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In his book The Robot's Rebellion, Stanovich uses the memes and memeplex concepts to describe a program of cognitive reform that he refers to as a " rebellion ".
" The game uses the GURPS ( Third Edition ) system and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and the Virus was never released.
Doc Boone tells Peacock, he served as a doctor in the Union Army during the " War of the Rebellion ", Hatfield quickly uses a Southern term, the " War for Southern Independence.
The poem is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for discussion of the background to the Monmouth Rebellion ( 1685 ), the Popish Plot ( 1678 ) and the Exclusion Crisis.
He loses his legs during a scuffle with the Rebellion, in which he falls into a vat of acid ; thereafter, he uses a hovering wheelchair to get around.
The book's epilogue describes the pair splitting up ; Sy flops as a solo act while Max joins up with the Rebellion and uses his musical talents to entertain the troops.

Rebellion and four
* 1787 – Shays ' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indians entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and killed nine or ten children ( reports vary ).
For the four years that the theatre was open it was a great success but it had to be closed as a result of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
Khan then took a four year break citing personal problems, and returned in 2005 with Ketan Mehta's Mangal Pandey: The Rising playing the title role of a real-life sepoy and a martyr who helped spark the Indian Rebellion of 1857 or the ' First War of Indian Independence '.
The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts (" the Four " of the title ) and two corrupt prison guards.
During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the native Irish gentry attempted to expel the English and Scottish settlers, resulting in severe violence, massacres and ultimately leading to the deaths of between four and six thousand settlers over the winter of 1641-42.
Only four men eventually escaped alive from Cawnpore on one of the boats: two private soldiers ( both of whom died later during the Rebellion ), a lieutenant, and Captain Mowbray Thomson, who wrote a first-hand account of his experiences entitled The Story of Cawnpore ( London, 1859 ).
At least four Jamaican authors have created works in which the Rebellion figures prominently.
Rennenkampf commanded four infantry battalions, two Cossack sotnias, and two horse batteries, during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-01, and was responsible for the capture of Tsitsihar and Kirin in Manchuria, thereby removing any Boxer threat to Harbin and the Chinese Eastern Railway.
She was one of four captured from the Chinese during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
The sword-slashes on the neck are a reminder of the brand's alleged origins of the Jacobite uprising of 1745 and the four diamonds represent those values closely associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie – Risk, Rebellion, Passion and Mystery.
As of December 2007 a second series, Queen's Gate, was introduced, featuring characters from Japanese visual media, and in October 2008 Hobby Japan announced four further characters in a sub-set of the original series ( Queen's Blade Rebellion ).
Only Zun ( 遵 ) King Lai Wenguang ( 赖文光 ) succeeded in breaking out with his 3, 000 cavalry to eventually join the and lead Nien Rebellion to fight for another four years.
After serving in the Rebellion of 1837 he bought a Saint Lawrence steamer named the Queen which he operated for four years.
O ' Brien, 35th Simcoe Foresters, took command of the York-Simcoe Battalion, which was formed from four companies of the 35th Simcoe Foresters and four companies of the 12th York Rangers to counter the Riel Rebellion in western Canada.

