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Like the modern Swiss Army knife they contained a variety of tools, from blades to corkscrews, and were often used by sailors.
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Like the trumpet and all other modern brass wind instruments, the cornet makes a sound when the player vibrates (" buzzes ") the lips in the mouthpiece, creating a vibrating column of air in the tubing.
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Like Baroque harps, but unlike modern Western harps, they do not stand upright when unattended.
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Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.
Like their modern relatives, mammoths were quite large.
" Monkey Gone to Heaven " was a Top 10 modern rock radio hit in the U. S., and reached the Top 100 in the U. K. Like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle was acclaimed by fans and music critics alike.
Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.
Like the latter, Prosalirus did not have greatly enlarged legs but had the typical three-pronged pelvic structure of modern frogs.
Like modern corals, these ancestors built reefs, some of which ended as great structures in sedimentary rocks.
Like many other patronymics in other languages, with the formalization of naming conventions by laws in the late modern contemporary age many turned into surnames.
Like most modern sets, this wooden tangram is stored in the square configuration.
Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.
Like most modern diesel engines used in tanks, gas turbines are usually multi-fuel engines.
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Like modern analog VGA connectors, the DVI connector includes pins for the display data channel ( DDC ).
Like some other crops of long domestication, the relationship of the modern soybean to wild-growing species can no longer be traced with any degree of certainty.
Like modern joint-stock companies, the publicani were legal bodies independent of their members whose ownership was divided into shares, or partes.
Like modern open-circuit scuba with single-hose regulators, they consisted of one or more high pressure diving cylinders and a diving regulator ( the Aqua-Lung ) that supplied the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure via a demand valve.
Like much of modern and contemporary art, noise music takes characteristics of the perceived negative traits of noise mentioned below and uses them in aesthetic and imaginative ways.
Like the Lee-Enfield bolt system, the Mosin-Nagant system can be suitable for use with modern " Magnum " calibre centrefire rifle cartridges ( the BOHICA Arms. 50 BMG being one ), although it is worth noting that its standard Russian 180-grain 7. 62x54R ammunition is comparable to some loadings of the 7 mm Remington Magnum.
Like many of its neighbors, modern Duarte is a bedroom community.
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Like the Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, would have said: Ancient archetypes resurfaced from our collective unconscious and repossessed receptive minds-which were, as a rule, still developing and thus especially impressible.
Like the eleven Swiss regiments of line infantry in French service, the Gardes suisses wore red coats.
Like many Swiss rivers, it is intensively used for production of hydroelectric power: along its course of, its fall is used by no less than ten hydroelectric power stations.
Like every public university in Switzerland, ETH is obliged to grant admission to every Swiss citizen who took the Matura.
Like the Cisalpino trains, crews are provided by Trenitalia in Italy and the Swiss Federal Railways in Switzerland.
Like other European and Asian white pines, Swiss Pine is very resistant to White Pine Blister Rust ( Cronartium ribicola ).
The song " Rock You Like a Hurricane " reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year, " Still Loving You " reached number 64 on the same chart, number 14 in Germany, number 2 in the French and Swiss Top 50.
Like other Swiss manufacturers, the company produces mostly mechanical movements of the automatic and manual wind variety, but has produced quartz watches in the past, and a digital wrist watch, the Ref.
Like other Swiss watch brands, including Rolex and Omega, the brand Maurice Lacroix does not correspond to any one individual.
Like the Swiss, these Three Leagues had achieved a far-reaching autonomy, but also were involved in constant struggles with the Habsburgs, who ruled the neighbouring territories to the east and who kept trying to bring the Grisons under their influence.
Like all Swiss German dialects, it is essentially a spoken language, whereas the written language is standard German.
Like the Swiss flag, the coat of arms is used on many items, such as Swiss francs, Swiss car number plates, and Swiss-branded exports such as Swiss Army knives.
Like most Swiss banks, Bank Leu had a long tradition of secrecy.
Like many Swiss men of his day, Graf was known to have worked as a mercenary for considerable periods.
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Like the rest of the " Army of Africa ", the Foreign Legion took part in the campaign of Italy.
Like the German Navy, the German Army used Zeppelins as airships for bombing military and civilian targets in France and Belgium as well as the United Kingdom.
The story that sandals were discarded to toughen the feet of Zulu warriors has been noted in various military accounts such as " The Washing of the Spears ," " Like Lions They Fought " and " Anatomy of the Zulu Army.
Like her partner Bernward Vesper and other members of the Red Army Faction ( such as Ulrike Meinhof and Horst Mahler ) Ensslin had excellent exam scores and received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
The study showed that The Salvation Army was ranked as the 4th " most popular charity / non-profit in America " of over 100 charities researched with 47 % of Americans over the age of 12 choosing Love and Like A Lot for The Salvation Army.
Like many railroad towns in the South, Madison Station was heavily damaged by the Union Army during the Civil War.
Like many other remote areas during World War II, a area to the south east of the town and extending to the coast of the Solway Firth, was acquired by the Army in 1942, as a training area for the D Day invasion.
Like most Commonwealth forces, the RSM in the Australian Army is the senior warrant officer of the regiment or battalion, normally a Warrant Officer Class 1 ( WO1 ).
Like nearly all senior Army officers, Rundstedt welcomed the July 1934 purge of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leadership, although he was angered that two generals, Schleicher and Ferdinand von Bredow, were killed: he was among the senior officers who later persuaded Hitler to have these two officers posthumously ( but secretly ) rehabilitated.
Like many young men, he tried to enlist in the Army in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941.
Like the AVG's other bases, Baoshan was repeatedly bombed by the Japanese Army Air Force.
Like the Chinese Red Army of Mao Zedong, Savimbi mobilized important, although ethnically confined segments of the rural peasantry as part of his military tactics.
Like the other schools on SAFTI MI, OCS is a tri-service institution which trains officers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Like his father, he embarked upon a military career initially becoming a colonel in the Hanoverian Army and then, on 3 November 1837, becoming a colonel in the British Army.
Like his overall commander and cousin, General Erich Ludendorff, Hutier maintained that the German Army had not been defeated in the field, but was " stabbed in the back " by domestic enemies on the home front.
Like Shiro, he was transferred to the Earth Federal Army and assigned to the 08th MS Team.
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Like the Boers, British soldiers were equipped with breech-loading rifles ( the Martini-Henry ) but they were ( unlike the Boers ) professionals and the British Army had previously fought campaigns in difficult terrains and against elusive enemy such as the tribesmen of the Northern Territories in modern day Afghanistan.
Like other successful World War II designs, the M24 was supplied to many armies around the globe and was used in local conflicts long after it had been replaced in the U. S. Army by the M41 Walker Bulldog.
Like many Oz novels for adults, Farmer's Oz is a darker, more threatening place and in this case it is on the brink of both a civil war and an invasion by the United States Army.
Like in the Army, the Capitão-General da Armada Real ( Captain-General of the Royal Navy ) was the commander-in-chief of the Portuguese Navy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Like his father he was a General in the Army and also held government office as Postmaster General and as Lord Steward of the Household.
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