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    ...s journey, tells Balaam to proceed on his mission. When Balaam reaches the top of a hill and sees the Israelites camped out below, a blessing unexpectedly
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    ...ows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment whic
    19 KB (2,763 words) - 14:34, 13 August 2009
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    ...her prayed and "marvellously" a stone/rock took her in and released her on top of a mountain. That^s probably why she is patroness of miners, too. The [ht ...n bicycle clothes. A man had to wear bicycle pants which were baggy at the top and tight to the legs below. Then he had to have bicycle socks and shoes. T
    25 KB (3,624 words) - 16:45, 3 January 2012
  • ...way, Thomas Hobbes' ''Leviathan'' (see "all against all" entry toward the top of this page) is also the source of Salitieri et al. ("solitary, poor, nast ...n bicycle clothes. A man had to wear bicycle pants which were baggy at the top and tight to the legs below. Then he had to have bicycle socks and shoes. T
    58 KB (9,428 words) - 02:08, 4 November 2022
  • ...2 And he [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descend A type of hat made of felt or straw which has a cylindrical crown and flat top, originated in mid-19th century. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork-pie_hat
    67 KB (10,749 words) - 11:53, 27 April 2021
  • ...hed Merle getting involved in jobs about ''sound'' and ''electricity'', on top of his usual job about ''light'', closes with an image of the blowing ''win
    46 KB (7,418 words) - 02:27, 7 November 2022
  • A nunatak (plural: nunataks) is a mountain top that is not covered by land ice (see glaciation and ice age), and protrudes ...r of the earth -- to get to the zone of emergency, the lake of ice, at the top of the world to witness the liberation of Destruction.
    77 KB (12,597 words) - 04:22, 20 November 2022
  • ...f Pynchon's sentences..., are merely evidence of a writer no longer at the top of his game." .... Shindler: "''Against the Day'' - funny, wise, poetic and always over-the-top - offers the reader both a way to lose him or herself in a tale of escape a
    31 KB (4,914 words) - 20:36, 20 March 2016
  • ...nt because you can get easy access to two elevations: take in water at the top, install your turbine at the bottom. The mention of penstocks and other plu ...irst story, "Frank Merriwell: or, First Days at Fardale" appeared in ''Tip Top Weekly'' on April 18, 1896. Merriwell went on to appear in comic books, rad
    47 KB (7,505 words) - 13:05, 15 June 2010
  • ...(at the bottom), to the highest spiritual planes of understanding (at the top). The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot Sephiroth] are the nodes of th ...ghting against bombers on behalf of the government. De Bottle goes to the top of the short list.
    65 KB (10,445 words) - 12:40, 9 August 2015
  • ...pole at either end and a cord or horizontal pole between the two along the top. When viewed from the entrance end, they form a triangle, hence the name.
    28 KB (4,312 words) - 21:32, 19 October 2020
  • ...uals section header, but then it'd show up in the table of contents at the top. Maybe not a bad thing, but I figured I'd bring it up here and see what fo
    12 KB (2,038 words) - 06:54, 2 November 2022
  • ...ows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames hold the hoisting equipment whic
    22 KB (3,454 words) - 23:44, 12 May 2019
  • ...le. The beds have pallets, but no springs, no Western-style mattresses, no top sheets; maid service consists of dumping a clean sheet and a blanket on the
    35 KB (5,744 words) - 09:48, 24 April 2019
  • ...s. "Dome" in phrenology seems to refer to a desirable head shape, with the top of the skull large and rounded, like an egg with the larger end up. This se ...the cakewalk often included large, exaggerated bowties, suits, canes, and top hats....
    75 KB (11,918 words) - 14:26, 14 November 2020
  • Made-up: top female Math Scholars at Cambridge. Top students were called Wranglers, all male at this time. "Cambridge Universit a plug hat may be a top hat or a bowler hat.
    97 KB (15,375 words) - 19:21, 8 June 2021
  • ...e passage, a paragraph-long sentence running from the bottom of 476 to the top of 477, is an intricate, lyrical riff on the idea of its ominous closing ph
    44 KB (7,054 words) - 23:19, 4 February 2021
  • In the early 1900's, Daimler's top straight six cylinder engines (see above), the only ones being manufactured
    81 KB (12,852 words) - 23:06, 10 June 2021
  • ...chopped and placed in individual molds, a little grated Gruyère cheese on top, and baked in a water bath (just like some puddings). A deceptive feature like the rabbit-concealing false bottom in a magician's top hat.
    65 KB (10,452 words) - 09:11, 11 October 2018
  • '''''Mathematical Theory of the Top'''''<br>
    80 KB (12,472 words) - 14:17, 4 February 2022

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