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jacob
proper noun
One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites.
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18 min: "Come now Jacob, maybe the Countdown started because some UEFA bright spark suggested using Europe's "The Final Countdown" before games, but things got lost in translation?
Wingbacks Igor Juliao and Jacob Peterson completed the five-man back, the team flinging musing "why not" in the face of its depleted circumstances.
Jacob Acaye, the Ugandan former child abductee at the heart of the film Kony 2012, has defended the video and its makers.
Jacob Zenn is an analyst of African and Eurasian Affairs for the Jamestown Foundation in Washington DC.
Jacob Acaye, the Ugandan former child abductee at the heart of the film Kony 2012, a web phenomenon seen by more than 50 million people around the world, defended the video and its makers on Thursday against criticism that it is misleading and champions western intervention against an insurgency which is already waning and on the run.
Jacob adds that if you look at early buildings by the architectural giant SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill), they are indistinguishable from Mies; so much so, in fact, that Frank Lloyd Wright nicknamed the trio The Three Blind Mies.
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Jacob-Innovations, a Massachusetts firm, has a design called StepSeat that lifts every other seat about 18cm allowing extra room for them to recline.
But soon afterwards he joined the Spanish-based international brand consultancy Saffron, started by a Wolff Olins alumnus, Jacob Benbunan, as a hands-on chairman.
"The threat of a federal Europe is as dead as Jacob Marley," he said.
"We've got a pretty big sector," said Sgt. First Class Jacob Nestor, a short, tough man with a sunburned face and rolling shoulders.
"In that time, I am doing a hell of a lot of internet shopping, navel-gazing, picking away at my partner, sharing several cups of tea with whoever turns up…" But the day has to be more organised than it once was – children make one "conservative" and she and her partner, Jacob Krichefski, an actor, have two (Jesse, aged nine, and seven-year-old Mabel).
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