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    what does it mean "one against an army"?

    it was in a comic book i read as a child
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    I am using a specific story from childhood in these images, here is another?

    Am I insane? My head is wracked with pain. My friends are fled And I will soon enough be dead. Morons all Yet answered the call As I watch my cigarette smoke wraith I picture their faith Like children they were Then men. Is this not happening again? Are not the wisest the most careful, The...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    What is the history behind the name "burroughs," in reference to NY cities 5 burroughs?

    Named after Milo Burrows, a distant Baggins relative. Brooklyn is named after the Brooklyn Dodgers, an old baseball team. Queens was named by Wild Bill Hickok who won the mayoralty after winning a high stakes game with a pair of queens. The Bronx was originally a horse farm which specialized in...
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    US History please help, best answer gets 10 points !!?

    It's a trick question. Aha, you were right. See?
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    what kind of questions catch YOUR eye here in the Books & Authors section?

    Questions that mention specific authors or works. If I am familiar with them, I will read the whole qurestion.
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    What is a great example of transcendental poetry?

    "I wandered lonely as a cloud" Wordsworth
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    Hamlet Debate HELP Please!!?

    Too too solid flesh (Act 1) before he sees the ghost, intensifies his anger toward his mother for marrying so soon after his father's death. To be or not to be (Act 3) weakens his resolve as he contemplates suicide. Alas poor Yorick (Act 5) is the height of his melancholy, and here he is at his...
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    where could I find an amputee joke book?

    I think there is a book called "Really tasteless jokes' that contains many jokes on this theme.
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    My brother really likes Isaac Asimov, what's a similar author/book I can buy...

    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Stranger in a Strange Land OR The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. Dune by Frank Herbert is a bit more complex, but I loved it.
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    How did the political environment of the 1950's influence Arthur Miller to write the

    Search Terms: House Un-American Activities Committee Communist Party in the US Senator Joseph McCarthy Blacklisting The act of accusing a person of being a Communist, in the minds of many citizens, made them a Communist, and anyone who was associated with them got the same treatment. Artists...
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