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- in 1955 and 1956, including a string of 55 consecutive victories. He became known for his strong defense and shot-blocking skills, once blocking ...74 KB (11,022 words) - 16:07, 31 October 2023
- Caravaggio went on to secure a string of prestigious commissions for religious works featuring violent struggles, grotesque decapitations, torture ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- The coastal plain of Lebanon is the historic home of a string of coastal trading cities of Semitic culture, which the Greeks termed Phoenicia ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Arthur Shepherd's Triptych for Soprano and String Quartet. Tagore has also attained fame throughout much of Europe, North America, and East ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- than the French. Thus France could accumulate a string of victories from Flanders in the north to the Rhine Valley in the east to Italy and Spain ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Heather, followed in 2004. Following a successful string of tours between 2008 and 2013, he released three albums in the final years of his life: Old ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- the Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive led to an unbroken string of Soviet gains and unsupportable losses for the German forces. Germany would never again mount ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- thumb|right|200px|Symbols of the Southwest—a string of chili peppers and a blanched white [[Cattle|cow]]'s skull hang in a market near Santa Fe]] ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- use a two-stringed instrument in which one string is used for the drone and one for the melody. Though men are the traditional performers, women ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The guillotine became the symbol of a string of executions: Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror; Queen Marie ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- are delivered accompanied by the gusle, a one-string instrument played by the (guslar), who sings or recites the stories of heroes and battles in ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- city, however, he played a crucial role in a string of Athenian victories that eventually brought Sparta to seek a peace with Athens. He favored unconventional ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- the Midwest; they frequently played at a string of black clubs known as the ... a guitar chord note by note and singing string arrangements part by part ...200 KB (27,687 words) - 00:08, 13 March 2023
- #:Ribbon siliconD.S. Kim et al., String ribbon silicon solar cells with 17.8% efficiency. In Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic ...90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- of the papers played long and loud tunes on the string of Philip's foreign origin. Later biographies reported that Elizabeth's mother ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, achieved a string of victories over the Ottoman forces, driving them out of much of present day Armenia. Tragically ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- Persians in Anatolia and the Caucasus, winning a string of victories against Persian forces under Khosrau, Shahrbaraz, Shahin and Shahraplakan, sacking ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- on the lyre and other supporting string instruments of the era. The well-known structural legacies of the Pythagorean scale, and the related ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- torban (bass lute), violin], basolya (three-string cello), the lyra (hurdy-gurdy) and the tsymbaly; the sopilka (duct flute), floyara (open, end-blown ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- A string of Christian Democrat coalition governments from 1958 was broken in 1999 after the first dioxin crisis, a food contamination scandal ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- either a sock stuffed with newspaper and tied with string or a grapefruit. url=https://www.biography.com/people/pel%C3%A9-39221|title=Pelé|publisher ...132 KB (18,506 words) - 20:27, 15 February 2024
- whenever they encounter this unpronounceable string of consonants, they speak the name Adonai. In Christian Bibles, Yahweh is usually translated as "the ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- July 25, 2009 Houston cancelled "a string of dates [during the] summer citing throat problems and a 'bronchitis situation'" ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- like the Red Army Faction engaged in a string of assassinations and kidnappings against political and business figures. Later, there was a surge ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
