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• Hero
  ...c of an hero. However, in [[literature]], particularly in [[tragedy]], the hero may also have [[Fatal flaw|serious flaws]] which lead to their downfall, e. ...ave worked better in the past: current trends may confuse heroes and their hero-worship with the cult of mere [[celebrity]].
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• Hero/Definition
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• Anti-hero
  An '''anti-hero''' is a leading character in a work of fiction whose qualities are the oppo Examples of the anti-hero in more recent literature include Jim Dixon, the lead character of the nove
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• Three Week Hero
  |name = Three Week Hero '''''Three Week Hero''''' is an album released by rock singer P. J. Proby on 8 April 1969, by Li
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• Hero/Approval
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• Three Week Hero/Definition
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• Three Week Hero/Bibliography
  This is a bibliography of major works on ''[[Three Week Hero]]''.
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• 3 Week Hero
  #REDIRECT [[Three Week Hero]]
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• Hero/Related Articles
  Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Hero]]. Needs checking by a human.
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• Three Week Hero/Related Articles
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• Three Week Hero/External Links
  This is a list of external links on ''[[Three Week Hero]]''. Retrieved on 2009-04-20.
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• Hero class patrol vessels/Definition
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces
  ...mund Freud]] were substituted when appropriate.<ref>Joseph Campbell, ''The Hero With A Thousand Faces'', frontspiece (1973, [[Princeton/Bollingen]]).</ref> ...nearly one million copies in various editions.<ref>Joseph Campbell, ''The Hero With A Thousand Faces'', back cover (1973, [[Princeton/Bollingen]]).</ref>
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces/Approval
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces/Definition
  ...gh virtually all the mythologies of the world, revealing the one archetype hero in them all.
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces/Related Articles
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces/Definition
  ...gh virtually all the mythologies of the world, revealing the one archetype hero in them all.
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• Hercules (constellation)/Definition
  ...a Borealis, named after the Roman mythological hero adapted from the Greek hero Heracles.
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• CCGS Corporal Teather C.V./Definition
  ...adian Coast Guard's nine hero class patrol vessels, named after a Canadian hero
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• Argo/Definition
  ...[[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]] which carried the [[hero]] [[Jason (hero)|Jason]] to [[Colchis]] in search of the [[Golden Fleece]]. Jason was accom
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• Kakutsa Cholokashvili
  ...1930) was a Georgian nobleman, military commander, folk hero, and National Hero of Georgia.
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• The Hero With A Thousand Faces
  ...mund Freud]] were substituted when appropriate.<ref>Joseph Campbell, ''The Hero With A Thousand Faces'', frontspiece (1973, [[Princeton/Bollingen]]).</ref> ...nearly one million copies in various editions.<ref>Joseph Campbell, ''The Hero With A Thousand Faces'', back cover (1973, [[Princeton/Bollingen]]).</ref>
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• Heroine
  #REDIRECT [[Hero]]
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• 3 Week Hero
  #REDIRECT [[Three Week Hero]]
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• Joseph Campbell
  ...ingen).<ref>Back cover author [[biography]] from Joeseph Campbell, ''[[The Hero With A Thousand Faces]]'', (1973, [[Princeton/Bollingen]]).</ref>
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• Bellerophon/Definition
  Legendary Greek hero who slayed the Chimera.
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• Joseph Napier/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>Hero of the [[United States Life-saving Service]].
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• Lord Hornblower/Definition
  Novel by C.S. Forester about a 19th century naval hero.
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• Swashbuckler/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>An archetypal swordfighting hero, or a genre containing such heroes.
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• Three Week Hero/Bibliography
  This is a bibliography of major works on ''[[Three Week Hero]]''.
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• Achilles/Definition
  Greek hero who fought and died in the Trojan War.
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• Ajax (disambiguation)
  * [[Ajax the Greater (Greek hero)]] - Trojan war participant and suitor to Helen of Troy * [[Ajax the Lesser (Greek hero)]] - Trojan war participant and suitor to Helen of Troy
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• Nuadu Airgetlám/Definition
  Silver-handed Irish mythological hero and apparent deity, related to the Romano-British god Nodens.
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• Nirvana/External Links
  * [http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/buddha Buddha - A Hero's Journey to Nirvana].
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• Tecum Umam/Definition
  Legendary defender of the Maya and national hero of Guatemala.
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• Ned Kelly (outlaw)/Definition
  (1855-1880) An [[Australia|Australian]] [[bushranger]], an outlaw but folk hero
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• Horatio Hornblower/Definition
  The hero of a series of nautical novels created by C.S. Forester.
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• Nessos/Definition
  ...flagging interest, but rather burned the [[flesh]] of Heracles causing the hero to [[suicide|kill himself]].
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• Joseph Campbell/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}} {{r|The Hero With A Thousand Faces}}
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• Argonauts/Definition
  ...from [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]] who sailed along with [[Jason (hero)|Jason]] on the [[Argo]].
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• Herakles/Definition
  A hero of Greek mythology, son of [[Zeus]], who among other adventures, had to per
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• Greek tragedy/Definition
  ...include>Form of poetic drama which evolved in ancient Greece, in which the hero comes to a tragic destiny.
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• Gabby Hayes/Definition
  ...can actor who was generally the sidekick, often a comic one, to the cowboy hero in many films.
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• Three Week Hero/External Links
  This is a list of external links on ''[[Three Week Hero]]''. Retrieved on 2009-04-20.
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• William Wallace (Scottish)/Definition
  Scottish national hero (c 1270-1305), a leader in the fight for Scottish independence against Edwa
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• C.S. Forester/Definition
  ...cil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), author and creator of the fictional hero ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]''.
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• Aeneas/Definition
  Trojan hero of the epic story by the Roman poet Virgil called the Aeneid.
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• Mikhail Lermontov/Definition
  ...l]]ist and a leading [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[poetry|poet]]; wrote ''[[A Hero of Our Time]]''.
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• Anchises/Definition
  Legendary father of the Roman hero Aeneas and a Trojan, who has an affair with the goddess Venus or Aphrodite.
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• Ned Kelly (outlaw)
  ...ish exile to Australia, who became an outlaw "bushranger", and also a folk hero.
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• Conall Cernach/Definition
  A hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
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• Helenus/Definition
  ...]] of [[Greece]] on the [[Adriatic]] [[Sea]] where he was visited by the [[hero]] [[Aeneas]], as described by the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[poetry|poet]] [[
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• Perseus/Definition
  ...e Northern Hemisphere near Andromeda and Auriga, named after the legendary hero in Greek mythology.
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• Marathonian Bull/Definition
  ...savage bull who lived on the island of Crete and was captured by the Greek hero Heracles, as his seventh labor.
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• Heracles/Definition
  ...Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], the [[son]] of [[Zeus]] and [[Alcmene]], a [[hero]] of exceptional strength and resourcefulness, eventually granted immortal
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• George Dewey/Definition
  An American admiral and the naval hero of the [[Spanish-American War of 1898]].
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• Anti-hero
  An '''anti-hero''' is a leading character in a work of fiction whose qualities are the oppo Examples of the anti-hero in more recent literature include Jim Dixon, the lead character of the nove
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• Fury (horse)/Definition
  The equine hero of a [[Western (genre)|Western]] television series, portrayed by a black st
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• Journey of Aeneas/Definition
  ...e many places in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] visited by the fleeing Trojan [[hero]] [[Aeneas]].
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• Amata
  ...hter, princess [[Lavinia]], who was fought over fiercely by two [[epic]] [[hero|heroes]] -- Aeneas and Turnus -- near the end of the ''Aeneid''.]] ...ile her husband favored a marriage to the [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]]. Amata was a minor character in ''[[Aeneid|The Aeneid]]'' by [
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• Juno (mythology)/Definition
  ...aturn, jealous wife (and sister) of Zeus; caused numerous troubles for the hero of the [[Aeneid]]]; especially despised Trojans.
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• Marathonian Bull
  ...hon (Greece)|Marathon]]. Later, it was captured by the [[Athens|Athenian]] hero [[Theseus]]. In another account, the bull carried [[Europa]] to [[Crete]];
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• Ulysses (poem)
  ...on]], depicting resolution and a sense of exploring in old age. The Greek hero [[Odysseus]] was known as Ulysses to the Romans.
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• Cú Chulainn/Definition
  The teenage hero of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, sometimes referred to
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• Theseus/Definition
  In Greek myth, the national hero of Athens, son of Aegeus, king of Athens (or the sea-god Poseidon) and of A
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• Aeneid/Definition
  An [[epic poem]] written by [[Virgil]], which depicts the hero [[Aeneas]] fleeing from [[Troy (ancient city)]], journeying to [[Carthage]]
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• Tom Barry/Definition
  '''Tom Barry''' (1897-1980) was an Irish revolutionary and folk hero who lead a [[flying column]] during the [[Irish War of Independence]]. Foll
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• Ulysses
  * the Roman name for the Greek hero [[Odysseus]]
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• Area of a triangle
  ...imeter]] of the triangle. This formula is known as the Heron's formula (or Hero's formula), named after the mathematician, [[Heron of Alexandria]].
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• Gorgophone
  ...orgophone''' was a daughter of [[Perseus]], the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] who slayed the [[monster]] [[Medusa]]. She was in a [[marriage]] [[relati
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• Gilgamesh/Definition
  From [[Ancient Mesopotamia|Mesopotamian]] [[mythology]], a [[hero]] whose adventures are recounted in the fragmentary ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]
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• Achilles/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Swashbuckler
  ...odern sense, a swashbuckler is either an adventurous, chivalrous, romantic hero, or a [[genre]] in literature, film and theatre, based on that archetype.
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• Hector/Definition
  ...n the [[Trojan War]]. According to Homer, he is killed battling with the [[hero]] [[Achilles]].
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• Conall Cernach/Related Articles
  *{{r|Hero}}
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• Cú Chulainn/Related Articles
  *{{r|Hero}}
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• Hector
  ...n the [[Trojan War]]. According to Homer, he is killed battling with the [[hero]] [[Achilles]].
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• Minos/Definition
  ...n which to keep the [[Minotaur]] in; later, the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Theseus]] kills the Minotaur.
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• Mantua
  ...[[Aeneid]]'' and was the [[story]] of the [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] who, according to this story, was the [[founder]] of the [[cit
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• Medal of Honor/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero of the Russian Federation}}
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• P. J. Proby/Related Articles
  {{r|Three Week Hero}}
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• Tragedy
  ...rtunate [[cause-and-effect|effect]] of bringing about suffering. Often the hero has what is called a ''tragic flaw'', a personality defect or trait that b
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• Medal of Honor
  ...Union]] medals were political, legitimate military Hero medals (and now [[Hero of the Russian Federation]]) are considered comparable.
