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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...
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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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    The officer holding a sabre in the background is obscured by the horse's tail. Napoleon's face appears youthful. The painting is signed in the yoke of...
    22 KB (3,013 words) - 10:29, 9 July 2024
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    Emilio De Bono (category Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy)
    family "suffered under the Austrian yoke". He entered the Royal Italian Army (Regio Esercito) in 1884 as a second lieutenant, fought in the Italo-Ethiopian...
    19 KB (1,886 words) - 17:22, 18 June 2024
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    and of life are different ... To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority must lead to...
    267 KB (28,846 words) - 21:54, 8 July 2024
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    Balkan Federation (category History of the Balkans)
    as the other small nations, which were under the yoke of the imperialists, were helped for freedom and independence. In addition to this part, the irredentist...
    27 KB (3,268 words) - 07:01, 11 July 2024
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    Benedictus (canticle) (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    impatiently borne the yoke of the Romans, they had continually sighed for the time when the House of David was to be their deliverer. The deliverance was...
    14 KB (1,962 words) - 05:53, 29 December 2023
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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) - 00:27, 21 June 2024
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    Cyrus Cylinder (category Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire)
    local cults and the people they conquered, interpreting the submission to the "exalted might" of Ashur, the "yoke of Ashur" and the looting and destruction...
    112 KB (13,092 words) - 11:41, 9 June 2024
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    Battle of Arnhem (1813) (category Battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition)
    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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    Dionysus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    "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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    Theodora (wife of Justinian I) (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Apostles)
    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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    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...
    134 KB (12,058 words) - 11:53, 3 July 2024
  • collated under the head item (first item listed), which is sometimes followed by alternative roots that might have collated earlier in the table had...
    2 KB (1,764 words) - 06:15, 16 April 2024
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    Amaury Kruel (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Aviz)
    from the red yoke", without, however, mentioning the president, still trying to wall him up without deposing him. Word spread across the country and reached...
    67 KB (8,360 words) - 19:16, 2 July 2024
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    Diomedes (category Characters in the Aeneid)
    brave, dignified, and austere. He was loud at the war-cry, hot-tempered, impatient, and daring." Diomedes was, on his father's side, an Aetolian, and on...
    66 KB (10,260 words) - 04:43, 5 July 2024
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    Amin al-Husseini (category Fascism in the Arab world)
    declared that Those lands suffering under the British and Bolshevist yoke impatiently await the moment when the Axis (powers) will emerge victorious...
    219 KB (28,037 words) - 13:19, 13 June 2024
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    Moses in rabbinic literature (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    might be regarded merely as trespasses; and that when Israel should suffer under the yoke of the nations, God would protect the pious and the saints...
    56 KB (9,116 words) - 15:47, 10 May 2024
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    chafing under a prospective bereavement, listened for a few moments, and then said, somewhat impatiently, that he did not think he ought to be troubled...
    120 KB (16,612 words) - 08:02, 3 July 2024
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    Joseph B. Foraker (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    felt relieved at the break, writing to a friend, "From Toledo to Chicago, my neck was under a yoke, but now I am free." Despite the factional opposition...
    86 KB (11,732 words) - 16:16, 21 December 2023
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