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  • Thumbnail for Abolition of the Caliphate
    It has no justification for existence. It is a piece of impertinence that you should dare write to any of my secretaries! On 29 October 1923, the National...
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    It has no justification for existence. It is a piece of impertinence that you should dare write to any of my secretaries! Still, for all the power he had...
    29 KB (3,079 words) - 10:16, 11 May 2024
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    The Tribute Money (Masaccio) (category Paintings of Jesus)
    entirely in robes of pastel pink and blue, the official wears a shorter tunic of a striking vermilion. The colour adds to the impertinence expressed through...
    15 KB (1,887 words) - 01:45, 2 May 2024
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    Cassandra (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Helen of Troy)
    war. When Menelaus visits Troy to offer a sacrifice, he rebukes the impertinence of Cassandra's brother Paris, who has recently returned to Troy and been...
    10 KB (1,368 words) - 22:43, 22 March 2024
  • This is a list of the chapters of the Japanese manga series Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The individual chapters...
    32 KB (1,004 words) - 07:55, 5 May 2024
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    imprisoned for theft, dangerous-driving, and severe impertinence to the police. Two chapters of the book chronicle his daring escape from prison. Mr...
    44 KB (5,691 words) - 14:54, 3 May 2024
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    examination was not at all fruitless for me. I hated my country. All the impertinences of the different peoples among whom I have lived have reconciled me to...
    30 KB (3,929 words) - 11:12, 16 March 2024
  • injecting himself with Gabriel's grace to power up. Arthur's continuing impertinence and defiance enrage Asmodeus who brutally beats him. Asmodeus states...
    435 KB (69,204 words) - 00:06, 14 April 2024
  • cheeky * impertinent; noun form, cheek, impertinence; a child answering back to an adult might be told "don't give me any of your cheek" (also there is the expression...
    133 KB (15,566 words) - 12:36, 7 May 2024
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    Sumptuary law (category History of clothing)
    convenience of sumptuary laws, he wrote: "of It is the highest impertinence and presumption... in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private...
    43 KB (5,394 words) - 16:13, 10 May 2024
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    Mozart, l'opéra rock (category Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
    unable to overcome. France Soir described the show as "lacking genius and impertinence," weighed down by "a disjointed first act," "simpering" female characters...
    28 KB (3,917 words) - 06:47, 9 May 2024
  • Carousel (musical) (category Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients)
    scene of Carousel is an impertinence: I refuse to be lectured to by a musical comedy scriptwriter on the education of children, the nature of the good...
    87 KB (10,388 words) - 01:05, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by George Frideric Handel
    trio sonatas; 18 concerti grossi; and 12 organ concertos. Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe...
    118 KB (377 words) - 12:42, 1 April 2024
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    Denis Diderot (category Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences)
    commit a great impertinence." Catherine: "No, between men there is no such thing as impertinence." Durant, Will (1965). The Story of Civilization Volume...
    72 KB (8,715 words) - 11:50, 12 April 2024
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    Charles H. M. Kerr (category Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
    the most monstrous piece of insolence in a paid [illegible] I have ever heard of: but not by any means the only bit of impertinence I have been subject...
    8 KB (859 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2023
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    right, sought from the Emperor of Morocco restitution for some goods confiscated, and was burnt alive for his impertinence. His widow made her woes clear...
    156 KB (17,973 words) - 15:28, 9 May 2024
  • stage characters as follows: [They] had the impertinence, no, the hubris to utter those most terrifying of words, "I love you," [but] what did they mean...
    57 KB (7,092 words) - 13:49, 28 February 2024
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    Jeannot de Moncey, the governor of the Invalides, somewhat redeemed the impertinence of the court and the politicians. For a fortnight he had been in agony...
    66 KB (9,082 words) - 19:48, 1 May 2024
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    Ada Blanche (category Women of the Victorian era)
    have astonished Daniel Defoe; but her liveliness and amusing impertinence atoned for lack of fidelity to the original character." In Dick Whittington, a...
    12 KB (1,497 words) - 18:33, 23 April 2024
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    Almack's (category Defunct clubs and societies of the United Kingdom)
    danced together all night & took the upper end of the room, which was considered a great impertinence." By 1837, matters had so far changed that the gallopade...
    54 KB (8,433 words) - 19:38, 28 February 2024
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