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• Gorgons/Definition
  ..., living creatures into stone. One of the three sisters is [[Medusa]]; the hero [[Perseus]] cuts off her head and uses it as a weapon against his enemies;
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• Thomas Paine/External Links
  ...acintyre/article5562543.ece |title=Welcome back Tom Paine, unsung American hero |accessdate=2009-01-22 |last=Macintyre |first=Ben |authorlink= |coauthors=
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• Aegeus/Definition
  ...s [[name]]d after him. He was the father of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Theseus]] who killed the [[Minotaur]], and who was a prominent [[charac
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• Argo
  ...h women.|Greek [[mythology]] has numerous characters, including the many [[hero|heroes]] who sailed on the Argo along with [[Jason]], including [[Greek god
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• Troezen/Definition
  ...ing one [[night]] and became [[pregnancy|pregnant]] with the then-future [[hero]] [[Theseus]]. It is the setting of the [[Greek tragedy|tragedy]] ''[[Hippo
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• Minotaur/Definition
  ...m as a form of ongoing [[tribute]]. [[Theseus]], the [[Athens|Athenian]] [[hero]], killed the Minotaur with assistance from [[King]] [[Minos]]'s [[daughter
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• Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero class patrol vessels}}
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• Jones County, North Carolina
  ...The county was named in honor of [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] hero [[Willie Jones]].
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• Peleus/Definition
  ...ent Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was the [[human]] [[father]] of the [[hero]] [[Achilles]] and the [[husband]] of the [[Greek god|goddess]] [[Thetis]],
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• Greek tragedy/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Megara/Definition
  ...], she was the first [[wife]] of [[Heracles]]. She had children with the [[hero]] but ran into trouble when the [[Greek god|goddess]] [[Hera]] caused Herac
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• Troilus/Definition
  ...] [[Hecabe]]. He is killed in [[battle]] by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Achilles]], and his [[death]] was described in [[Greek tragedy]] by the
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• Sugar Mama (Led Zeppelin song)/Related Articles
  {{r|Three Week Hero}}
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• Procrustes/Definition
  ...] [[mythology]], he was one of the brigands whom the [[Athens|Athenian]] [[hero]] [[Theseus]] killed on his way [[home]] from [[Troezen]] to [[Athens]]. He
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• John Paul Jones (naval officer)/Bibliography
  * Thomas, Evan. ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jone
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• Scouting
  ...rnational organization based on the principles laid out by the British war hero [[Robert Baden-Powell]] (1857–1941) in a book titled ''[[Scouting for Boy
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• Howard Zinn
  ..."[http://www.alternet.org/story/145455/ People's Historian and Progressive Hero Howard Zinn Dies]," ''Boston Globe'', January 27, 2010.
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• Oceanus
  ...s, and it was depicted on the [[sheild]] of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Achilles]]. Oceanus' siblings were [[Cronus]], [[Rhea]], and [[Tethys]]
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• Louis Althusser/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Pirithous/Definition
  ...iendship|friend]] of [[Theseus]] who accompanied the [[Athens|Athenian]] [[hero]] to [[Tartaros]] to try to [[kidnapping|kidnap]] [[Persephone]] to be the
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• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Hamlet/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Cleisthenes/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Poseidon (god)/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
  ...]]. Among the remaining stories were "Tracking Song", "Alien Stones", "The Hero as Werwolf" [sic], "Feather Tigers", and "The Toy Theater". * "The Hero As Werwolf" (1975)
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• Strato of Lampsacus
  ...which influenced [[Alexandria]]n philosophers such as [[Hero (philosopher)|Hero]]. His view &ndash; that the [[universe]] is self-explanatory and self-sus
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• Poseidon (mythology)/Definition
  ...he ''[[Odyssey]]'' by [[Homer]], he was a prominent force in causing the [[hero]] [[Odysseus]] to not reach [[home]] for a long time. He played a big role
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• CCGS Private Robertson V.C.
  ...Robertson V.C.jpg|thumb|The CCGS ''Private Robertson V.C.''., the first ''Hero-class'' vessel to be commissioned.]] ...obertson V.C.''''' is the first vessel in the [[Canadian Coast Guard]]'s [[Hero-class patrol vessels]].<ref name=CcgRobertsonLaunchBrief>
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• James Munro
  ...n the late 1960s, wrote four superior spy thrillers under this byline. The hero is a British agent named [[John Craig]], who works, mostly reluctantly, for
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• Hero/Related Articles
  Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Hero]]. Needs checking by a human.
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• Oliver Cromwell/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Strophades Islands
  ...[[poetry|poet]] [[Virgil]] tells how the [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] visited and found the islands were inhabited by [[Harpies]].
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• Herodotus/Related Articles
  {{r|Hero}}
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• Ben Salomon/External Links
  |title=Dentist Hero Finally Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor
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• Odysseus
  ...t that after the death of [[Achilles]] he was awarded the arms of the dead hero, to the fury of Ajax, who thought he had a better claim on them. ...ch the events parallel the Odyssey. Whereas the original epic presents the hero as a home-seeking man, Dante depicted him as a searcher, seeking out new ex
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• Guy Gabaldon
  | title = Guy Gabaldon, 80, Hero of Battle of Saipan, Dies | title = Why Wasn't WWII Hero Guy Gabaldon Given the Medal of Honor?
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• Military award
  ...xplosive ordnance disposal. Hero of the Russian Federation and the earlier Hero of the Soviet Union were usually presented for high valor, although some we
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• Deus ex machina/Quotes
  ...e to amend, we may still anticipate salvation from a messiah, a conquering hero, a ''deus ex machina'', or some other agent with power to fracture the unsu
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• 1896 Summer Olympics
  ...e race was won by [[Spiridon Louis]] of Greece, who thus became a national hero. In another nod to ancient times, [[throwing the discus]] was resurrected a
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• Heracles
  ...sometimes spelt Herakles) was the [[son]] of [[Zeus]] and [[Alcmene]], a [[hero]] of superhuman strength and resourcefulness. As one of the illegitimate s
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• William Jennings Bryan/External Links
  * [http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/02/15.php Michael Kazin: "A Godly Hero" interview about Jennings on The Diane Rehm Show]
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• Edinburgh University/External Links
  ...s___colleges/scotland/university_of_edinburgh.cfm University profile] from HERO, The official online gateway to Higher Education and Research in the UK.
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• Sack of Troy/Definition
  ...[Menelaus]], [[Odysseus]], [[Ajax]], and many others, pitted against the [[hero]]es of Troy, including [[Hector]] and, by one account in the ''[[Aeneid]]''
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• Parent
  ...being of the child. For example, in [[Greek mythology]], the parent of the hero [[Aeneas]] was [[Anchises]], but when time passed, the son carried the lame
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• Hero
  ...c of an hero. However, in [[literature]], particularly in [[tragedy]], the hero may also have [[Fatal flaw|serious flaws]] which lead to their downfall, e. ...ave worked better in the past: current trends may confuse heroes and their hero-worship with the cult of mere [[celebrity]].
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• Pale Moon Rising
  ...apparently the same year that O'Brine died. It is narrated by a nameless hero of Italian birth and more than one nationality, who joins the British under ...sanctuary of [[Gibraltar]]—since the book begins many years later with the hero's reflections as he visits the over-grown site of one of his early training
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• Irish mythology
  *the [[Fenian Cycle]], tales of the hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]] and his warriors, set around the 3rd century AD;
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• John Paul Jones (musician)/Related Articles
  {{r|Three Week Hero}}
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• Helen of Troy
  ...[Virgil]]'s [[Aeneid]]: when the Greeks broke into the city, the Trojan [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] had an opportunity to kill Helen but was dissuaded by his moth
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• Chimera (mythology)
  ...like a lizard or serpent. It was killed by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Bellerophon]] who, mounted on the winged horse [[Pegasus]], shoved a hu
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• Mabinogion
  ...English and publish them. The word "mabinogi" probably means a tale of a hero. ...rpreted as developments from the story of the birth, life and death of the hero Pryderi, but much changed. ''Pwyll Prince of Dyfed'' recounts his birth.
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• John Craig (fictional agent)
  ...n exceptionally competent, tough-minded British agent who is the fictional hero of four superior spy thrillers written in the late 1960s and early 1970s by
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• World of Warcraft Trading Card Game
  ...mal-sized hero card and 32 others (which are all useable with the included hero card), and two booster packs; or in booster packs containing 15 game cards ...retail ''box'' of boosters will contain a ''Legendary'' card instead of a Hero card.
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• Odyssey
  ...s he tell his previous adventures, so that much of the narration is by the hero himself. Unlike the Iliad, the poem is episodic. ...the form of the Odyssey in that he started well into the story and had the hero narrate previous events. This form has been followed by others.
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• Jan Needle
  ...Other People’s Blood'') and a series of naval fiction revolving around his hero William Bentley (e.g., ''A Fine Boy for Killing'').
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• Aimee Laurence
  ...me=hiddenremote2019-09-11/> In 2019 she played the younger version of the hero's love interest in [[The Goldfinch (film)|''The Goldfinch'']].<ref name=han
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• Hazard from Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance
  ...cal navies, define '''Hazards from Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO)''' as the potention for high-energy electromagnetic devices, on ships or c ...rmy helicopters going into Afghanistan in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021), HERO becomes more than a naval responsibility.
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• Yuri Gagarin
  Gagarin returned to a hero's welcome and travelled the world as a Soviet cultural ambassador. However,
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• Charles Bronson
  ...y appeared in [[Western]]s, war films and crime dramas, often as an [[anti-hero]]. His trademark persona was the quiet and enigmatic but purposeful charact
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• CCGS Corporal Teather C.V.
  |Ship class={{Sclass2|Hero|patrol vessel}} ...C.V.''''' is the third of nine vessel in the [[Canadian Coast Guard]]'s [[Hero-class patrol vessels]].<ref name=Wmn2013-02-13>
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• L. Ron Hubbard
  ...ambake, [http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/warhero.htm Ron the War Hero]</ref>
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• Curadmír
  ...pion's Portion'''<ref>[[Old Irish]] ''curad'', genitive of ''caur'', "of a hero, champion, warrior"; ''mír'', "morsel, ration, portion" (''Dictionary of t ...s the bravest man present. Just as he is about to carve the pig, the Ulaid hero [[Conall Cernach]] arrives, and his boasts force Cet to give way to him &nd
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• Henry Larsen
  Larsen was born in Norway, like his hero Roald Amundsen. He spent some years at sea,
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• Antarctica
  ...). He failed, but reached further south than anyone so far: he received a hero's welcome upon his return to England and was immediately knighted.
