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Many models are small enough to be carried in a backpack or launched by hand, allowing soldiers to employ them directly in the field without requiring specialized vehicles for transport or deployment.
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Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Minorhad its premiere in Vienna, as the Montgolfier brothers undertook the first manned balloon trip in Paris, and as the Continental Army fought British soldiers in North America.
Its purpose is to maximize the president’s control over our lives, enrich his family, reward his lackeys and punish his critics.
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Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
Matthew quickly schemes his way into Oliver’s orbit after that first performance, impressing and rankling the group of lackeys in his entourage at the same time.
To be sure, Grey’s novel is a literary protest against the mistreatment of American Indians by the federal government and Christian missionaries, and his original denouement is a little more complicated.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Now, the Franciscan missionaries oppressing the Native Americans in the painting had arrows piercing their heads and bodies.
After the Great Black Migration in the 1920s, our city was one of the centers of the Ku Klux Klan’s revival as the strongest populist movement of the decade, claiming 5 million adherents, with 50,000 in Chicago alone.
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Jackson Potter,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
To adherents, Nakamoto is considered a hero who empowered individuals to take back control of money.
Over 20 years, Belichick disciples became prone to treating players as disposable assets instead of human beings they are supposed to both employ and empower.
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Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
The list of actors playing Jesus and his disciples includes Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas, plus musical director Paul Shaffer, all of whom would go on to have renowned careers on stage and screen.
Ann and her acolytes journey to America to find more followers—a portion of the tale that feels more adrift but then finds its footing, largely thanks to another musical interlude.
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Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
1 Sep. 2025
Some acolytes have even gotten tattoos of the studio’s logo.
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