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    "The Knees of the Gods" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders...
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  • The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. The...
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  • respectively in the first episode of the 1978 BBC One television series Crime Writers, a documentary series about the history of crime fiction. In the same episode...
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    Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (category Members of the Sons of the American Revolution)
    had done his best and his fate was now "at the knees of the gods". During the 1932 presidential campaign of his cousin FDR, Roosevelt said, "Franklin is...
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    Anna Bowman Dodd (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century)
    Turkish women 1896, On the broads 1908, On the knees of the gods 1887, The republic of the future 1894, Struthers : and the comedy of the masked musicians 1927...
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    E. W. Hornung (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    deep". In the final story of the collection, "The Knees of the Gods", Raffles and Manders enlist in the army to fight in the Second Boer War; the story closes...
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  • burgle the vulnerable house of a stockbroker. "The Knees of the Gods" — Raffles and Bunny enlist in the British volunteer forces to fight in the Second...
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    person who sits while allowing his himation to be draped above his knees. Ancient Greek gods are often described as wearing himation in various situations...
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    A. J. Raffles (character) (category Characters in British novels of the 19th century)
    to church." Hornung, E. W. "The Knees of the Gods", Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also titled The Black Mask). 707 Hornung, E...
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  • Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele (2002) Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods (1908) Peter Green, Achilles His Armour (1955) Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet...
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  • whose length of arms is such that his fingers touch his knee. In Indian culture, persons with such physical characteristics are either gods, saints, kings...
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    Bunny. The episode faithfully follows the plot of the original story, with minor changes: In the episode, the events of the original story follow the events...
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    of Paradise" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story...
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    last story follows after the events of "An Old Flame", and the final story takes place after the events of "The Knees of the Gods". All stories are largely...
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  • novels. In On the Knees of the Gods (1908), Anna Bowman Dodd covers Alcibiades' expedition against Sicily. The Jealous Gods (1928) of Gertrude Atherton...
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    in Scribner's Magazine. "The Wrong House, first published in September 1901 in Scribner's Magazine. "The Knees of the Gods", first published in this...
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  • Star Trek: Odyssey (category Modern adaptations of the Odyssey)
    Season two ODY2.01 - "On the Knees of the Gods" It's been a year since Odyssey became trapped in Andromeda. Pursued by the Archein and determined to...
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    Orisha (redirect from Gods Of Santeria)
    John Mason (Author), Black Gods – Orisa Studies in the New World, 1998. ISBN 1-881244-08-3 John Mason, Olokun: Owner of Rivers and Seas. ISBN 1-881244-05-9...
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    Mabel Brookes (category Australian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    and memoirist. She wrote the following works: Broken Idols. Melbourne: Melville and Mullin, 1917. On the Knees of the Gods. Melbourne: Melville and Mullin...
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    The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on...
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    Mjölnir (redirect from Hammer of Thor)
    returning green and beautiful. High describes the return of various gods after Ragnarök, including Thor's sons Móði and Magni, who return to Asgard holding...
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  • Ainur in Middle-earth (category The Silmarillion)
    the Æsir, the gods of Asgard. Thor, for example, physically the strongest of the gods, can be seen both in Oromë, who fights the monsters of Melkor, and...
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    Valar (redirect from Prophecy of the North)
    The Valar (['valar]; singular Vala) are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. They are "angelic powers" or "gods" subordinate to the one God (Eru...
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    a sand dune. By the 6th century BC, the sand already covered the statues of the main temple up to their knees.[citation needed] The temple was forgotten...
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    descriptions of ancient war instruments and battle tactics, and fewer female characters. The Olympian gods also play a major role in the poem, aiding...
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    Murder", "The Knees of the Gods", and "The Last Word") were not published in periodicals and only appeared in short story collections. Notes The poem "Wooden...
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  • Dark Side of Black is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Texas Hippie Coalition. It was released on April 22, 2016, via Carved Records...
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    tarot decks like the Tarot of Marseille, the devil is portrayed with breasts, a face on the belly, eyes on the knees, lion feet and male genitalia. He also...
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    best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Von Däniken is one of the main figures responsible for popularizing the "paleo-contact" and ancient...
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    Zeus (redirect from Zeus the Greek god)
    is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first...
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