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• Creusa
  '''Creusa''' was the [[wife]] of [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] and [[daughter]] of Trojan [[King Priam]]. Creusa and Aeneas h
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• King Latinus
  ...ledged to [[marriage|marry]] the rival of [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]]. The rival was named [[Turnus]], a hot-headed brash but excell
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• Seymour Wittek
  | url = https://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-hero-seymour-wittek-dies-at-88/2009/12/30/ | title = Coast Guard hero Seymour Wittek dies at 88
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• Beowulf/Excerpt
  :Pick the best choice, the path of the hero, :Death overcomes you, you the hero.</blockquote>
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• Bucephalus
  ...prowess as proof of character and daring. Typically, in these stories, the hero (or heroine) is the single person who can ride the horse, and does so to mi ...his way, as is typical with [[Baron Münchhausen|Münchhausen]] stories, the hero's exaggerated exploits have an edge of buffoonery.
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• Horatio Hornblower/Bibliography
  ...Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C. S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero
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• Athena
  In [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'' she was a shrewd advisor to the hero [[Odysseus]] supporting him on many occasions to overcome his perils and re
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• Battle of Waterloo/Waterloo in literature
  [[Lord Byron|Byron]] in his long poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' took his hero to the field of Waterloo, which he himself had visited, and gave his though
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• Parminder Nagra
  ...''Marathon'' (2007). She is also to appear in the upcoming film ''Fallen Hero'', set for release in 2008.
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• John Wayne
  ...n characters, arguably Wayne's two greatest roles, foreshadowed the [[anti-hero]] popularised in the 1960s by the likes of [[Charles Bronson]], [[Clint Eas
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• Andromeda (mythology)
  Fortunately, the hero [[Perseus]], returning from having killed Medusa, happened to come along.
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• George Dewey
  '''George Dewey''' (1837-1917) was an American admiral, and the naval hero of the [[Spanish-American War]] of 1898. ==Hero==
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• Bhagavad Gita
  ...s format is that of a series of dialogues between the god Krishna, and the hero Arjuna. It taught that a devotee could manifest a God if he/she did constan
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• Doraemon
  ...[http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/doraemon.html The Cuddliest Hero in Asia]. TIMEasia.com
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• Bellerophon
  In [[Greek mythology]], '''Bellerophon''' was a [[hero]] who slayed the [[Chimera (mythology)|Chimera]] which had the head of a li ...a (mythology)|Chimera]]. It breathed fire and was dangerous. But the young hero got help from the goddess [[Athena]] who gave him a winged horse named [[Pe
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• Penates
  ...t]] [[Virgil]], the Penates were brought by [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] hero [[Aeneas]] along with his father [[Anchises]] and his son [[Ascanius]] on a
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• Conall Cernach
  ...and foster-brother [[Cú Chulainn]], but becomes the Ulaid's most prominent hero after Cú Chulainn's death. He has a bitter rivalry with [[Cet mac Mágach] ...emasculating Celtchar with his spear, and is acknowledged as the greatest hero present. However, just as Cet is about to carve, Conall arrives, and his bo
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• Aeneas
  '''Aeneas''' is the hero of the [[epic]] [[poetry|poem]] by the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] poet [[Virgil
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• Sivad Heshimu Johnson
  ...detroit-firefighter-drowns-trying-to-save-girls-from-river-he-was-always-a-hero/ ...refighter Drowns After Trying to Save 3 Girls from River: 'He Was Always a Hero'
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• World of Warcraft/Catalogs/Class
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• Jimmy Page/Related Articles
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• Alberto Santos-Dumont
  ...tion while living in [[Paris]] during the early 1900's. He remains a folk hero in Brazil. Many there credit him with the invention of the airplane.
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• American Revolution, naval history/Bibliography
  * Norton, Louis Arthur. ''Joshua Barney: Hero of the Revolution and 1812.'' (2000). 226 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Joshu * Thomas, Evan. ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jone
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• Beauty
  ...(goddess)|Aphrodite]], who was the mother of the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]], according to the [[poetry|poet]] [[Virgil]] in the ''[[Aeneid
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• Cowboy
  Savage, William W., ''The cowboy hero: His Image in American History and Culture'' (Oklahoma, 1985)
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• Thomas Carlyle
  ...e ''Sartor Resartus'', ''The French Revolution: a History'', and ''Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History''. He also played an important role in a
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• Daniel C. Dennett
  ...D from Oxford in 1965. [[Richard Dawkins]] has called him his intellectual hero.
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• Padraig Pearse
  ...ulture]]. Pearse was a believer in [[blood sacrifice]] and even compared a hero dying for his country to [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] dying on the cross to save
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• Pelé
  ...Negra" (the "Black Pearl") by supporters, Pelé became a Brazilian national hero after his outstanding performances in the 1958 World Cup, held in Sweden.
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• Madness
  ...Another example is from [[Greek tragedy]]. The [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[hero]] [[Ajax]] who became [[delusional]], at the behest of the [[Greek god|godd
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• Collin Wilcox
  ...cox's last books, ''Full Circle'' and ''Find Her a Grave'', featured a new hero-sleuth, Alan Bernhardt, an eccentric theater director also based in San Fra
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• Matt Helm/Signed Articles/Hayford Peirce
  ...author. He is now, let us say, 73. Is his once relatively youthful series hero now 83 or 84, having aged along with his creator? If so, then obvious diffi ...ero Wolfe killing Germans in the *First* World War). And if the author and hero survive long enough, the activities in all of the early books will have to
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• Three Week Hero
  |name = Three Week Hero '''''Three Week Hero''''' is an album released by rock singer P. J. Proby on 8 April 1969, by Li
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• Any God Will Do
  ...n the presence of his desperate snob, and an author's distaste for his own hero can taint a reader's pleasure.<ref>"Snob's Folly," ''Time'' magazine, Octob ...ish hero's search for royal forebears, only to reveal at the end that said hero was actually the offspring of dwarfs. It seemed to me that Mr. Condon was
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• Dien Bien Phu City
  ...ip the Hoang family and 6 leaders of the army of Hoang Cong Chat, a farmer hero, born in Thai Binh province, in an insurgency (1739-69) to protect Muong Th
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• Finnegans Wake
  ...omes everybody", "Haveth childers everywhere", etc.), a sort of archetypal hero and mountain god.
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• Ulster Cycle/Bibliography
  *Ann Dooley, ''Playing the Hero: Reading the Táin Bó Cuailnge'', University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 20
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• New Musical Express/Catalogs/1974
  | 'Billy Don't Be a Hero' by Paper Lace | 'Billy Don't Be a Hero' by Paper Lace
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• Tom Barry
  '''Thomas Barry''' (1897-1980) was an Irish revolutionary and folk hero, born on 1 July 1897 in Killorglin, [[County Kerry|co. Kerry]], the eldest ...ied at his home in Cork on 2 July 1980. He is considered an Irish national hero.
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• Anthropology/Related Articles
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• Fireboats of Detroit
  | title = A Hero's Honor: Detroit Fireboat Named For Sergeant Who Drowned In Belle Isle Resc
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• Ben Jonson
  ...bricklayer, then a soldier who served in [[Flanders]], where he played the hero in single combat. Jonson then took to the stage as an actor. After killin
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• Tecum Umam
  ...ts throughout the highlands. He has been raised to the status of national hero of Guatemala and commemorated on its currency. And he is known as the defe ...nt quetzal|quetzal]]. A battle ensued that claimed the life of the K'iche' hero.
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• Inferno (novel by Niven and Pournelle)
  ...ower and Infinite Sadism", and the point of the exercise is a question the hero finds himself asking.
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• Anchises
  '''Anchises''' is the [[father]] of the [[Roman]] [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] and a [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] who has [[sexual intercou
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• Irakleio
  ...se of the Ancient Greek name ''Ἠράκλειον, Hērákleion'': it referred to the hero [[Heracles]] and designated a harbour, whose exact location is unknown, th
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• Joan of Arc, memory of/Bibliography
  ...own image, whether it be that of Joan the Saint, virgin, martyr, warrior, hero, Amazon, French patriot, etc.
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• Joan of Arc/Bibliography
  ...own image, whether it be that of Joan the Saint, virgin, martyr, warrior, hero, Amazon, French patriot, etc.
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• Michael Z. Lewin
  <blockquote>The waggish author takes an irreverent view of his wholesome hero, who has been attracting wacky clients ever since he began advertising his ...e satisfyingly logical, are something less than unalloyed triumphs for the hero; the conclusion of ''Called by a Panther'', however, is downbeat to the poi
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• William Flores
  ...w.military.com/news/article/coast-guard-news/new-cg-cutter-named-for-local-hero.html ...ry.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2Fcoast-guard-news%2Fnew-cg-cutter-named-for-local-hero.html&date=2011-12-02 mirror]
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• Peter Kropotkin
  ...ears old. His maternal grandfather was general Nikolay Semyonovich Sulima, hero of Patriotic War of 1812.
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• Arthur Conan Doyle
  ...g mystery, found a host of imitators. The novelist himself returned to his hero in ''[[The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]'' (1893), ''[[The Hound of the Bask
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• Horatio Hornblower
  ...d times of Horatio Hornblower: a biography of C.S. Forester's famous naval hero ...d times of Horatio Hornblower: a biography of C.S. Forester's famous naval hero''.<ref name=Parkinson />
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• Hornblower and the Atropos
  ...l of [[Horatio Nelson|Vice Admiral Lord Nelson]], England's greatest naval hero, killed in action at the moment of victory in the [[Battle of Trafalgar]].
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• Musaeus
  A fourth poet is named Musaeus Grammaticus, to which the love poem about Hero and Leander, discovered during the 13th Century AD, is ascribed. According
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• Táin Bó Cúailnge
  ...steal the stud bull [[Donn Cúailnge]], opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. ...there is a physically and emotionally gruelling three-day duel between the hero and his foster-brother and best friend, [[Fer Diad]].
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• John Paul Jones (naval officer)
  Jones was celebrated as a hero in France, in Europe, and America--and even, grudgingly, in Britain. He to ...e credit and lost his command.<ref>Evan Thomas, ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) pp. 292-312</ref>
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• Mikhail Borodin
  | title = A Hero, Soviet-Style (book review of Borodin, Stalin's Man in China. By Dan N. Jac
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• Ann Radcliffe
  ..."Schedoni" in ''The Italian'' is one of the prototypes of the ''[[Byronic hero]]''. ''The Italian'' was the last book Radcliffe published during her lifet
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• Tammany
  ...ntic" source of patriotic Americanness through their tribute to "an Indian hero virtually indistinguishable from the average patriot."<ref>Deloria, p. 22.<
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• Juno (mythology)
  ...in the ''[[Aeneid]]'' by [[Virgil]] by causing numerous troubles for the [[hero]] [[Aeneas]]. Juno was particularly angry at [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojans]
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• Tom Thumb (fictional character)
  ...was preparing the fish to the astonishment of everyone and the diminutive hero soon became a favorite of the king.
