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  • where it was associated with the wheel of a chariot thus becoming a symbol of political rulership and sovereigenty (as in a "circle/sphere" ...
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  • and throwing. Instead, the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling, as well as the Etruscan sport of gladiatorial combat took center stage. ...
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  • of which would feature Washington standing in a chariot. Inside the colonnade would be statues of 30 prominent Revolutionary War heroes. ...
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  • General, who stood in attendance by the imperial chariot in the Hall of Miraculous Mist. He was exiled to the mortal world and made to look like a monster ...
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  • *Ben-Hur (1925) - uncredited Crowd extra in the chariot race *For Heaven's Sake (1926) *The Kid Brother (1927) *Speedy (1928) ...
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  • and in horsemanship, and in the use of the war chariot, and in archery and fencing? :-Not at all. I had learnt all that before. :-But why? ...
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  • Swine) when she was not using her cat-drawn chariot. According to the poem Hyndluljóð, Freyja concealed the identity of her protégé Óttar by turning ...
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  • Thor travels in a chariot drawn by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr (Tooth-Grinder and Tooth-Gnasher) with his servant and messenger Þjálfi ...
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  • songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American ...
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  • [[File:Ashurbanipal in a chariot, wall relief, 7th century BC, from Nineveh, the British Museum.jpg|thumb|400px|Seventh-century B.C.E. relief ...
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  • Senators by forcing them to run alongside his chariot in their full robes. It is from this point on that there is a marked change in the biography of ...
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  • at a pool in Samaria, and the blood on his chariot is licked up by the dogs ... portion of your spirit." A flaming chariot and horses then come to ...
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  • . Filmed as The Phantom Carriage, The Phantom Chariot, The Stroke of Midnight. * sv|Stormyrtossen: Folkskädespel i 4 akter (1913) with Bernt Fredgren ...
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  • E.) and included ceremonial vessels, weapons, and chariot fittings. During the Zhou dynasty (周, 1100 – 256 B.C.E.) designs became more complex and ...
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  • The Vedas (Devanagari sa|वेद ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are the oldest scriptural texts of Hinduism ...
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  • :1. Arjuna bids Krishna to move the chariot between the hosts. As he sees his relatives on the side of the Kurus, he loses courage. ...
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  • Krishna, who has chosen to drive Arjuna's chariot, wakes him up to his call of duty in the famous Bhagavadgita section of the epic. Though initially ...
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  • slaves sang hymns like "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," longing for the day when they depart from their earthly toil under the slave-master's ...
    35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
  • wearing a leopard skin, or being pulled by a chariot drawn by panthers and has been called the god of cats and savagery. He always carried a thyrsus ...
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  • fire, like Elijah, who rode to heaven in a fiery chariot. An angel appeared in the flames of the thorn bush (Gen. 16:13; Judg. 6:21, 22; 2 Kings, 2:11; ...
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