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  • Countenance is a synonym for face or facial expression, but may also refer to: Look up countenance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Countenance divine...
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  • (昭儀; zhāoyí) Lady of Cultivated Countenance (修容; xiūróng) Lady of Handsome Fairness (婕妤; jiéyú) Lady of Splendid Countenance (容華; rónghuá) Lady of Humble...
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    followed by the Iran crisis of 1946. The invasion, code name Operation Countenance, was largely unopposed by the numerically and technologically outmatched...
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    The invasion lasted from 25 August to 17 September 1941 and was codenamed Operation Countenance. Its purpose was to secure Iranian oil fields and ensure...
    115 KB (12,848 words) - 16:45, 21 October 2024
  • Vast Countenance is a rock 'n' folk band from Volendam, the Netherlands, founded in 1999. Vast Countenance toured the Netherlands and the United States...
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  • the half- washed out traces of smut and blacklead that tattooed her countenance." Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Queen Victoria (category Heirs presumptive to the British throne)
    of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful." Alexander, on the other hand, she described as "very plain". Victoria wrote to King Leopold...
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  • steps over the line from being the storyteller to being the story maker." To capture the "seedy countenance" of the character, Jude Law was given a sallow...
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    Syrian Kurdistan. Since this time, the Turkish government has refused to countenance any PYD presence at the various Syrian peace talks. In August 2016,...
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    countenancing those proceedings" so that he could "stimulate them to a public declaration of what every one of their acquaintance privately knows to be...
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  • The divine countenance is a concept in the Abrahamic religions. Face of God or The Face of God may also refer to: Face of God, an album by Holiday Sidewinder...
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  • his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend ... Terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes...
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    "of medium beauty, and of very assured and resolute countenance." She was fair-haired and was said to have had a lovely face. In the words of the chronicler...
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    legislation, the British Parliament and the East India Company had refused to countenance missionary activity in India, and proscribed the Bible and forbade religious...
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    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    22-year-old sister, and the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to countenance her marriage to a divorced man. Margaret abandoned her plans with Townsend....
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  • emotionless and servile existence is starting to grate, and - after almost two decades dedicated to her family - tries to explore her own interests and ambitions...
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    the man who came to her, Judah's countenance grew pale to green color when he publicly confessed his relationship with her. According to the Gospel of Matthew...
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  • ears, or the tell-tale nine tails) or a magical way of forcing; its countenance changes, but its nature does not. In Transformation of the Kumiho (구미호의 변신)...
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    reason.com. June 11, 2016. "Mandatory minimum drives US District Judge to countenance arguments for jury nullification in federal child porn case". entencing...
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    worldwide. He was, according to The Washington Post, fitting as "a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance that he knows all too well"...
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