The Ice-Shirt is a 1990 historical novel by American author William T. Vollmann. It is the first book in a seven-book series called Seven Dreams: A Book...
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Freydís Eiríksdóttir (section Saga of the Greenlanders)
(1919), Elizabeth Boyer's Freydis and Gudrid (1976), William Vollmann's The Ice-Shirt (1990), Joan Clark's Eriksdottir: A Tale of Dreams and Luck (2002),...
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light-colored T-shirts without bras, bikini tops, or other garments beneath. Water (often ice water) is then sprayed or poured onto the participants' chests...
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Stories (2014) (collection) The Lucky Star (2020) The Ice-Shirt (1990) (Volume One) Fathers and Crows (1992) (Volume Two) Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas...
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rugby shirts have had a buttoned opening at the top, in a similar style to polo shirts but with a stiffer collar. However, modern rugby shirts often have...
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evoke the lives of prostitutes and skinheads on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin district." The 13 stories included in the book are: "The Visible...
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novel by William T. Vollmann that won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Set in Central Europe during the 20th century, it examines a vast array...
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1: The Ice-Shirt (1990) is about the arrival of the Norsemen in North America (9th–10th centuries). Volume 2: Fathers and Crows (1992) is about the efforts...
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insects and the forces of modern civilization. Vollmann described the book, his first, as "an allegory in part", inspired by his experiences with the mujahedeen...
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The Dying Grass is a 2015 novel by William T. Vollmann. The novel concerns the Nez Perce War of 1877. The novel is the fifth book in Vollman's "Seven Dreams"...
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shirt. They wear standard hockey skates and carry a finger whistle, which they use to stop play. They communicate with players, coaches, and off-ice officials...
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Kit (association football) (redirect from Replica shirt)
significantly since the early days of the sport when players typically wore thick cotton shirts, knickerbockers and heavy rigid leather boots. In the twentieth...
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Rash guard (redirect from Swim shirt)
rashie, is an athletic shirt made of spandex and nylon or polyester. The name rash guard reflects the fact that the shirt protects the wearer against rashes...
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Release Tribute Song And Shirt In Honor Of Late Shane Bisnett". revolvermag.com. March 19, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019. "Ice Nine Kills - Chart history...
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essay on the subject of violence by American author William T. Vollmann. First published by McSweeney's in November 2003, it was nominated for the National...
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Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories were an important influence on the structure of the collection. Several of the short stories share the same titles as...
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William T. Vollmann. The product of over a decade's research, the 1,344-page published text is Vollmann's longest single-volume work. The book is divided into...
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Cilice (redirect from Hair shirt)
at the convent at Abbotskerswell Priory, Devon. Some sources, including one from 2004, claimed that the shirt was then at the Martyr's church on the Weld...
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The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's...
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and Crows is a 1992 historical novel by the American author William T. Vollmann. It is the second book in the seven-book series Seven Dreams: A Book of...
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The UCLA Bruins men's ice hockey team is a non-varsity, non-NCAA college ice hockey program that represents the University of California, Los Angeles...
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13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
short stories written by William T. Vollmann first published in the UK in 1991. The stories, which are both fictional and semi-autobiographical, traverse...
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Magnum is a brand of ice cream and the company's namesake, originally developed and produced by Frisko in Aarhus, Denmark, a part of the British company Unilever...
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State & Liberty Clothing (category Online clothing retailers of the United States)
Moffie and Fisher believing men with an athletic build wearing off-the-rack dress shirts lacked a professional look. Inspired by Lulu Lemon and athleisure...
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Mithril (redirect from Mithril shirt)
old cloth, and held up a small shirt of mail. It was close-woven of many rings, as supple almost as linen, cold as ice, and harder than steel. It shone...
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David Ayres (redirect from David Ayres (ice hockey))
is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and former head coach of the Port Perry Lumberjacks of the Provincial Junior Hockey League. While...
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Emirates (airline) (redirect from ICE (Emirates))
award the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar. Since the 2006–07 season, it has been the primary shirt sponsor of Arsenal (2006 to 2028), AC Milan since the 2010–11...
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The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as the Great Ice Storm of 1998 or the January Ice Storm) was a massive combination of five smaller successive...
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community, the band doubled down after the cancellation by releasing a t-shirt design in partnership with Hot Topic that says "I Love When Emo Boys Kiss...
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Cows Creamery (redirect from Cows (ice cream parlor))
facility for all Cows ice cream and shirts. The new headquarters will also act as a tourist attraction where visitors can watch the ice cream and clothing...
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