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...and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English stories about these figures and adds original material (e.g., the Gareth st ...best-known work of Arthurian literature in English. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source, including T. H. White in his po

...n the Carolingian Empire from the idealization of the cavalryman—involving military bravery, individual training, and service to others—especially in Francia ...iginally denoted the body of heavy cavalry upon formation in the field. In English, the term appears from 1292 (note that cavalry is from the Italian form of

...are plenty of holes and unanswered questions (i.e., the extent of Frank's military training and experiences, Lai and how she wound up with Frank and her quarr '''Writers:''' Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen<br>

...O (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist known as an early theorist of modern armored warf ...miration for Napoleon Bonaparte, or from an imperious manner combined with military brilliance which resembled Napoleon's.

...als intended as a deterrent to other would-be miscreants. Meanwhile, early writers on education, such as Roger Ascham, complained of the arbitrary manner in w ...ificant cases, the death of Private Frederick John White, who died after a military flogging in 1847, and the death of Reginald Cancellor, who was killed by hi

{{Header|Prostitutes in South Korea for the U.S. military 07/23}} ...n, also called "Korean Military Comfort Women," and were visited by the US military, Korean soldiers, and Korean civilians. The prostitutes were from Korea, Ph

...was a state with a rigidly [[hierarchy|hierarchical]] society devoted to [[military]] training. Sparta possessed the most formidable army in the Greek world, a Sparta was, above all, a militarist state, and emphasis on military fitness began virtually at birth. Shortly after birth, the [[mother]] of th

It is no coincidence that the English verb to spank is the only one specifically meant for physical discipline of Many [[comedian]]s, writers and others rely on the buttocks in these and other ways (such as flatulence

...icles. These individuals come from diverse backgrounds, including artists, writers, occultists, scientists, musicians, and more, hailing from countries such a * [[Mary Butts]] (1890–1937), English modernist writer.<ref>{{cite book |last=Booth |first=Martin |author-link=Ma

...vor of the inhabitants of the provinces, in sharp contrast to other French writers of the period who accused provincial French citizens of being apathetic and ...than the other occupants of the coach: the nuns claim to be traveling to a military hospital to treat wounded French soldiers, thus offering the deciding argum

...it are found nearly everywhere. In ''One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military During World War II'' author Paul Jackson writes "a number of words that or ...nary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century Which Are No Longer In Use, Or Are Not U

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...ed cultural dinners with Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and other writers at his luxurious villa (worth 300,000 francs) in Médan, near Paris, after He is considered to be a significant influence on writers credited with the creation of the so-called new journalism: Wolfe, Capote,

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'''John Wilmot''' (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration r Rochester was described by his contemporary Andrew Marvell as "the best English satirist," and he is generally considered to be the most considerable poet

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