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  • Thumbnail for Catherine of Aragon
    was punctilious in her religious obligations in the Order, integrating without demur her necessary duties as queen with her personal piety. After the annulment...
    63 KB (7,627 words) - 00:53, 30 September 2024
  • good tailoring, punctilious manners and grammatical training, while it made romantic heroes of the poor Irish and the unlettered." The British film magazine...
    204 KB (21,229 words) - 17:35, 21 October 2024
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    in planning, in the heat of battle "so highly transported that scarce any one durst speak a word to him", chivalrous and punctilious in his dealings with...
    28 KB (3,278 words) - 02:07, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States
    requiring passports for slaves; of the resolute character of Mr. Dinsmore, and of his punctilious execution of the duties of his office as Indian Agent: These...
    198 KB (21,153 words) - 18:44, 20 October 2024
  • methodology," which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. While other jihadis are salafist in doctrine, ISIL been more...
    100 KB (11,985 words) - 02:17, 6 September 2024
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    example) that "the wipe technique makes [the sequence] funnier—images of bureaucrats are stacked like cards, each more punctilious than the last." Kurosawa...
    44 KB (5,966 words) - 14:31, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leo Frank
    city, with row upon row of southern women, often the daughters and wives of ruined farmers, 'at his mercy' – a rich, punctilious, northern Jew lording it...
    131 KB (17,282 words) - 19:09, 13 October 2024
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    Samurai (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    describes the honour and manners of the people: "I fancy that there are no people in the world more punctilious about their honour than the Japanese,...
    155 KB (19,079 words) - 09:19, 17 October 2024
  • "sanctity", a usage also of Tacitus; "punctilious veneration", in company with cura (carefulness, concern); more commonly in the plural caerimoniae, to...
    259 KB (34,549 words) - 14:21, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ann Coulter
    countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed...
    133 KB (12,780 words) - 16:47, 15 October 2024
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    source for parts of his account about Elagabalus. Arrizabalaga writes that Herodian is in most ways "less detailed and punctilious than Dio", and he...
    79 KB (8,379 words) - 01:29, 19 October 2024
  • brutalising the lower ranks and pandering to the whims and vanity of less experienced officers. Outwardly he is punctilious in his military routine and obsequious...
    270 KB (33,374 words) - 16:42, 17 October 2024
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    Department of Health to make budget cuts. He is presented as "punctilious, pedantic and passionate about his work", but with a dry sense of humour. From...
    228 KB (28,145 words) - 21:09, 26 September 2024
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    attended by his or her punctilious boss, or has just formulated the goal of losing 10 lb. ... Adaptive responses depend on the ability to inhibit automatic...
    274 KB (28,846 words) - 10:11, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conspiracy theory
    mixtures of knee-jerk disbelief, punctilious demands for proofs, and free use of powerful explanation from the social neverland, many of the weapons of social...
    159 KB (17,273 words) - 00:51, 19 October 2024
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    William Halsey Jr. (category Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire)
    mindful of leaving them trapped there for a repeat of the Bataan Peninsula disaster. Halsey punctiliously made it clear he did not plan to withdraw the Marines...
    82 KB (9,445 words) - 08:37, 2 October 2024
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    Yemenite Hebrew (category Languages of Israel)
    saying: "The Yemenites are very stringent and well-versed, and are punctilious in their [usage of the] language, and they support the enunciation of the Ashkenazim"...
    135 KB (13,673 words) - 20:36, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
    compared with that of the battle-tested officers whom he led (some were veterans of the Battle of Waterloo) drew his naturally punctilious nature to manifest...
    56 KB (6,788 words) - 10:41, 20 October 2024
  • Brigid Brophy (category Writers from the London Borough of Ealing)
    demanding role as Director of the National Gallery in order to better care for Brophy. Brophy had always been a punctilious correspondent and an indefatigable...
    21 KB (2,464 words) - 08:47, 16 October 2024
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    Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (category British people convicted of bigamy)
    tyrannical. He didn't allow her enough money or enough liberty. He was punctilious and unforgiving about hours, about truth-telling, about debts. He objected...
    57 KB (7,892 words) - 16:12, 11 September 2024
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