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  • Thumbnail for Don Quixote
    refers to jousting. This phrase is sometimes also expressed as "charging at windmills" or "fighting the windmills". The phrase is sometimes used to describe...
    75 KB (9,003 words) - 00:25, 2 June 2024
  • "The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by American lyricists Alan and Marilyn...
    19 KB (1,958 words) - 21:42, 25 February 2024
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    Kinderdijk (category Windmills in South Holland)
    rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands...
    7 KB (671 words) - 03:26, 1 May 2023
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    believes to be real, and acts on this idealism, which most famously leads him into imaginary fights with windmills that he regards as giants, leading to the...
    3 KB (276 words) - 06:09, 13 April 2024
  • 3:52 "Sueleen" – 5:40 "Con Man" – 7:10 "Mad Love's Comin'" – 7:45 "Fighting Windmills" – 4:38 "Faded Jeans" – 5:07 "Time's Up" – 3:52 Side A "I Need Love"...
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  • phrases, lasting from half a beat to 32 beats, and having from one note to twenty-five. Performers are expected to play the first phrase once in unison...
    19 KB (1,135 words) - 20:20, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Climate change denial
    pensioners, but also including a few journalists – many of them literally fighting windmills), and the Eccentric Scientist (they are few and far between). All...
    230 KB (21,943 words) - 14:11, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bill Cunningham (American photographer)
    and straight in New York, that's like Don Quixote fighting windmills." Though he contributed to the New York Times regularly beginning in the 1970s, he did...
    38 KB (3,973 words) - 00:23, 22 April 2024
  • Press USA ISBN 0-19-516938-7 Duran, Manuel and Rogg, Fay R. (2006) "Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote". Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-11022-7...
    40 KB (5,220 words) - 16:39, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sophie Brzeska
    nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 13 April 2024. Ready, Ania (2023). I Also Fight Windmills. VIKA Books. ISBN 9780957025592. Licence, Amy (30 June 2017). "Flowers...
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  • Thumbnail for Fabyan Windmill
    on a U.S. postage stamp, as part of a series of five windmills in a stamp booklet called "Windmills USA." It originally operated as a custom grinding mill...
    13 KB (1,179 words) - 04:48, 11 April 2024
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    Smock mill (redirect from Smock windmill)
    "The tallest windmill". Windmill World. Retrieved 29 March 2010. Farries, Kenneth (1981). "Chapter 2: Rise and fall". Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights...
    7 KB (912 words) - 20:40, 27 March 2024
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    Gene Tunney (redirect from A Man Must Fight)
    willingness to fight toe-to-toe. It was Benny Leonard who advised Tunney that the only way to beat Harry "The Human Windmill" Greb was to aim his punches...
    58 KB (1,965 words) - 18:18, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victor Rebengiuc
    this, Ceauşescu that, ought to disappear. That paper was supposed to wipe out some traces. I am still fighting windmills." Elsewhere, he spoke of his...
    56 KB (6,209 words) - 20:53, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Royal Doulton figurines
    Davies 1963 1975 HN2269 Leading Lady Margaret Davies 1965 1976 HN2270 Pillow Fight Margaret Davies 1965 1969 HN2271 Melanie Margaret Davies 1965 1981 HN2272...
    239 KB (91 words) - 22:17, 7 April 2024
  • "Windmill War: The Fight Over Stony Brook Southampton's Mill". Dan's Papers. Retrieved February 6, 2023. Harrison, Helen A. (May 18, 1997). "Windmills...
    11 KB (1,294 words) - 14:54, 3 November 2023
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    Consuegra (section Windmills)
    the 21st century. The castle and the windmills are Consuegra's most important monuments. Most Spanish windmills, like those described in Miguel de Cervantes'...
    8 KB (929 words) - 09:17, 22 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Napoleon (Animal Farm)
    exhorts the other animals to fight and die for the good of the farm, he himself is a coward and a lazy one at that, in contrast to Snowball, who was more...
    8 KB (1,029 words) - 13:43, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bruce Lee
    Kong boxing tournament), and frequent street fighting (neighborhood and rooftop fights). In 1959, Lee moved to Seattle, where he enrolled at the University...
    168 KB (17,040 words) - 01:23, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Denver Windmill
    and is open to the public, except Christmas Day. Denver Windmill appeared in an episode of 'Allo 'Allo! titled "Fighting with Windmills" which was filmed...
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