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• Crete
  ...side a giant [[labyrinth]], but it was killed by the [[Athens|Athenian]] [[hero]] [[Theseus]] who used string to find his way out of the maze.
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• Eugene Debs/Bibliography
  ...Story of Rhetorical-ideological Transformation: Eugene V. Debs as Liberal Hero." ''Quarterly Journal of Speech'' 1991 77(1): 20-37. Issn: 0033-5630
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• Alfred E. Ronaldson (fireboat)
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/06/nyregion/often-a-hero-a-firefighter-dies-on-the-job.html | title = Often a Hero, a Firefighter Dies on the Job
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• Greek tragedy
  ...g continued to be important. The essence of the drama was that a tragic [[hero]] such as [[Oedipus]] or [[Orestes]] would be brought to his death or some
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• Mario (character)
  ...d one of their first titles took ''Donkey Kong''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s plucky hero and placed him in a new world.
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• Chariot
  ...o happen, since Rome was founded (according to the [[epic]] poem) by the [[hero]] [[Aeneas]].
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• Cairpre Nia Fer
  ...of [[Leinster]], fight a battle against Conchobar and the Ulaid. The Ulaid hero [[Cú Chulainn]] kills him with a spear from distance, then decapitates him
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• Medb
  ...urse on the Ulstermen, the invasion was opposed only by the teenage Ulster hero [[Cú Chulainn]], who held up the army's advance by demanding single combat ...ill had Fergus killed. In his old age, after Conchobar's death, the Ulster hero [[Conall Cernach]] came to stay with Ailill and Medb, as they were the only
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• Denver, Colorado/Bibliography
  * Hero, Rodney. "The Election of Hispanics in City Government: An Analysis of the * Hero, Rodney. and Kathleen Beatty. "The Election of Frederico Peña as Mayor of
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• Nicolaus Copernicus
  ==Copernicus as hero==
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• Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov
  ...[[Adolf Hitler]] a liberator, not an invader. Confronted with a Soviet war hero from the people, plans were soon being drawn up for giving Vlasov a visible ...google.com/books?id=YBgZgWXA668C&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=%22Vlasov:+Traitor+or+hero%3F%22&source=bl&ots=rwNwr2M0LF&sig=I1dQP2rMepC5PGZ7QLeRc3hyEp8&hl=en&ei=8sq
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• U.S. advisers in the Vietnam War
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• Sugar Mama (Led Zeppelin song)
  .... J. Proby also recorded a song entitled 'Sugar Mama' for his ''Three Week Hero'' album in 1968. Musically and stylistically all three songs are dissimilar
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• Battle of Iwo Jima/Bibliography
  ...Ann and John Wetenhall, ''Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero'' (1991)
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• Lug mac Ethlenn
  ...mnech'' ("fierce striker" or perhaps "sword-shouter") and ''Macnia'' ("boy hero"). He is considered a reflex of the hypothetical pan-[[Celt]]ic god [[Lugus ...s his services as a wright, a smith, a champion, a swordsman, a harpist, a hero, a poet and historian, a sorcerer, and a craftsman, but each time is reject
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• William Jennings Bryan/Bibliography
  * Kazin, Michael. ''A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan'' (2006).
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• Fate
  ...rominently in [[literature]]. In ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' by [[Sophocles]], the hero [[Oedipus]] was fated to kill his [[father]] and [[marriage|marry]] his [[m
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• Achilles
  ...companion [[Patroclus]], who some consider his lover, he killed the Trojan hero [[Hector]]. According to later traditions he was killed by an arrow to the ...contain allusions to his demise at the hands of Apollo and [[Paris (Trojan hero)|Paris]] at the Scaean gate before the fall of Troy. Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'
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• Ratnaboli Ray
  ...ed as powerful impact woman by Business Today. She was awarded Times Woman Hero by Times Of India.
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• Al Smith/Bibliography
  * Josephson, Matthew and Hannah Josephson. ''Al Smith: Hero of the Cities'' (1969), a solid biography but not as good as Slayton (2001)
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• Journey of Aeneas
  In the ''[[Aeneid]]'' by [[Virgil]], the fleeing Trojan [[hero]] [[Aeneas]] visited many places in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. Here is a br ...[[Corfu]]. Aeneas meets [[Andromache]] who was the wife of fallen Trojan [[hero]] [[Hector]]. Andromache was married to a son of [[King Priam]] named [[Hel
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• Vernon Louis Parrington
  ...ded that the Jeffersonian farmer, the Progressives' traditional democratic hero, had joined forces with the greedy business community to produce a destruct
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• USCGC Benjamin B. Dailey
  | quote = This vessel is named after Coast Guard Hero Benjamin Dailey. Dailey, Keeper of the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station, w ...e first 15 ships in the class, each ship will honor a Coast Guard enlisted hero.
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• John Allen Midgett, Jr.
  ...families of Hatteras, the Midgetts are considered mighty men. Claiming one hero in a family is usually considered legendary. Yet, over the years ten men of
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• Louis Behrens
  ...n Nation. ONCE ON THE FORCE HERE Friend of Kenlon and "Smoky Joe" Martin a Hero During Earthquake in Southern City in 1886.
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• Lyonesse
  ...memory can be seen in that it came to be associated with legendary Celtic hero Arthur.
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• Orval Faubus
  ...l Faubus's middle name "Eugene" was after [[Eugene V. Debs]], his father's hero. However, despite this, Faubus increasingly leaned to the right wing later
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• Walk-in-the-Water
  ...s a bow figurehead, she carried a likeness of [[Oliver Hazard Perry]], the hero of the [[Battle of Lake Erie]]. "Walk-in-the-Water" was the name of an Ind
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• Morrígan
  ...of the [[Ulster Cycle]], where she has an ambiguous relationship with the hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. In the story ''Táin Bó Regamna'' ("the Cattle Raid of R In one version of Cú Chulainn's death-tale, as the hero rides to meet his enemies, he encounters the Morrígan as a hag washing his
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• The Ecstasy Business
  Condon's hero is Tynan Bryson, a Welsh movie star—an obvious fiction, since there is no ...apply his imagination to such fancies as a murder device intended for the hero but inadvertently triggered by his agent:
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• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  ...criticized for its plot devices, such as the stereotyped [[ingénue]] and [[hero]]. According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally debunked ethnic stereotyp
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• Robert Spencer
  ...ook, ''The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam'', described him as "...a hero of the American right...Like any book written in hatred, his new work is a
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• The Wrecking Crew (novel)
  ...tion in the fictional portrayal of a ruthless but nevertheless sympathetic hero came in the way that Helm dealt with deadly threats in the course of carryi
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• Military sociology
  *Possibly a postheroic leader-hero, who controls nuclear war, and especially its avoidance, with a very low pr
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• Louis Behrens (fireboat)
  ...n Nation. ONCE ON THE FORCE HERE Friend of Kenlon and "Smoky Joe" Martin a Hero During Earthquake in Southern City in 1886.
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• Philonoe
  |title= HERO’S OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY - Bellerophon |url= http://www.abctales.com/story/biggus/hero-s
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• Mechane
  ...mark, which he also applied in more venturesome ways, as e.g. shown in the hero's ascension on a [[Pegasus]] in his lost play ''Bellerophon''.<ref>Harold C ...the theater machine, e.g. in [[Peace (play)|''Peace'']], where the peasant hero, in an blatant take on Euripides' Pegasus-exit, embarks on a hazardous, hea
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• Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
  | title = (Book review) Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: the life of a War Hero
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• Andrew Jackson
  ...t) who believed in action instead of words, he was the iconic Western folk hero and came to typify popular democracy in the "Jacksonian Age" of the 1830s a
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• Nobuo Uematsu
  * ''[[Hanjuku Hero]]'' * ''[[Hanjuku Hero Vs. 3D]]'' (2002)
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• Tennessee Heritage Protection Act
  ...vis Home in Smyrna for commercial development. Davis was known as the “Boy Hero of the Confederacy.” The Commission has heard a total of four cases, one
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• Desmond Cory
  ...a predates [[James Bond]], comparisons with [[Ian Fleming]]'s better known hero are inevitable. Agent 007's popularity is often attributed to the admission
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• Led Zeppelin/Related Articles
  {{r|Three Week Hero}}
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• James Hutton
  ...rature, established Hutton’s reputation. [[Charles Lyell]] made Hutton the hero of the introduction to his ''Principles of Geology'' (1830) and [[Archibald
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• Ulaid
  ...chta, led by queen [[Medb]] and her husband [[Ailill mac Máta]]. The chief hero is Conchobar's nephew [[Cú Chulainn]], and the central story is the proto-
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• John Warden III
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• Western (Film & TV)
  ..."Cheyenne Harry", a character who was in some ways the genre's first anti-hero in that, although he was an outlaw and a wandering gunfighter (rather like
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• Conn Cétchathach
  ...alf, while south of that line was ''Leth Moga'', Mug's Half. The legendary hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]] is supposed to have been born during Conn's reign. Legend has it that the hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]] was born in Conn's time. His father, Cumhall mac Tr�
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• P. J. Proby
  ...the UK Top 10. In September 1968, Proby recorded the album ''[[Three Week Hero]]'', which was released in 1969. A collection of rock, blues and country-st
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• Thomas Edward Lawrence
  ...and his self-confidence, he ardently wished to be considered not as a war hero, or even an adventurer, but as an author.
