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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
- 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
- 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 (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- According to Charles Johnson, Blackbeard fought a running duel with the British thirty-gun man-of-war HMS Scarborough, which added to his notoriety ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- #039;s friend Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. Bernard, 152. ===French Directory=== After 9 Thermidor, he mobilized his friends (most notably ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- Béla Kun (February 20, 1886 – August 29, 1938), born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Mistcalf, constructed to aid the troll Hrungnir in a duel with Thor, the god of thunder. [[Image:Leonardo-Robot3.jpg|thumb|Model of Leonardo da ...27 KB (4,060 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Although he was cleared of this charge, it led to a duel, for which he was prosecuted and sentenced to a fine and a fortnight's imprisonment. ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- who in the days before his ultimately fatal duel with Aaron Burr provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number. This list ...32 KB (4,993 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel; that he had examined the royal children at Blois; and that, when his corpse was uncovered during ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- rose to become leader of the Liberal Party. In this duel, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- #039;s hot-blooded cousin, challenges Romeo to a duel for appearing in the Capulets' ball disguised. Though no one is aware of the marriage yet ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- returned to Milan, where he eventually perished in a duel. King Francis became a close friend of Leonardo. Some 20 years after Leonardo's ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- Dorothy Dunnett portrays him killing Duncan in a duel, in which he engaged with reluctance. Dorothy Dunnett. King Hereafter. (New York, NY: Knopf ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- longer than Kubrick. Examples include the duel scene in Barry Lyndon and ... club in London to challenge Barry to a duel near the end of Barry Lyndon ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- of its 749 members.Moshe Hazani, "The Duel That Never Was," Political ... * Hazani, Moshe. "The Duel That Never Was," Political Psychology ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- the time, and the actor challenged the writer to a duel and then a boxing match. Neither challenge was answered. Shortly afterward, Valentino met for ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- | Episode: "Duel Citizenship" (S 5:EP 5) |- |} ==Legacy== Kenny Rogers sold more than 165 million records worldwide during his lifetime ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- *The Grand Duke, or, The Statutory Duel (1896) 123 performances Parlour ballads *The Distant Shore (1874) *The Love that Loves Me Not (1875) ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- a master of archery, a young man challenges him to a duel. He declares his name is Karna, and that he is the son of the charioteer. When asked to prove ...33 KB (5,198 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- way to Iquique. After a two-hour running artillery duel, Unión suffered engine problems; the pursuit was called off and Magallanes escaped with minor ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- saying, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go." Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- the only man Jackson ever killed in a duel, had been goaded into angering Jackson by Jackson's political opponents. Nominally fought over ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- The United States then fought a four-round veto duel with France, forcing it to back down and accept Kofi Annan as the next secretary-general. In ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- damaged. The destroyer Heermann, despite her duel with Japanese battleships many times her size, finished the battle with only six of her crew dead. ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- drawn; and the man who gets the better of the duel also gets the decision about the matter in dispute." Ibn Rustah. English translation in ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- troupe, by means of a "statutory duel" and a conspiracy, takes political control of a grand duchy, was an outright failure. After that ...46 KB (7,062 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- British guns were distracted into an artillery duel with French guns and this allowed a second attack by Soye's brigade and then by what had been ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian officer. He was threatened with legal action by Field-Marshal Auchinleck for suggesting ...46 KB (7,157 words) - 15:39, 29 September 2023
- to Bhima in valor and achievements and narrates the duel between Bhima and Duryodhana using clubs on the eighteenth day of the Mahabharata war.Narasimhacharya ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- A legendary ability was the Duel of Wills, a psychological technique to test an enemy's mental strength without engaging in actual fighting ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- *Wetzel, David. 2001. A duel of giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the origins of the Franco-Prussian War. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- North Woods and into the Cornfield, an artillery duel erupted. Confederate fire was from the horse artillery batteries under Jeb Stuart to the west ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
