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    The sambuca (Ancient Greek: σαμβύκη) was a ship-borne siege engine which was invented by Heracleides of Tarentum and was first used unsuccessfully by...
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    to burn Roman ships Roman siege engines – Adapted from Hellenistic siege technology Sambuca (siege engine) – Ship-borne siege engine Greek fire Young,...
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    213–212 BC Greek fire Heliostat – Solar tracking device Sambuca (siege engine) – Ship-borne siege engine Solar furnace – Focal point for concentrated sunlight;...
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  • Animal-borne bomb attacks are the use of animals as delivery systems for explosives. The explosives are strapped to a pack animal such as a horse, mule...
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    Good news reached him from England that on 6 December, Queen Catherine had borne him a son and heir at Windsor. The walled part of Meaux on the northern...
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    Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural...
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    the 2150th anniversary of the siege. Three ships of the Spanish Navy have borne the name Numancia in honor of the siege. Sallust. "The Jugurthine War"...
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    Simpson, shows winter military housing under construction with supplies borne on soldiers' backs. A dead horse, partially buried in snow, lies by the...
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    allusion that the Assyrian army suffered the effects of a mouse- or rat-borne disease such as bubonic plague. Even without relying on that explanation...
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    opposition, particularly from the wealthy aristocrats, who would naturally have borne the brunt of the cost. The common people likewise proved unwilling to contribute;...
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    National Assembly of France "Législatives partielles : la Nupes gagne un siège, le RN en perd un". Les Echos (in French). 2023-01-29. Retrieved 2023-03-01...
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    attribute the event to a torch borne by one of Ibn al-Zubayr's followers, which the wind wafted onto the building. The siege continued for 64 days until...
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    history and first openly gay man to hold the office, to replace Élisabeth Borne, the second female Prime Minister of France, after a major government crisis...
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    Martuba, Mechili and Tmimi, El Magrun and Benghazi as a substitute for lorry-borne supply. The 3rd Indian Motor Brigade (Brigadier E. W. D. Vaughan) arrived...
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    Prevention have documented only 47 cases from 1976 to 2010. An outbreak of flea-borne murine typhus was identified in downtown Los Angeles, California, in October...
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  • Retrieved 24 January 2019. "Our Patrons and Ambassadors". Borne. Retrieved 22 May 2019. Borne (10 January 2018), Alistair & Lucy Petrie's Story, archived...
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    charge of factories producing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), and explosives, and he is involved...
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  • warships of Japan have borne the name Tone: Japanese cruiser Tone (1907), a protected cruiser; participated in the World War I Siege of Tsingtao; stricken...
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  • their own territory. This made the English almost entirely dependent on sea-borne supply for food. But poor weather prevented the English supply ships from...
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    of the United States Army. During World War II, the 327th was a glider-borne regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. It fought during World War I as...
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    Train (military) (redirect from Siege train)
    Confederates managed a lower ratio compared to Union forces, although this was borne out of necessity instead of choice. A distinction was made between the general...
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    defensive positions further down the river designed to cut off a river-borne relief. The Ottoman XVIII Corps that consisted of the 45th and 51st divisions...
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  • Charles MacArthur Jump for Joy 1941 Off-Broadway revue Duke Ellington and Hal Borne Paul Francis Webster and Sid Kuller — Aimed at Broadway but closed out of...
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  • underground lab. Overhearing his plan to launch "Silent Night" from the water-borne drone Ahab; he first tests the weapon on the scientists who developed it...
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    Unreleased Unreleased Nov 20, 2006 Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers BattleBorne Entertainment SouthPeak Interactive Unreleased Unreleased Nov 21, 2005 Combat:...
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  • military advisor in February 1984 of surgical strike involving a helicopter-borne commando operation had advised in February 1984, the Indian Army went into...
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  • Unreleased Fancy Pants Adventures, TheThe Fancy Pants Adventures Platformer Borne Games/ Over the Top Games Electronic Arts Apr 20, 2011 Unreleased Unreleased...
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    of the threat that would be posed to the Mississippi Valley by a water-borne invasion along the course of the river. In response, they set up a series...
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    Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion under Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne (2022), Minister of Public Transformation and Service under Prime Minister...
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    Baugé and the death of his brother. He is said, by contemporaries, to have borne the news manfully. Henry returned to France with an army of 4000–5000 men...
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