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• Lord Byron
  ...in the [[Greek War of Independence]], Lord Byron is considered a national hero in [[Greece]]. ...tside the British gentry. The poem eventually took its innocently rampant hero from Spain to a Greek island, the harem of the Sultan, the siege of Ismail
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• Thai boxing
  ...i was King Naresuan the Great who, in 1548, restored Thai freedom. Another hero of Muay Thai is Nai Khanom Tom who, according to legend, after being impris
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• The Republic (dialogue of Plato)
  ...te of several historial figures is shown. One of them, Odysseus, the Greek hero of the Trojan War, chose a life of a common private citizen who avoided war
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• Blood and Judgement
  <blockquote>M.G.'s first effort at "police routine" and very well done. His hero is Sergeant Petrella... Here he unravels the murder of a woman, wife of a c
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• Safety and survivability of naval vessels
  ===Hazard of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO)===
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• Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/May 5, 2010
  ...ingly grim of the two, [[Pale Moon Rising]]. It's pretty hard to tell the hero from the bad guys -- as the Kirkus Reviews summed it up: "Especially recomm
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• Deus ex machina
  ...very traditional ''deus ex machina'', because he not only saves the film's hero, who otherwise would have faced his inevitable and logical death, but also
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• John J. Harvey (fireboat)
  ...d.<ref name="mya">{{cite news |last1=Attaway |first1=Roy |title=Born-Again Hero |url=http://powerandmotoryacht.com/features/0202bornagain/index1.html |acce
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• Benjamin B. Dailey (lifeboatman)
  | known_for = A hero, who had a Sentinel class cutter named after him
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• News story
  Example: [[Sheriff]] Jane Doe says a 22-year-old Smokey County man is a hero after pulling a child from a burning vehicle this morning.<ref name="urlhar
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• Walter Scott
  ...rs, survives various dangers, and emerges at the end happily married. The hero and other upper class characters tend to speak high-flown and stilted langu
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• Cormac mac Airt
  ...], the [[Dál Riata]], the [[Uí Maine]] and the [[Argialla]]. The legendary hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]] is supposed to have lived in Cormac's time, and most ...d ten daughters. Two of his daughters, [[Gráinne]] and Aillbe, married the hero [[Fionn mac Cumhaill]]. In the well-known story "The Pursuit of Diarmuid an
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• French Revolution
  ...s opponents, led by Britain, declared war in 1793. In 1799 [[Napoleon]], a hero and product of the Revolution, became dictator, bringing the first stage of ...y failures in Egypt, [[Napoleon|General Napoleon Bonaparte]] returned to a hero's welcome in 1799. In alliance with the director Sieyès and his brother, [
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• Vanity Fair (novel)
  The sub-title is ''A Novel without a Hero''.
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• Doug Macgregor
  ...onestly and isn't in the pay of a defense contractor. Doug MacGregor was a hero. He didn't have all the answers, but boy, he fired up the right questions."
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• Joe Louis/Citable Version
  ...a cultural icon, particularly among blacks. He was embraced as a national hero in the United States, largely due to his defeat of the [[Nazi]]-sponsored [ ...chmeling out and in doing so, propelling himself to the status of national hero.
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• Joe Louis
  ...a cultural icon, particularly among blacks. He was embraced as a national hero in the United States, largely due to his defeat of the [[Nazi]]-sponsored [ ...chmeling out and in doing so, propelling himself to the status of national hero.
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• Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel
  ...[Department of Fisheries and Oceans]] announced it would be purchasing 9 [[Hero class Patrol Vessel Project|patrol vessels]] for the [[Canadian Coast Guard
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• Gao Yaojie
  * [http://www.chinapage.com/AIDS/gaoyaojie.html Dr. Gao Yaojie - A Hero Fighting Aids in China]
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• Quebec/Bibliography
  * Hero, Alfred Oliver, Jr. and Louis Balthazar. ''Contemporary Quebec & the United
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• Geoffrey of Monmouth
  ...foundation by Brutus, great-grandson of the [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] hero [[Aeneas]], the legendary ancestor of the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], to [[Cad
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• They Never Looked Inside
  ...novels involving somewhat implausible escapes from danger by his on-going hero, [[Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon|Tommy Hambledon]].
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• Theseus
  '''Theseus''' was a hero from [[Greek mythology]] and a legendary king of [[Athens]]. ...turmoil. He decided not to reveal his true identity and was welcomed as a hero who had freed the highways from evildoers. His father, King Aegeus, was now
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• Tina Turner
  ..., starring [[Mel Gibson]]. The film's title track, "We Don't Need Another Hero", was a worldwide hit.
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• Walter Ralegh
  ...s conspicuously pro-Spanish, helped to make him a popular ([[Protestant]]) hero.<ref>Hill, C. Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution. Oxford Univer
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• Wallonia
  ...orous". Its root ''[[vella]]'' gave the Cymric ''wallon'' as in the famous hero's name [[Cassivellaunus|Caswallon]].
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• Fighting Fantasy
  ...rld as ''[[The Warlock of Firetop Mountain]]''. A dungeon quest where the hero battled through monsters and mazes to confront an evil sorcerer in his unde
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• Desmond Bagley
  ...c conventions of the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero is pitted against determined villains who in some cases are operatives of s
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• The Secret Lovers
  ...Miernik Dossier'' with no idea that Christopher would go on to become the hero of future novels. As the Christopher saga expanded and background details w
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• Lenoir County, North Carolina
  ...The county was named in honor of [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] hero [[William Lenoir|General William Lenoir]]. The [[USS Lenoir (AKA-74)|USS ''
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• The Enlightenment
  ...ary concerns. As presented by [[Voltaire]], [[Isaac Newton]] was the great hero for his demonstration that rational thought could explain the heavens, and
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• Lewis Carroll
  ...e Liddell,<ref>afterwards Mrs Hargreaves</ref> for the name of the story's hero, but the character was not based on her.<ref>"The frequently-quoted 'fact'
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• Sun Yat-sen
  ...ople]] proved central to [[China, history|China]], and he became an iconic hero to the Chinese diaspora across the world. ...unpopular Qing dynasty was rapidly collapsing. Sun Yat-sen returned to a hero's welcome and was immediately appointed provisional president of the new Ch
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• William McGonagall
  ...to Shakespeare, the play is set in the court of [[Edward III]]. Jack, the hero, is a noble [[Saxon]] who rises from pauper to knight, vanquishing his enem
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• Canadian sports/Bibliography
  * Morrow, Don, 'The Myth of the Hero in Canadian Sport History', ''Canadian Journal of History of Sport'', 1992,
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• Henry Mackenzie
  ...In 1773 Mackenzie published a second novel, ''The Man of the World'', the hero of which was as consistently bad as the "Man of Feeling" had been "constant
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• Martha Wells (author)/Works
  * "[[Neville Longbottom]]: the Hero with a Thousand Faces" (2006, ''Mapping the World of Harry Potter'', {{ISBN
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• Ulster Cycle
  ...a former king of the Ulaid in exile, and opposed only by the teenage Ulaid hero [[Cú Chulainn]]. Perhaps the best known story is the tragedy of [[Deirdre]
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• Manning O'Brine
  Of Mills, the hero of the eponymously named 1969 novel, a man "who came out of World War II wi
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• Michael Gelles (lawyer)
  |quote = 'Mora's an American hero,' says Michael Gelles, a Navy psychologist who also helped bring prisoner a
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• Algebra/Timelines
  * Circa 150 AD: [[Hellenized]] [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] mathematician [[Hero of Alexandria]], treats algebraic equations in three volumes of mathematics
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• Motor racing
  1927 was the year of [[Robert Benoist]] (France), later a war hero, who won four Grand Prix (British, French, Italian and Spanish) driving his ...winner was [[William Grover-Williams]] (Great Britain), another future war hero, driving a [[Bugatti|Bugatti T35B]] in 3:56:11.0. Now considered a classic
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• Donald Hamilton
  ...sm or hedonism. He has more in common with [[Sam Spade]], the private-eye hero of Dashiell Hammett's ''The Maltese Falcon,'' or [[Stephen Hunter]]'s maste
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• George C. Marshall
  * Mosley, Leonard. ''Marshall: Hero for Our Times.'' (1982). 570 pp.
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• Charles de Gaulle/Bibliography
  * Hoffmann, Stanley. "The Hero as History: De Gaulle's War Memoirs" in Hoffman ''Decline or Renewal? Franc
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• Charles Evans Hughes
  ..., oligopolistic sectors of American business. Progressive reform had a new hero.
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• Super Mario Bros. (video game)
  ...561.shtml]</ref><ref name="torontostar">(1986, August 13). Japan's hottest hero a two-inch tall Italian. ''The Toronto Star'', p. F5.</ref> Other "[[power-
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• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  ...ss in that of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]] and [[Lord Byron|Byron]] (a hero of his boyhood).
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• Bui Tin
  |title =Vietnam's independence leader was a hero to his countrymen, a wise uncle to friends and a monster to enemies
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• Canadian Film Centre
  | url = https://nowtoronto.com/movies/news-features/local-hero-tiff-maxine-bailey | title = Local hero: TIFF’s maxine bailey sets out on a creative journey
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• Henri Pirenne
  ...a masterful multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero. Historians continue to debate his influential theories about medieval hist
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• Whig Party
  ...e and wanted someone more like themselves. When the Whigs nominated a war hero in 1840 and emphasized that [[William Henry Harrison]] had given up the hig ...koned as the Democrats split. By ignoring Clay and nominating a famous war hero, General [[Zachary Taylor]], the Whigs papered over their deepening splits
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• Japanese popular culture
  ...[http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/doraemon.html The Cuddliest Hero in Asia]'. 2006.</ref>
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  ...of Islam'' (1817), a modified version of ''Laon and Cythna'', in which the hero and heroine are no longer brother and sister, and other changes are made, t
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• USCGC Oliver Henry (WPC-1140)
  ...ters (FRCs), each vessel being named for a deceased leader, trailblazer or hero of the Coast Guard and its predecessor services of the U.S. Revenue Cutter
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• Conaire Mór
  ...re was put out. Conaire, protected by his champion Mac Cécht and the Ulaid hero [[Conall Cernach]], killed six hundred before he reached his weapons, a fur
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• Novel
  ...t philosophical novel, though it mainly resembles a tragic romance, with a hero and heroine both impossibly noble and handsome; but the style is simpler th
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• Battle of Iwo Jima
  ...Ann and John Wetenhall, ''Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero'' (1991)
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• World of Warcraft/Citable Version
  ...this starting area they are given high quality equipment and a mount. The hero class is available to all races.
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• Henry Ford/Bibliography
  * Lewis, David I. ''The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company'' (1976), much broader than title suggests
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• Superhero
  *An underlying motif or theme that affects the hero's name, costume, personal effects, and other aspects of his or her characte ...sts, who may or may not know of the superhero's secret identity. Often the hero's personal relationships are complicated by this dual life, a common theme
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• World of Warcraft
  ...this starting area they are given high quality equipment and a mount. The hero class is available to all races except Pandaren.
