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  • Drugs... the War on Christmas... (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade. price wars... Cola Wars... format wars... (crime) A...
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  • 119: If you were to follow the wars of the diadochi, Alexander’s generals, after the death of Alexander the great, then the northern kingdom later becomes...
    2 KB (166 words) - 07:27, 2 February 2024
  • These, the young hero's [Pallas's] lance and helmet bear; / The rest, the victor seiz'd, the spoils of war. 2011, Alexander Gillespie, A History of the Laws...
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  • allohistorical (category Word of the day archive)
    and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Nazis Win World War II), page 182: If [Alexander] Demandt's...
    3 KB (318 words) - 08:17, 2 June 2024
  • Mithridates the Great. 1807, John Gillies, The History of the World, From the Reign of Alexander to that of Augustus, Volume 2, page 619: In the courſe of the firſt...
    3 KB (268 words) - 20:14, 31 August 2023
  • Of the Acts of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon.”, in Robert Codrington, transl., The Life and Death of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. In Ten...
    6 KB (565 words) - 21:13, 21 May 2024
  • former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented. 1888, Charles...
    2 KB (210 words) - 20:56, 2 April 2024
  • Krigsfane. ... that the hrafnsmerki really has been a flag of conquest or war common to the Danes (and the Norwegians). 1904, Alexander Bugge, Vikingerne:...
    967 bytes (123 words) - 03:29, 23 April 2023
  • War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39: Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat...
    5 KB (481 words) - 16:00, 2 June 2024
  • فور (category Arabic terms belonging to the root ف و ر)
    Greek Πορος (Poros). فور • (Fur) the rendition of the name of King Porus, who fought and defeated Alexander the Great in what is now Panjab, India. From...
    3 KB (246 words) - 15:41, 2 June 2024
  • and class conflicts. 2011, Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 72–73:...
    15 KB (1,726 words) - 07:33, 2 June 2024
  • council (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁-)
    Satan […] void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night; 1715–1720, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book IV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volumes...
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  • in the Kathiawar peninsula. 1998, Ann Hyland, The Warhorse, 1250-1600, page 165: In Khacha defensive actions and feudal wars great use was made of Kathiawaris...
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  • refractory (category Word of the day archive)
    disobedient have been the signals of bloody wars, […] 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 26”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...
    7 KB (517 words) - 17:25, 2 June 2024
  • to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping. (transitive) To entrust to the care of another. 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope...
    5 KB (515 words) - 08:49, 2 June 2024
  • ransom (category Requests for review of Italian translations)
    his liberty. 2010, Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad: As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor...
    7 KB (564 words) - 07:24, 2 June 2024
  • void (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁weh₂-)
    quality; destitute of mind or soul. 1728, Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Dunciad; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston,...
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  • form of POW (“prisoner of war”). 1972, Alexander Casella, “Saigon’s prisoners”, in Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 78, page 24, column 1: The communists...
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  • Angus Calder, The People's War: Britain 1939-1945, page 88: Churchill as First Lord had been a power in the land; Alexander was an amiable and efficient...
    2 KB (258 words) - 06:17, 20 August 2023
  • Gordian knot (category Word of the day archive)
    Asia. Alexander the Great solved the puzzle by slicing through the knot and took it as a sign of Zeus' favor. He then proceeded to conquer much of the known...
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