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  • the original Cold War “curtain” (in Europe). First used in Time magazine in 1949. Bamboo Curtain (historical) The political and ideological barrier between...
    3 KB (250 words) - 13:02, 21 October 2023
  • detachment, and company sized units. 1992, S. L. A Marshall, The Fields of Bamboo: To most of them Dong Tre was only a place somewhere other than the port...
    2 KB (286 words) - 21:34, 31 October 2024
  • Biggart, “A Biographical Sketch of the Great Bridge Builder”, in Cassier's Magazine: William Arrol had little schooling, for, at the early age of nine years...
    4 KB (434 words) - 22:16, 18 August 2024
  • volume 8, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Spin Magazine, →OCLC, page 122: He takes a beautiful ivory and bamboo waterpipe out of a trunk, and packs the bowl...
    2 KB (234 words) - 12:52, 27 September 2024
  • defence and quarrell to aduenture their liues. hoarily hoariness hoary bamboo rat hoary bat hoary fox hoary fringe moss hoary marmot hoary zorro   hoar...
    7 KB (732 words) - 20:36, 8 December 2024
  • been conducted. (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot angle-shoot bamboo shoot duck shoot green shoots shoot wrestling slop shoot sugarcane grassy...
    31 KB (2,920 words) - 00:17, 3 November 2024
  • 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731: Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there...
    7 KB (405 words) - 03:52, 10 December 2024
  • formed by rolling; but many of them are striated from the impression of the bamboo stems into the hollow of which the gamboge juice has been poured, [...]...
    17 KB (1,788 words) - 11:41, 27 September 2024
  • (Crioceris asparagi) common as pig tracks common babbler (Argya caudata) common bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris) common barbel (Barbus barbus) common barberry (Berberis...
    45 KB (3,545 words) - 06:49, 2 December 2024
  • androgenic hair angel hair asshair axillary hair baby hair bad hair day ballhair bamboo hair bed hair Berenice's Hair big hair bluehair body hair brittle hair syndrome...
    40 KB (2,525 words) - 20:32, 8 December 2024
  • 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324: It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its...
    16 KB (1,091 words) - 13:28, 31 October 2024
  • flattened by the strong quake. Quoting documents received from behind the Bamboo Curtain, the sources said that the number of casualties in the area of Tangshan...
    5 KB (533 words) - 10:46, 4 December 2024
  • 一(イー) (ī) 二(アル) (aru) 四(スー) (sū) Derived terms 三(サン)索(ソウ) (sansō, “three bamboo”, mahjong tile) 三(サン)板(パン) (sanpan, “sampan”) 三(サン)筒(ピン) (sanpin, “three...
    18 KB (4,104 words) - 16:34, 18 November 2024
  • scintillae or scintillas) A small spark or flash. 1890, Philosophical Magazine, page 364: If the action of the electrodynamic waves is so violent that...
    6 KB (591 words) - 16:15, 25 November 2024
  • H. C. Casserley, “The Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 708: The company also owned a small steamer, Lake of Shadows, which...
    13 KB (1,048 words) - 14:07, 5 November 2024
  • the singer’s hometown of Gukeng in Taiwan. 2024 May 4, Duncan DeAeth, “Bamboo groves in Taiwan's Yunlin under threat from macaques”, in Taiwan News‎[3]...
    1 KB (138 words) - 00:16, 29 May 2024
  • using 去 (the original form of 盍 (OC *ɡaːb)) as a phonetic component. In bamboo slips the vertical stroke of 丵 extended such that the bottom looks like...
    20 KB (4,526 words) - 12:27, 30 September 2024
  • enough to have them sent home but not so bad that it would cripple them. bamboo baksheesh bribe or tip baksheesh (third-person singular simple present baksheeshes...
    7 KB (789 words) - 12:19, 27 September 2024
  • Alexandrine rat Ankole African mole-rat antirat armored rat Asian black rat bamboo rat bandicoot rat barracks rat big-headed rice rat biobreeding rat black...
    34 KB (2,897 words) - 21:26, 8 December 2024
  • Thornton. […], page 165: The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins. 1892, Morton W[illiam] Easton, Observations on...
    20 KB (2,258 words) - 01:42, 4 October 2024
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