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Mara

(mâr`ə) [Heb.,=bitter], in the Bible, punning name taken by Naomi out of sorrow.

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Mara

(Dolichotis patagond), a mammal of the family Caviidae (guinea pigs) of the order Rodentia. It has a body measuring up to 70 cm long and a short tail (up to 4.5 cm). The snout is blunt, and the ears are rather long. The mara is brownish gray, with a light spot at the base of the tail known as the mirror. It is found in South America, dwelling in deserts and thicket-covered steppes. Active during the day, maras live in pairs or small groups. They are fast runners, sometimes leaping 2 m when pursued. Their home is a shallow burrow, in which the female gives birth to two or three offspring twice a year. Maras feed on plants. Their meat is edible.

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For Mara, the only consolation, is that though she can never go back to Ghana because "the rot has gone too deep for me to return" (131), she is content at least to still be of use to her mother, her brothers, and more importantly, her two children, even though she has become hooked on hard drug.

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e Mara Plains Camp, which straddles the Mara North and Olare Motorogi conservancies, oers guests a day pass to the reserve as part of their stay.

BIG CAT DIARY; With encounters to top any wildlife TV documentary, the Masai Mara's conservancies are the ideal choice for African safari, says SARAH MARSHALL

At the same time Atlas Mara revealed it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda to pursue the privatisation of BRD - the commercial arm of the Development Bank of Rwanda.

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Bagier, Mara. "Countess Mara.'" Message to the author.

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"It was like I couldn't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't doing that," says Mara. "I couldn't see forward in my life without doing it."

To land Lisbeth, Rooney Mara needed her toughness

Besides her nipple, Mara, 26, had her brow, nose, and lip pierced.

Rooney Mara pierced nipple to play 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'

"I always had a real bad feeling about Mr Mara because I felt like he could use his mild-mannered appearance as a tool to be able to commit crimes and he wouldn't be a likely suspect," said Robert Lunsford, a former detective who arrested Mara back in 1995.

Rise and fall of the 'Grandad Bandit'

On a plantation in Charleston South Carolina owned by "good white people" Mara is forced to haul buckets of urine used to make indigo.

Eyes of the Calusa

The service began with a procession of clergy in their appropriate vestments followed by a procession of numerous bishops from four continents, including Bishop Hilkaiah Omindo from Mara.

Special service to mark African link; Bishops lead Wakefield Cathedral celebration

We have been urged to "never forget." Mara's Stories make that possible.

Schmidt, Gary. Mara's stories; glimmers in the darkness

It is about the year 1720 and Mara is taken aboard the Devil Ray.

Eyes of the Calusa

Mara, RN, MSN, AHAM, 64, passed from this life on Sept.

Judith Louise (Lynn) Mara (South Burlington, VT/Sugarloaf Key, FL)--

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