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Hannibal
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    There is a secret pass here in the north, a place where I hold sway, where Hannibal once crossed when he marched against Rome.†  (source)
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    We studied the ancients and the late classical period, took field trips to the ruins of Athens, Rome, London, and Hannibal, Missouri, and never once had a quiz or test.†  (source)
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    They thought they were safe, because the elephants were across the sea, but Hannibal was smarter than them.†  (source)
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    Once across, they began to pick up speed, charging now like Hannibal's war elephants.†  (source)
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    Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart; Ta-Kumsaw lived a story like Achilles or Odysseus, Caesar or Hannibal, David or the Maccabees.†  (source)
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    He owes a lot to President Lincoln, who first appointed him the military governor of Tennessee and then chose him to run on the vice presidential ticket after Lincoln asked Hannibal Hamlin of Maine to step down.†  (source)
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    Though Marcus wasn't a murdering cannibal, she had the feeling he and Hannibal were more similar than different, at least in the way they viewed the world and their role in it.†  (source)
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    And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East—if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined.†  (source)
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    They say Hannibal himself may have led his troops through these parts.†  (source)
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    He normally talks with the Midland accent of his hometown, Hannibal, Missouri.†  (source)
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    Although I—like Maggie—thought that we were starting at a grave disadvantage if one of the participants was restrained and bolted to the floor like Hannibal Lecter, this was the best we were going to get.†  (source)
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    He knowshimself well enough at the end that he will never return to childhood and Hannibal and bossy women, so he lights out for the Territories.†  (source)
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    Of course you were—and for Hannibal—†  (source)
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