plundering

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• This Daily Dose dives into ancient mysteries that make Indiana Jones movies seem dull, examines current controversies around repatriations and gives you a peek at the world’s most sought-after plunder.

• Surveying the plunders of rodents who nested with or near ancient humans can uncover truths about where and how our ancestors lived, as well as what environmental forces drove them.

• The British, however, settled for the capitulation of Alexandria, and made off with a trove of ships and other plunder as they sailed back down the Potomac.

• That standard gothic story plot is about borders and border crossing, about the terrors of the other, about wealth and exploitation and plunder and shifting power dynamics.

• The manner of this acquisition would be a topic of discussion in biblical interpretation for centuries, for fear that it looks like plunder.

• It was up to the countries in which these acts of plunder had taken place to decide who rightfully owned the recovered works.

• Hulagu then gave his men licence to rape, kill and plunder with the caveat that Christians and Jews were to be spared.

• When they ran out of food, he would “go down to Babylon to plunder,” which means stealing from grocery stores.

• In contrast to other brigades, whose motto is “fight by day, plunder by night,” ISIS is a dedicated combat force.

• And it is repeated: “on the plunder they did not lay their hand.”

• But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.

• And knowing that bunch as well as I do, I don't think they'll lift the plunder and quit the country till they can go together.

• I stumbled over a fat trumpeter in the field, stript and plunder'd, with his skin full of bullets.