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    having been done, he hung him up head downwards by the foot with which he had made him kneel; the other he pulled downwards with a heavy piece of iron, which...
    28 KB (3,589 words) - 05:32, 16 May 2024
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    sawing was lengthwise, both from the groin upwards and from the skull downwards (midsagittally). In only one case, the story about Simon the Zealot, the...
    56 KB (6,916 words) - 23:24, 28 April 2024
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    of the college are emblazoned as follows: Sable a Dolphin palewise head downwards to the dexter in chief three Mullets fesswise a Bordure embattled Argent...
    29 KB (2,803 words) - 02:13, 9 June 2024
  • different part of the creator God’s (Brahma) body, descending from the head downwards.” Members of hierarchical organizational structures mainly communicate...
    21 KB (2,471 words) - 15:24, 29 March 2024
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    even devas he creates through his own ascetic power, albeit with his head downwards. The Siksha Valli of the Taittiriya Upanishad includes teachings attributed...
    8 KB (867 words) - 06:07, 8 June 2024
  • consists of the man furiously thrusting downwards towards the woman, often holding her legs down or around the head. While the act has been practiced in...
    3 KB (300 words) - 19:48, 13 May 2024
  • the dispersion. And at last, having come to Rome, he was crucified head-downwards; for he had requested that he might suffer in this way. What do we need...
    9 KB (1,169 words) - 16:18, 21 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Abhartach
    the dwarf a third time, and buried him in the same place, with his head downwards; which subdued his magical power, so that he never again appeared on...
    7 KB (882 words) - 22:02, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greeting
    both hands together, aligning the thumbs with the nose, turning the head downwards and bowing deeply, bending from the knees. In a royal presence, the...
    20 KB (2,455 words) - 12:56, 15 May 2024
  • the most lasting[a] First things first[a] Fish always rots from the head downwards[a] Fish and guests smell after three days[a] Flattery will get you nowhere[a]...
    55 KB (6,710 words) - 05:31, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piledriver (sex position)
    bottom up, with legs bent over head, while the inserting partner stands above and inserts a penis or other object downwards into the receptive partner's...
    3 KB (178 words) - 16:56, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hanging
    behind a horse through the squares of Capua, and then hanged alive head downwards. The latter was still alive after two days when a certain German jester...
    105 KB (11,432 words) - 22:42, 10 May 2024
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    recently, Aziz Khan had ordered 14 robbers walled up alive, two of them head-downwards. Staying for the year 1887–1888 primarily in Shiraz, Edward Granville...
    54 KB (6,670 words) - 12:40, 18 May 2024
  • (born 21 October 1942) is a former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police Service), having served from 2000 until 2005....
    15 KB (1,258 words) - 07:07, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint Peter's tomb
    Constantine, wrote that Peter "came to Rome, and was crucified with his head downwards," attributing this information to the much earlier theologian Origen...
    29 KB (3,298 words) - 06:39, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arrow (symbol)
    upwards arrow indicates the NAND operator (negation of conjunction), an downwards arrow indicates the NOR operator (negation of disjunction). In Unicode...
    35 KB (627 words) - 15:12, 6 May 2024
  • the point downwards, [dressed in a pink gown beneath her azure mantle, with a gold girdle about the waist and a nimbus around her crowned head]. Mantled...
    4 KB (456 words) - 17:17, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malachite kingfisher
    changed, sometimes by tossing it into the air, before it is swallowed head downwards. Fish, aquatic insects, and crustaceans are eaten. BirdLife International...
    9 KB (996 words) - 09:34, 10 February 2024
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    come to let the trumpet sound / for you; ...". The sinners are placed head-downwards in round, tube-like holes within the rock (debased mockeries of baptismal...
    95 KB (12,570 words) - 13:37, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sunset morpho
    that one of these apparently quietly hovering forms suddenly darts head downwards, and in this event it seems only to rise again with difficulty. They...
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