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  2. Sitatapatra - Wikipedia

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    The dhāraṇī "ārya-tathāgatoṣṇīṣa-sitātapatrāparājita-mahāpratyaṅgirāparama-siddhā-nāma-dhāraṇī" (English: "The Noble Dhāraṇī of Sitātapatrā Born from the Tathāgata’s Uṣṇīṣa, Great Dispeller of Invincible Might and Supreme Accomplishment") is a common action tantra practice of Sitātapatrā.

  3. Quartering (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    Quartering is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. [1] Simple quartering, crudely drawn. De Salis quartered with Fane. The flag of Maryland has a quartering of the coats of arms of the Calvert and Crossland families

  4. Line (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The South African Bureau of Heraldry has developed the line of partition serpentine (which has also been called ondoyant), which is rather like wavy, but with only one "wave", one complete cycle of a sine wave; the serpentine in the arms of the Mtubatuba Primary School is defined as "dexter to chief and sinister to base".

  5. Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and ...

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    If You Cough, Sneeze, Sigh, or Yawn, do it not Loud but Privately; and Speak not in your Yawning, but put Your handkercheif or Hand before your face and turn aside. The exercise goes on to list a total of 110 such rules. The list features in the plot of the Amor Towles novel Rules of Civility, which is named after it.

  6. Pale (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    A shield with numerous pales may be termed paly, especially in early heraldry, though this term is now properly reserved to describe a variation of the field. [1] [3] in pale In pale refers to the appearance of several items on the shield being lined up in the direction of a pale. [3] palewise A charge palewise is vertical like a pale. [3 ...

  7. Pile (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    In heraldry, a pile is a charge usually counted as one of the ordinaries (figures bounded by straight lines and occupying a definite portion of the shield). It consists of a wedge emerging from the upper edge of the shield and converging to a point near the base. If it touches the base, it is blazoned throughout.

  8. Irresistible force paradox - Wikipedia

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    The irresistible force paradox (also unstoppable force paradox or shield and spear paradox), is a classic paradox formulated as "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?" The immovable object and the unstoppable force are both implicitly assumed to be indestructible, or else the question would have a trivial resolution.

  9. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    shield headland of swords sverða nesi: There is a connection to the word nesa meaning subject to public ridicule/failure/shame, i.e. "the failure/shame of swords", not only "where the sword first hits/ headland of swords" Kennings can sometimes be a triple entendre. N: Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Glymdrápa 3 ship wave-swine unnsvín: N ship sea-steed