Rebellion and ships
A form of Chinese art, the Nianhua, depict such torpedoes being used against Russian ships during the Boxer Rebellion, whether they were actually used in battle against them was undocumented and unknown.
During the Boxer Rebellion, Imperial Chinese forces deployed a weapon called " electric mines " on June 15, at the Peiho river before the Battle of Dagu Forts ( 1900 ), to prevent the western Eight-Nation Alliance from sending ships to attack.
The U. S. was able to play a minor role in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion due to the presence of U. S. ships and troops deployed in the Philippines, which had been stationed there since the U. S. conquest of the Philippines during the Spanish American War and the subsequent Philippine Insurrection.
The Shimabara Rebellion of 1637 – 38, in which discontented Catholic Christian samurai and peasants rebelled against the bakufu — and Edo called in Dutch ships to bombard the rebel stronghold — marked the end of the Christian movement, although some Catholic Christians survived by going underground, the so-called Kakure Kirishitan.
On King Charles II's death in February 1685 Monmouth led the " Monmouth Rebellion ", landing with three ships at Lyme Regis in Dorset in early June 1685 in an attempt to take the throne from his uncle.
During the Boxer Rebellion, Imperial Chinese forces deployed a weapon called " electric mines " on June 15, at the river Peiho river before the Battle of Dagu Forts ( 1900 ), to prevent the western Eight-Nation Alliance from sending ships to attack.
This was only one year after the Irish Rebellion of 1641 when Flemish mariners were encouraged to use Wexford Harbour to attack British ships passing along the Irish Sea from ports Whitehaven to Bristol and even in the English Channel.
Four super-rare cards ( two ships and two crew ) previewed the forthcoming Jade Rebellion faction.
The first strategic game in the Expanded Universe was titled Star Wars: Rebellion and broke new ground in that it incorporated ships and planets not found in the original canon, such as the Rebel Assault Frigate and the Bulwark Cruiser.
He was a leader of Culpeper's Rebellion in 1677, an uprising over the requirement that all colonial goods be transported in British ships.

Rebellion and their
Early emperors maintained an ala of Batavian cavalry as their bodyguards until the unit was dismissed by Galba after the Batavian Rebellion.
* 1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
That the principal exportable product of the Ohio Valley was grain did not help matters, as grain was a high-volume, low-priced commodity, frequently not worth the cost of transporting it to far-away population centers ( this was a factor leading to farmers in the west turning their grains into Whiskey for easier transport and higher sales, and later the Whiskey Rebellion ).
Stalin supported the Turkic Muslims known today as Uyghur in seeking their own state, Second East Turkestan Republic during the Ili Rebellion against the Republic of China.
Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.
When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out in South Asia, the 21st Native Infantry, then stationed in Karachi, declared allegiance to rebels and joining their numbers on 10 September 1857.
* 1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
Benjamin Sisko, impersonating his Mirror Universe counterpart, claims that he is going to negotiate with the Romulans to secure their aid for the Terran Rebellion, suggesting that the Romulans are a significant power.
In the final year of the war, many predominantly Slovene regiments in the Austro-Hungarian Army staged a mutiny against their military leadership ; the most famous mutiny of Slovene soldiers was the Judenburg Rebellion in May 1918.
** North-West Rebellion – Battle of Cut Knife: Cree and Assiniboine warriors win their largest victory over Canadian forces.
These kingdoms gradually lost all vestiges of their independence, particularly following the Rebellion of the Seven States.
* Percy Rebellion ( 1402 – 1408 ): three attempts by the Percy family and their allies to overthrow Henry:
* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )
* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )
In 1884 the Métis ( including the Anglo-Métis ) asked Louis Riel to return from the United States, where he had fled after the Red River Rebellion, to appeal to the government on their behalf.
Sir Thomas ' wife Charity, Lady Staples ( by then a widow ) and their five children were captured by Hugh Og O Quin during the Rebellion and imprisoned at Moneymore Castle about 5 miles away and held there and at Castlecaulfield until Moneymore and the estate were liberated by the Royalist army in 1643.
* 1900-American Friends open work in Cuba ; Ecumenical Missionary Conference in Carnegie Hall, New York ( 162 mission boards represented ); 189 missionaries and their children killed in Boxer Rebellion in China ; South African Andrew Murray writes The Key to the Missionary Problem in which he challenges the church to hold weeks of prayer for the world
influence of Chief Garry ( sometimes Spokan Garry ), the Spokanes protested the loss of their lands by joining in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The rest of the band continued as an incomplete 4-piece for about a year, drafting now-famous drummer Josh Freese to record their new album which would become Art of Rebellion, released in 1992 ( see 1992 in music ).
File: World 1898 empires colonies territory. png | The European world empires and their colonies in the late 19th century, before the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), Boxer Rebellion ( 1899 – 1901 ), and the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).
However, their new strength in effect caused the allies to become bitter rivals which culminated three years later during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159.
He is ousted from the troupe and replaced by Robert Armin when they think he has betrayed their involvement in the Essex Rebellion.

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