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While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other colonists he ruled, to the point that he was removed from power and thrown in jail.

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So for this reason, I think one of the other themes with the mesh is essentially that, if we squeeze hard on things that we've thrown away, there's a lot of value in those things.

There were 662 rejected sheep that didn't meet "sheep-like" criteria and were thrown out of the flock.

A key part of their technical set up was a half-mile long length of wire, which was thrown across the rooftops of several houses in Boston.

They were the ones thrown at George Bush at an Iraqi press conference several years ago.

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