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  • Thumbnail for Benedictus (canticle)
    The horn is a sign of power, and the "horn of salvation" signified the power of delivering or "a mighty deliverance". While the Jews had impatiently borne...
    14 KB (1,962 words) - 05:53, 29 December 2023
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    device designed to rapidly and noisily vibrate the control yoke (the "stick") of an aircraft, warning the flight crew that an imminent aerodynamic stall...
    13 KB (1,482 words) - 17:27, 8 June 2024
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    flings herself. How often flings for nought! and yokes   Her heart to an icicle or whim, Whose each impatient word provokes   Another, not from her, but him;...
    12 KB (1,772 words) - 22:34, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Napoleon Crossing the Alps
    sharply. In the foreground BONAPARTE, HANNIBAL and KAROLVS MAGNVS IMP. are engraved on rocks. On the breastplate yoke of the horse, the picture is signed...
    22 KB (3,013 words) - 10:29, 9 July 2024
  • United 93 (film) (category Films based on the September 11 attacks)
    After Nami unsuccessfully urges Jarrah to attack, an impatient Haznawi prepares an artificial bomb in the lavatory. Ghamdi also loses his patience and grabs...
    50 KB (4,181 words) - 12:49, 17 June 2024
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    Emilio De Bono (category Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy)
    son of Giovanni de Bono and descendant of the Counts of Barlassina, and Elisa Bazzi. His family "suffered under the Austrian yoke". He entered the Royal...
    19 KB (1,886 words) - 17:22, 18 June 2024
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    caring in the least that she was making a spectacle of her shamelessness. Even though she put three of her orifices to work she would impatiently reproach...
    58 KB (7,322 words) - 04:17, 6 July 2024
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    wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA). The PAC was hoping to strengthen their standing by attracting the support of the angry, impatient youth...
    217 KB (25,617 words) - 06:03, 4 July 2024
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    await impatiently the determination of their frontiers not on the basis of brutal and bloody historical considerations, but rather on the basis of the situation...
    27 KB (3,268 words) - 07:01, 11 July 2024
  • The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists...
    2 KB (1,764 words) - 06:15, 16 April 2024
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    Dionysus (redirect from God of Wine)
    "excelled in sagacity and was the first to attempt the yoking of oxen and by their aid to effect the sowing of the seed". Arrian, the second-century Greek historian...
    212 KB (24,661 words) - 01:54, 11 July 2024
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    Tan Cheng Lock (category Grand Commanders of the Order of the Defender of the Realm)
    teach instead, and taught at the Raffles Institution from 1902 to 1908. He was unhappy with his lot and was too impatient to be a teacher, so his mother,...
    18 KB (2,126 words) - 15:03, 11 July 2024
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    who, impatient with Gandhi's programmes and methods, looked upon socialism as an alternative for nationalistic policies capable of meeting the country's...
    267 KB (28,846 words) - 21:54, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cyrus Cylinder
    interpreting the submission to the "exalted might" of Ashur, the "yoke of Ashur" and the looting and destruction of temples as religious intolerance. Similar actions...
    112 KB (13,092 words) - 11:41, 9 June 2024
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    ISBN 978-0-8223-3774-4. OCLC 63125607. Yoke, Carl B.; Robinson, Carol, eds. (2007). The Cultural Influences of William Gibson, the "Father" of Cyberpunk Science Fiction...
    134 KB (12,058 words) - 11:53, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Arnhem (1813)
    north Germany intending to defeat the Kingdom of Denmark and force it to hand over Norway to Sweden. Though impatient to invade Holland, Bülow was unable...
    22 KB (2,467 words) - 15:58, 2 June 2024
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    Amaury Kruel (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Aviz)
    Tancredo's term; impatient with parliamentarism, he would defend a self-coup, but Goulart did not accept it. With the fall of Minister of War Nélson de Melo...
    67 KB (8,360 words) - 19:16, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of American films of 1944
    Below is a list of American films released in 1944. Going My Way won Best Picture at the 17th Academy Awards. The remaining four nominees were Double...
    80 KB (195 words) - 17:06, 7 July 2024
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    Charles Francis Walsh (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
    he went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad as a freight train engineer. Charles grew impatient during what turned out to be a long and frustrating...
    22 KB (3,147 words) - 18:20, 23 June 2024
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    Amin al-Husseini (category People of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine)
    declared that Those lands suffering under the British and Bolshevist yoke impatiently await the moment when the Axis (powers) will emerge victorious. We...
    219 KB (28,037 words) - 13:19, 13 June 2024
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