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• United States Navy/Bibliography
  * Thomas, Evan. ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jone
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• Final Fantasy VII/Catalogs/Locations
  ...vered up and never revealed to the public. Afterward, Shinra claimed their hero, Sephiroth, to be dead. Most of the Sephiroth Clones, waiting for the Reuni
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• David Lloyd George
  ...Khaki Election held in December 1918 amidst all the bitterness and fervid hero worship of the end of the war. At Versailles, Lloyd George, [[Woodrow Wilso
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• Screenplay
  ...f dialogue without lessening the plot and storyline. The lead character or hero is often called the ''protagonist'' and the character thwarting his or her
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• Gothic novel
  The hero of the story, Lorenzo, longs for the beautiful Antonia. A monstrous being h
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• Daniel Webster/Bibliography
  * Bartlett, Irving H. "Daniel Webster as a Symbolic Hero.'' ''New England Quarterly'' 45 (December 1972): 484-507. [http://links.jst
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• Cú Chulainn
  ...own as '''Sétanta''' (pronounced ['ʃeːdantə]) as a child, is the teenage [[hero]] of the [[Ulaid]] in the [[Ulster Cycle]] of [[Irish mythology]], sometime ...f his naming remains popular.<ref>Alan Bruford, "Cú Chulainn - an ill-made hero?", in Hildegard L. C. Tristram (ed.), ''Text und Zeittiefe'', Tübingen: Gu
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• Sentinel class cutters
  ...ard.dodlive.mil/index.php/2010/03/first-sentinel-class-cutter-named-for-cg-hero-webber/ | title = UPDATED: First Sentinel Class cutter named for CG hero Webber
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• Virginia Foster Durr
  ...And they just took him away from me. They surrounded him and made him a hero and became worshippers, formed a cult almost.<ref name=memoir /></blockquot
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• Eddie Campbell
  ...ing stories of his glory days, while his elder brother [[Hermes]], deified hero Joe [[Theseus]] and the grotesque Eyeball Kid, murderer of [[Zeus]], contin
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• Famous dogs
  ...of forty persons who had been lost in snowstorms in those mountains.<ref>A Hero Dog The Watchman (1894-1906). Boston: Nov 8, 1900. Vol. 81, Iss. 45; p. 22
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• Ayn Rand
  ...e now sold over six million copies. This book presents the entrepreneur as hero, a theme developed in due course by her best known work, ''Atlas Shrugged'' The heart of ''Atlas Shrugged'' is a speech by its hero, John Galt. In it, Galt explains the philosophy of Objectivism. <ref> All
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• John Milton
  ...made him a figure of European stature, notorious to some, an intellectual hero to others. The later efforts were despite his growing and eventually compl
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• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
  ...man, with a complex marriage. He was widely respected as a self-made war hero, a creative and beloved educator, and an elected official and political app | title = Joshua Chamberlain: a hero's life and legacy
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• Nina de Gramont
  The young girl who is the hero of this story becomes pregnant by a boy she doesn't love, and doesn't tell
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• Hebrew Bible
  [[Moses]] is the hero of the next four volumes, which tell how God liberated the Hebrews from sla
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• Tommy Hambledon
  ...ld War I]], he disappears at sea and is presumed dead. He reappears as the hero of the next Mannings book, ''Pray Silence'' (published in the United States
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• Horst Wessel
  ...1930), [[Germany|German]] [[Nazism|Nazi]] activist, was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930. He was the author
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• Tall tale
  * ''Nobody''<br>In Dutch and French stories, there occurs a non-existent hero or saint called “St Nobody” or “Seigneur Nemo” (“nemo” being La
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• The Manchurian Candidate
  ...ond Shaw, during the Korean War. Shaw is released and becomes an national hero. Shaw is then manipulated and used in various ways by his scheming mother
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• Bleak House
  * Esther Summerson &mdash; an orphan, the hero of the complex story. The discovery of her true identity provides for much
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• Dragon
  ...r killing Fafnir's brother Otter. Fafnir's second brother Regin urges the hero Sigurd to kill the dragon, which he does by striking up at him from a pit.
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• The Elder Scrolls: Arena
  ...ht pieces of the Staff of Chaos. After the pieces have been collected, the hero battles with Tharn in the Imperial city. Ria Silmane, just prior to the sta
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• Musical semantics
  ...passages of Holst´s the planets or Beethoven´s symphonies prime the word hero, rather than the word flea.
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• China-Burma-India theater/Bibliography
  * Hough Richard. ''Mountbatten: Hero of Our Time.'' (1980).
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• Space Quest
  In [[Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge]], despite being a hero of Xenon, Roger Wilco has been transferred to the Xenon Orbital Station 4 a
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• Naval warfare/Bibliography
  * Thomas, Evan. ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jone
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• Melvin Bell
  ...er Chief Petty Officer Melvin Kealoha Bell – minority pioneer, Pacific War hero
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• William Clarke
  ...ause the Australians had long ago said the same thing about MCC's all-time hero, [[W. G. Grace|WG]]. In 1874, an Australian newspaper editor declared: "We
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• Joe Massot
  ...-wrote with Infante, about disparate individuals confronting each other as hero and outlaw in a desert setting, with psychedelic overtones. Massot was insp
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• Harry Hopkins
  * Hopkins, June. ''Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer'' (1999) biography by HH's granddaughter. [http://www.amazo
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• Maurice Jester
  | title = Final rites held for hero of war
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• Engineering
  ...the screw, the ratchet, the water wheel and the aeolipile, better known as Hero's turbine. The Romans - the improvers and adapters - did likewise, building
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• Silverlight vs. Flash
  ...Microsoft Silverlight|Silverlight]], which brings the runtime from zero to hero before one can do anything. Furthermore, [[Flash]] has plenty of functional
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• Russell Kirk
  ...of a Half Century of Literary Conflict'' (1995). As was the case with his hero [[Edmund Burke]], Kirk became renowned for the prose style of his intellect
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• German literature
  ...to the present day. In these stories, the quest motif of the noble knight-hero becomes more developed. They revolved around the moral values and cultural
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• John F. Kennedy
  ...analysis of world affairs, ''While England Slept'' (1940), he became a war hero and was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1946, and to the Senate in 195
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• Nguyen Ngoc Bich
  ...h colonists,<ref name=Buttinger.1967b />^{: 850.}<ref name=fn-NNB-hero /> a French-educated medical doctor, an intellectual and politician, who pr <ref name=fn-NNB-hero>
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• Cabala (box set)
  #*P. J. Proby's ''Three Week Hero'' 1968
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• Bobby Driscoll/Filmography
  | ''The Chevy Mystery Show'' - Episode: "The Summer Hero"
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• Alexander Fleming
  ...arge Swedish magazines.<ref>{{cite news|date=[[1999-12-16]]|title=Greatest Hero of the Millennium|publisher=Ny Teknik|url=http://www.nyteknik.se/pub/ipsart
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• Horse racing
  ...8 metres) with 18 fences. First held in 1937, when it was won by Southern Hero, it traditionally takes place on 26 December ([[Boxing Day]]). Two horses,
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• Seminole Wars
  ...a was the [[Creek War]] of 1813-1814. [[Andrew Jackson]] become a national hero in 1814 after his victory over the Creek [[Red Sticks]] at the [[Battle of
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• Dizzy (series)
  ...o other identifiable features. Due to his exploits he is often seen as the hero of the village. ...that if he could make the potion and destroy the wizard then he would be a hero. The slab gave the instructions for creating the potion, just "fill a potio
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• Benito Mussolini
  ...catholic. He was given the name "Benito" in honour of the Mexican national hero [[Benito Juárez]].
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• Islamophobia
  ...Islam'', reviewed by The ''Financial Times''. They described him as "...a hero of the American right...Like any book written in hatred, his new work is a
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• United States Navy
  ...and joined the Russian navy.<ref> Evan Thomas, ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003)</ref> Of twenty-seven small men-of-w ...ual to brigadier general. At the onset of the Barbary War, Thomas Truxtun, hero-leader in the Quasi-War with France, sought to make the rank of commodore p
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• Andrew Carnegie
  ...Trust; and in the United States: the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, the Hero Fund Commission (which rewarded peaceful, as opposed to warlike, individual ...ie Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Carnegie Corpo
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• Aeneid
  ...medy]]'' or ''Commedia''. It's the story of [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] hero [[Aeneas]], therefore the name ''Aeneid''. It was originally written in [[L ...ar where this will be. His wanderings parallel the adventures of the Greek hero from [[Homer]]. The Trojans land at the sacred island of [[Apollo]] named D
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• History of the U.S. Navy
  ...and joined the Russian navy.<ref> Evan Thomas, ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003)</ref> Of twenty-seven small men-of-w ...ual to brigadier general. At the onset of the Barbary War, Thomas Truxtun, hero-leader in the Quasi-War with France, sought to make the rank of commodore p
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• Andrew Carnegie/Citable Version
  ...Trust; and in the United States: the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, the Hero Fund Commission<ref> It rewarded peaceful (as opposed to warlike) individua ...ie Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Carnegie Corpo
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• Oliver Cromwell
  ...and a genocidal murderer of the Irish Catholics, to those who celebrate a hero of liberty who helped make the nation great. Most historians now have a fav ...oyed the Scottish army at Worcester on Sept. 3, 1651; he was welcomed as a hero on his return to London.
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• Honoré de Balzac
  ...832) and ''Séraphîta'' (1834), in which an angel guides the gender-bending hero/heroine around the solar-system. Some academics have claimed that alchemy,
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• Jacksonian Democracy
  Jackson, a hero of the [[War of 1812]], was a rough-hewn, dueling frontiersman who rejected
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• Virgil
  ...ore'' Rome was founded around 500 BCE, by describing the adventures of a [[hero]] named [[Aeneas]] around 1200 BCE. In essence, Virgil could ''fit the fact
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• The Miernik Dossier
  ...Miernik Dossier'' with no idea that Christopher would go on to become the hero of future novels. As the Christopher saga expanded and background details w
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• Alfred Thayer Mahan
  ...e to the state. Mahan sought to resurrect [[Horatio Nelson]] as a national hero in Britain and used the book as a platform for expressing his views on nava
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• Greek language
  ...iglossia]]. The [[epic]] [[Digenes Akritas]] describes the exploits of its hero in demotic Greek, some of the poems associated with the name of [[Theodore
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• Thomas Paine
  ...because it went against popular sentiment toward Washington as an American hero. Paine would also publish ''Agrarian Justice'', in which he explored the r
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• Positivist calendar
  <tr><th>Jeudi<th>11<td>[[Cyrus]]<td>[[Praxiteles]]<td>[[Thucydides]]<td>[[Hero]]<td>[[Ptolemy Lagus]]
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• English spellings/Catalogs/H
  '''hérôín''' ''drug'' = '''hérôíne''' ''hero'' *hérrowín, cf. '''méscalíne''', '''hárrowing
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• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  Emerging as a military hero at the Dardanelles in 1915, Ataturk became the charismatic leader of the Tu
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• Kamikaze
  ...d voluntary suicide. Popular (movie) legend had long glorified the wounded hero who sacrificed himself to save his squad. The Minutemen on Lexington Green,
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• Folk saint/Citable Version
  ...Their ranks are filled by [[folk healer]]s, indigenous spirits and [[folk hero]]es. Some are as likely to receive a request to curse an [[enemy]] or prote
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• Horst-Wessel-Lied
  :Greetings, you died the death of a hero!
