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On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
The correction facility where they are locked up happens to be right in the middle of one of my usual trips, and it's surrounded by barbed wires and electric gates and armed guards.
It turned out that there he was, surrounded by children of the Great Migration whose parents had brought this music up with them during the journey.
We subscribed to a lot of magazines, did our homework, but really everywhere you look around, we were surrounded by images like this.
And so you have to understand that I have a bachelor's and a master's in social work, and I was getting my Ph.D. in social work, so my entire academic career was surrounded by people who kind of believed in the "life's messy, love it."
Under clear blue skies in July in the wine region of Ontario, I got married, surrounded by 150 family and friends.
And every seven sets of seven years, the land gets an extra year of rest during which time all families are reunited and people surrounded with the ones they love.
A girl child, hardly nine or ten years old, she is sitting in the center of the room, surrounded by books.
And instead of a balanced information diet, you can end up surrounded by information junk food.
We are surrounded by the most amazing people who do things that seem to be absolutely impossible.
She marched into the oil field reserves, surrounded it, without firing a shot, and secured it and held it.
There's a finite region of space that we have access to, surrounded by a horizon.
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.
Now we may find that there are places that are really, really dense and still hold onto their cars, but the reality is that, by and large, what we see when we get a lot of people together with the right conditions is a threshold effect, where people simply stop driving as much, and increasingly, more and more people, if they're surrounded by places that make them feel at home, give up their cars altogether.
They would lose 40 percent of their land and be surrounded, so they would lose free access to the rest of the West Bank.
They were going to be surrounded, lose a lot of their lands and not have freedom of access, either to the West Bank or Jerusalem.
And so when I was first living in New York City a few years back, I was thinking a lot about the familiar architectural forms that surrounded me and how I would like to better relate to them.
And so I would put it on and sort of physically transform myself so that I could either contribute to or critique the spaces that surrounded me.
And before I even knew it, I was suddenly on a stage surrounded by thousands of cheering people during a political rally.
And we wanted to work with a notion of being surrounded by a tribe of very shy, sensitive and sweet creatures.
You see, this was a really important moment for me as a kid, because it was the first time that I realized that it wasn't just Dr. King who led this revolution, but he was surrounded by a movement made up of anonymous extraordinaries.
All we are saying is that allowing people to inject in a clean, dry space with fresh needles, surrounded by people who care is a lot better than injecting in a dingy alley, sharing contaminated needles and hiding out from police.
And the lagoon was surrounded by palm trees, as you can see, and a few mangrove.
But there's kind of a paradox here, because it looks like it's surrounded by desert.
At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, I'm really fortunate to be surrounded by colleagues who share this passion.
But at the time when I started this project, the best explanation I could find for penal erection was that the wall surrounded these spongy tissues, and the spongy tissues filled with blood and pressure rose and voila! it became erect.
The other ethnic groups, which did have chiefs, made sure that they surrounded the chiefs with councils upon councils upon councils to prevent them from abusing their power.
We've just had a 6-million-pound health center built in Todmorden, and for some reason that I cannot comprehend, it has been surrounded by prickly plants.
He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, unknown scholars like Martin Buber and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could write in peace.
It was a wild dream to perform in an orchestra, to perform in the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in an orchestra conducted now by the famous Gustavo Dudamel, but much more importantly to me to be surrounded by musicians and mentors that became my new family, my new musical home.
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