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  • and poet Abba Kovner to try to convince Jews in the Vilnius area to take up arms against their German invaders. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched...
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    uncle Harald Wartooth. Later he would take up arms against his uncle Harald in a bid to overthrow him and take the crown of Denmark, a conflict which...
    19 KB (2,337 words) - 16:02, 22 May 2024
  • a conscious decision of the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, to take up arms and become a warrior; in accepting this duty, the War Doctor disowned...
    20 KB (2,522 words) - 15:39, 24 May 2024
  • organization. It is one of the main opposition movements in Bahrain to take up arms and is one of the rebel factions of the insurgency in Bahrain, the main...
    8 KB (615 words) - 11:46, 4 May 2024
  • war against the United States government, and its stated goal was to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United...
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    cartel and several of his family members murdered. This impelled him to take up arms in defense of his community of Tepalcatepec. On 25 November 2020, a Mexican...
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    amount of casualties. During the start of the attack Klitschko vowed to take up arms and fight. Zelenskyy urged citizens of Kyiv to respond to the Russian...
    90 KB (6,403 words) - 14:43, 26 May 2024
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    Americans from attaining full equality, it might be necessary for them to take up arms. It was ranked 7th in the top 100 American speeches of the 20th century...
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    militarism in Greek cultures (as opposed to inaction). In fact, those who did take up arms and became heroes were rewarded with everlasting joy in the fields of...
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    two decades, especially since Ceaușescu encouraged the population to take up arms to meet any similar maneuver in the country. He received an enthusiastic...
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  • after the Chinese captured Tibet. Of how it was difficult for a Monk to take up arms with the Tibetian resistance against the Chinese attack. The Maker of...
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    the end of the First Civil War, Astley gave his word that he would not take up arms again against Parliament and having given his word he felt duty bound...
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    Septimius Severus in the year 202 AD, writes, "Jews [...] were permitted to take up arms in defence of the members of their families, and to slay their enemies...
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    their family. Saladin granted his request, provided that Balian not take up arms against him and not remain in Jerusalem for more than one day; however...
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  • summary execution for refusing to take up arms in defence of the Roman Empire. Justin, one of his comrades in arms, is also in love with Sebastian, albeit...
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    spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly...
    86 KB (11,335 words) - 11:43, 28 April 2024
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    a summons to liberty, by which slaves were frequently called upon to take up arms with a promise of liberty (Liv. XXIV.32). "The figure of Liberty on some...
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    Herodian, spectators of Commodus thought it unbecoming of an emperor to take up arms in the amphitheater for sport when he could be campaigning against barbarians...
    7 KB (886 words) - 18:06, 5 November 2023
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    of 1,000 Tatars would be willing to take up arms against Russian forces in Crimea, if they were just given the arms to do so. Dzemilev also stated that...
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    theory of the Second Amendment whereby it is the right of any citizen to take up arms against their government should they consider it illegitimate. Such a...
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