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  • According to legend, he rode forth from his palace in his chariot at age 29 to parts of the city forbidden to him by his father. This is when
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  • ...'The Starship'' in 1977, due to engine problems. The Boeing 707 ''Caesar's Chariot'' eventually took its place.
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  • ...C, and then other types of athletic contest - including boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, horse-racing, and the pentathlon which was a mixed contest consisti
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  • ...tta (tṷišeratta, tušratta, etc.) as *tṷaiašaratha, Vedic Tveṣaratha "whose chariot is vehement"<ref>Mayrhofer I 686, I 736</ref>.
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  • * ''quadrigae'' ("four-horse chariot") should only be used in the plural
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  • '''Dark Chariot''' and '''Sisyphos at Work''' by [[Peer Raben]] represent the relationship
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  • ...yxena, but she changed it to Myrtale upon her marriage to Philip. When a [[chariot]] sponsored by her husband won at the [[Olympic Games]] of 356 <span style=
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  • Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside her. Tacitus gives her a short speech in which she pr ...reat bronze statue of Boudica in her war chariot (furnished with [[scythed chariot|scythes]] after [[Persian Empire|Persian]] fashion), together with her daug
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  • ...ognisable monster who knows neither friend nor foe. He often fights from a chariot, driven by his charioteer, Láeg mac Riangabra, and drawn by his two horses ...his way home, he captures a stag and a flock of swans and ties them to the chariot. He arrives back at Emain Macha in a frenzy, and the Ulaid are afraid he wi
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  • ...object, which may be a headdress or a vessel, showing a sea-god driving a chariot between torch-bearing ''[[putto|putti]]'' and tritons. Also found were nine
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  • * Johnson, Michael P. and Roark, James L. ''No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War. ''
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  • ...suitable for difficult terrain and making inefficient use of manpower. The chariot had a crew of two or three men yet only one actually controlled the weapons
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  • ...ty itself. At one point, Peisistratus slashed himself and the mules of his chariot and made a dramatic entrance into the [[Agora]] to show how his enemies had
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  • ...It was a day of great enjoyment, all was on tiptoe of expectation when his chariot appeared, driving slowly through the crowd, he bowing, hat in hand, and whi
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  • ...Shaughnessy, Edward L. Historical Perspectives on The Introduction of The Chariot Into China. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jun., 1988) ...y forces, the nobility were still largely amassed in infantry form, as the chariot was mostly associated with transportation, ceremonies, and large-scale roya
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  • ...Rome is thought to have been influenced by the Egyptians and Greeks, with chariot racing and the exhibition of animals as traditional attractions. The Roman
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  • ...Dynabulle/Cinebulle ] - Hot air airship made using hot air balloon with a "chariot" underneath and a "backpack" style motor/propeller arrangement. Used for f
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  • ...tasks. Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses’ power is directed by the chariot
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  • ...chase around the walls of Troy, killed him and dragged his body behind his chariot back to the naval camp. He held funeral games for Patroclus, and cremated h
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  • ...us, promising him as much land on the plain of Brega as he could drive his chariot round in a day if he would help him claim the throne. Tadg advised him to r
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