Search results for "Duel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- is given a key role in making sure a duel is fought. This has been interpreted as an allegorical representation of a supposed Zionist conspiracy ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- is brave Clorinda, who dons armor, fighting in a duel with her devoted lover who no longer recognizes her. These lovely minor characters, so touching ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- *"The Duel" (1891) *"Peasant Wives" (1891) *"Ward No. 6" (1892) *"In Exile" (1892) *"The Grasshopper ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 06:50, 31 July 2023
- them sufficiently for a daylight gun duel to be fought. ... instead of being reserved for a surface duel that would never be fought ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- than continuing his outmatched artillery duel. His judgment proved correct ... his involvement to an ineffectual artillery duel and a missed opportunity. ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- The Lèi tái (Traditional: 擂臺 Simplified: 擂台 “Beat (a drum) Platform”) is a raised fighting platform, without railings, where often ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- Oak Bridge crossing, resulting in an artillery duel, while the main battle raged two miles (3 km) farther south at Glendale. White Oak Swamp is often ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- Pushkin, he would die at a very young age in a duel. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Gogol is a humorist with few peers. His ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- killed Davis Tutt, Jr. in a "quick draw" duel. Fiction later typified this kind of gunfight, but Hickok's is in fact the only one on ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- On April 9, 1694, John Law fought a duel with Edward Wilson. Wilson had challenged Law over the affections of Elizabeth Villiers. Wilson was ...21 KB (3,378 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- brawl, while Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel. Several probably were soldiers. Playwrights were normally paid in increments during the writing ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- * "The Duel" (aka "The Point of Honor": serialized in the UK in Pall Mall Magazine in early 1908 and in the US periodical ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- of this episode, Sidney challenged de Vere to a duel, which Elizabeth forbade; he then wrote the queen a lengthy letter detailing the foolishness of ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- century, there was a series of "duel races" at Madison Square Garden's (NY) indoor track, some of which featured two men racing ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- When he was nine, his father was killed in a duel, and his mother left him with his prosperous architect uncles. They saw to it that he received an ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- century, there was a series of races 'duel races' at Madison Square Garden's (New York) indoor track, some of which featured two ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- him in 1722 to avoid imprisonment for fighting a duel. His childhood education consisted solely of reading Plutarch's Lives and Calvinist sermons ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- in the analysis—that "war is nothing but a duel [or wrestling match, a better translation of the German Zweikampf] on a larger scale." His ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- to the wedding. He travels to Pohjola and wins the duel with the Master of Northland. An army is conjured to get back at Lemminkäinen; on his mother’s ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- Arnold also fought a duel in Honduras with a British sea captain, who called Arnold a "Dammed Yankee, destitute of good manners or those ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
