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    phrase appeared in the Nebraska State Journal. Since both "off one's trolley" and "off one's rocker" became popular in the late 1890s about the same time...
    43 KB (1,995 words) - 15:24, 1 June 2024
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    upturn the "toe" and the bend of the head where it joins the shaft the "heel". In recent times using the edges of the stick (as well as the face side)...
    54 KB (9,089 words) - 14:34, 11 January 2024
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    Arab custom, the removal of one's shoe also symbolized the dissolution of marriage. In Arab culture, showing the sole of one's shoe is considered an insult...
    84 KB (9,153 words) - 14:54, 6 May 2024
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    Threshing board (category Grain production)
    to one another, of more than four inches wide, in which is several hard and cutting flints crammed into the bottom part pull along over the grains. In...
    60 KB (7,861 words) - 04:58, 27 February 2023
  • chocolate, banana vinegar, sea grapes, blue cheese Dessert: chocolate high heel, canned ham, dulce leaves, passion fruit Contestants: Sandra Hakim, Chocolatier...
    248 KB (62 words) - 09:24, 7 June 2024
  • Stone criticized the album, though he did single out the last track, "Every Grain of Sand", as a stand-out. Shot of Love, while reaching UK No. 6, continued...
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    pneumas, refining one's body and dispelling disasters, averting evil and controlling ghosts, nourishing one's nature and avoiding grains, transforming oneself...
    54 KB (7,428 words) - 08:13, 27 May 2023
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    the Alleghany Mountains to run for my life with the hounds of hell at my heels." — Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician (6 July 1802)...
    183 KB (20,870 words) - 01:51, 5 May 2024
  • own judgment. Some specific publishers, primarily in news journalism, drop one or both forms of punctuation as a matter of house style. They seem more frequently...
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    Huguenots under Louis XV Kingdom of Navarre Cabriole leg Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul Suppression of the Jesuits Louis heel, a shoe heel shape named...
    144 KB (19,778 words) - 09:00, 21 May 2024
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    backing vocals. On 27 September 2007, bassist Mick Quinn sustained a broken heel bone and two spinal fractures in a sleepwalking accident whilst on holiday...
    44 KB (4,709 words) - 03:54, 30 May 2024
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    equated with selling one's soul to the devil. In later beliefs, concluding a contract with Leshy required placing a cross under one's heel, burying it in the...
    58 KB (8,436 words) - 20:17, 31 May 2024
  • from West Point 1942 (15th) 0 1 The Corsican Brothers 1942 (15th) 0 1 The Grain That Built a Hemisphere 1942 (15th) 0 1 The Mayor of 44th Street 1942 (15th)...
    509 KB (271 words) - 19:45, 2 June 2024
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    were ready to take a chance on something new, which they were told would bring high-spending Labour councils to heel by making them responsible to the...
    152 KB (17,995 words) - 20:03, 8 June 2024
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    Thinking for one's self is to seek the chief touchstone of truth in one's self (id est, in one's own reason); and the maxim, to think for one's self at all...
    231 KB (30,689 words) - 00:32, 31 May 2024
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    "barbarian" custom of sitting with one's legs stretched out instead of the Chinese norm of squatting on one's heels. The early China historian Li Feng...
    29 KB (3,689 words) - 20:15, 10 May 2024
  • doing something unnecessarily or unjustifiably early. Holding a half-hour marine sandglass used until the early 19th century to time watches under one's coat...
    251 KB (31,543 words) - 14:18, 8 June 2024
  • On". Lore. Retrieved 12 April 2021. Mahnke, Aaron (23 November 2020). "A Grain of Truth". Lore. Retrieved 12 April 2021. Mahnke, Aaron (7 December 2020)...
    132 KB (2,927 words) - 14:09, 26 May 2024
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    Retrieved July 4, 2019. "How Denise Richards Is Fighting Kidney Cancer, One Heel at a Time". People. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved...
    93 KB (6,946 words) - 22:25, 5 June 2024
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    glass jar with grappa and flour and then shaken With the dispersion of the grains of flour in the liquid, the effect would be that of mist (scighera in the...
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