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Chivalric romance (T-H-L)

A perennial theme was the rescue of a lady from the imperiling monster, a theme that would remain throughout the romances of the medieval era.

Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-capitalists only accept the collective defense of individual liberty (i.e. courts, military, or police forces) insofar as such groups are formed and paid for on an explicitly voluntary basis. However, their complaint is not just that the state's defensive services are fun...

It's not so much the length of the links, but the way they are incorporated into the sentence structure. Syncretism Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding Shintō beliefs into Buddhism or the amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christiani...

Xenomorph (T-H-L)

Aliens take on various forms depending on the characteristics of their hosts.

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely The late, great trombonist Ray Sims, the unsung soloist with Les Brown and Harry James and brother of jazz tenor saxophonist stalwart 'Zoot' Sims, delivered the finest recording work of his long career with a brace of meaningful solos . Bill Miller contribute...

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Germany._A_Winter's_Tale (T-H-L)
TNT the whole article. *shudder*

A bit of a stinker, yes.

"the darts of his satire and humour fly out from the tragic vortex of his own exile." Eew.

Lunar distance (navigation) (T-H-L)

The navigator, having cleared the lunar distance, now consults a prepared table of lunar distances and the times at which they will occur in order to determine the Greenwich time of the observation. These tables were the high tech wonder of their day.

Critique of Pure Reason Prior to Kant, it was thought that all a priori knowledge must be analytic. Kant, however, argues that our knowledge of mathematics, of the first principles of natural science, and of metaphysics, is both a priori and synthetic. The peculiar nature of this knowledge cries ou...

Anton Webern Webern's earliest works primarily comprise lieder, the genre that most testifies to his roots in Romanticism, specifically German Romanticism; one in which the music yields brief but explicit, potent, and spoken meaning manifested only latently or programmatically in purely instrumenta...

Alpha and beta male Sigma male is an internet slang term to describe masculine men. The term gained prominence within Internet culture during the late 2010s and early 2020s, and has inspired numerous memes, graffitis and videos.[32] It is used to denote a male who is equally dominant to an alpha ma...

Night Train (Jimmy Forrest composition) (T-H-L)

Like Illinois Jacquet's solo on "Flying Home", Forrest's original saxophone solo on "Night Train" became a veritable part of the composition, and is usually recreated in cover versions by other performers.

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The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

Took me a while (3 minutes) to get the joke.

Melody Maker By 1983, the magazine had become more populist and pop-orientated, exemplified by its modish "MM" masthead, regular covers for the likes of Duran Duran and its choice of Eurythmics' Touch as the best album of the year. Things were to change, however . In February 1984, Allan Jones, a s...

Floris and Blancheflour (T-H-L)

Unlike the usually bloody and martial Romances earlier in the period (e.g. Havelok the Dane), this Romance is, indeed, romantic.

On the Soul (T-H-L)

As to what mind Aristotle is referring to in Chapter V (i.e. divine, human, or a kind of world soul), has represented a hot topic of discussion for centuries.

Paradiso (Amsterdam) (T-H-L)

The acoustics are rather echoey, but improvements have been made over the years.

Herbert James Draper (T-H-L)

During his lifetime Draper was quite famous, a well-known portrait painter.

https://www.ft.com/content/e4c190b0-cc4e-4dc4-945b-9f680ce1c67f A new book by Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, has been found to contain examples of apparent plagiarism, including entire sentences and paragraphs lifted from other sources without acknowledgment. The book, The Women Who Made Modern E...

these Universal Machines all are relieved-out from the proto-Indo-European roots of the Greek word mechané, which we know as Rationality in all its dissimulations, providing the deep, glazed-over background of our Western understandings of the world which has digitally globalized the World. In its ...

Arthur Bryant's The decor has consistently been formica tables, fluorescent lighting, and jugs of sauce placed in the windows. Its specialty is burnt ends, the flavorful end pieces of smoked beef brisket ; burnt end sandwiches are served open-faced at the restaurant. Its sauce is characterized by v...

Nursing Madonna (T-H-L)

In art he usually kneels before a Madonna Lactans, and as Jesus takes a break from feeding, the Virgin squeezes her breast and he is hit with a squirt of milk, often shown travelling an impressive distance.

Chapaize (T-H-L)

Around Chapaize lie a large state and communal forest and two ponds. In the 4 hamlets of Chapaize (Bessuge, Gemaugue, Lancharre and Chapaize), there are several laundrettes which were still used at the beginning of the 1950s.

Hempel's dilemma On the one hand, we may define the physical as whatever is currently explained by our best physical theories, e.g., quantum mechanics, general relativity. Though many would find this definition unsatisfactory, some would accept that we have at least a general understanding of the p...

Annigoni was married to Anna Giuseppa Maggini in 1937 until her death of illness in July 1969.

Pietro Annigoni (T-H-L)

The Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra) or Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra española) is a theorised historiographical tendency consisting of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition . The Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition is the hypothes...

Lady Sarah and her brother, David, then Viscount Linley, grew up in the nursery of Kensington Palace, Apartment 10. They were raised with a nanny called Verona Sumner, although their parents, especially their father, were comparatively hands-on (for the time) , with their father teaching them to bu...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/12/20/wokepedias-greed-makes-mockery-season-giving/ At Christmas, charities launch their most emotive appeals. After almost two years of seeing their fundraising crippled by lockdowns and social distancing, they are more needy than ever. But I would think ca...

