Wenona


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We`no´na


n.1.(Zool.) A sand snake (Charina plumbea) of Western North America, of the family Erycidæ.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Soon after, I went to see a panorama of the Mississippi, and as I worked my way up the river in the light of today, and saw the steamboats wooding up, counted the rising cities, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream, and, as before I had looked up the Moselle, now looked up the Ohio and the Missouri and heard the legends of Dubuque and of Wenona's Cliff--still thinking more of the future than of the past or present--I saw that this was a Rhine stream of a different kind; that the foundations of castles were yet to be laid, and the famous bridges were yet to be thrown over the river; and I felt that THIS WAS THE HEROIC AGE ITSELF, though we know it not, for the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson serves food to Wenona Pappin, 70, during a visit to Torbay Hospital in Devon after he welcomed a review into hospital food following the deaths of six people due to a listeria outbreak
<B Boris Johnson serves food to patient Wenona Pappin, 70, during a visit to Torbay Hospital, Torquay, yesterday
He served a ham salad lunch to Wenona Pappin, 70, at Torbay Hospital - but asked if she would not prefer fish and chips instead
In 2018, former representatives Eric Descheenie and Wenona Benally cited their commute, time commitment and low pay as a reason not to seek re-election in Legislative District 7, the largest district in the state.
Thanks to Kristen Carpenter, Kate Fort, Cathi Grosso, Myriam Jaidi, Wilson Pipestem, Angela Riley, Neoshia Roemer, Wenona Singel, Alex Skibine, and to the participants at a Michigan State University College of Law faculty workshop.
For Wenona, there will be three candidates for positions on the village board.
(70) See discussion on Wendy Brown's work in Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles, "Waiting for What?
Wenona Javier has been a long-time investor at Prince Jun Development Corp.'s University Tower developments.
She is co-author with Wenona Giles of Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge (Routledge, 2017), author of Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (Kumarian Press, 2011), Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and co-editor with Giles of Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (University of California Press, 2004).
2011) (acknowledging that "[m]any tribal court judges are non-Indians"); Wenona T.