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• Jean Lartéguy
  ...oisfeuras, was loosely modeled on Brigadier General Pierre Aussarresses, a hero of the French Resistance and a career officer who became one of the leading
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• Hindenburg (LZ-129)
  ...he German boxer [[Max Schmeling]] returned home on the ''Hindenburg'' to a hero's welcome in [[Frankfurt]]. <ref>Berg, Emmett. [http://www.neh.gov/news/hum
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• Dwight D. Eisenhower/Bibliography
  ...o'' (2007) popular military biography; [http://www.amazon.com/Ike-American-Hero-Michael-Korda/dp/0060756659/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=book
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• The Oldest Confession
  James Bourne, the protagonist, and [[Anti-hero|anti-hero]] of the book is, curiously enough, perhaps the least interesting person in
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• Folk saint
  ...Their ranks are filled by [[folk healer]]s, indigenous spirits and [[folk hero]]es. Some are as likely to receive a request to curse an [[enemy]] or prote
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• Siraj Wahhaj
  Born in Brooklyn, New York, he described his hero as [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]. After Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Wa
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• Hartmann von Aue
  The hero of ''Der arme Heinrich'' is a noble lord, Heinrich von Ouwe, a man of splen
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• Antitrust
  ...s, raised wages, and promoted efficiency. Ford became as much of a popular hero as Rockefeller had been a villain; talk of trust busting faded away. In the
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• Napoleon
  ...ilitary genius beloved by the men in the ranks; he became a major national hero, and thus a political force in his own right. Despite the failures in Egypt, Napoleon returned to a hero's welcome. In alliance with the director [[Emmanuel Sieyès]] and his broth
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• Crusades
  ...ver the generation and use of national symbols; the crusader as a romantic hero; and the Muslim recollection of the crusades as a shameful blot on the past ...-din, un Heros a l'epreuve: Mythe et Pelerinage en Palestine," [Saladin, a Hero under Scrutiny: Myth and Pilgrimage in Palestine]. ''Annales: Histoire, Sci
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• Apostle
  ...ies did already exist. The reader will soon think of more of the [[culture hero]]es.
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• Jesus
  Jesus has the same name as Old Testament hero [[Joshua]], whose Hebrew name ''Yehoshua'' (יהושוע) becomes ''Yeshua' ...nce of Jesus as a historical figure, often citing the idea of the ''Mythic Hero'' and pointing to similarities with the myths of earlier religious saviors<
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• John C. Calhoun
  ...he secession movement in the decade after his death looked to Calhoun as a hero. ...s utterly defeated at the [[Battle of New Orleans]], which made a national hero out of General [[Andrew Jackson]].
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• Charles Sumner
  ...merican Civil War]], as Sumner became a hero across the North and Brooks a hero across the South. Northerners were outraged, with the editor of the ''New
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• Winston Churchill/Bibliography
  ...son |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Addison |title=Churchill: The Unexpected Hero |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-01
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• Robert Burns
  ...mour of the hour." He reinforced the view in his lectures on ''Heroes and Hero-Worship'', exaggerating Burns's lack of education and good models for poetr
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• Church of Scientology
  ...as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed, although it did not expressly state Scientology as its reason ...ration of his personal accomplishments. Hubbard claimed to have been a war hero in World War II for his service as a Lietenant in the U.S. Navy. He was rel
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• Charles de Gaulle
  ...headquartered in the resort town of Vichy. Pétain, venerated as the great hero of World War I, not only admitted defeat but accepted the idea of permanent The image of de Gaulle in France today is a great national hero--indeed a savior--honored by all parties. His vision of the grandeur of Fr
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• Ulysses S. Grant
  * Korda, Michael. ''Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero'' (2004) 161 pp
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• History of Belgium
  ...who wrote a masterful multivolume history of Belgium and became a national hero. At the University of Liège he was a student of Godefroid Kurth (1847-1916
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• Fritz Haber
  ...Kaiser Wilhelm Society with [[Adolf Hitler]] personally to exempt the war hero Fritz Haber, his plea was of no avail and Haber was forced to resign.<ref>
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• James Monroe
  ...who greeted him enthusiastically not only as president but as a celebrated hero of the Revolution.
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• Karaites
  ...raite. Branded a terrorist by the Egyptians, in Israel he was considered a hero and martyr; however, his Karaite identity was downplayed in official public
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• Michael Gilbert
  ...a serial thrill killer (''The Night of the Twelfth''); a television action hero who is asked to become the military advisor to the ruler of an Arab sheikdo
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• American Revolution
  ...(disambiguation)|New York]] with a fireworks display on [[Broadway]]. The hero of the war had retired to [[Mount Vernon]] with his wife and did not seek p
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• Robert E. Lee
  ...en joint reunions of the two armies at Gettysburg. Lee became the favorite hero of the South, and then of the North as well. The U.S. Congress restored his
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• Thinking, fast and slow
  ...2 believes itself to be where the action is, the automatic System 1 is the hero of the book. I describe System 1 as effortlessly originating impressions an
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• Near-death experience
  ...les which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He was slain in battle, and
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• Classic rock
  ...g demographic. The video game market has also seen the release of ''Guitar Hero'' and ''Rock Band'', using classic rock songs.<ref>{{cite web| url = http:/
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• Manga
  ...came (and remains) immensely popular in Japan and elsewhere as an icon and hero of a new world of peace and the renunciation of war, as also seen in Articl ...ife's murderers. However, Golgo and Itto remain men throughout and neither hero ever displays superpowers. Instead, these stories "journey into the hearts
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• Phoenix (fireboat)
  ...ires-feet-of-fire-hose |title=Arvid Havneras – fireboat skipper, '89 quake hero |date=December 30, 2006 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |last=Nolte |first=Ca
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• Isaac Newton
  ...arried the day in France. [[Voltaire]] in particular made Newton the great hero of the modern world of ideas. Voltaire's ''Elemens de la philosophie de Neu
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• Paisley
  ...oyal families. It is generally accepted that [[William Wallace]] the great hero of Scottish independence who inspired the film ''[[Braveheart]]'' was educa
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• Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/July 2, 2008
  [[User:Ian Johnson|Ian]] decided that we may not need another hero. But we could sure do with an article on the Australian 'Little Lucifers' l
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• Jacob Pavlovich Adler
  ...n at least one occasion in 1886, he played both Franz Moore and the play's hero, Franz's brother Karl Moore: in the play they never meet. [Adler, 1999, 282 ...ce various family members to come to America. Although he was greeted as a hero, he was generally unsuccessful in convincing people to leave; his mother, i
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• Federalist Party
  ...ever joined the party but he supported most of its programs and became its hero. The Party built a network of newspapers and had substantial support from ...apable of overcoming rebellion, while Republicans, with Gallatin their new hero, argued there never was a real rebellion and the whole episode was manipula
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• Manning Clark
  ...6) as the representative of the "old" Australia, and to see Whitlam as the hero of a new progressive Australia. Clark campaigned for Whitlam in the 1972 an ...uld have a modest share of the prosperity of bourgeois Australia. The real hero of Volume V was [[Alfred Deakin]], leader of enlightened middle-class liber
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• Roots of American conservatism
  ...tories, with a strong army and navy. [[George Washington]] was their great hero.
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• Roy Marlin Voris
  ...is (and the secrecy) was the fact that Army Air Corps aeronautical genius, hero and legend, [[James Doolittle|Jimmy Doolittle]], now a general in the newly
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• Martin Luther
  ...ended religion.<ref> Robert Kolb, ''Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520-1620'' (1999)</ref>
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• Daniel Webster
  * Bartlett, Irving H. "Daniel Webster as a Symbolic Hero.'' ''New England Quarterly'' 45 (December 1972): 484-507. [http://links.jst
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• Joseph Stalin
  ...the boy toward the priesthood. Young Stalin was given to identifying with hero-figures such as the fictional mountain bandit and rebel Koba, whose name he
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• Alan Moore
  ''Tom Strong'' was a post-modern superhero series featuring a hero inspired by characters pre-dating Superman, like [[Doc Savage]] and [[Tarza
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• Elvis Presley
  He then starred in ''Jailhouse Rock'', playing an anti-hero character. ''Jailhouse Rock'' was Elvis Presley's third movie and arguably "When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
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• Fiorello LaGuardia
  ...the American pilots who flew with the Italians. In November 1919 the war hero was elected President of the New York City Board of Aldermen
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• Third Indochina War
  ...the conflict, ''Peking Daily'' made the claim in a story about a local war hero identified as Xu Xiaodan, a scout for artillery units near Laoshan, a frequ
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• Jet engine
  ...or supplying mechanical power, and the potential practical applications of Hero's invention of the jet engine were not recognized. It was simply considered
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• Populist Party
  ...t the overbearing rich. Georgia politician Tom Watson served as Woodward's hero.<ref> C. Vann Woodward, '' Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel'' (1938); Woodward, "
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• Cattle drives
  * Savage, William W., Jr. ''The Cowboy Hero: His Image in American History and Culture.'' (1979). 179 pp.
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• Jimmy Page
  ...ragons as the design on his guitar neck, in a tribute to Page. In ''Guitar Hero II'', an achievement in the [[Xbox 360]] version of the game is titled the
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• Félix d'Hérelle
  ...ph Stalin]] was born). D'Hérelle was welcomed to the [[Soviet Union]] as a hero, bringing the knowledge of salvation from diseases ravaging the eastern sta
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• Félix d'Hérelle/Citable Version
  ...ph Stalin]] was born). D'Herelle was welcomed to the [[Soviet Union]] as a hero, bringing the knowledge of salvation from diseases ravaging the eastern sta
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• Wizard of Oz
  ...o get back to normalcy and the love of her family. She resembles the young hero of ''Coin's financial school'', a very popular silverite pamphlet of 1893.
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• France, history
  After the defeat of France, with an armistice on [[First World War]] hero, Marshal [[Henri Petain]] sent an underling to the carriage of to sign the
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• Edward I
  ...directed. The film portrays the Scottish general [[William Wallace]] as a hero and patriot defending Scottish freedom from English domination, and Edward
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• Bill Tilden
  ...s-hero-morals-clause-052534374.html?ref=gs |title=Bill Tilden: A US tennis hero, but with a morals clause|author=Associated Press|date=28 April 2016|publis
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• Count Rumford
  ...French army. Rumford's non-violent defense of Munich made him a national hero. A monument to his success was erected in the English Garden, a street was
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• Bill Tilden/Citable Version
  ...s-hero-morals-clause-052534374.html?ref=gs |title=Bill Tilden: A US tennis hero, but with a morals clause|author=Associated Press|date=28 April 2016|publis
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• Joan of Arc
  ...lity of her original trial and overturned the verdict. A French national [[hero]]ine due to her life and deeds, in 1920 she was canonized as a [[Saint]] by
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• Edward I/Citable Version
  ...directed. The film portrays the Scottish general [[William Wallace]] as a hero and patriot defending Scottish freedom from English domination, and Edward
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• Joan of Arc/Citable Version
  ...verdict. As a result of her life and deeds she became a French national [[hero]]ine and, in 1920, was canonized as a [[Saint]] by the [[Roman Catholic Chu
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• Joe McCarthy
  ..., opposing a well-entrenched incumbent, Alexander Wiley. The absentee war hero ran a strong second, making a name for himself statewide. Why McCarthy sud
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• Richard Nixon
  ...elegitimize the [[New Deal coalition|New Deal]] itself, and made Nixon the hero to FDR's many enemies. New Dealers loathed him for exposing their weaknesse
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• War of 1812
  ...s celebrated victory in a "second war for independence" personified in the hero of New Orleans, [[Andrew Jackson]].
