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  • Thumbnail for Tinder
    sheetlike materials are easily carried off by air currents, where they can alight upon other objects and ignite them. In outdoor campfires, paper can be wadded...
    8 KB (898 words) - 15:46, 4 September 2024
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    after the Last Supper, and it was also the site where the Holy Spirit alighted upon the twelve apostles on Pentecost, Matthias having been "numbered with...
    29 KB (3,391 words) - 04:14, 24 October 2024
  • Expeditionary Medal, in the center of the bronze medallion an eagle is shown alight upon an anchor; the eagle is facing to the left and the flukes of the anchor...
    6 KB (539 words) - 08:12, 13 February 2024
  • Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee (ARC), is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance...
    27 KB (2,725 words) - 19:51, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mormon cricket
    soon as one was killed, others of them would alight upon it and devour it. Mormon crickets are preyed upon by a wide variety of birds and mammals. These...
    14 KB (1,643 words) - 16:17, 16 July 2024
  • Expeditionary Medal, in the center of the bronze medallion an eagle is shown alight upon an anchor; the eagle is facing to the left and the flukes of the anchor...
    5 KB (534 words) - 15:07, 18 October 2024
  • through her mirror, sends a bolt of fire through the mirror and sets the oven alight. Since her death, the Blind Witch works at the Underworld's version of Granny's...
    148 KB (19,824 words) - 20:39, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
    Finally a large quantity of brushwood was shoved into the opening and set alight, upon which Ryabov posted a guard over the site and departed. Early on 18 July...
    37 KB (4,130 words) - 22:42, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike (mythology)
    of flying sideways, Paionios's Nike advances forward with feet just alighting upon the ground. At her feet an eagle is shown to fly to the viewer's left...
    33 KB (4,344 words) - 18:10, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cercis siliquastrum
    wandering bee is drawn after it to gather honey. But every bee which alights upon the blossom, imbibes a fatal opiate, and drops dead from among the crimson...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 13:15, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for European nightjar
    eyelid's soundless blink The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight Upon the wind-warped upland thorn. In the final track on Divers, Time, As...
    42 KB (4,929 words) - 11:37, 21 July 2024
  • 4. "A Deal with Chaos" 2:05 5. "A Pile of Dust" 4:51 6. "A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder" 2:27 7. "Fragment I" 1:24 8. "By the Roes, and by the...
    3 KB (90 words) - 13:58, 30 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Éamon de Valera
    and courage which have enabled man to alight upon the Moon will enable him, also, to secure peace and happiness upon the Earth and avoid the danger of self-destruction...
    131 KB (14,072 words) - 20:50, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clan MacInnes
    wall and defence became hopeless. The clans original crest was a bee alight upon a thistle and the motto “E labore Dulcedo” (in labor, pleasure) presumably...
    7 KB (577 words) - 11:18, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dushyanta
    their triumph. Matali escorted the king back to earth upon his vimana, and the two alighted upon the ashrama of Sage Kashyapa (Maricha in other accounts)...
    11 KB (1,343 words) - 06:54, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seal of Alabama
    In the centre of the seal an eagle is represented with raised wings alighting upon the national shield, with three arrows in his left talon. The eagle...
    6 KB (618 words) - 09:44, 14 March 2024
  • and courage which have enabled man to alight upon the Moon will enable him, also, to secure peace and happiness upon the Earth and avoid the danger of self-destruction...
    20 KB (2,105 words) - 00:52, 21 September 2024
  • with marrying off her former governess, Anne Taylor, to Mr Weston, she alights upon the pretty Harriet Smith to fashion into her new playmate and ally. She...
    25 KB (2,311 words) - 16:44, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Bok
    square pianos, the Brussels carpets, the grained woodwork—when his eyes alighted upon such things, his soul revolted, and at once his moral enthusiasm incited...
    22 KB (2,440 words) - 18:20, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kraken
    be 60 m (200 feet) in length, covered in shells, and had many birds alighted upon it.[citation needed] Samuel Latham Mitchill reported this, and referencing...
    110 KB (10,937 words) - 14:42, 13 November 2024
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