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  2. Sikh Khalsa Army - Wikipedia

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    The Ghorcharas or the irregular cavalry had no uniform laid down for them; yet they turned out sharply, as testified by Baron Hugel, a Prussian noble, who visited Maharajah Ranjit Singh in 1836 and inspected a cavalry parade. "I never beheld," he wrote of a troop of Ghorcharhas, "a finer nor a more remarkably striking body of men.

  3. Video shows woman remarkably getting up after bus strikes her

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    Portions of the video show the bus striking the woman as she crossed 9th Street at Walnut. Surprisingly, she's able to get up and walk over to grab what we're told was her cellphone. Video also ...

  4. Historic recurrence - Wikipedia

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    [15] "Other minor cases of recurrence thinking", he writes, "include the isolation of any two specific events which bear a very striking similarity, and the preoccupation with parallelism, that is, with resemblances, both general and precise, between separate sets of historical phenomena" (emphasis in original). [15]

  5. California agricultural strikes of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    In the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing while growers and managerial staff were deputized by local law enforcement. Attacks by employers on peaceful striking workers were common and the surrounding community of bankers, merchants, ministers, and Boy Scouts encouraged the attacks. [6]

  6. Minneapolis general strike of 1934 - Wikipedia

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    The strike began on May 16, 1934. The strike was remarkably effective, shutting down most commercial transport in the city with the exception of certain farmers, who were allowed to bring their produce into town, but delivering directly to grocers, rather than to the market area, which the union had shut down.

  7. Sally Field to Star in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures ... - AOL

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    Sally Field is in talks to star in “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” a film adaptation of the novel by Shelby Van Pelt. Netflix has acquired the project, which is in early stages of development.

  8. Union of Unions - Wikipedia

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    The political demands of the demonstrators was "remarkably uniform", which was a sign of the co-ordinating role that the Union of Unions played. [5] The Union of Unions served partly as the origin of the Petersburg Soviet, as they first came up with the idea of a workers council established to orchestrate general strikes. [5]

  9. 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike - Wikipedia

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    The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been nationalised in 1947.