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• Battle of Gettysburg
  ...to shift the blame for the defeat to him rather than Lee, who was a sacred hero of the Lost Cause.
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• China, history
  ...ndrel who through great deviousness and phenomenal luck is thought a great hero &mdash; but the historical material is generally highly accurate, except of
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• B-52 Superfortress
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• 9-11 Attack in New York
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• Glenn Beck
  Ironically, Ronald Reagan, whom Beck claims as a hero, had used the same music as a campaign theme song until Springsteen issued
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• Mentally healthy mind
  ...lar]]s are valued, but not as much as a top [[comedian]] or [[football]] [[hero]]. In contrast, persons whose values conflict with those of the popular cul ...he was compelled to fall in love with the [[Troy (ancient city)|Trojan]] [[hero]] Aeneas, but when jilted, she committed suicide. Mentally healthy?
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• Korean War/Bibliography
  ...intraub, Stanley. ''MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero.'' (2000). 385 pp. hostile
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• Republican Party (United States), history
  ...and equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen. Most of all he was the hero of the war veterans, who marched to his tune. The party had become so large As Goldwater faded to a lesser role after 1964, a new conservative hero emerged: in the largest and most trendy state film star [[Ronald Reagan]] w
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• Joseph Goebbels
  ...ological damage his physical limitations had caused. "The very name of the hero, Michael, to whom he gave many autobiographical features, suggests the way ...against the attempted communist revolution in Bavaria. His first political hero was [[Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley]], the man who assassinated the Munich
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• The Lord of the Rings
  ...and whether he would let his son go into danger. In Greek legend, it was a hero's nephew that gained the item of power, and so the hobbit Frodo came into e
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• 9-11 Attack
  ...er they helped 25,000 people escape. Mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]] was to many a hero to the city and the nation for his response in organizing rescue, relief an
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• Led Zeppelin/Discography
  ...ted in the late August sessions for [[P. J. Proby]]'s album ''[[Three Week Hero]]'' (Liberty LB 183219E). The only track on which all four members appear o
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• Myron C. Lake
  ...ement '''Reno''', honoring U.S. Army Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union hero of the Civil War. The town's official birthday: May 9, 1868, the day the ra
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• Third Party System
  ...t the overbearing rich. Georgia politician Tom Watson served as Woodward's hero.<ref> C. Vann Woodward, '' Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel'' (1938); Woodward, "
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• Handyman
  | title = Home Improvement -- Carolyn See's handyman hero can manage the tasks that matter most.
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• James K. Polk
  ...he territories. Later in 1848, the Whigs nominated [[Zachary Taylor]], the hero of the war, for president. Taylor said there would be no future wars, but h
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• Northwest Passage
  ...the Isabella -- Sir John Ross's old ship. Ross returned home a conquering hero but his assurances, given to a Parliamentary committee, that further attemp
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• Northwest Passage/PreviousVersion
  ...the Isabella -- Sir John Ross's old ship. Ross returned home a conquering hero but his assurances, given to a Parliamentary committee, that further attemp
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• Kyrgyzstan
  Manas ([[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]] Манас) is the hero of the Manas epos &mdash; possibly the longest epic poem known to mankind.
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• Little Women
  ...men. Jo did reject Laurie to marry Professor Bhaer who “is no schoolgirl’s hero, but Jo believes he is better suited to her than Laurie. The crucial first
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• Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/October 1, 2008
  ...h spy-thriller author of the 1960s named [[Desmond Skirrow]]—his tough-guy hero, who narrates his three novels in a witty, Raymond Chandler-like tone, is p
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• South Carolina, History
  ...ert Anderson was joined on the platform by two men: African American Union hero [[Robert Smalls]] and the son of [[Denmark Vesey]]. Resigned to defeat, most whites followed war hero [[Wade Hampton III]] who advised the state to accept President [[Andrew Joh
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• Nepal
  ...uring the reign of King Janak, whose daughter Sita was married to Ram, the hero of the epic Ramayana. Some of the persons described by the chronicles and o
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• History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study
  ...e J. S. A. Adamson, "Eminent Victorians: S. R. Gardiner and the Liberal as Hero." ''Historical Journal'' 1990 33(3): 641-657. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/
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• Battle of the Ia Drang
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• Bonny Hicks
  ...editor and talent agent, Chan had retired from being a Singaporean sports hero, a decorated female swimmer.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.
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• Paris, Tennessee
  ...ls in the 1960's and 1970's also had the effect of removing some Civil War hero names from schools. For example, white grade school students in Paris, pri
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• Neil Armstrong
  ...n, Richelle |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |title=Neil Armstrong, Reluctant Hero}}</ref> ...undation]] survey, Armstrong was ranked as the number 1 most popular space hero.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.spacefoundation.org/news/story.ph
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• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...ous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklin's role model and hero. In 1902, he met his future wife [[Eleanor Roosevelt|Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ...record on civil rights has been the subject of much controversy. He was a hero to large minority groups, especially African-Americans, Catholics and Jews.
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• American Civil War/Bibliography
  * Korda, Michael. ''Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero'' (2004) 161 pp * Jamieson, Perry D. ''Winfield Scott Hancock: Gettysburg Hero.'' 2003. 199 pp.
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• Harry S. Truman
  ...ced Truman as a young Congressman proudly proclaimed the Missourian as his hero and conspicuously displayed a bust of Truman in the oval office after Ford
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• John Franklin
  Nevertheless, in his day, Franklin was almost universally regarded as a hero, and the fact that he died in a gallant, and possibly foolhardy attempt to
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• John Franklin/Citable Version
  Nevertheless, in his day, Franklin was almost universally regarded as a hero, and the fact that he died in a gallant, and possibly foolhardy attempt to
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• Stephen King
  ...vel of his ''[[The Dark Tower (series)|Dark Tower]]'' series, in which the hero [[Roland of Gilead|Roland Deschain]] and his ka-tet try to stop King from b
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• World War I/Bibliography
  * ''Death of a Hero'' (1929) novel by Richard Aldington
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• Democratic-Republican Party
  ...tates Senate|Senator]] [[Andrew Jackson]], a longtime personal rival and a hero of the [[War of 1812]]. Jackson's political views were unknown at the time.
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• U.S. commercial aviation history to 1966
  ...acing Midwesterner who had once been a mail pilot, became an international hero and a posterboy for all that was best about America—he had vision, courag
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• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  ...ossibly the "Nerevarine", the re-incarnation of Nerevar, an ancient Dunmer hero. As the player moves through the main storyline, he/she begins to take on c
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• English spellings/Catalogs/Retro E
  cf. '''hérôín''' ''drug'' = '''hérôíne''' ''hero'': '''méscalíne
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• Vietnam, war, and the United States
  | title = It Doesn't Take a Hero
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• YouTube
  ...n the mainstream media.<ref>{{cite web | title = Irate HK man unlikely Web hero|author=Bray, Marianne| publisher = CNN| url = http://edition.cnn.com/2006/W
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• Herbert Hoover
  ...tice with Germany (Compiègne)|Armistice of 1918]], he was an international hero. The Belgian city of [[Leuven]] named a prominent square after him.
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• Indochina and the Second World War
  ...ance|nominally independent government]], headed by the [[First World War]] hero, Marshal [[Henri Petain]], with its capital at Vichy. Japan, not yet allie
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• Lady Gaga
  ...pired by the late [[John Lennon]] who ''[[The Guardian]]'' stated was her "hero,"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/06/lady-gag
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• John Belushi
  ...cago was Belushi’s “home town” as it were and embraced him as a conquering hero. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne welcomed Belushi and gave the film permission to
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• Douglas Adams
  ...asteroid, ''18610 Arthurdent'' is named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. The name was officially publis
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• Jorge Luis Borges
  ...ternal great-grandfather, [[Manuel Isidoro Suárez]] , was another military hero, whom Borges immortalized in the poem "A Page to Commemorate Colonel Suáre
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• American Expeditionary Force (World War I)
  The folk hero of the war would be [[Alvin York]] the backwoods Tennessee pacifist-turned-
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• Naval guns and gunnery
  ...s gave Jones complete victory.<ref>Evan Thomas, ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) pp. 292-312</ref>
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• American conservatism
  ...tories, with a strong army and navy. [[George Washington]] was their great hero.
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• Conduct of the War (7–9 May 1940)
  Keyes was a hero of the First World War representing a naval town and an [[Admiral of the Fl
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• Democratic Party (United States), history
  ...m promoted by [[Henry Clay]] and [[John Calhoun]]. [[Andrew Jackson]], war hero from 1812, had a strong base in the southwest, especially among militia uni
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• W. S. Gilbert
  ...ic acting: "I hold that there is no such antick fellow as your bombastical hero who doth so earnestly spout forth his folly as to make his hearers believe
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• Vietnam wars
  ...the conflict, ''Peking Daily'' made the claim in a story about a local war hero identified as Xu Xiaodan, a scout for artillery units near Laoshan, a frequ
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• Citizenship in the United States
  | title = Citizenship for Polish Hero of American Revolution
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• Chess
  ...e-dimensional chess#Tri-Dimensional Chess|Tri-Dimensional Chess]]" and the hero of ''[[Searching for Bobby Fischer]]'' struggles against adopting the aggre
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• Republican Party (United States)
  ...equal civil and voting rights for the freedmen; most of all, Grant was the hero of the war veterans, who marched to his tune. Reconstruction came to an en
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• Theodore Roosevelt
  ...giment during the [[Spanish-American War]]. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected Republican governor in 1898. He was a professional historia
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• American Revolution, military history
  ...sts]] were seen as traitors, and worst of all was [[Benedict Arnold]], the hero who became a turncoat. King George, by the Coercion Acts and the imposition
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• Yvonne Craig/Filmography
  ...ed from West Point, Lt. John F. Pershing (played by Jody McCrea) becomes a hero of the old west by tracking down white renegades who murdered two Indians a
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• Dmitri Shostakovich
  ...me and abroad) of his lifetime, and made him, at the age of 35, a national hero.
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