar to foundresses, which show maternal care, than to queens and gynes, which do not. |
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Hosted by Divinity Masters, the show will highlight some of the Wichita area's best drag kings and queens. |
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They make their comments about cow town or queens or their mother's army boots. |
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Transgenderism is a broader term that often encompasses transvestites, she-males, part-time gender benders, and drag queens. |
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Harikrishna got a slight advantage with accurate play in the middle game but his decision to exchange queens did not turn out well. |
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Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has revealed he ended up dressed as woman in a bagel shop with drag queens after a night out. |
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More than one billion viewers tuned in to cheer on their national beauty queens in last night's glittering final. |
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This new finding further supports Reeves's assumption that other queens from the 18 th dynasty, such as Hatshepsut, had similar tombs. |
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The queens of the day are the Catherinettes, the unmarried girls who will celebrate their twenty-fifth birthday within the next twelve months. |
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Clerid males were about the same size as worker ants, whereas the larger females were about the same size as dealated queens. |
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He also discusses the few queens who ruled as kings, notably, Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. |
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This species is polygynous, meaning each colony contains many queens, leading to unique caste interactions and colony dynamics. |
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One supercolony covered more than a city block and held 6 million workers and thousands of queens. |
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I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made. |
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Venezuela and India dedicate themselves to making globally competitive beauty queens. Hodiernally, what do desi Americans do? |
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Rockingham Forest was designated as a royal hunting forest by William the Conqueror, and was long used by English kings and queens. |
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He was also noted for his ability to attract support from powerful women, especially queens. |
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Visitors can explore the chambers restored to their former glory, once used by past kings and queens. |
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Following a vision of Lancelot and his cousins in the Lady of the Lake's garden, both queens are happy and Evaine dies. |
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A procession of more cards, kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden. |
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The Merotic people adopted an African-style matriarchal regime and set up a dynasty of queens, known collectively as the Candaces. |
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They were the queens of the demons Lilith, Naamah, Agrat Bat Mahlat and Eisheth Zenunim. |
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The 44-year-old said when she moved to New York to pursue her passion for fashion she ended up meeting lots of drag queens and gave it a go herself. |
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Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth. |
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This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, one of the petty kingdoms to rule a portion of modern England. |
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After his wife Chabi died in 1281, Kublai began to withdraw from direct contact with his advisers, and he issued instructions through one of his other queens, Nambui. |
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In Tudor and Stuart times, various kings and queens built magnificent riverside palaces at Hampton Court, Kew, Richmond on Thames, Whitehall and Greenwich. |
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Inquiline queens must gain access to the host colony, coexist with its queen and workers, and then lay eggs that are reared as sexuals by the host workers. |
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Is it now the children who take precedence, and anyhow, why are leatherdykes, drag queens, radical faeries, and motorcycle dykes offensive on any level? |
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Liverpool's Ultimate Fashion Queen is an opportunity for drag queens and kings and gender benders with a flair for design to show off their talents. |
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Natalie, Sammi-Jo and Diamond don't look like stereotypical beauty queens. |
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We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces. |
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Filmmakers, who spent 150 days in the deserts of Arizona, US, believe that this is the first footage to show honeypot ant queens co-operate in the wild. |
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Recently, one of the light-fingered drag queens performed a routine at Blu in which he removed the clothes of a fellow drag queen to reveal a prison jumpsuit underneath. |
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Their colonies are polygynous, meaning they have multiple queens. |
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However, eventually, all social insect species have the ability to produce a crop of males who go forth in the world to fertilize new queens and propagate. |
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Galswintha's sister, the wife of Sigebert, Brunhilda, incited her husband to war and the conflict between the two queens continued to plague relations until the next century. |
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Monogyny and polygyny in ponerine ants with or without queens, pp. |
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I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage. |
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