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The mission in May 1942 -- codenamed Operation Anthropoid -- took place in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by the Nazis).
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The mission in May 1942 -- codenamed Operation Anthropoid -- took place in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia by the Nazis).
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Anthropoid, so that its visage looks mild and human by comparison with theirs.
Essays 2007
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Moshe Idel's book "Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid" contends that Scholem was wrong, and that there was a magical element from the very beginning.
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Of the tailless Apes it is said that they originally erased their rear appendages by too much sitting -- perhaps as members of the "Rump" in some Anthropoid Congress.
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[Sidenote: Origin of the Pithecoid and the Anthropoid Apes.]
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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With these Apes of the Miocene period, however, the Atlanteans of that age renewed the sin of the "mindless" -- this time with full responsibility, and the resultants of their crime are the species of Apes now known as Anthropoid.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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Upon my soul, to see such a thing I was proud to be an Anthropoid, and to claim cousinship with those dark citizens of the Dordogne and of Garonne and of the Tarn and of the Lot, and of whatever rivers fall into the Gironde.
On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911
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'Anthropoid, somewhat like a human being in form or other characteristics'!
Left Guard Gilbert Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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Anthropoid pack which from the beginning had hung upon his flank and been as a thorn unto his flesh.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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