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    cabinet; he ultimately resigned his position in December 1793, and Washington forsook him. The feud led to the well-defined Federalist and Republican parties...
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    independence from France as the Kingdom of Morocco. A month later Spain forsook its protectorate in Northern Morocco to the new state but kept its two...
    206 KB (21,018 words) - 11:42, 29 October 2024
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    the Allies, and longstanding allied states, such as Saxony and Bavaria, forsook him as well. Following his retreat from Russia, Napoleon continued to retreat...
    47 KB (4,595 words) - 07:57, 5 November 2024
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    poet Ovid in his Ars Amatoria said that even though he was a god, Apollo forsook his pride and stayed in as a servant for the sake of Admetus. Tibullus...
    230 KB (25,628 words) - 05:45, 4 November 2024
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    during the reigns of Tsar Simeon and Tsar Peter. At the age of eighty he forsook the rank of ichirgu boila and all of his possessions and became a monk...
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    became the tribal chief in 1662 after his father's death. Metacom, however, forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after repeated...
    70 KB (8,138 words) - 22:27, 5 November 2024
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    contracted tuberculosis and was therefore discharged from military duty. He forsook his banking career and hospital bed and in 1923, brother Walt joined Roy...
    15 KB (1,396 words) - 15:39, 30 October 2024
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    insulting the men who now controlled his country. During the war, Uday forsook the alcohol and womanising and concentrated his energies on directing the...
    112 KB (13,996 words) - 08:10, 30 October 2024
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    the marque beyond relevance by making a car so long, wide and tall it forsook the inner logic of the brand: excellent handling in a tiny size. In the...
    80 KB (8,263 words) - 14:01, 8 October 2024
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    [Dis] had gone out of his shadowy realm") becomes "the prince of fiends forsook his darksome hole". Pluto's court as a literary setting could bring together...
    126 KB (17,184 words) - 23:55, 5 November 2024
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    So I braced my resolution to quit my dear ones, female and male, and forsook my home as birds forsake their nests. My parents being yet in the bonds...
    123 KB (13,146 words) - 16:38, 4 November 2024
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    Jesus Christ was condemned by Herod, and also wonderfully saved. Moses forsook the king's court so as to help his persecuted brethren; the Son of God...
    134 KB (15,541 words) - 05:51, 2 November 2024
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    Ingrassia, Michele (January 25, 1990). "The Unlikely Bayman Arnold Leo forsook Manhattan years ago for the East End. Today, he's the single most powerful...
    41 KB (2,034 words) - 22:09, 11 October 2024
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    were so dim that no glasses would help me. My strength likewise now quite forsook me and probably will not return in this world. Wesley was cared for during...
    119 KB (13,539 words) - 17:10, 4 November 2024
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    collision at Oxford) and the king's court, although the king himself never forsook Abbot. In July 1621, while hunting in Lord Zouch's park at Bramshill in...
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    the mythical age. After finishing his works of creation, the High God "forsook the earth and withdrew into the highest heaven". This is an example of...
    205 KB (26,313 words) - 18:52, 13 September 2024
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    his mother was. He remained true to Lonoikamakahiki when all the world forsook him, and was treated by Lono as a younger brother or very near kindred...
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    third cousin once removed of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. His family forsook its exhausted Virginia land, joined the westward migration and settled...
    97 KB (10,238 words) - 20:45, 2 November 2024
  • understanding that clinical medicine disallowed time to write fiction, Ballard forsook medicine and enrolled at Queen Mary College to read English literature...
    80 KB (7,539 words) - 01:33, 4 November 2024
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    was used by the elder generation as a term for a young Jewish woman who forsook traditional Jewish dress values for those of the ostentatiously wealthy...
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