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    Operation "Wooden Leg" (Hebrew: מבצע רגל עץ, Mivtza Regel Etz) was an Israeli airstrike on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in...
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  • Wooden Leg (Cheyenne Kâhamâxéveóhtáhe) (c. 1858–1940) was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Wooden...
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    A peg leg is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, fitted to the remaining stump of a human leg, especially a wooden one fitted at the knee. Its use dates...
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  • The Wooden Leg is a 1909 American silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. David Miles as Harry Florence Lawrence as Claire John R. Cumpson...
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  • with silly titles, such as "Looking Through the Knotholes in Granny's Wooden Leg", "We Won The Double" (a reference to Arsenal F.C. winning the double...
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  • Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer is a 1931 book by Thomas Bailey Marquis about the life of a Northern Cheyenne Indian, Wooden Leg, who fought in...
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    its left foot. This last arrow continued to go up and never came down. Wooden Leg, a Northern Cheyenne, related another legend told to him by an old man...
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    Israeli civilians in Cyprus, the Israeli air force carried out Operation Wooden Leg, bombing the PLO Headquarters in Tunis. In 1991, the IAF carried out Operation...
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    Airbase An F-15D Eagle Baz from Tel Nof involved in Operation Wooden Leg with wooden leg symbol (left to the Star of David) The F-15I Eagle Ra'am of the...
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    Israeli civilians in Cyprus, the Israeli air force carried out Operation Wooden Leg. The strike involved the bombing of PLO Headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia...
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    Chapter 55 of the Saga shows Snorri and his nephew Kiartan summoning Thorir Wooden-leg and other ghosts with coming and going about Frodis-water without permission...
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    Firearms trader): Black Powder, Johann Smidt Northern Cheyenne: Two Moons, Wooden Leg, Old Bear, Lame White Man (killed), American Horse, Brave Wolf, Antelope...
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    falling goat, stiff-legged goat or nervous goat, or as the Tennessee wooden-leg goat.: 28  Four goats of this type were brought to Tennessee in the 1880s...
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  • ancestral wooden leg decoy so it seems she's doing so. When Mabrey spooks Mia's horse with a rubber snake, Joe inadvertently tears off the wooden leg. Humiliated...
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  • The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders (1999) is a crime novel by Australian author Marshall Browne. It won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel....
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    1982 Lebanon War Siege of Beirut 1983 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic 1984 Bus 300 affair 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking / "Wooden Leg" 1987 Night of the Gliders...
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    fighters evacuated the city and dispersed. On 1 October 1985, in Operation Wooden Leg, Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed the PLO's Tunis headquarters, killing...
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  • leg" (Hol- + Bein); however, it could also have originally meant "hollow bone" or perhaps even have evolved from Holzbein, which could mean "wooden leg"...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0806143798. Retrieved 2013-07-13. Wooden Leg & Thomas B. Marquis (1931). Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer. University of Nebraska...
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    brink of death, as a last-ditch attempt her leg was amputated below the knee and replaced with a wooden appendage which she named "Cuthbert". She then...
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  • as this doppelgänger of sorts would always have a wooden leg in the shape of a molinillo, a wooden kitchen utensil used to stir hot drinks such as chocolate...
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  • El Wray leaves the station and arrives at the hospital, attaching a wooden table leg to Cherry's stump. As El Wray and Cherry fight their way out of the...
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  • describe a sailor who lost a prosthetic leg climbing the topsail, and is shipping up to Boston to "find my wooden leg." These were taken from a fragment of...
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    Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed his Tunis headquarters as part of Operation Wooden Leg, leaving 73 people dead; Arafat had gone out jogging that morning. The...
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  • insurgency in South Lebanon (PLO in Lebanon) First Intifada Operation Wooden Leg Israeli–Palestinian conflict Lebanese Civil War Battle of the Hotels Aishiyeh...
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    nephew disabled. Bates subsequently taught himself to tap dance with a wooden peg leg. By the time he was 15, Bates was again adept enough at dancing to enter...
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    identified as Northern Cheyenne and a few Oglala Sioux, were surprised. Wooden Leg, an eighteen-year-old Cheyenne warrior in the village remembered the attack:...
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    to death for masterminding the attacks. Since his leg had been amputated, he was with a wooden leg in the jail. In the court, Badreddine told the prosecutor...
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  • Wallace's 1987 novel The Broom of the System, Lavache "Stoney" Beadsman has a wooden leg with a hidden drawer in which he keeps marijuana cigarettes and other...
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    1982 Lebanon War Siege of Beirut 1983 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic 1984 Bus 300 affair 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking / "Wooden Leg" 1987 Night of the Gliders...
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