The Savoy landscape is distinctly alpine. Between lakes and mountains, the Savoy vineyards hang from slopes or clutch at hillsides in little islands that produce their special growth, from Fréterive in the South, to Evian in the North, passing through Apremont and Jongieux.

Savoy wine (T-H-L)

Pits found within the fortifications contained late Iron Age pottery, the hub of a chariot wheel, an iron carpenter's saw, a latch-lifter for a hut door, querns, whetstones, sling stones, and animal bones. These all indicate a permanent occupation and date from the 1st century BC. Unfortunately it ...

James Man (T-H-L) (1755–1823) was the founder of Man Group, the United Kingdom's largest alternative investment management business. He is best known as sponsor 2002–2019 of the Booker Prize.

In the Telegraph yesterday an excellent article by Andrew (who a few of us met a while back) on the silly money raised by the WMF.

I will stop here in case it was already spotted by someone here already. (I looked around, couldn't see anything).

Mount Caburn Caburn is unusual within the South Downs for having a south-facing scarp slope. The site has the largest British population of burnt-tip orchid. There is also the rare small-leaved sweet-briar, and the typical fragrant and pyramidal orchids. Invertebrates include Adonis and chalkhill b...

Krk (town) In 2009. the municipality started the project of building a fiber-optic network on the whole area of the city (the town of Krk and 14 neighboring villages) as part of the town infrastructure. Thereby the focus is on building the passive part of the network, which is the most expensive on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidia The song may have had its roots in an early 18th-century text (in Italian) of Pietro Metastasio that was first set (in German) to music in 1736. This version, strangely enough , was performed at a wedding! (of Maria Theresa to Francis of Lorainne in Vienna in ...

Carcosa Seri Negara (T-H-L)

With the eclectic fusion of Neo-Gothic and Tudor Revival styles, the residence has more than eight bedrooms including master bedroom and guest rooms; and eleven bathrooms.

The meta discussion is embarrassing, especially the idiot argument over whether it's vandalism or some other specific offense, and more especially the one jerk who wants to blow off the whole thing because it wasn't categorized correctly. Yes. (Thanks to Andreas for alerting me to this). I had forg...

Dandelion and burdock https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dandelion_and_burdock&diff=prev&oldid=110935735 Revision as of 23:06, 25 February 2007 (edit) (undo) 131.111.219.108 There have been a small number of stories concerning its origin, most now widely considered to be apocryphal. One not...

John Ball (priest) (T-H-L)

In Act V Scene 1 of Hamlet, Shakespeare has the Gravedigger (First Clown) discuss the line "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" with a bit of a reversed sense: in Adam's time there were none but gentlemen.

Ludwig von Westphalen Ludwig devoted much of his time to the young Marx and the two went for intellectual walks through "the hills and woods" of the neighbourhood. It was Ludwig who first introduced Marx to the personality and socialist teachings of Saint-Simon.[7] Marx dedicated his doctoral thesi...

Reserve (accounting) Reserve is the profit achieved by a company where a certain amount of it is put back into the business which can help the business in their rainy days . The preceding sentence may give the unwary reader the sense that this item is an asset, a debit balance. Was English the firs...

Reserve (accounting) (T-H-L)

Reserve is the profit achieved by a company where a certain amount of it is put back into the business which can help the business in their rainy days. The preceding sentence may give the unwary reader the sense that this item is an asset, a debit balance.

Vernon Coleman (T-H-L)

I suggested this article be trimmed down, or at least the fact he was anti-vaxxer should be added.

However his website is blocked by Wikipedia, so I can't cite that fact. Appealed to my sense of the absurd.

Pattaya Pattaya was a fishing village until the 1960s. Then, during the Vietnam War, American servicemen stationed at nearby U-Tapao or other US bases in Thailand began visiting Pattaya. One story, unverified by a reliable source , notes that it all started when a group of 500 American soldiers sta...

Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Schumann) (T-H-L)

The line "She must only dream of him" is very interesting in translation, because it is not necessarily referring to a human female and a human male.

Perhaps I'm missing something. The addition in March 2019 seems to be a rehash of this article https://www.academia.edu/13329051/Hadleigh_Castle_Essex by Magnus Alexander and Susan Westlake. You're missing the fact that for the best part of a year a huge slab of the article was duplicated, and when...

My initial reaction, when simply looking at the present version, was that of pity for the 13th century. What did the 13th century do to deserve only being mentioned once(?) How could anyone be so cruel as to not duplicate the 13th century(?) But , it gets better, when looking into the version histo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chigas (T-H-L)
George Chigas is married to Thida Loeung with whom he has 2 beautiful children. He's an American who speaks Khmer.

Kenneth Kitchen, described as a distinguished but lonely voice among British Egyptologists on the subject

Moses (T-H-L)

Helderberg Mountain seen more or less from the North-West

Helderberg (T-H-L)

Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer Garrison Starr has been fiercely tenacious in her musical and lyrical prowess since she released her major label debut, “18 Over Me”, in 1997.

Garrison Starr (T-H-L)

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